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Yard, a system for creating custom
rescue disks for Linux.
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The Bootdisk-HOWTO, a
document describing how to create Linux bootdisks.
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Miscellaneous
downloadable
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bbdb-pilot.el, an elisp package for
converting BBDB records to Pilot addressbook records.
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VegUSA.zip, a Pilot DOC file of vegetarian
restaurants and resources in the USA. You're welcome to download
it, but keep in mind that it's old and some information may be
outdated. The information in this guide was taken from the old
public
World
Guide to Vegetarianism, last updated in 1995. It was
superseded by the non-public veg.org World
Guide, last updated in 1996, and currently unmaintained.
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LTU.pm, a Perl module
for creating, training and testing linear thresholds units within
Perl. It's available from any CPAN site as well.
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shakespeare-quote.el,
a package for emacs/xemacs to insert Shakespeare quotes into
outgoing news postings. Recently voted the single most
useless emacs package ever written.
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Lisa Chabot's Lost Love Memorial haiku generator,
a Perl script. Here are
some examples of the output.
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Etc |
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The Gettysburg
Powerpoint Presentation, by Peter
Norvig.
"I succeeded in breaking all the rules [of good
presentation design] , but incredibly, the Autocontent Wizard
did most of the work for me."
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Drinking alcohol doesn't kill brain
cells, though most people think it does.
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Think you're angstful enough to write like Franz
Kafka? Try the
Kafka Trivia Challenge. Good luck.
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Why the Internet Meets All of our Needs
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Have you ever wondered just what sorts of things you could send
through the US mail? Bricks, feather dusters, skis, helium balloons,
maybe unlabeled body parts? Neither have I, but now, thanks to
painstaking
research by the people at improbable.com, we have a rare
glimpse of the landscape of mailable objects.
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Brit and Ilana's
Excellent Adventure. Several years ago Brit and Ilana quit
their jobs, bought a 40 foot cruiser, and began sailing
indefinitely. Ilana says:
Lots of people think that our life is nothing but
vacation. I always explain that it's not so much a permanent
vacation as it is a permanent weekend -- but before you can go to
the beach, you need to mow the lawn, fix the dripping bathroom
faucet, take down the storm windows, and do the laundry. There are
a lot of dripping faucets, metaphorically speaking, on a
boat.
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So
you've decided to pursue a career in Evil.
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No homepage is complete without a list of pointers to other, more
interesting homepages:
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Spam,
that
scourge
of our
wired
age |
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Some mail addresses for e-mail
address grazers. It's a mass of garbage randomly-generated MAILTO
links to dilute the harvest of spammers who graze web pages.
Every web page should have one. Each MAILTO link uses a host on
SpamCop's big sources of
spam list. The sources become the sinks.
If you want one on your web page, either link to the page above
or (if you have a shell account) grab this public-domain Perl script and run it every time you
login. Mike Pazzani has a small program in
Common Lisp that does the same thing. For more information
and examples, see Yahoo's
Junk e-mail page
Here's a guestbook of
gibberish.
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If you want to escalate the war on spam, try Web Poison, a CGI
script that generates pages of bogus
email addresses plus recursive links back to itself. Any
address harvester that ignores standard robot.txt privacy
directives can thus be fed an infinite stream of bogus email
addresses.
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What kind of activities make you a target for spam? Probably
not what you think. Matt Lake did a series of experiments
for a CNET
article with some surprising results.
Is your ISP part of the spam problem? Check the Spamhaus listings to see
whether your ISP is hosting spammers under the table, as
PSInet does.
You might also be interested in the state of spam laws and pending
legislation.
Click here
to see all the information your browser is revealing about you.
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