Monthly Archives: July 2005

The Long Downward Spiral of the Space Shuttle

Posted on July 31, 2005 by Pace Arko

Let's face it. With each passing year, the Space Shuttle grows more and more pathetic. Bold promises for human spaceflight continue to ring hollow. Robots will always be cheaper and do more science. SpaceShipOne is just a joyride–and no, that's … Continue reading →

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Well–at least it's about movies.

Posted on July 29, 2005 by Pace Arko

The B-Movie Comic was recommended to me by the folks of the In Sect. B-Movie is pretty funny! Imagine archeologists, dodering professors, plucky Chinese orphans, goths, a doomed family of Egyptians, jocks and ancient priestly mummies wearing t-shirts all suffering … Continue reading →

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Internet Explorer 7, First Beta

Posted on July 29, 2005 by Pace Arko

Well, everyone else is talking about it and, me being a webmaster, I really should say something but, I really don’t have much because I’m not a MSDN subscriber so, I can’t get a legal copy. Today, I’ve been reading … Continue reading →

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The agony of the posthuman condition

Posted on July 26, 2005 by Pace Arko

In reviewing my site, you’ll see that I have a lot of rants about transhumanism. This is a subject that has been percolating among the big thinkers for many decades (Depending on how you define it, it’s actually been speculated … Continue reading →

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Expanding the mission of my blog script

Posted on July 19, 2005 by Pace Arko

One of the dilemmas I had to face in migrating to my new blog script is that all my old blog entries were no searchable except by the old blog script. This bothered me until I found an article that … Continue reading →

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sIFR and Web Typography

Posted on July 18, 2005 by Pace Arko

Well–the “Yes, we know the Web is not print but it should be,” crowd finally achieved their grail: A means of injecting uncommon fonts into in pages without sacrificing accessibility, losing semantics or confusing search engines. sIFR does it all. … Continue reading →

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Security and Privacy Roundup

Posted on July 17, 2005 by Pace Arko

Over the past few months I’ve collected several articles about privacy and security: Automated Lockdown for XP: Still useful for Service Pack 2. VOA Releases Secure Tunneling Tool for Chinese Internet Users How to Run with Least Privilege in XP: … Continue reading →

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Let's write better JavaScript!

Posted on July 16, 2005 by Pace Arko

Over the past few months I’ve been collecting many articles about JavaScript coding practices: JavaScript Optimization Strategies Unobtrusive JavaScript JavaScript and the DOM leaks like a sieve Ten good practices for writing JavaScript A Lint for JavaScript Optimizing JavaScript for … Continue reading →

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PKD's doppleganger

Posted on July 11, 2005 by Pace Arko

I got some mail from a fellow named Don who has a site of his own that he thought I’d be interested in. It looks like it’s just starting out so, I don’t know where it will go but, so … Continue reading →

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Tuva-pop

Posted on July 10, 2005 by Pace Arko

The popularity of Tuvan overtone-singing has been growing for nearly two decades. You’ve probably heard it in movies and adverts. I’ve always liked it. I’ve seen Huun Huur Tuu in concert and, I have a compilation of traditional and recent … Continue reading →

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