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<title>the whole world burns</title>
<link>http://rephrase.net/days/momentary/</link>
<description>small things, trifles, links and miscellany</description>
<lastBuildDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2008 09:00:55 +1000</lastBuildDate>
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<title>Catalyst - The Top Australian Scientific Achievements</title>
<link>http://rephrase.net/days/momentary/2008/08/link-948</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2008 09:00:55 +1000</pubDate>
<category>science</category>
<category>family</category>
<guid>http://rephrase.net/days/momentary/2008/08/link-948</guid>
<content:encoded><![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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<title>17 Simple Rules For Going To The Cinema With Me</title>
<link>http://rephrase.net/days/momentary/2008/08/link-947</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2008 08:55:55 +1000</pubDate>
<category>movies</category>
<category>cinema</category>
<category>rules</category>
<guid>http://rephrase.net/days/momentary/2008/08/link-947</guid>
<content:encoded><![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>
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[<a href="http://www.kottke.org/08/08/moviegoing-rules">via</a>]]]></content:encoded>
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<title>Pacific Film Archive CineFiles</title>
<link>http://rephrase.net/days/momentary/2008/08/link-946</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:13:26 +1000</pubDate>
<category>movies</category>
<category>film</category>
<category>reviews</category>
<category>database</category>
<guid>http://rephrase.net/days/momentary/2008/08/link-946</guid>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Scanned documents from the PFA library.</p>

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<title>Limericks making fun of English names with strange pronunciations</title>
<link>http://rephrase.net/days/momentary/2008/08/link-945</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2008 09:49:07 +1000</pubDate>
<category>humour</category>
<category>poetry</category>
<category>limericks</category>
<guid>http://rephrase.net/days/momentary/2008/08/link-945</guid>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The best one:</p>

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  <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>

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<title>Chandler 1.0!</title>
<link>http://rephrase.net/days/momentary/2008/08/link-944</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 12:13:35 +1000</pubDate>
<category>software</category>
<category>pim</category>
<category>chandler</category>
<category>vapourware</category>
<guid>http://rephrase.net/days/momentary/2008/08/link-944</guid>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Always nice to see vapour precipitate. I think I'll actually use this.</p>

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<title>EarthBox - &#8220;Homegrown Vegetables Without A Garden&#8221;</title>
<link>http://rephrase.net/days/momentary/2008/08/link-943</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2008 08:45:59 +1000</pubDate>
<category>gardening</category>
<category>growing</category>
<guid>http://rephrase.net/days/momentary/2008/08/link-943</guid>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Intriguing mass-market sub-irrigation planter, supposedly better in every way than regular pots etc.</p>

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<title>Making of the wireframe CG in Star Wars</title>
<link>http://rephrase.net/days/momentary/2008/08/link-942</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2008 03:13:27 +1000</pubDate>
<category>star wars</category>
<category>movies</category>
<category>computer graphics</category>
<category>cg</category>
<guid>http://rephrase.net/days/momentary/2008/08/link-942</guid>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Render a frame (2 minutes), take a picture, render a frame (2 minutes), take a picture...</p>

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<title>October issue of Esquire to have e-paper cover</title>
<link>http://rephrase.net/days/momentary/2008/08/link-941</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 11:59:01 +1000</pubDate>
<category>publishing</category>
<category>science fiction</category>
<category>magazines</category>
<category>epaper</category>
<guid>http://rephrase.net/days/momentary/2008/08/link-941</guid>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>No rocket cars yet, but still, <strong>animated magazine covers</strong>? The future is <em>now</em>.</p>

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<title>Firebug Lite</title>
<link>http://rephrase.net/days/momentary/2008/07/link-940</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2008 11:37:16 +1000</pubDate>
<category>javascript</category>
<category>web development</category>
<category>firebug</category>
<category>bookmarklet</category>
<guid>http://rephrase.net/days/momentary/2008/07/link-940</guid>
<content:encoded><![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:encoded>
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<title>5-minute microwave chocolate cake in a mug</title>
<link>http://rephrase.net/days/momentary/2008/07/link-939</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:08:36 +1000</pubDate>
<category>food</category>
<category>cooking</category>
<category>cake</category>
<category>microwave</category>
<guid>http://rephrase.net/days/momentary/2008/07/link-939</guid>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Use self-raising flour instead; surprisingly tasty.</p>

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<title>The Economic Organisation of a P.O.W. Camp</title>
<link>http://rephrase.net/days/momentary/2008/07/link-938</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 06:41:57 +1000</pubDate>
<category>war</category>
<category>prison</category>
<category>economics</category>
<category>history</category>
<guid>http://rephrase.net/days/momentary/2008/07/link-938</guid>
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<title>Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network - CPAN for datasets</title>
<link>http://rephrase.net/days/momentary/2008/07/link-937</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 07:28:48 +1000</pubDate>
<category>data</category>
<category>datasets</category>
<category>knowledge</category>
<category>open</category>
<category>archive</category>
<guid>http://rephrase.net/days/momentary/2008/07/link-937</guid>
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[<a href="http://simonwillison.net/2008/Jul/5/ckan/">via</a>]]]></content:encoded>
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<title>The Book of Accidents: Designed for Young Children</title>
<link>http://rephrase.net/days/momentary/2008/07/link-936</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 02:40:49 +1000</pubDate>
<category>children</category>
<category>books</category>
<category>images</category>
<category>education</category>
<category>public domain</category>
<category>accidents</category>
<guid>http://rephrase.net/days/momentary/2008/07/link-936</guid>
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<title>How much is a terabyte in punchcards? fungible does the math</title>
<link>http://rephrase.net/days/momentary/2008/07/link-935</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:57:23 +1000</pubDate>
<category>random</category>
<category>computers</category>
<category>storage</category>
<category>maths</category>
<guid>http://rephrase.net/days/momentary/2008/07/link-935</guid>
<content:encoded><![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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<title>ContextFree.js</title>
<link>http://rephrase.net/days/momentary/2008/07/link-934</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 11:31:14 +1000</pubDate>
<category>art</category>
<category>javascript</category>
<category>context free</category>
<category>generative</category>
<guid>http://rephrase.net/days/momentary/2008/07/link-934</guid>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Context Free language for generative art, ported to JavaScript+Canvas!</p>

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<title>Dissecting today&#8217;s Internet traffic spikes</title>
<link>http://rephrase.net/days/momentary/2008/06/link-933</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:14:03 +1000</pubDate>
<category>internet</category>
<category>scalability</category>
<category>slashdot effect</category>
<guid>http://rephrase.net/days/momentary/2008/06/link-933</guid>
<content:encoded><![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>
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<title>Indie platformer extravaganza!</title>
<link>http://rephrase.net/days/momentary/2008/06/link-932</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 13:11:19 +1000</pubDate>
<category>games</category>
<category>independent</category>
<category>platformers</category>
<guid>http://rephrase.net/days/momentary/2008/06/link-932</guid>
<content:encoded><![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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<title>Ben Joseph @ McSweeney&#8217;s: Lit 101 Class in Three Lines or Less.</title>
<link>http://rephrase.net/days/momentary/2008/06/link-931</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:24:11 +1000</pubDate>
<category>humour</category>
<category>literature</category>
<category>books</category>
<category>mcsweeneys</category>
<guid>http://rephrase.net/days/momentary/2008/06/link-931</guid>
<content:encoded><![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>
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<title>Amazingly detailed Simpsons map for Quake III</title>
<link>http://rephrase.net/days/momentary/2008/06/link-930</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:22:43 +1000</pubDate>
<category>games</category>
<category>maps</category>
<category>the simpsons</category>
<category>quake 3</category>
<category>quake</category>
<category>mods</category>
<guid>http://rephrase.net/days/momentary/2008/06/link-930</guid>
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<title>Reviewing and Scoring Video Games</title>
<link>http://rephrase.net/days/momentary/2008/06/link-929</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2008 11:49:52 +1000</pubDate>
<category>games</category>
<category>reviewing</category>
<category>scoring</category>
<category>narrative</category>
<category>ludology</category>
<guid>http://rephrase.net/days/momentary/2008/06/link-929</guid>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>L-score (ludology -- "gameplay") vs N-score (narrative -- graphics, story, sound...).</p>

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