Here’s my results from googlism. There were no results for ‘Rich Lafferty’. mendel is now the most comprehensive package for the statistical analysis of oligogenic traits mendel is a wine store on ben mendel is the archetype of the scientist whose ideas are ahead of his time mendel is born mendel is currently licensing weathergard? […]

Lookie! New default icon. And it’s even me! I’m so emo. I need new glasses, though. I dunno where to find a good pair here. I was playing with a feature of my camera which is intended for taking pictures of whiteboards, and found that it does neat things when taking pictures of things which […]

So I’ve been fighting 6-12s latency and 80% packet loss from my ISP, the appropriately-named IStop. While waiting for packets to arrive, I decided to check out their network status page, and then I had to catch my breath from laughing so hard. I was going to leave excerpts here, but you really need to […]

Ok, here’s the deal. I need you to mirror something for me. The appropriate weaslawyers found this little parody I mirror. About six months ago the guy at cocksalad.com got a cease-and-desist letter and replaced his archive with a link to mine. Yep, he essentially said I’ve taken them down but they’re here now, and […]

How’s this for a wacky idea: Get with small and medium labels to provide music on the web. Do it as MP3, with a note saying “We trust our users” as your entire DRM strategy. Get big enough that you’ve got thousands of artists in dozens of genres. It gets weirder: Sell the MP3s. Like, […]

<jmd> what in the heck is a pith helmet? <dagbrown> It’s a helmet made from pith. <jmd> n 1: soft spongelike central cylinder of the stems of most <jmd> flowering plants <jmd> and why would you build a helmet from that? <dagbrown> Yah, if you dry it out it gets really hard, but while it’s […]

You are 40% geek You are a geek liaison, which means you go both ways. You can hang out with normal people or you can hang out with geeks which means you often have geeks as friends and/or have a job where you have to mediate between geeks and normal people. This is an important […]