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<title>the whole world burns</title>
<tagline>small things, trifles, links and miscellany</tagline>
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        href="http://rephrase.net/days/momentary/" /><modified>2008-08-30T19:00:55+10:00</modified>
<entry>
<title>Catalyst - The Top Australian Scientific Achievements</title>
<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://rephrase.net/days/momentary/2008/08/link-948" />
<issued>2008-08-30T19:00:55+10:00</issued>
<modified>2008-08-30T19:00:55+10:00</modified>
<id>http://rephrase.net/days/momentary/2008/08/link-948</id>
<author>
<name>Sam</name>
</author>
<dc:subject>science</dc:subject>
<dc:subject>family</dc:subject>
<link rel="related" type="text/html" href="http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/extras/quizzes/top20.htm" />
<content type="text/html" mode="escaped" xml:base="http://rephrase.net/days/momentary/2008/08/link-948"><![CDATA[<p>Gotta vote for grandad! Can't win against "eradicated smallpox" or "won a Nobel prize for penicillin antibiotics", though.</p>

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</entry>

<entry>
<title>17 Simple Rules For Going To The Cinema With Me</title>
<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://rephrase.net/days/momentary/2008/08/link-947" />
<issued>2008-08-30T18:55:55+10:00</issued>
<modified>2008-08-30T18:55:55+10:00</modified>
<id>http://rephrase.net/days/momentary/2008/08/link-947</id>
<author>
<name>Sam</name>
</author>
<dc:subject>movies</dc:subject>
<dc:subject>cinema</dc:subject>
<dc:subject>rules</dc:subject>
<link rel="related" type="text/html" href="http://vitaminbriefcase.tumblr.com/post/47600901/17-simple-rules-for-going-to-the-cinema-with-me" />
<link rel="via" type="text/html" href="http://www.kottke.org/08/08/moviegoing-rules" />
<content type="text/html" mode="escaped" xml:base="http://rephrase.net/days/momentary/2008/08/link-947"><![CDATA[<blockquote>
  <ol>
  <li><p>Just as spilling means licking in fraternities at college, so crunching shall mean skullfucking under my regime at the picture house.</p></li>
  <li><p>[Y]our toddler cannot understand the movie and must therefore pay a surcharge of £900 on his or her ticket, both for taking up valuable space in the theatre and for putting the entire audience on amber alert for a loud case of ‘the grumpies’. In such cases, a knowing smile and statement attesting to your child being "overtired" are neither satisfactory nor welcome. You will be ejected from the cinema post-haste, and your child will be fired from a cannon on the roof of the cinema through the icy freeze of outer space and into the heart of the sun.</p></li>
  </ol>
</blockquote>

[<a href="http://www.kottke.org/08/08/moviegoing-rules">via</a>]]]></content>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>Pacific Film Archive CineFiles</title>
<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://rephrase.net/days/momentary/2008/08/link-946" />
<issued>2008-08-26T23:13:26+10:00</issued>
<modified>2008-08-26T23:13:26+10:00</modified>
<id>http://rephrase.net/days/momentary/2008/08/link-946</id>
<author>
<name>Sam</name>
</author>
<dc:subject>movies</dc:subject>
<dc:subject>film</dc:subject>
<dc:subject>reviews</dc:subject>
<dc:subject>database</dc:subject>
<link rel="related" type="text/html" href="http://www.mip.berkeley.edu/cinefiles/" />
<content type="text/html" mode="escaped" xml:base="http://rephrase.net/days/momentary/2008/08/link-946"><![CDATA[<p>Scanned documents from the PFA library.</p>

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</entry>

<entry>
<title>Limericks making fun of English names with strange pronunciations</title>
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<issued>2008-08-17T19:49:07+10:00</issued>
<modified>2008-08-17T19:49:07+10:00</modified>
<id>http://rephrase.net/days/momentary/2008/08/link-945</id>
<author>
<name>Sam</name>
</author>
<dc:subject>humour</dc:subject>
<dc:subject>poetry</dc:subject>
<dc:subject>limericks</dc:subject>
<link rel="related" type="text/html" href="http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/bywater/ee_res9a.htm" />
<link rel="via" type="text/html" href="http://www.languagehat.com/archives/003218.php" />
<content type="text/html" mode="escaped" xml:base="http://rephrase.net/days/momentary/2008/08/link-945"><![CDATA[<p>The best one:</p>

<blockquote>
  <p>The Baron of Fawsley, Lord St John,<br />
  Had a fine buckskin coat with a frt john.<br />
  He said, "It was guthven<br />
  Me by Viscount Ruthven,<br />
  Who thinks I'm a cowboy, or t john."</p>
</blockquote>

[<a href="http://www.languagehat.com/archives/003218.php">via</a>]]]></content>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>Chandler 1.0!</title>
<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://rephrase.net/days/momentary/2008/08/link-944" />
<issued>2008-08-11T22:13:35+10:00</issued>
<modified>2008-08-11T22:13:35+10:00</modified>
<id>http://rephrase.net/days/momentary/2008/08/link-944</id>
<author>
<name>Sam</name>
</author>
<dc:subject>software</dc:subject>
<dc:subject>pim</dc:subject>
<dc:subject>chandler</dc:subject>
<dc:subject>vapourware</dc:subject>
<link rel="related" type="text/html" href="http://chandlerproject.org/" />
<content type="text/html" mode="escaped" xml:base="http://rephrase.net/days/momentary/2008/08/link-944"><![CDATA[<p>Always nice to see vapour precipitate. I think I'll actually use this.</p>

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</entry>

<entry>
<title>EarthBox - &#8220;Homegrown Vegetables Without A Garden&#8221;</title>
<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://rephrase.net/days/momentary/2008/08/link-943" />
<issued>2008-08-10T18:45:59+10:00</issued>
<modified>2008-08-10T18:45:59+10:00</modified>
<id>http://rephrase.net/days/momentary/2008/08/link-943</id>
<author>
<name>Sam</name>
</author>
<dc:subject>gardening</dc:subject>
<dc:subject>growing</dc:subject>
<link rel="related" type="text/html" href="http://www.earthbox.com/consumer/what_is.html" />
<content type="text/html" mode="escaped" xml:base="http://rephrase.net/days/momentary/2008/08/link-943"><![CDATA[<p>Intriguing mass-market sub-irrigation planter, supposedly better in every way than regular pots etc.</p>

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<entry>
<title>Making of the wireframe CG in Star Wars</title>
<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://rephrase.net/days/momentary/2008/08/link-942" />
<issued>2008-08-03T13:13:27+10:00</issued>
<modified>2008-08-03T13:13:27+10:00</modified>
<id>http://rephrase.net/days/momentary/2008/08/link-942</id>
<author>
<name>Sam</name>
</author>
<dc:subject>star wars</dc:subject>
<dc:subject>movies</dc:subject>
<dc:subject>computer graphics</dc:subject>
<dc:subject>cg</dc:subject>
<link rel="related" type="text/html" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMeSw00n3Ac" />
<content type="text/html" mode="escaped" xml:base="http://rephrase.net/days/momentary/2008/08/link-942"><![CDATA[<p>Render a frame (2 minutes), take a picture, render a frame (2 minutes), take a picture...</p>

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</entry>

<entry>
<title>October issue of Esquire to have e-paper cover</title>
<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://rephrase.net/days/momentary/2008/08/link-941" />
<issued>2008-08-01T21:59:01+10:00</issued>
<modified>2008-08-01T21:59:01+10:00</modified>
<id>http://rephrase.net/days/momentary/2008/08/link-941</id>
<author>
<name>Sam</name>
</author>
<dc:subject>publishing</dc:subject>
<dc:subject>science fiction</dc:subject>
<dc:subject>magazines</dc:subject>
<dc:subject>epaper</dc:subject>
<link rel="related" type="text/html" href="http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/07/30/esquire-to-geeks-hac.html" />
<content type="text/html" mode="escaped" xml:base="http://rephrase.net/days/momentary/2008/08/link-941"><![CDATA[<p>No rocket cars yet, but still, <strong>animated magazine covers</strong>? The future is <em>now</em>.</p>

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</entry>

<entry>
<title>Firebug Lite</title>
<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://rephrase.net/days/momentary/2008/07/link-940" />
<issued>2008-07-27T21:37:16+10:00</issued>
<modified>2008-07-27T21:37:16+10:00</modified>
<id>http://rephrase.net/days/momentary/2008/07/link-940</id>
<author>
<name>Sam</name>
</author>
<dc:subject>javascript</dc:subject>
<dc:subject>web development</dc:subject>
<dc:subject>firebug</dc:subject>
<dc:subject>bookmarklet</dc:subject>
<link rel="related" type="text/html" href="http://getfirebug.com/lite.html" />
<link rel="via" type="text/html" href="http://simonwillison.net/2008/Jul/27/firebuglite/" />
<content type="text/html" mode="escaped" xml:base="http://rephrase.net/days/momentary/2008/07/link-940"><![CDATA[<p>Incredible: a significant subset of Firebug, also compatible with IE and Opera, <em>in a bookmarklet</em>.</p>

[<a href="http://simonwillison.net/2008/Jul/27/firebuglite/">via</a>]]]></content>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>5-minute microwave chocolate cake in a mug</title>
<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://rephrase.net/days/momentary/2008/07/link-939" />
<issued>2008-07-24T23:08:36+10:00</issued>
<modified>2008-07-24T23:08:36+10:00</modified>
<id>http://rephrase.net/days/momentary/2008/07/link-939</id>
<author>
<name>Sam</name>
</author>
<dc:subject>food</dc:subject>
<dc:subject>cooking</dc:subject>
<dc:subject>cake</dc:subject>
<dc:subject>microwave</dc:subject>
<link rel="related" type="text/html" href="http://www.dizzy-dee.com/recipe/chocolate-cake-in-5-minutes" />
<content type="text/html" mode="escaped" xml:base="http://rephrase.net/days/momentary/2008/07/link-939"><![CDATA[<p>Use self-raising flour instead; surprisingly tasty.</p>

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</entry>

<entry>
<title>The Economic Organisation of a P.O.W. Camp</title>
<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://rephrase.net/days/momentary/2008/07/link-938" />
<issued>2008-07-12T16:41:57+10:00</issued>
<modified>2008-07-12T16:41:57+10:00</modified>
<id>http://rephrase.net/days/momentary/2008/07/link-938</id>
<author>
<name>Sam</name>
</author>
<dc:subject>war</dc:subject>
<dc:subject>prison</dc:subject>
<dc:subject>economics</dc:subject>
<dc:subject>history</dc:subject>
<link rel="related" type="text/html" href="http://www.albany.edu/~mirer/eco110/pow.html" />
</entry>

<entry>
<title>Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network - CPAN for datasets</title>
<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://rephrase.net/days/momentary/2008/07/link-937" />
<issued>2008-07-06T17:28:48+10:00</issued>
<modified>2008-07-06T17:28:48+10:00</modified>
<id>http://rephrase.net/days/momentary/2008/07/link-937</id>
<author>
<name>Sam</name>
</author>
<dc:subject>data</dc:subject>
<dc:subject>datasets</dc:subject>
<dc:subject>knowledge</dc:subject>
<dc:subject>open</dc:subject>
<dc:subject>archive</dc:subject>
<link rel="related" type="text/html" href="http://www.ckan.net/" />
<link rel="via" type="text/html" href="http://simonwillison.net/2008/Jul/5/ckan/" />
<content type="text/html" mode="escaped" xml:base="http://rephrase.net/days/momentary/2008/07/link-937"><![CDATA[
[<a href="http://simonwillison.net/2008/Jul/5/ckan/">via</a>]]]></content>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>The Book of Accidents: Designed for Young Children</title>
<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://rephrase.net/days/momentary/2008/07/link-936" />
<issued>2008-07-05T12:40:49+10:00</issued>
<modified>2008-07-05T12:40:49+10:00</modified>
<id>http://rephrase.net/days/momentary/2008/07/link-936</id>
<author>
<name>Sam</name>
</author>
<dc:subject>children</dc:subject>
<dc:subject>books</dc:subject>
<dc:subject>images</dc:subject>
<dc:subject>education</dc:subject>
<dc:subject>public domain</dc:subject>
<dc:subject>accidents</dc:subject>
<link rel="related" type="text/html" href="http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/dl_crosscollex/getSETS.asp?ITEM=2013671" />
<link rel="via" type="text/html" href="http://www.metafilter.com/73030/The-Book-of-Accidents" />
<content type="text/html" mode="escaped" xml:base="http://rephrase.net/days/momentary/2008/07/link-936"><![CDATA[
[<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/73030/The-Book-of-Accidents">via</a>]]]></content>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>How much is a terabyte in punchcards? fungible does the math</title>
<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://rephrase.net/days/momentary/2008/07/link-935" />
<issued>2008-07-05T00:57:23+10:00</issued>
<modified>2008-07-05T00:57:23+10:00</modified>
<id>http://rephrase.net/days/momentary/2008/07/link-935</id>
<author>
<name>Sam</name>
</author>
<dc:subject>random</dc:subject>
<dc:subject>computers</dc:subject>
<dc:subject>storage</dc:subject>
<dc:subject>maths</dc:subject>
<link rel="related" type="text/html" href="http://www.metafilter.com/73011/WhoTubes#2170476" />
<content type="text/html" mode="escaped" xml:base="http://rephrase.net/days/momentary/2008/07/link-935"><![CDATA[<blockquote>
  <p>According to his calculations: 1TByte = 8Tbits<br />
  1 punch card =960 possible holes(bits), 12 rows X 80 columns.<br />
  8Tbits / 960 = 8,333,333,333 punch cards</p>
  
  <p>A punch card is 7.375" X 3.25" X .007" = 0.1677812 cubic in<br />
  1 cubic ft = 1728 cubic in = 10,299 cards<br />
  8,333,333,333 cards / 10,299 cards = 809,140 cubic ft</p>
  
  <p>and so 809,140 cubic ft x 12 = 9,709,680 cubic ft<br />
  (1 cubic mile = 147.2 billion cu ft.)</p>
</blockquote>

<p>Glad to be of help.</p>

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</entry>

<entry>
<title>ContextFree.js</title>
<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://rephrase.net/days/momentary/2008/07/link-934" />
<issued>2008-07-02T21:31:14+10:00</issued>
<modified>2008-07-02T21:31:14+10:00</modified>
<id>http://rephrase.net/days/momentary/2008/07/link-934</id>
<author>
<name>Sam</name>
</author>
<dc:subject>art</dc:subject>
<dc:subject>javascript</dc:subject>
<dc:subject>context free</dc:subject>
<dc:subject>generative</dc:subject>
<link rel="related" type="text/html" href="http://azarask.in/blog/post/contextfreejs-algorithm-ink-making-art-with-javascript/" />
<content type="text/html" mode="escaped" xml:base="http://rephrase.net/days/momentary/2008/07/link-934"><![CDATA[<p>The Context Free language for generative art, ported to JavaScript+Canvas!</p>

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</entry>

<entry>
<title>Dissecting today&#8217;s Internet traffic spikes</title>
<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://rephrase.net/days/momentary/2008/06/link-933" />
<issued>2008-06-30T22:14:03+10:00</issued>
<modified>2008-06-30T22:14:03+10:00</modified>
<id>http://rephrase.net/days/momentary/2008/06/link-933</id>
<author>
<name>Sam</name>
</author>
<dc:subject>internet</dc:subject>
<dc:subject>scalability</dc:subject>
<dc:subject>slashdot effect</dc:subject>
<link rel="related" type="text/html" href="http://www.lethargy.org/~jesus/archives/118-Dissecting-todays-Internet-traffic-spikes.html" />
<content type="text/html" mode="escaped" xml:base="http://rephrase.net/days/momentary/2008/06/link-933"><![CDATA[<blockquote>
  <p>The old rule of 70% utilization accommodating an unexpected 40% increase in traffic is unraveling. At least eight times in the past month, we've experienced from 100% to 1000% sudden increases in traffic across many of our clients.</p>
</blockquote>

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</entry>

<entry>
<title>Indie platformer extravaganza!</title>
<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://rephrase.net/days/momentary/2008/06/link-932" />
<issued>2008-06-28T23:11:19+10:00</issued>
<modified>2008-06-28T23:11:19+10:00</modified>
<id>http://rephrase.net/days/momentary/2008/06/link-932</id>
<author>
<name>Sam</name>
</author>
<dc:subject>games</dc:subject>
<dc:subject>independent</dc:subject>
<dc:subject>platformers</dc:subject>
<link rel="related" type="text/html" href="http://www.metafilter.com/72748/Indie-platformer-extravaganza" />
<content type="text/html" mode="escaped" xml:base="http://rephrase.net/days/momentary/2008/06/link-932"><![CDATA[<p>Round-up of some of the amazing indepedent platform games available (mostly for free) for download. This is where my week has gone.</p>

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</entry>

<entry>
<title>Ben Joseph @ McSweeney&#8217;s: Lit 101 Class in Three Lines or Less.</title>
<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://rephrase.net/days/momentary/2008/06/link-931" />
<issued>2008-06-24T22:24:11+10:00</issued>
<modified>2008-06-24T22:24:11+10:00</modified>
<id>http://rephrase.net/days/momentary/2008/06/link-931</id>
<author>
<name>Sam</name>
</author>
<dc:subject>humour</dc:subject>
<dc:subject>literature</dc:subject>
<dc:subject>books</dc:subject>
<dc:subject>mcsweeneys</dc:subject>
<link rel="related" type="text/html" href="http://mcsweeneys.net/2008/6/16joseph.html" />
<content type="text/html" mode="escaped" xml:base="http://rephrase.net/days/momentary/2008/06/link-931"><![CDATA[<blockquote>
  <p><strong>Paradise Lost</strong></p>
  
  <p>ADAM: Paradise has arbitrary dietary restrictions?</p>
  
  <p>DEVIL: They're really more like guidelines.</p>
  
  <p>GOD: Incorrect.</p>
</blockquote>

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</entry>

<entry>
<title>Amazingly detailed Simpsons map for Quake III</title>
<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://rephrase.net/days/momentary/2008/06/link-930" />
<issued>2008-06-24T22:22:43+10:00</issued>
<modified>2008-06-24T22:22:43+10:00</modified>
<id>http://rephrase.net/days/momentary/2008/06/link-930</id>
<author>
<name>Sam</name>
</author>
<dc:subject>games</dc:subject>
<dc:subject>maps</dc:subject>
<dc:subject>the simpsons</dc:subject>
<dc:subject>quake 3</dc:subject>
<dc:subject>quake</dc:subject>
<dc:subject>mods</dc:subject>
<link rel="related" type="text/html" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34LtrnnXQTc" />
</entry>

<entry>
<title>Reviewing and Scoring Video Games</title>
<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://rephrase.net/days/momentary/2008/06/link-929" />
<issued>2008-06-22T21:49:52+10:00</issued>
<modified>2008-06-22T21:49:52+10:00</modified>
<id>http://rephrase.net/days/momentary/2008/06/link-929</id>
<author>
<name>Sam</name>
</author>
<dc:subject>games</dc:subject>
<dc:subject>reviewing</dc:subject>
<dc:subject>scoring</dc:subject>
<dc:subject>narrative</dc:subject>
<dc:subject>ludology</dc:subject>
<link rel="related" type="text/html" href="http://taipeigamer.blogspot.com/2008/06/reviewing-and-scoring-videogames.html" />
<content type="text/html" mode="escaped" xml:base="http://rephrase.net/days/momentary/2008/06/link-929"><![CDATA[<p>L-score (ludology -- "gameplay") vs N-score (narrative -- graphics, story, sound...).</p>

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</entry>

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