] The primary intended use for this is to allow
] identifiable participants in the domain name system to
] vote on matters that affect the whole domain name system
] in an easy (and easily-verifiable) fashion. The method
] for voting is specifying a string in the whois data for a
] domain name.

This sounds like a good idea. I need to think about it more. Something tells me that this doesn't necessary put the power in a better place.. I need to think about the math in play. Wouldn't this just mean that the lion-share of the voice just goes to domain speculators?

A Voting System for Internet by Domain Name Owners - Part I

] There is currently a healthy robust competitive market
] for expired domains. The WLS seeks to kill the entire
] market and allow a system devised by Network Solutions to
] decide who gets every name, and allows them to charge
] domain consumers exorbitantly for the privelege of using
] their monopoly.

The actual product is named "Next Registration Rights".. I commented on this awhile ago. http://www.memestreams.net/users/rattle/blogid3252412

Another reason to hate Verisign

] The young people, many sporting spiked-hair and cutoff
] jean jackets, rioted after they were told that the groups
] Total Chaos and The Exploited wouldn't be performing.
] Some members of The Exploited were refused entry into the
] country by Canada Customs, the French-language TV channel
] LCN reported.
]
] "At 10 after 8 one of the organizers decided to come out
] and tell the crowd that was here that the concert was
] cancelled. At that point the crowd turned crazy and
] turned into a riot," Yannick Ouimet, a Montreal police
] spokesman, told Global Television.

canada.com | Exploited and Total Chaos fans riot

] China's first piloted spacecraft has entered the outer
] space, and Lieutenant Colonel Yang Liwei is now the first
] Chinese astronaut in space in the world's 241st manned
] space mission.

] At around 9:10, Shenzhou-5 moved into the
] preset orbit, indicating success of China's endeavor to
] hurl a piloted space vehicle of its own into the orbit.

] In the meantime, The Yuanwang-1 measuring vessel has
] been monitoring the target over the Pacific Ocean; and
] the Beijing Space Command and Control Center ordered
] the craft to open up the solar panels.

:: Xinhuanet - English :: China's first manned spacecraft in orbit

] Cyan Callahan, an employee at San Francisco interactive
] marketing firm Mindshare Design, signed up for the
] national Do Not Call List the very first week it was
] announced in late June. Like many Americans, Callahan was
] receiving an average of three or four calls a day from
] telemarketers and was fed up. More than 45 million irate
] citizens have signed up since then. Though the list
] doesn't go into effect until Oct. 1, Callahan says she
] has already had more nights of total peace and quiet. "In
] the last two months, I've come home and thought: 'Wow, my
] phone's not ringing. I like this.'"

They spelled her name wrong!

BW Online | Where Do Not Call Does Not Count

] We study empirically how fame of WWI fighter-pilot aces,
] measured in numbers of web pages mentioning them, is
] related to their merit or achievement, measured in
] numbers of opponent aircraft destroyed. We find that on
] the average fame grows exponentially with achievement; to
] be precise, there is a strong correlation (~0.7) between
] achievement and the logarithm of fame. At the same time,
] the number of individuals achieving a particular level of
] merit decreases exponentially with the magnitude of the
] level, leading to a power-law distribution of fame. A
] stochastic model that can explain the exponential growth
] of fame with merit is proposed. The model also provides
] likelihood of deviations from expected fame; it predicts,
] that the odds to be ten times more famous than expected
] from one's merit are ten in a million, while the odds to
] be ten times less famous are as high as one in ten.

[cond-mat/0310049] Theory of Aces: Fame by chance or merit?

] "A guest improperly put the garter on the girl who
] caught the bouquet," Hill said. "It wasn't acceptable to
] her boyfriend and a melee ensued."
]
] About 40 people became involved in the brawl and police
] from eight towns were called in to restore order, Hill
] said.

Eight towns? Eight? Belmar, Wall, Spring Lake, Avon, Neptune, and the State at least I'm guessing? Geez.

] A bartender working the wedding, Kevin Murday, 27,
] of Belmar said a table was crushed, but the hall did not
] sustain any serious damage. He said the fight had
] ceased, but flared up again when Belmar police arrived.

The Belmar police made a problem worse then it already was? Imagine that.

] "It was a disaster," Murday said. "The bride and groom
] were pretty shocked. They just kind of sat there and stared."

On the honeymoon, I suggest getting as far away from Jersey as possible.

Melee mars wedding reception

] An ordinary desktop PC outfitted with six PCI cards,
] each containing four of the chips, would perform at
] about 600 gigaflops (or more than half a teraflop).

] At this level of performance, the PC would qualify as one
] of the 500 most powerful supercomputers in the world.

] "At 3 watts, you could put it in a PCMCIA card," said
] McIntosh-Smith. "With two chips on a PC Card, you can
] have 50 gigaflops on a laptop, running off a battery.
] That's equivalent to a small Linux cluster on your
] notebook."

Its the FPU from hell!

Wired News: Turn That PC Into a Supercomputer

Uma Thurman stars in Quentin Tarantino's fourth film venture, Kill Bill. Thurman plays a character known as the Bride, a pregnant assassin who is shot by her boss, Bill (David Carradine), on her wedding day, leaving herself and the wedding guests lying for dead. She survives and after being in a coma for five years, she wakes to seek revenge on her co-workers and boss who had attacked her. She sets out to strike down her once fellow assassins, leaving Bill for last.

I saw Kill Bill last night. This movie is damn good.

Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)

This is port of XChat, the best of the GUI IRC clients, using Mac OSX Aqua widgets. I've been using it for about a week now, and it appears stable and works great. I had been using XChat compiled via Fink. It worked well, but this is far superior. No more problems with cut & paste.

X-Chat Aqua