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Welcome to another Sunday morning summary, with all the lateness that implies. I'll get the meta stuff out of the way first- Celia's post about a conference on summarisers led Matt Jones to ponder on an AvantGo channel for the summary web page, Ashley Pomeroy to parody Reese and Patrik Nordebo to mention the ultimate in two-word summaries. http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010514/038583.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010514/038585.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010514/038604.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010514/038642.html Last week's discussions on Russia prompted Yet Another Libertarian Thread, as Steve Mynott questioned how much the label applied to Russia, and Matt Jones asking for clarification. The Texan clarified things (especially what roles are left to government, and how policing is handled), while Steve Mynott tackled the issue of PPP and tube pricing, and David Cantrell took issue. Todd Larason questioned how private Railtrack was anyway. http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010514/038611.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010514/038619.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010514/038649.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010514/038680.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010514/038688.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010514/038724.html There was a bumber sticker cascade over the weekend too, but that sort of thing's only really funny at the time. http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010514/038639.html After the weekend, things took a turn for the worse; Rick Hawkin's post of a nuclear blast radius calculator and questioning when you'd rather die prompted Ashley to be Mad Max-ish, Steve Mynott to post about bunkers and UK targets, Duncan to move the thread onto biological warfare and The Texan to complain about the use of chemical weapons in riot control. Alex Robinson added a link to old British Government leaflets. http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010514/038733.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010521/038745.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010521/038757.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010521/038759.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010521/038804.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010521/038752.html Niklas Nordebo posted a link to an EU proposal for email archival, which prompted a burst of bogus calculations on how much space that would take up, and Simon Batistoni wondered about the fact he runs his own mail server. Steve Mynott posted interesting factoids on traffic through LINX. Todd Larason came up with naughty plans. http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010521/038758.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010521/038751.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010521/038770.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010521/038817.html Chris Devers recounted an unpleasant encounter with possums; John Melesky pointed out even more badness, and Paul Mison provided dull but important facts about crash reporting. The Texan let us know about his experiences with bad deer birth. http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010521/038795.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010521/038800.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010521/038805.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010521/038808.html Simon Batistoni started a few days of shared URL posting with a post on Mouse Soup and a Waterproof sofa. Todd Larason provided links to the original information, Rick followed links to Microsoft's dream house (provoking a caption competition, of sorts), Chris Devers picked up that this was deja-Slashdot, Steve Mynott likes his Dyson, and Todd Larason linked to lileks.com; visits to that site carried on for *ages*. http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010521/038823.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010521/038827.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010521/038849.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010521/038911.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010521/038846.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010521/038834.html Simon Wistow posted at length on the Bitstream exhibition in NY; another Simon talked about distorted skulls, Matt Jones picked up on an aside and prompted a diversion on white Vulcan bombers, while Rick followed up on Robert Shiels post about Mondrian-esque computer-generated images, which don't quite manage to have his essence. http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010521/038842.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010521/038853.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010521/038854.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010521/038859.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010521/038871.html A (void) meeting was first mentioned by The Texan on Sunday, but the full write up waited until Wednesday, when Mike Jarvis gave his side of the day; The Texan added his comments, and there ensued an argument- but not really- about whether women could rock 'n' roll, largely picked up on by Chris Devers. http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010514/038729.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010521/038927.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010521/038969.html Meanwhile, Ashley asked whether Harry really was a name, prompting Simon Wistow to talk about fish shops, again, and Steve Mynott tauntingly said he'd found a good one, without saying where it was... http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010521/038929.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010521/038959.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010521/039003.html Skipping over the Fight Club, Tank, Language and the Web (a shame, as it was a good one- ah well) and Antitrust threads (partially as I want to go to see the latter at Wistow's video thing), we come to Chris Devers stats post; Todd Larason provided some interesting threads ondate and time of posts, and Robin Houston was the first to explain why the May 1 bank holiday is on May 7. The Texan tried to add up posts from all the different accounts of some posters; no-one's tried to do it for everyone yet. http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010521/038978.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010521/038991.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010521/038993.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010521/038982.html Links o' the week: Ashley, Al Snell and Alex Robinson http://www.courtesyaircraft.com/ http://website.lineone.net/~okusa1/waterproof.jpg http://www.oateshouse.org.uk/chrismorris/pixies.mp3 Next week I'll do this properly. Honest. |
