I've been doing the weblog and the editorial thing online for nearly four months now, and in that time I've gotten my share of hate mail. I love it. It shows me how much everyday out there in Net land loves me. I had the same warm and fuzzy feeling when I got my hands on a copy of
'The Annoying Jerk', written by a girl in my AP English class. They just love me up at Naugatuck High School. They really do.
posted by tdecius
on Jan 9, 2000 -
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I have to agree with
'The Wrong Approach' by
OSAll staff writer Brian Martin. Martin postulates that nearly every system on the planet could be secured with one simple step: making default installations totally locked down as opposed to the status quo of totally systems. 'I say it could be done in one month. In reality, most unix vendors could sit down and change their default settings in a matter of days.'
posted by tdecius
on Dec 6, 1999 -
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The ICQ Protocol Site is a neat resource about the ICQ protocol. Yeah, that's right. I bet you didn't see that coming.
Anyways, the protocol is kinda elegant.
posted by tdecius
on Nov 2, 1999 -
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A few political links today.
Arthur, Tyler, and Polk were interesting men, but mediocre Presidents. Learn about them by spending a few minutes in the smallish
Hall of Forgotten Presidents.
William F. Maton's
Solon Law Archive Mirror is a neat resource, especially for those interesting in the Canadian constitution. Every major and minor constitutional act is up there.
The
ZDNet UK Random Political Manifesto Generator is a funny little script. 'Friends, Britain stands poised on the threshold of a new era. The future holds great promise but who will reap the benefits? Make sure you're not left out by voting for us.'
posted by tdecius
on Nov 1, 1999 -
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Pursuitwatch.com is a typical American piece of fecal matter. It's a news service dealing totally in high speed chases. And now, one can get chase news sent directly to one's alphanumeric pager. It's a symbol of the general rise of 'dumbth'. If you don't know what dumbth is, I cover it a little in my
column for the thirtieth of October. The article is really about some crazy stuff going on in Britain, but it's a good read.
MattDabrowski.com is better than Pursuitwatch.com any day.
posted by tdecius
on Oct 29, 1999 -
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The Hamster Dance may be fun, but I like the
Jesus Dance. The background sound is amusing, 'My Plastic Jesus'.
posted by tdecius
on Oct 26, 1999 -
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If you don't know about the
iPic server, you should. And if you do, you should check out the site again. The iPic server is the world's smallest Web server. It contains a few files on a chip the size of a nickel. If this isn't sassy, I don't know what is.
posted by tdecius
on Oct 26, 1999 -
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PIXELTIME is neat, albeit hard to understand quickly. Basically, it's a gallery of icon art, i.e. art made from those very small images of Windows fame. There are some neat things up here.
posted by tdecius
on Oct 19, 1999 -
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I went to Catholic high school for two years, and being the incredibly geeky type, I wondered, given the Pope is the Bishop of Rome, how he ran the whole church and his provincial diocese. This
site is a good snippet that answers the question, for those people like me who have academic interests in theology.
posted by tdecius
on Oct 18, 1999 -
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Any red-blooded American who has taken high school chemistry in the last fifteen years or so, or any red-blooded American who watchs public television, has heard of the august Professor
Roald Hoffmann and his
World of Chemistry television series. Professor Hoffmann does theoretical chemistry at Cornell, and is a damn cool guy.
posted by tdecius
on Oct 11, 1999 -
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Here are a few neat links.
V.I.S. Services is the press releases site for the Vatican.
ZapZone is really cool. The gimmick is that a Webmaster sets up ZapZone to look like his site, and ZapZone offers free e-mail to the Webmaster's users. Lastly, I really enjoyed Final Fantasy VII, especially the music.
Zaphiroth's Final Fantasy VII Site has a great MIDI colleciton.
posted by tdecius
on Oct 9, 1999 -
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Affinia seems like a cool dot-com. They're making money setting up storefronts from other people, and matching vendors with affiliate sites.
posted by tdecius
on Oct 8, 1999 -
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I like the concept of the
FYI Image Depository. It's kinda neat to just waste an hour sifting through what people have uploaded. The contents range from fingerpainting to softcore porn.
posted by tdecius
on Oct 7, 1999 -
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Slate did a neat
survey of beers, in attempt to get the best beer for one's buck. This should be required material in every American high school. ;)
posted by tdecius
on Oct 6, 1999 -
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This is the kinda hokey official Web site of Whitman Mayo, the actor who played Grady in
Sanford and Son. Conan O'Brien made a big deal about this guy a little while, and not without a touch of Conanistic sarcasm.
posted by tdecius
on Sep 29, 1999 -
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Have you ever wondered about what bar codes really mean? Or how to generate them?
Barcode 1 is a neat resource. Even cooler is the
Barcode Server, which will generate codes for you. Finally, you can look up bar codes for your favorite products at the
UPC Database.
posted by tdecius
on Sep 18, 1999 -
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Jerry's Ranking of the U.S. Presidents - Think fast! Who was the better President, Franklin Pierce or John Tyler? Time's up! It's Tyler. Of course, this guy also says that Clinton is better than Lincoln, so I guess that's the problem. Tyler has nothing on Pierce anyways....
posted by tdecius
on Sep 17, 1999 -
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'A Model of Loyalty and Filial Devotion. An Outstanding Statesman. Great Leader of the People and Theoretician. Outstanding Representative of Independent Politics.' No. It's not me. It's
Comrade Kim Il Jong - His Life and Mission. Read the Commie bunk the Reds are pushing on their people.
posted by tdecius
on Sep 17, 1999 -
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Having trouble keeping your parallelism and chiasmus straight? Or biting your nails over whether to use zeugma, prozeugma, or diazeugma? Fear not. The
Handbook of Rhetorical Devices is here.
posted by tdecius
on Sep 17, 1999 -
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Just in case you're in Britain and happen to commit a felony, don't be caught unprepared. Visit the
site of HM Prison Service and get up to date with your British prisoner slang.
posted by tdecius
on Sep 15, 1999 -
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A Heartbeat from the White House - This is an interesting page from a member of the 'RPG Anti-Defamation League' Web ring. It just goes to show you that, for a family of tobacco farmers from Hicksville, Tennessee, the Gores sure live in an ivory tower.
posted by tdecius
on Sep 15, 1999 -
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Can't sleep because you're sickened by the late-night bastion of idiot liberalism,
Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher?
Mattdabrowski.com is too, on Friday.
posted by tdecius
on Sep 9, 1999 -
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Want to know when the T3 will get set up in Chad, or how much access costs in Djibouti? Check out
African Information Infrastructure. It's guaranteed to make you glad you don't live in the Third World and can connect at higher than 14.4.
posted by tdecius
on Sep 8, 1999 -
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Kingdom of Talossa According to their site, the Kingdom of Talossa is an independent, sovereign nation in North America which seceded peacefully from the United States in 1979. It's a nation in miniature. So when you were seven and declared your room the Republic of Me, don't run to the shrink. You're in good company.
posted by tdecius
on Sep 8, 1999 -
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Mattdabrowski.com Tuesday I write about the general election in India, and the struggle therein between two large political personalities, both born into the purple. Wednesday, I pay tribute to Connecticut's greatest newspaper.
posted by tdecius
on Sep 7, 1999 -
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Mattdabrowski.com - Another day, another column. For Labor Day, I step out of character and briefly praise the labor movement. Never again, he screams, as he shakes his fist in the air.
posted by tdecius
on Sep 5, 1999 -
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Mattdabrowski.com It's midnight on the East Coast, and like clockwork there is a new column on the site. Today I cast the spotlight on today's summit meeting of the leaders of French-speaking countries in Moncton, New Brunswick. Didn't think Poland spoke French? Read the article.
posted by tdecius
on Sep 4, 1999 -
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Mattdabrowski.com Today I write about the latest craze in British junior high extracurriculars, sex. On Saturday, my essay will explain how not guns turned the Columbine shooters into killers, but a good few pills.
posted by tdecius
on Sep 3, 1999 -
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Mattdabrowski.com Well, finally, after four years of apathy and general non-working-ness, my web site has gone up. Go see it. As my Italian great-grandmother would say, 'Is good for you.'
Today, I rant about the Israeli 'peace process' and snicker at some hippie peace-fest in the woods of Connecticut.
posted by tdecius
on Sep 1, 1999 -
2 comments
Auto baron Henry Ford was a great entrepreneur and a peacemaker during the World World I era. In fact, he loved just about everyone. Everyone, that is, except for the Jews. Read his
book and find out how Anti-Semitism isn't just for white trash anymore.
posted by tdecius
on Aug 28, 1999 -
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