Author Archives: Pace Arko

Little Tiny Print Sucks

This is all Microsoft’s fault. IE 3 had terrible implementation of CSS and could only support absolute font units like point (pt). Legions of web designers quickly began cranking out zillions of pages that were, and sometimes still are, damn … Continue reading

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Mad Scientists Take Note

Memepool is a great source for obscure, interesting and useful pages on a wide array of subects. The gadget section and the science section ought to be required reading for any MIT hopeful.

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Turning a computer into a DVR

My urges to abolish any form of push marketing in my life compel me to investigate digital video recorders. But then my urges to only spend my money on real hardware compel me to investigate software that will convert a … Continue reading

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Things Every Superhero Should Know

How do you build a superhero base? Every superhero needs some kind of a secret base. Some superheroes go a step further and rule their own nation-states! Superheroes also need some really cool ride. Even if only to get to … Continue reading

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This Script is Now Live

Mr. Farlops is pleased! This web log is now fully operational. The mind boggles! But how about you? Is this web log hard to navigate? How is the layout of the navigational links? Is it intuitive? Is it cumbersome? Do … Continue reading

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What's New?

Plans in the Melt Bulletin board is now retired and all links to it are certain to be dead. In coming days, we will replace this page with a Web log. Once this is in place and functioning smoothly, attention … Continue reading

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The Glory that Was Meroë

1668 BCE: Freed from Egyptian domination, two Nubian kingdoms unify into one state, known to the Egyptians as Kush, with its capitol at Kerma. Currently Egypt is in decline and is ruled by foreign invaders: the Hyksos. 1700-1400 BCE: Minoan … Continue reading

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Alternate, Alternate Histories

I’m tired of what-if stories about the Second World War and the Civil War. Those are allohistories that have been fictionally done to death. I’d like to see something different. I graduated from university with a degree in history. I … Continue reading

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My Hopeless Love Affair with Mathematics

Or why, after many years, I still can’t get over the fact I flunked complex variable analysis I’ve got something to prove. It probably all started many years ago when, as a small child in grade school, I was deeply … Continue reading

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Ancient History

Look upon what has happened to this site in it’s many incarnations! See how my skills at Web engineering and design improve! 2000 Meta descriptions and keywords added. Board still broken. More links added to Consortiums, revision of Site Map … Continue reading

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