K5 has lasted longer than the vast majority of sites on the internet that are not corporately funded or those stupid blogs that no one reads that someone with some sort of medicated complex keeps up for no logical reason.

Well here we go. We are going to install and RUN scoop on a modern communist debian system. And the best part is that it works.... And it's really not that hard to tweak. I'm using SUN's virtual box, as I have no interest installing Debian on my laptop.

Stargate: Universe (SGU) is the latest television series based on the movie Stargate. SGU is set primarily on the spaceship Destiny, which is 100,000 years old and billions of light years away from Earth. The crew is entirely human and traveled to Destiny via a wormhole which needed to be powered by the core of a planet. They have communication with Earth, and the technology used to do this is fuel for the producers's fantasies. They use ancient technology in the form of stones that allow them to swap bodies with people over vast distances instantaneously. The bodies remain where they are, but the consciousnesses are transferred for as long as the machine the stones are placed on remains active. If you've ever wondered what it would be like to swap bodies with one of your co-workers and have sex with your wife using his body, SGU is the show for you. The most recent episode (available on Hulu or Google Search) has this happening with the commander of the Destiny, Col. Young. However due to a glitch his colleague returns to his body momentarily in the act of coitus with Young's wife.

Perhaps due to the popularity of certain rhythm games, the electric guitar seems to be making a bit of a comeback. I've been playing mine for most of my life, and like many others I love heavy, distorted guitar sounds and big, crunching power chords. Root-fifth power chords are easy to learn and easy to teach, but why are they so ubiquitous? And why root-fifth, anyway? How does distortion combine with musical intervals in order to generate big, bassy tones? A theory of distortion and musical intervals, with particular application to the electric guitar, is presented inside.

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In days of old when knights were bold and toilets weren't invented, I wrote a k5 article about my adventures in self-publishing. In it I wrote, "I recommend self-publishing for anybody whose temperament and objectives resemble mine. All others should beware." That's still pretty my much point of view. Below the fold, I've updated & revised that original story & added some additional reflections based on the eight years of self-publishing experience I've amassed since then (including six years of making my books available for free download under Creative Commons license).

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In 2008, the U.S. telephone relay service (TRS) industry pulled in around 30 million dollars in revenue, 16 million of which was profit. If you've ever had to dial 711, or received a phone call from a 'relay service' then you've used it before. The TRS exists as a mandate of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Their mission is to assist the hearing or speech disabled to communicate with their fellow citizens over the phone, typically by using a TTY* device. The industry is governed by the Federal Communications Commission, and is funded through NECA, the National Exchange Carrier Association, who get their money from you, in the form of taxes on your phone bill. Ultimately, every penny that the TRS industry makes is from taxes, which makes the fact that the TRS system is completely broken all the more appalling. From ignoring the needs of the deaf customers it was designed to help, to aiding and abetting scammers all over the world. Want to learn more? Check out Stop Relay Abuse. Or, make a call for free anywhere in the US (requires flash, doesn't play nice in firefox). You don't even have to prove you're disabled, and it's completely anonymous for now. Did I mention federal law makes it illegal to talk about the content of any call, even if it's criminal activity? The only exception is the nebulous term 'national security', otherwise it takes a subpoena just to learn the IP address your call was placed from. Isn't it grand?

I'm usually on the lookout for interesting writing on programming, which cuts through the piles of "best practices", cargo-cult nonsense, and inane technical details, to something interesting to read that's also relevant to actually programming. I can say unhesitatingly that Yosef K.'s blog is the best on the internet meeting that description. Sure, he comes from a particular perspective--embedded systems programming--but is interested in and knowledgeable about broader areas, and generally manages to get to the heart of interesting issues and tradeoffs. And the works-at-a-real-company-doing-actual-embedded-systems-programming angle gives him some grounding in actual programming that you might not find in some academic takes (I say this as someone in academia).

It is one of the most ancient cooperative systems. It is the most widely accepted candidate for the ancestor to all multicellular life. It has been observed ever since men have looked through microscopes; Leeuwenhoek himself was the first to describe it. It's on your teeth. You've seen pretty pictures of them in Yellowstone. It's clogging your drain. You showered with one this morning. You slipped on it the last time you crossed a stream.

RISOTTO IS NOT THAT HARD IF YOU THINK IT IS HARD THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG WITH YOU RISOTTO REQUIRES BOTH PATIENCE AND RICE IF YOU HAVE NEITHER GO TO HELL

About 150 years ago, the first audio recorder, a phonautograph built by Scott de Martinville incorporated a stretched membrane with an attached pen to intercept sound waves and write them on paper.

I don't think I was actually in any danger.  I would go to the station again.  Last time I went there the station was shut down for an hour because some nut had run into the tunnel and the police were trying to find him.  Strange area. But here's what happened last night in case you're interested:

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MEPS is a abbreviation for "Military Entrance Processing Station".  It is where all want to be soldiers go to be processed into the military.  (The military is defined as all enlisted and officer positions in the Air Force, Army, Coast Guard, Navy, Marines.)  Getting to MEPS usually requires a multistep process some time before.  At MEPS, all prospective soldiers will be given a medical physical.  If a prospective soldier is in need of a ASVAB score for job placement, then that will be offered before the physical.   If there is one thing that I can say about MEPS, then it is to kill everyone with kindness.  Be respectful and say "yes" and not "yeah".  Add "sir" or "ma'am" to every sentence.  Say thank you after they direct you to somewhere--even if they sound like they are angry at you.  And try not to be loud.  They almost always end up being nice right back at you.  They are people, too, after all!

When I was growing up, my experiences with Capsicum were pretty conventional. These were mostly limited to the red pepper shaker at Pizza Hut and the medium-heat salsa companion to tortilla chips. It was years before I realized how much fun Capsicum could be. The intensity of the economic collapse brings new urgency to this story. In 2008, K5 offered us two strategies to wait out the subprime housing recession: subprime beer and subprime hobo wine. Both recipes were overly complicated, requiring numerous ingredients and many steps. In contrast, Special Vodka is simple, and even a homeless person could make it in their cardboard box on the street. Implementing the strategy given in this story will not only tickle your joy circuits, it will also fix the health care system and confirm GhostOfTiber's worst fears. You might even save a life.

On 14 September 2008, David Foster Wallace's wife, Karen L. Green, discovered the writer's body, hung in an apparent suicide. The conventional story goes like this: Wallace had suffered from depression for over 20 years. He needed antidepressant medication to be productive. However, Wallace began to experience severe side-effects from his primary antidepressant, phenelzine. He began to wean himself from phenelzine in June 2007, right around the start of the 2007 Wimbledon Championships. His depression returned. He tried other treatments, such as electroshock. Returning to phenelzine, Wallace found that it was no longer effective. His depression became even more severe. Wallace committed suicide. The conventional account bears the semblance of truth. But it is fundamentally incomplete. It is a post-Freudian tale of a man and his psyche only. Freud believed that God was an illusion, but not so David Foster Wallace. Wallace was a believer, and the religious experience is what is missing from the story of Wallace's untimely end. Indeed it was Freud's star pupil, Jung, who divined that one's problems past the age of 35 are fundamentally religious in essence. Herein lies the final piece of the puzzle.

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Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis wrote that the states serve as the laboratories of democracy. Rather than assessing economic performance only at a national level, as a centralized economy might, the United States has multiple layers of economic sovereignty, allowing for divergent economic models and thus divergent results in boomtimes and busts. Unlike the federal government, which, along with the quasi-governmental Federal Reserve, can simply create new money, state governments have much stricter fiscal constraints. The credit crunch has severely affected the budgets of every state in the union. But some states have fared better than others. Comparisons between states following different economic models may provide insight into the viability of the economic means and ends advocated by the various (electable) factions along the U.S. political spectrum. Over the last month, especially within the context of California's inability to self-govern, commenters have debated the viability of the so-called Blue State Model--the welfare state in microcosm.