I almost forgot, last weekend I got the parts I ordered for my new computer. AMD xp 2000+, ASUS A7N8X-X motherboard, 512mb, 1 40g drive, 2 120g drives, ATI Radeon 9200 SE, and a SuperFlower 401 black case. It's replacing my primary computer.

So I read on Slashdot that Affinity Engines Says Google Stole Orkut Code. This is kind of interesting because Orkut is not even close to being on par with what Google has done in the past so it might just be true. You'd think a company like Google would just write their own stuff.

It seems there's some good news about Guantanamo with the ruling from the United States Supreme Court. Kuro5hin also has a good article outlining more about the ruling and other things going on about the Hamdi v. Rumsfeld case. I've also been keeping my eye on the Cassini mission which got close to Saturn this week. Fahrenheit 9/11 made a big wave last weekend, I guess I'll have to go see the movie. I've kinda flip flopped between skepticism and agreeing with Michael Moore.

In site related news, I'll be adding a mathematics section here shortly. It will mostly be focused on Calculus with limits as a kind of background for my philosophy section topic in objective observations.

David Cross is a funny guy. I'm currently reading a book called Cryptonomicon written by Neal Stephenson. This guy is borderline fucking genius or I'm borderline fucking retarded, either way. Anyway he takes these pauses in the book to explain some complex theory like how sex affects clarity of mind such that C_m (clarity of mind) can be designated as a range from 0 ≤ C_m < 1 where C_m = 0 indicates a totally clouded mind and C_m = 1 is an unattainable divine state of infinite intellect. Horniness designated as σ begins at zero at time t = t₀ and increases linearly immediately following sex as a function of time such as &sigma a (t - tô) and can only drop back down to zero by having sex or a Manual Override. This function of horniness effect clarity of mind such that the at a critical point in horniness there is a threshold σ_c when σ > σ_c it becomes impossible to concentrate. This can be completely described by the limit function:

Cm  a	lim n®∞	1
		______
		(σ - σc)n

It's bloody brilliant! The main thrust of the book is about the importance of cryptography through WWII and currently as you can probably tell from the title.

Normally I'm not much into quirky community sites but orkut seems relatively decent. It's affiliated with google so it might be an interesting site. The server is a little slow but they got a ton of communities, even one for Fort Collins.

So I'm surfing the web, as I'm prone to do from time to time, and I run across the Christian Exodus web site. These very few people are trying to organize thousands of people to emigrate into South Carolina to take over legislative districts. Their goal is to return the United States to the good old days of their christian fundamentalist bullshit views one state at a time and if they can't do that secede from the Union. Take a look at their bullet points of what is wrong with this country. Now take a look at the Free State Project web site where a bunch of libertarians have the same kinda of idea. Sad fucking people.

I been also reading the news from the Guardian UK web site. It's pretty sad when I have to go to a news site in another country to get real news about my own. They have some up to date news on Guantanamo Bay. For those of you who don't know anything about The Patriot Act you need to smack your head against the wall for 3 hours then read this. Also go here, here, and here.

Finally, on a brighter note the Daily Show is funny.

Read some interesting pages about Microsoft over the last week or two. The most telling was How Microsoft Lost the API War which has a theory about the change internally from backwards compatibility. There is some more evidence that this change has become quite pervasive here and here. As someone who believes heartily that backwards compatibility is key to having a large enough software base for good adoption this trend is most telling that Microsoft is going in the wrong direction. Lawrence Lessig posted on his blog an interesting speech Cory Doctorow gave to some people at Microsoft about DRM. Finally, if its to be believed, Transgaming has announced WineX 4.0, named Cedega, which will be able to run Windows games on Linux with very good compatibility and performance.

Linkmarks has been completely replaced by sparce. Some various links that were in Linkmarks but not in Sparce have been put into the sections which I thought were applicable.

As a semi peruser of all things I found this interesting stuff about airships and of course the Zeppelin. I was prompted to look at this because the Zeppelin Flies Again. I found this article on blogs from Time to be interesting. Of special note was this paragraph:

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"We may be in the golden age of blogging, a quirky Camelot moment in Internet history when some guy in his underwear with too much free time can take down a Washington politician. It will be interesting to see what role blogs play in the upcoming election. Blogs can be a great way of communicating, but they can keep people apart too. If I read only those of my choice, precisely tuned to my political biases and you read only yours, we could end up a nation of political solipsists, vacuum sealed in our private feedback loops, never exposed to new arguments, never having to listen to a single word we disagree with."

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Those of you that visit slashdot often may have already seen this stuff and find it redundant, but I don't really care, so thbbbt!