"We could send email. Just not more than--" "--500 miles, yes," I finished for him, "I got that. But why didn't you call earlier?" "Well, we hadn't collected enough data to be sure of what was going on
until just now." Right. This is the chairman of *statistics*. "Anyway, I asked one of the geostatisticians to look into it--"

"apt-gentoo enhances the Debian package installation experience to make it fully competitive with newly-popular source-based distributions. As packages are installed, apt-gentoo automatically downloads their build logs from the buildd network. The logs are then slowly scrolled past on the user's terminal to simulate building the software on the local machine. apt-gentoo optionally, and by default, gives increased realism by spinning the CPU in a tight loop between build log lines, and writing large files to disk."

"it figures out using wi-fi signals when Brad is approaching his house, so even if he turns it on an hour before it won't actually open until he's close by. This isn't possible on other phones because they don't let you get access to the wi-fi bits to do AP scanning."

"The future today! Switched on, the Reactor looks like a PC snatched from the future and placed on your desktop. Production machines promise to be quiet and as ominous as it looks here."

"XSPF is the XML format for sharing playlists. It is open -- No proprietary lock-in. It is portable -- You should be able to send a playlist to your friend and have it work. It is well-engineered -- Most playlist formats get the easy things wrong."

"A "spin-out" from OLPC, the company, Pixel Qi is looking to create a $75 laptop and trying to advance low-cost computers and power-efficient laptops, mobile phones and other consumer electronics that are sunlight readable"

To watch.

"Shamelessly copied from a list being used at the xkcd meetup. (Yes, eventually I will shut up about the meetup, but right now I'm still excited about it.) Pick a topic and start a conversation!"

"On July 19, we became the first members of the media to set foot in the Google compound in The Dalles."

42.8% pure myself.

"The bodies responsible for the Internet's protocols and parameters can be said to steer the Internet in a significant sense. This document, by Alex Simonelis of Dawson College in Montreal, is a summary of those bodies and their most important characteris

The current best of b3ta.

Justin's Star Trek plot generator. Had me in stitches.

A great source for street /internet/etc slang definitions.

All the classic Slashdot comment clichés in one thread.

Techcakes!

"Don't worry, there's plenty of gaping holes in the kernel too.!"

"Knitting may be a centuries-old craft, but the results can be quite high-tech. For example, it's now possible to store data on a scarf."

A geek wreath. A to do for this christmas?

"Offensively Binary gives you the chance to rage and bitch about the world on the sly. Each item has the binary code translation of some pretty fucking offensive shit."

Lots of nice geek/gamer/etc clothing.

A list of good OSS apps for Windows.

As the title says.

MMTWG!

An archive of phreaking and hacker related sounds and recordings.

A popular US TV show references the CDC and BO in explaining '1337'.

Don't mess with the IT department guys.

"Your favourite song goes 'beep'". Harharhar.

A kite that looks like a giant cursor.

Geeks are not known to be political or highly vocal (outside of our own circles)- this must change if we want things to improve. So here is my list of things people of all shapes, sizes and sides of the debate need to know.

Pussy comes to mind.

How to make me happy.

The best comments ever seen on Slashdot.

"As a computer programmer in a new apartment, I've taken the same approach to setting up my home as I would developing a software application: with a focus on usability."

Four volumes of nerdcore hiphop available for free.

CORY DOCTOROW: Let me ask you this: does this phone play quadraphonic Ogg Vorbis music format? Or FLAC encoded video? What about the Bittorrent client on this phone, is it GPL’d?

Some DJs spin vinyl or twiddle fader knobs. Others write subroutines in C++.

Ad-hoc distributed computing using a Linux LiveCD based system.

LEDs are reinventing the look and feel of skylines, bridges, facades and other architectural surfaces around the globe.

"On the next Slashback: Backslash Backlash on Slashdot."

Doom as a tool for system administration.

Essays written by Paul Graham.

A must read.

Form PGRDF/1.03, for people met recently at parties in whom a more-than-just-friendly interest has been mutually discovered and disclosed.