(void) summary hurty
claw
2001-10-05
Pizza, peeking and
pulses
(void) summary hurty
knee
2001-09-28
Sex, death, busyness,
speeches, fragments
(void) summary hurty
shoe
2001-09-21
Music (old, grey and
bad), more politics
(void) summary hurty
buns
2001-09-14
That cultural event and
foreshadowing
(void) summary wordy
2001-09-07
Feeling cultured,
Macintosh passions,
hi-tech stats
(void) summary in the
summertime
2001-08-31
Books, hypnosis,
falling Romans and
uptime
(void) summary
nathan-hate
2001-08-24
Dick size wars, window
managers and oddball
scientists
(void) summary smutty
heaven
2001-08-17
Commercials, wild
cheese, bouncy and
layering
(void) summary bent? he
fix
2001-08-10
Gay test, Nethack,
babies and exposure
(void) summary when
arrive
2001-08-03
Rough notes,
controversy and
lateness
(void) summary
plentyful
2001-07-27
Tomorrow's World, porn
and prostitution
(void) summary plenty
free
2001-07-20
Number stations, more
guns and scaffolding
(void) summary hentai
teeth
2001-07-13
Everybody cracks, stats
attack and we rap
(void) summary bendy
fun
2001-07-06
Currency, driving,
bedbugs and scopeware
(void) summary plenty
2001-06-29
Script tamers, schools,
crap after and zero
(void) summary sign
stream
2001-06-22
it come with it every
day at Oven
(void) summary time
cube
2001-06-15
Daynal vs the world,
candidates and
explosions
(void) summary severed
dreams
2001-06-08
Daily format, subs and
unsubs, fireworks and
drinking
(void) summary thick
teens
2001-06-01
Platoon, imaging,
guerrillas and funny
money
(void) summary pit
fiend
2001-05-25
too short! nuclear war,
lileks and YALT
(void) summary tureen
2001-05-18
t-shirts, chippies and
PG-13 films
(void) summary hurting
2001-05-11
Summaries, veal and
hinternets too
(void) summary delve
2001-05-04
Facts, links and guest
lists
(void) summary
unleavened
2001-04-27
Razors, magick, Rand
and drugs
(void) summary den
2001-04-20
Eighties music, speedy
cars and food
(void) summary lime
2001-04-13
Instructions, beeps and
monkeys
(void) summary eats
2001-04-06
File sharing, burnout
and beauty
(void) summary serpents
2001-03-26
Earthlights, tees and
OS X
(void) summary sicks
2001-03-19
Memes, lizards, walks
and rips
(void) summary fife
2001-03-12
Rudeness, art and
creation
for summary in (void)
2001-03-05
Coupons, novels and
digests
(void) summary three of
some
2001-02-26
Spices, jobs and ads
(void) summary returns
2001-02-19
Ridley, youth and
photos
(void) weekly summary,
february
2001-02-12
Games, plates and
gadgets
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Welcome to another ridiculously late summary. But you- yes, you- can do
something about it. Volunteer to cover a week or two. (If no-one volunteers
for the weeks either side of YAPC::Europe, there won't be one at all.) Sorry
to start so heavily, but there you go. (And to make this quicker, I'm using
message-IDs again. Feel free to write a URL <-> message ID convertor.)
The week started with the repercussions of Al Snell's new radio toy, and the
tail end of that ridiculous name-changing thread. Ashley posted a link to
the Conet Project CD, and Steve Mynott posted about Radio Moscow in the
eighties. Chris Devers transposed it to text, and Robin Houston pointed out
the MP3s. Todd Larason posted a few books about broken Soviet one time pads.
<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000055XXU/>;
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The thread then detoured into scifi territory, with Ashley posting about
Interzone, Todd (again) on short story collections, duncan posting a bunch
of recommendations, Replicant finding online archives and places to buy in
London, Simons Wistow and Kinahan discussing Pratchett and Hamilton, and
Ashley rounding it off with yet another t-shirt candidate.
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Ashley talked about the Human League too. Somehow the Lebanon got brought
up, and Todd Larason figured out the burning issues involved.
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Chris Devers picked up on a mention of Final Fantasy to ask about video
games and films; Jo Walsh wondered why some of the CGI looked worse than
others and, as Phil Gregory also pointed out, noted how the film and game
had related visual styles. Meanwhile, Patrik Nordebo admitted liking Tomb
Raider while Simon Wistow doubted convergence was happening and ranted about
the PS2. Again.
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Robert Shiels gave up alcohol for a bit and wondered about tolerance and
withdrawal. Steve Mynott said it should be better within a week; Alex
discussed the fine line between giving up and saying it to people; Chris
Heathcote talked about smoking, and so did Robert Jones, who regrets the
fact it's unpleasant.
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Simon Wistow's stat-filled bile-fuelled summary drew responses from Todd
Larason, castigating cat and moving on to radix sorts. Robert Jones found
stats for all time, while Ashley took up the invitation to carry on
killing...
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... just like the police, sparking a thread about guns and crime (again).
Steve Mynott posted about the Hackey table leg killing, duncan posted what
they're supposed to do and Simon Wistow also piped up with police
procedures. Robert Jones posted UK crime figures, and Daynal posted her
experiences with the police.
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The punk era was revisited by, yet again, Ashley, while Steve Mynott posted
a chunk of history and Replicant mused on UK/US punk life.
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Still on some sort of health kick, Robert Shiels asked about laser eye
surgery. The consensus seemed to be it was worth it, although Ian Malpass
thought it better to wait (and provided nice ascii art of the procedure),
Patrik Nordebo wanted cybereyes. The best advocate was Randal Schwartz, who
told us where to find pictures of his surgery, which was 'absolutely worth
it'.
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Meanwhile, the gun thread came back, with Al Snell suggesting licensing,
Ashley and duncan pointing out the difficulty of getting a license, Paul
Mison taking offence at the idea of licensing beer and fags, and Todd
Larason looking at the US perspective.
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The last big thread of the week was Ian Malpass, who wanted to climb his
scaffolding, and provided a link to an odd building at St Andrews. Chris
Devers talked about Nemo, Alex Robinson about a Corbusier hotel (which
Ashley compared to Dr Who credits), and Ashley found odd Nasa paintings.
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Robert Jones quoted:
"Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands,
hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats." -- H. L. Mencken
Greg McCarroll then suggested we get together to play Counterstrike. Um,
maybe. Now stop pointing that lighter at me. Other single posts of note:
Chris Pinard on Batman colouring, and, er, Ashley on himself, lunatics, and
Jodie Foster.
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Links of the week from Simon Wistow, Alex Robinson, Chris Heathcote and
Chris Devers.
<http://www.twoshortplanks.com/simon/lyrics/>;
<http://www.nme.com/NME/External/News/News_Story/0,1004,36518,00.html>;
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<http://www.enterprisemission.com/corbett.htm>;
Brought to you by Curve - Cuckoo and too much time spent at work not
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