2005 February Links

http://forums.tlm-project.org/archive/i ... t-100.html

This is fascinating. To summarize the link, pirates apparently distribute content via Bit Torrent in passworded rar format. To get the password, you must send the pirates some money. This of course begs many questions. Two good ones: Are there people distributing legitimate content in this way? Why aren't the MPAA and RIAA going after these people instead of in-kind filesharers?

Post by **Jonathan** » Mon Feb 14, 2005 4:59 pm

http://gangstaname.com/index.php

I post this merely to note the possibilities for my "gangsta" name: Jimbo da Daddy or the No-pants Killa. The suggestions both connote more "sexual predator" than "stone cold gangsta."

Peijen · Post by **Peijen** » Mon Feb 14, 2005 7:01 pm

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=s ... &e=2&ncid=

Post by **Jonathan** » Mon Feb 14, 2005 7:02 pm

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dy ... ge=printer

Does the aging of the world's population mean we'll experience an "asset meltdown"?

Post by **Jonathan** » Mon Feb 14, 2005 7:37 pm

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/interna ... =162392005

Penguins: gay, or just lacking females?

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Mon Feb 14, 2005 7:55 pm

I'm both.

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Tue Feb 15, 2005 5:03 pm

http://money.cnn.com/2005/02/14/news/ec ... /index.htm

Blog bad! Harris goooooooooooooooooooooood

Peijen · Post by **Peijen** » Tue Feb 15, 2005 11:29 pm

The article itself is not very interesting, but

9) If talking about death several times a week in class sounds like a good time to you, try Purdue University's "Death and the Nineteenth Century" course. Every poem and novel in the course deals with the 19th-century conception of mortality and the world beyond.

A class for goth? what the fuck?

http://encarta.msn.com/college_article_ ... l?GT1=6190

Post by **Jonathan** » Tue Feb 15, 2005 11:52 pm

http://www.sysprog.net/quothist.html

Quotes from the past. Fairly interesting, though the accuracy of these quotes is called into question by their use of the "640K of memory" "quote" by Bill Gates, which is almost certainly apocryphal.

http://everything2.com/index.pl?node=64 ... %20anybody

Alan · Post by **Alan** » Wed Feb 16, 2005 12:55 am

Holy shit this guy's crazy. Just absolutely batshit insane. Lots of swearing so probably not work safe.

http://movies.collegehumor.com/media/mo ... ndguns.wmv

Alan · Post by **Alan** » Wed Feb 16, 2005 2:31 am

Does your baby wiggle its bottom before going to sleep?

It could be diaper rash or a sensitivity to soap.

Or perhaps it is engaging in masturbation, which is an apparently normal infant behavior.

Or maybe worms are crawling out of its asshole at night, laying eggs on its asscheeks, and then crawling back in.

But hey, it's probably just diaper rash. Perfectly normal, nothing to see here folks.

Alan · Post by **Alan** » Wed Feb 16, 2005 3:30 am

Clearly the greatest song ever.

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Wed Feb 16, 2005 4:37 pm

http://people.news.designerz.com/north- ... ?d20050216

North Koreans partied for Kim Jong-Il, enjoying extra rations and flower shows on his 63rd birthday as the media lionized the diminutive dictator who claims to have nuclear weapons.

love that quote