{"id":160,"date":"2004-05-02T17:24:30","date_gmt":"2004-05-02T09:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/?p=160"},"modified":"2007-11-12T04:28:17","modified_gmt":"2007-11-11T20:28:17","slug":"nf-random-quickie-mind-blobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/archives\/160","title":{"rendered":"NF . random quickie-mind blobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Random quickie-mind blobs.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If you can&#8217;t afford to buy your dream house, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2004\/04\/29\/photoshopped_dream_h.html\" target=\"_blank\">create them in photoshop<\/a>. Better&#8230; make them look edible.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iconfactory.com\/pixelpal1.asp\" target=\"_blank\">PixelPalooza winners<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iconfactory.com\" target=\"_blank\">Icon Factory<\/a>.  I have this &#8216;thing&#8217; for desktop icons.  I strongly believed they are ewoks or some other cuddly character from Star Wars before they were reborn in this era.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Who needs Albert Einstein and education when you can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.physics.umd.edu\/ripe\/icpe\/newsletters\/n34\/marshmal.htm\" target=\"_blank\">measure the speed of light using marshmallows<\/a>..?   Oh you can even eat the marshmallows after the experiment.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>With Google Inc.&#8217;s S1 filing comes a lot of things.  I won&#8217;t even include a hyperlink this time.  The news is everywhere in the &#8216;net for the past few days.  From news to analysis to estimates on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tnl.net\/blog\/entry\/How_many_Google_machines\" target=\"_blank\">how many machines Google is running<\/a> to their quirks that makes you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/news\/print\/0,1294,63286,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">love Google even more<\/a>.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><font face=\"Tahoma, Verdana, Arial\">Geek humor: If you take a close look at the form Google filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the exact value of its planned offering is $2,718,281,828 dollars, which some would immediately recognize as the mathematical constant <b><i>e<\/i><\/b>. <\/p>\n<p>E, for those not blessed with a Ph.D. and a job at Google, is Euler&#8217;s number, which is used as the base for natural logarithms.<\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/focus.aps.org\/story\/v13\/st18\" target=\"_blank\">Fibonacci is everywhere<\/a>.  It&#8217;s even in the pattern of Elmo&#8217;s underwear.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>The latest from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/opinion\/opinterview.jsp;jsessionid=JHFHKCOOJILL?id=ns24441\" target=\"_blank\">mind control technology<\/a>, eh?  MY relationship with my pet pterodactyl uses a technology two steps ahead of this one.  But I don&#8217;t have any plans of sharing it for now.  Besides I&#8217;m not sure if it is error-proof already.  I haven&#8217;t seen my pterodactyl for three months already.  If you see one with a barcode in it&#8217;s neck that reads &#8216;<font face=\"Book Antiqua, Times New Roman\">0987253251129<\/font>&#8216; please be kind enough to inform me.  Just be careful not to touch the mouth part&#8230; the pterodactyl&#8217;s saliva is equivalent to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rochesterdandc.com\/news\/04305E43G2E_news.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">superglue<\/a>.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/msdnmag\/issues\/04\/05\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">May 2004 issue of MSDN<\/a> is out.  It even has a <a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/msdnmag\/issues\/04\/05\/MSDNMag0405.chm\" target=\"_blank\">downloadable .chm version<\/a>.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Ever wondered <a href=\"http:\/\/weblog.infoworld.com\/yager\/2004\/04\/28.html#a28\" target=\"_blank\">why Microsoft settled with Sun<\/a>?  Well that at least is according to Tom Yager.<\/li>\n<p>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hmmm&#8230; seriously, anyone have any ideas how to track that pterodactyl of mine?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Random quickie-mind blobs. If you can&#8217;t afford to buy your dream house, create them in photoshop. 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