Author Archives: Pace Arko

That Little Penguin with the Wraparounds

Posted on October 23, 2001 by Pace Arko

Mr. Tomorrow never misses an ironic angle. For example, now that the Taliban and Mr. bin Laden are “Public Enemy Number One,” what is our duty as patriots?

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Will Rubber Bands Be Banned From Airlines?

Posted on October 23, 2001 by Pace Arko

While Surfing through Blogdex, I found a page about fighting with rubber bands. Not that I condone such behavior (Especially since, as a nerd, I never was very good at shooting rubber bands in grade school.)–but the page has a … Continue reading →

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More rants about page design and the server-side

Posted on October 18, 2001 by Pace Arko

I may come back to tweak this essay repeatedly in the coming months. If, in this work in progress, I get a good groove going on, I may move those parts of the essay into my developer section to exist … Continue reading →

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Sometimes I do my best thinking in the morning

Posted on October 18, 2001 by Pace Arko

Just sent a dispatch off to Ms. Carlysle (Whose nom-du-geurre is Laughing Cow Cheese.) about investment in nanotech. The resulting letter was so witty I figured it would make a good entry here. What spurred the letter was some news … Continue reading →

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A Friend's Travelogue

Posted on October 11, 2001 by Pace Arko

Comrade Shaw has some great photos and amusing anecdotes of his travels in Turkey. Joe Bob says check it out.

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No commentary, just links

Posted on October 11, 2001 by Pace Arko

Maglev trains Using the ballast of fluorescent lights to transmit data Sending e-mail to random recipients Bugs working in chips Bugs eating chips One, two pages about a promising new cancer treatment Progress in AI and robotics, including a robot … Continue reading →

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Privacy and Security

Posted on October 11, 2001 by Pace Arko

What follows is rather jumbled but in my mind it’s all related. You may have heard of the Realtime Blackhole List. Now there is a blacklist of mail servers with poor security. These mail servers are often used by the … Continue reading →

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Speech Recognition

Posted on October 11, 2001 by Pace Arko

Speech Recognition (SR) has come a long way in the last five or so years, just recently IBM researchers have managed to make it work in hand-held computers. Such developments might actually make hand-helds, which I’ve regarded as rather dubious … Continue reading →

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Language Perplexities

Posted on October 8, 2001 by Pace Arko

Here’s a question: How come we don’t say “Czechia, ” “Czechland” or just “Czech” as opposed to “Czech Republic?” French come from France. Japanese come from Japan. Argentines come from Argentina. Poles come from Poland. Slovaks come from Slovakia. How … Continue reading →

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Reports on the Death of Irony are Premature

Posted on October 4, 2001 by Pace Arko

A few days ago I saw a Ford commercial that mortified me. It was blatantly using the events of September the Eleventh to–get this–sell us more cars. Apparently some people are amazed at how quickly people’s pursuit of trivia has … Continue reading →

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