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Going back from France and Britain to Hollywood, here are 3 spoofs of Tim Kring's Heroes : Zeroes , created by NBC marketer Vince Manze (independently of Kring, so he says); The Office Heroes , which is what happens when you cross Kring with Gervais and Merchant; and an untitled spoof by EOTM, whoev...

The most advanced anti-crime biometric gizmos in the world are no match for human procedural stupidity.

Tarasoriku:

Add to that Strauss's Also Sprach Zarathustra overture playing in the background, followed by... some cheesy tune or other? I sure wish more scientists would present their work like that.

frumpwallow: ...

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What the hell, floating libertarian utopias? Oliver's Republic of Minerva is hilarious. And the Freedom Ship project sounds like just a good ol' scam.

And in older non-news: Something Awful has A Guide to Understanding TV Metrics.

Alfie Kohn argues against the idea of homework.

And, the iPod Death Clock.

The holy monkeys have spoken: Deputy Mayor S. S. Bajwa must die.

ils: At least she doesn't look totally stoned. Unlike Loretta Nall.

In (other?) news: the blogging scholarship enigma.

Argh, why's this computer virus so cute?

And, nude Belgian politician promises 400,000 jobs. (NSFW)

Scroogled, a Google-dystopian scifi story by Cory Doctorow.

frumpwallow: Well, a Google search on the site name does turn up a photo-blog...

Finally... I got around to using Graphite to add rules to resolve letter + diacritic pairs into precomposed glyphs (unfortunately, this requires one to use a Graphite-capable program like SILA to see the precomposed characters; the diacritics will still be placed wrong on stock browsers). Here 's th...

frumpwallow: It seems the thing simply throws up the error message no matter what you type: Action 0x0000001A- PUSH DATA String: "error" Integer: 1 (0x00000001) String: "_parent" Action 0x00000032- GET VARIABLE Action 0x00000033- PUSH DATA String: "gotoAndPlay" Action 0x00000043- CALL METHOD Action ...

pne: Thanks! The "-"s still come up bogus on my browser, but I guess that can't be helped.

Speaking of conceptual art (again): Damien Hirst, whose work was satirized by A Dead Shark Isn't Art, is selling his diamond-studded skull for $100 million ...to himself.

zompist: Thanks... there's not much space left (only 7 unassigned codes), so instead of using up two more codes for "Ĭ" and "ĭ" separately, I decided to assign a single code for the "inverted mole" diacritic, at U+E229 -- so "Ĭ" will be U+E204 U+E229, and "ĭ" will be U+E234 U+E229. The output doesn'...

zompist: it seems that there are no characters in the CSUR proposal for the "ĭ" glyph ( ) and the dash "-". What's the correct way to handle them?

I've turned the diacritic glyphs into zero-width characters: here 's the new font. (I've renamed it "Verdurian CSUR" to make it easier to pick the right font for the right encoding.) The text   now looks like this under Mozilla: http://img252.imageshack.us/img252/7373/88418380ym2.gif...

Would you eat wormy sweet corn? When it comes to biotech, if you can't convince them, then SLAPP them.

Flash adventure game: The Sea of Glomp.

(No, I've not solved it, so don't ask me for spoilers. )

The great showdown between A Dead Shark Isn't Art and The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living.

When Philip "Bush for Caesar" Atkinson isn't busy advocating mass murder and mass enslavement, he's busy doing cutting-edge research into the new science of dieting.

Computer programming in Latin.

And, via Making Light: Objectivism + Narnia = Aslan Shrugged.

More US politics: the Tweedledum-Tweedledee voting pattern vs. the Lesser Evil voting pattern vs. ... a third voting pattern? * * * Advances in the Junk Science of Cryonic Life Extension: did the Alcor Life Extension Foundation murder Dora Kent and baseballer Ted Williams ? Alcor responds by writing...

NakedCelt, ils: Bomb war crimes courts! Gas all librulz for treason! Use Muslims for stem cell experiments! Kill them all! Kill them all!

NakedCelt's link reminds me: if you don't want to rely on Wayback Archive caching a certain page, another option is this.