Moon Farmer February 2001 Archive
« January 2001 | Main | March 2001 »A major earthquake occurred about 10 miles (20 km) northeast of Olympia, Washington at 11:54 AM MST today, Feb 28, 2001 (10:54 AM PST in Washington). A PRELIMINARY MAGNITUDE OF 6.8 WAS COMPUTED FOR THIS EARTHQUAKE.
I was a couple of miles away from the center and three floors up at 10:55 this morning. The two rows of lab benches shook like crazy but all the equipment was strapped down, so nothing fell on me. My cell phone web browser refused to work during the hour I spent standing around in the parking lot waiting to be sent home.
Posted by at February 28, 2001 02:02 PM
"What this means is, we could make a real, 3-dimensional replica of some object. We could copy objects." Meystre said.
Posted by at February 28, 2001 11:53 AM
Using a biochemical cocktail of steroids and growth factors, the scientists were able to "retrain" cells that would normally form fat, into another type of cell known as a chondrocyte, or cartilage cell.
Posted by at February 28, 2001 11:25 AM
All games contain crates, therefore all games can be judged empirically on those crates.
Posted by at February 27, 2001 06:36 PM
Other slang words for the losers of the in-out mentality of the 1960s were chaser (a loser who will make every possible mistake), clod, Clyde, dibble, dip (emphasis on the dull), doofus, dose, douche bag (nice talk!), farmer, nerd or nurd, seed, wimp (passive, weak), and winner (lushly ironic). You did not associate with these people if you could help it; to escape their company, you at times had to ditch them.
Posted by at February 27, 2001 06:27 PM
The German unit of the Italian maker of popular nougat treat Nutella has forced the owners of the domain names Gnutella.de and Newtella.de to stop using their sites, partly from concerns that the peer-to-peer technology the sites promote will damage the company's global image.
Posted by at February 27, 2001 06:26 PM
"We are not pirates," [Klebanoff] said. "The talent is on our side."
Posted by at February 27, 2001 06:11 PM
Posted by at February 27, 2001 06:49 AM
...the restoration of working ovarian tissue - even allowing natural conception to take place, is described as the "holy grail" in this field.
...because the most important thing is for women to be able to keep having babies until we die, just like we used to.
Posted by at February 27, 2001 05:40 AM
If every corner gas station sold hydrogen, fuel cells would be more efficient and competitive. But as a practical matter, hydrogen must first be extracted from today's widely available fuels, like gasoline and methanol.
Posted by at February 26, 2001 03:01 PM
Donald Mountain, a math teacher in London, Ont., asked Grade 13 students how hard voters would have to kick [Ontario Premier Mike] Harris to move him to a 60-degree angle if the premier was hanging from a rope. In another question, the Saunders Secondary School teacher allegedly referred to an old rumour Harris has 11 toes by stating that the premier "had to grow an extra toe so that he could count to 21."
Posted by at February 26, 2001 05:34 AM
Posted by at February 25, 2001 06:13 PM
Superpowers. Stories of flying, invisibility, super-strength ... and people who dream of having these powers in real life. Broadcast the weekend of February 23-25 in most markets, or available here via RealAudio sometime next week.
I would pick flying, because then I would have a good reason to wear a cape.
Posted by at February 24, 2001 08:05 PM
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"Say for the sake of discussion, someone wanted to take the image of Marilyn Monroe and dress her up, turn her into a moving image and have her purchase an airline ticket," he said.
"With the model release form, you are allowed to create derivative images. Moving figures? Absolutely."
Posted by at February 24, 2001 11:53 AM
Once in the cycle of forced design and redesign -- the style trap -- it can be hard to escape. Unless it achieves a new iconic status, a tall order in an accelerated market, a newly glamorized product can go from timeless to ephemeral, functional to fabulous, humble to heroic -- and then disappear. One such icon after another might succumb, not because of failed functionality or market appeal, but because it couldn't survive the transplant to the hothouse of prime time design.
Posted by at February 24, 2001 11:41 AM
Posted by at February 24, 2001 08:13 AM
It's a vision of a seamless world of wireless access, where the business traveler or cafe habitu can keep in touch via the Web just by walking into the right spot, turning on the laptop and opening a browser. Other services are envisioned as well. The technology has been shown to work even if the laptop is moving, so drive-by access from a car may be possible. Or gas stations could have hot spots and offer "info fueling."
The air filled with billions and billions of bits of information. Most of the bits being recycled and forwarded email jokes...
Posted by at February 23, 2001 10:12 AM
One type of automaton that has received a lot of attention is cellular automata. For one thing, they make pretty pictures. For another, they are related to exciting new ideas such as artificial life and the edge of chaos.
Right on the edge of chaos!
Posted by at February 22, 2001 02:18 PM
The basic conception is that although the Cold War is over, the U.S. still has the responsibility to protect the world°but from what? Plainly it cannot be from the threat of "radical nationalism"°that is, unwillingness to submit to the will of the powerful. . . New enemies were needed.
Posted by at February 22, 2001 02:12 PM
Pentagon officials have admitted that most of the bombs dropped by US and British warplanes on Iraq last Friday missed their targets.
Posted by at February 22, 2001 02:08 PM
Posted by at February 22, 2001 11:05 AM
Mr. Knyazev is being investigated under a section of the Russian criminal code that carries a maximum five years' imprisonment and a driver's licence suspension after release. Though he hasn't yet been formally charged, an investigation under the Russian system is effectively the same thing. At any time, prosecutors can order formal charges to be laid and have Mr. Knyazev detained.
Posted by at February 22, 2001 05:27 AM
If you think I am going to fuck around with you anymore you are wrong! I have to hire about 20 people, so 10 more does not make one fucking bit of difference to me. How could any of you do sales reports, when only 2 of you showed up for work today!
Posted by at February 22, 2001 05:06 AM
A two year study by Alexa Research has found that 'sex' is the most popular online search term and that a large number of web users search for specific sites rather than enter their URLs.
Posted by at February 19, 2001 04:45 PM
Posted by at February 19, 2001 04:17 AM
I'm Nobody! Who are You?
by Emily Dickinson
I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there's a pair of us -don't tell!
They'd banish us, you know.
How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!
Posted by at February 17, 2001 06:19 PM
Encouraging young women to embrace both "girlie culture" and political activism, MANIFESTA is a call to arms and a defense of the "I'm not a feminist, but" mentality.
It's really a manifesto, but they replaced the letter o with an a. AND, there's nothing we like better than a good manifesto here on the moonfarmer.
Posted by at February 17, 2001 04:42 PM
With wide smiles and even broader plans, the presidents of Mexico and the United States are promising to invest more in "prosperando juntos" - prospering together.
Or was that "preparatory juntas" for when Dubya aims the planes at Harlem?
Posted by at February 17, 2001 11:33 AM
"Actually," he said somewhat tentatively, "we thought it would be more fun to actually have you go and do the interview at an Olive Garden, so you could talk about how bad everything there was while you were there."
Posted by at February 17, 2001 06:23 AM
...neither lemons nor chlorophyll threatened to invade your privacy or destroy well-established legal rights.
Posted by at February 16, 2001 06:07 PM
The end of their relationship -- one claiming the other put career before family -- is also typical, a familiar lament from CEO wives and ex-wives at the highest levels of corporate America. And, also typically, there's another woman. Jennifer, the stay-at-home mom, has taken up with another mother she met at her children's school, the Mid-Peninsula Jewish Day school.
Posted by at February 16, 2001 02:14 PM
Posted by at February 16, 2001 01:07 PM
We microinjected rainbow-trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) eggs from a very slow-growing wild strain with a salmon gene construct overexpressing growth hormone (construct OnMTGH1). Like coho salmon3, the transgenic trout grew much faster than non-transgenic sibling controls (Fig. 1a), achieving a 17.3-fold difference in weight by 14 months post-fertilization (non-transgenic: fish weight, 9.7 += 0.6 g; length, 9.3 += 0.1 cm; n = 247; transgenic fish: weight, 167.6 += 14.9 g; length, 24.2 += 0.9 cm; n = 40). The amount of growth enhancement was comparable (17.6-fold) in a first-generation (F1) family line established from these fish.
Posted by at February 16, 2001 11:07 AM
The material incorporates a microencapsulated healing agent that is released upon crack intrusion. Polymerization of the healing agent is then triggered by contact with an embedded catalyst, bonding the crack faces. Our fracture experiments yield as much as 75% recovery in toughness, and we expect that our approach will be applicable to other brittle materials systems (including ceramics and glasses).
Posted by at February 16, 2001 11:01 AM
GreenDisk recycled disks are the same premium quality disks normally reserved for software publishers. Working with concerned software companies, we collect their outdated and unsold products that were otherwise landfill-bound and recycle the packaging.
Posted by at February 16, 2001 10:43 AM
At Bonsai Kitten, we are happy to take care of all the little details and simply deliver to you a fully shaped kitten according to your specifications.
Posted by at February 16, 2001 08:20 AM
``Open source is an intellectual-property destroyer,'' Allchin said. ``I can't imagine something that could be worse than this for the software business and the intellectual-property business.''
Posted by at February 16, 2001 05:40 AM
Downsize the employees and bump your stock.
Posted by at February 15, 2001 05:57 AM
With Valentine's Day coming up, we've received lots of requests for a TotL Computer Dating service. We don't know why you people would want computers to date, but anyway, here you go...
Posted by at February 14, 2001 02:44 PM
All the buzz about Team Canada's latest trip to China has concerned the question of when and how often our delegation would raise the issue of human rights. What I'd like to know is: When do they start talking about the bribes?
Posted by at February 14, 2001 02:36 PM
Luckily, I am not afflicted with Mad Cow -- or any of the others, either, as far as I know. (Knock on wood for that, eh?) You bet. I am healthy as I need to be, these days. But I am rarely without access to my trusty Pathologies text. It is a bulky book, very awkward to carry around, but I can open it to just about any page & find three good reasons for Not doing anything at all. Check it out.
Posted by at February 14, 2001 02:05 PM
The Business Software Alliance (BSA) [February 1, 2001] announced the official launch of its Software Truce campaign, a one-month opportunity for local Boston businesses to review their software programs and acquire the licenses they need to get legal without facing penalties for past infringement imposed by BSA.
Posted by at February 14, 2001 01:58 PM
The oxygen I was sucking in is aviator grade (88% O?), not medical grade, and if used for only 10 to 15 minutes by someone without a related medical condition, poses no health risk.
Posted by at February 14, 2001 01:49 PM
Apple values it's customers input and it is my hope that the resounding cries of Moof! from the public will be heard. Please fill out the small petition below to show your support and love of dogcattle everywhere.
Posted by at February 13, 2001 05:20 PM
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Posted by at February 12, 2001 01:23 PM
Mr. Laibson is trying to understand "cueing" as a phenomenon in economics. Cueing helps to explain why advertising works; it refers to the stimuli that arouse latent desires or draw a cured addict back to his addiction.
Posted by at February 12, 2001 09:03 AM
Posted by at February 12, 2001 07:38 AM
Veils of smoke hung above Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Many prisoners slumped lifelessly, waiting for death.
Posted by at February 11, 2001 04:50 PM
Posted by at February 11, 2001 12:57 PM
The scientists have found that human beings have many fewer genes than they thought, around 30,000, only 300 more than a mouse.
Posted by at February 11, 2001 06:36 AM
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Posted by at February 09, 2001 07:09 PM
Amidst the flowers a jug of wine,
I pour alone lacking companionship.
So raising the cup I invite the Moon,
Then turn to my shadow which makes three of us.
Because the Moon does not know how to drink,
My shadow merely follows the movement of my body.
The moon has brought the shadow to keep me company a while,
The practice of mirth should keep pace with spring.
I start a song and the moon begins to reel,
I rise and dance and the shadow moves grotesquely.
While I'm still conscious let's rejoice with one another,
After I'm drunk let each one go his way.
Let us bind ourselves for ever for passionless journeyings.
Let us swear to meet again far in the Milky Way.
Posted by at February 09, 2001 04:31 PM
...Canadian officials question the timing of the story, which appeared on Tuesday, about an incident that occurred three months ago.
They claim Ms. Davidson immediately submitted to a police breathalyser test, which she passed, and add that Moscow police agree that Ms. Davidson was driving within the speed limit and that Ms. Moskalyk was at fault for stepping into traffic from behind a parked car.
Posted by at February 09, 2001 07:32 AM
The girl did not exist, and that was the core of Kerster's defence.
Posted by at February 09, 2001 07:29 AM
It deconstructs regular expressions.
Posted by at February 08, 2001 07:26 PM
Though productivity is on the rise ... layoffs are soaring ...
Posted by at February 08, 2001 09:13 AM
One Army official commented: "I wonder why they can't go down to WalMart and make a local purchase. Last I checked, they had plenty of 9 mm ammo." A box of 9 mm shells at WalMart costs about $7.
It's scary to think of all those officers walking around with unloaded guns... very scary.
Posted by at February 08, 2001 08:08 AM
The moon in the bureau mirror
looks out a million miles
(and perhaps with pride, at herself,
but she never, never smiles)
far and away beyond sleep, or
perhaps she's a daytime sleeper.
By the universe deserted,
she'd tell it to go to hell,
and she'd finda body of water,
or a mirror, on which to dwell.
So wrap up care in a cobweb
and drop it down the well
into that world inverted
where left is always right,
where the shadows are really the body,
where we stay awake all night,
where the heavens are shallow as the sea
is now deep, and you love me.
Posted by at February 08, 2001 06:44 AM
Posted by at February 07, 2001 09:13 PM
The gunman was shot in the leg by a uniformed Secret Service officer after he was found ``brandishing a gun outside'' the White House's southwest gate, said Marc Connolly, a Secret Service spokesman.
"Sure, the mailman won the lottery..."
Posted by at February 07, 2001 10:10 AM
Every year, engineering students at the university hold E Week and hang Beetles from buildings and other places around Vancouver, B.C.
Posted by at February 06, 2001 10:40 PM
The scientists used a new class of flower genes they recently discovered to trick the leaves into becoming petals.
Posted by at February 06, 2001 10:06 AM
The Amazon Honor System is a safe and easy way for you to collect voluntary payments for your Web site and to accept payments for access to your digital content.
Posted by at February 05, 2001 09:50 PM
"There's this pernicious belief out in the trenches that faculty are looking for ways to get away with things."
Posted by at February 05, 2001 07:47 PM
This is the part of my response to part of Ken's response to an email I sent him last weekend. And it was in fact my 26th birthday when I wrote it yesterday, but all well wishes are better than none.
Posted by at February 05, 2001 05:32 PM
The article below links to a forum titled "Is It Possible To Preserve Anonymity In A Digital Age?"
Obviously it is possible. What a magic trick of a question ("nothing up my sleeve, presto, a pack of doves holding playing cards"). The real issue is, as usual, "How Can We Stop Acting Like Sick Bastards ALL The Time?"
Posted by at February 05, 2001 08:55 AM
"A striking example, the personalization of a problem, an easy-to-understand slogan, these are all important at the level of politics in getting people to understand what is at stake in a issue," [Solove] said.
Posted by at February 05, 2001 08:44 AM
[Dubya] raised more money than any presidential candidate in history. Find out where he got his money from, and who his "cash constituents" are.
Posted by at February 05, 2001 08:00 AM
The Iowa Electronic Markets are real-money futures markets in which contract payoffs depend on economic and political events such as elections.
Posted by at February 05, 2001 07:48 AM
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I do not sit and sigh for wealth untold,
It never thrusts itself into my schemes;
I shrink from all your piles of clanking gold--
Better my sparkling hoard of golden dreams.
A life of limousined and jeweled ease
Is but a round of fathomless ennui.
You motor cars, your pearls, your sables -- these
Are naught to me.
Better a homely flat in Harlem's wilds
Than a costly living's spurious benefits;
Better a simple butter-cake at Childs'
Than caviar and stalled ox at the Ritz.
Your unearned gold, to me, is shot with flaws;
A life of honest toil I'd make my lot--
Which really makes it very nice, because
It's what I've got.
Posted by at February 05, 2001 06:32 AM
The hackers approached a Swiss newspaper, Sonntagszeitung, with data including mobile phone numbers, credit card numbers and home addresses of such figures as Bill Gates of Microsoft and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.
Posted by at February 04, 2001 02:53 PM
Beneath a field in the midst of the flat plains of South Georgia's farmland lies one of the South's best kept secrets -- a real royal treasure. Glory Hole is a spectacular example of Mother Nature's wildly extravagant artwork. This fantastic cave is one of the most beautiful in the United States.
Posted by at February 03, 2001 01:18 PM
You were never going to become more than this to me
Posted by at February 03, 2001 09:52 AM
According to a recent study at Rutgers National Marriage Project, 50% of marriages end in divorce.Another 25% of marriages stay together even though they are unhappy
Posted by at February 03, 2001 09:19 AM
No Criminal Case Facing Drunk Diplomat
Posted by at February 03, 2001 07:03 AM
What social problems could arise? Millions of Russian women will obtain their legal status [as wives], and they will not feel abandoned by their husbands. By the way, a poll among Russia's female population showed they are in favor of the legislation.
Posted by at February 03, 2001 07:00 AM
The Roman legions, during the conquest of the northern country, supposedly brought this tradition to the Teutons, or Germans, who picked it up and concluded that if the sun made an appearance on Candlemas Day, an animal, the hedgehog, would cast a shadow, thus predicting six more weeks of bad weather, which they interpolated as the length of the "Second Winter."
Posted by at February 02, 2001 05:25 PM
Almost 20 years after pioneering a form of downloadable digital audio, musician Perry Leopold was shocked to learn that someone had been awarded a patent on the application in the mid-1990s and had been suing rivals for infringement.
Posted by at February 02, 2001 03:47 PM
In the High Fidelity tradition, Ironminds gives you 16 lists to help you chose the consummate song to dedicate to that special someone in your life for Valentine's Day (only two weeks away, so get cracking) or to brood to (never too early to plan out a good pity party).
Posted by at February 02, 2001 08:19 AM
To get the ball rolling, I have lovingly compiled a few potential new homes for us, and I've amassed the pros and cons of citizenship therein, as well as the practicals of how to actually do it.
Posted by at February 02, 2001 08:12 AM
"I'm a woman. I don't have to wear pants," Zalewska said yesterday.
Posted by at February 02, 2001 07:46 AM
The [Rochester Institute of Technology] program hopes to offer a bachelor's degree in space tourism within three years, Domoy said.
Posted by at February 01, 2001 06:28 PM
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