silverstr is made a slave to the emulator, MAME, I know exactly how he feels. this used to happen to be a lot before i got the powerbook (which for some reason i don't play games on?) except that i used to play 1942, metal slug 2, and puzzle bobble. great games. i want to get a neo geo and rock it for real.#

charles miller describes the "fifteen minute test" that is put on new software we install. i do this too and in fact i did it with the two applications he mentioned and i wasn't able to find a way to make them useful for myself. bummer. i also wish that my computer would organize all my information nicely, then it could process it too, then it could be me and i wouldn't have to. that would be great.#

not for work. this is some amazing girl, i can barely believe me its really there? kiid#

awesome picture of britney from this funny article via theward.net -- i am not one to bash celebrities because i can admit to being envious and jealous and that i have succumbed to the goals of advertisers everywhere, BUT, humour is humour.#

new berkeley db xml article from it's update blog#

james robertson links and discusses the prologue of the underground history of american education and agrees that as a teacher you are either up against parents who don't care or an administration who don't care. very interesting.#

dive into mark offers up a list of things that rss aggregators should do. he identifies that many rss aggregators don't realize that they are just http clients and they should act like. and act proper.#

a new japandemonium at rpgamer talks about a unreleased final fantasy game and a neat game called baten kaitos from the makers of xenosaga. coool#

an abstract from a paper that ponders about survival characteristics of jews during the holocaust. always interesting things from gene expression#

also at ge, talking about the SAT and it's origin and it as the origin of today's meritocracy. i wonder how what john taylor gatto (the author of the book mentioned above) would say about the SAT, possible its in his book?#

AND, discussion of hitler's jewish soldiers -- this is very intersting.#

moxie writes as if she were hayley joel osment and it's funny.#

tony pierce sets down some rules for his kids.#

a story of spam and spammers and one man's good fight to stop them and their tricks, over at kuro5hin#

interview with ppc970 designers via slashdot#

philip greenspun wonders what the purpose of maine is? perhaps they should be sold to canada?#

brian carnell writes about the ICC and the Bush Administration's position on it. I'm not sure if 8% in 1 month of complaints directed at the US makes the BA's position more or less solid? as an unrelated, yet interesting, tidbit on mel gibson's new movie#

good impressions go a long way#

a review of queer eye for the straight guy.#

gary hart rails on what he calls "democracy by combat" and identifies some sour stuff going in the "System"#