Justin frankel wrote WinAMP, the worlds most popular MP3 player. He also wrote Gnutella, an intriguing decentralized file-sharing system that became the basis for Morpheus, BearShare, etc. He works for Nullsoft, which is owned by AOL. He recently wrote and semi-published a cool little instant-messaging app called W.A.S.T.E.. It was all open-source goodness, but apparently AOL didn’t like that, and removed the release from their servers. An encrypted, non-centralized instant messaging app competing with AIM? NEVER!
Well, it would seem that frankel has had enough. i can’t say i blame him. i’m sure there are plenty of people out there that would respect his wishes and allow him to write code at his will.
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I don’t know if i’d really want to buy a ghost in a jar, but its probably safe to say that if i had one, i’d want to sell it.
If you don’t win that bid, you can always just buy one off the shelf.
Then again, you could just make your own.
Next week — are you a ghost looking for a jar?
thanks to jason (via m@) for the ebay link. thanks to memepool for the style.
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If you are a baseball fan, it’s your civic duty to vote. keep in mind that the winning league this year gets home-field advantage during the world series.
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usually, i get all of my scientific news from NPR, and yesterday was no different. they ran a story about “the arkive“, a huge archive of images, videos, and sounds of endangered plant and animal life (though probably not a lot of plant sounds). at the moment the whole archive is not online, but according to the NPR report they have something on the order of 74 TERABYTES of data. That’s 50 million floppy disks, folks. Check it out.
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…you MUST talk about Phlite Klub.
Heh… well, i’ve put up an simple page devoted to our radio controlled aircraft exploits here. Phlite Klub is an obvious joke on the wonderful David Fincher film, Fight Club.
There are some new pics of Dave’s sailplane, the “Sophisticated Lady” within the new site, so go and check it. out.
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So Saturday, I got to fly my remote controlled airplane for the first time. Exhilirating? Oh yes? Nerve-racking? Can be. Proud? Sure.
Well, everything went just fine until the wing folded in half! (oh dear!).
Luckily, everything was captured on film (digital film, actually). Come, gather round children, and I’ll tell you the story of the Flying Shoebox!.
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My father used to (and I assume, still does) collect balsa models of planes, and we used to go out to the park to watch other folks fly them. I always loved that idea, but assumed that it was ludicrously expensive.
Well, it’s not CHEAP cheap, but it’s not really all that bad. I recently bought a plane kit and a radio controller, and I’m starting to put it together.
It’s electric, so I don’t have to deal with tiny little gas engines, of which I know little. I at least KNOW how an electric motor works with the alternating current and all that wackiness. So, in any casy, I think the first flight will probably be within a week or two, weather permitting. I can’t wait.
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First off, i didn’t realize that there was such a following behind Lego trains, and secondly they had their own organization. But, that aside, I’ve loved Legos for such a long time. They are just so goddamned cool. Now as I’ve grown older, I’m more into the moving parts and such, so this train thing is just too neat.
Also, check the webcam here to see the current state of the track. It’s huuuge!
While we are on the subject of LEGOs, check out the Lego Mindstorm HOWTO, and the Public, Real-Time, Actual, Honest-To-God Magic 8Ball.
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