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The best of the internet, chopped into tiny bits and grilled for your enjoyment.
- Today's DIY Nintendo mod - an NES zapper mouse. Now you can navigate your PC the same way you used to play Duck Hunt! There's nothing else quite like point-and-shoot computing. (Via)
- Somebody took a 1972 filmstrip of a documentary on ARPAnet (the earliest predecessor of the internet that you're on right now) and put it up on Google Video. It's 30 minutes long, so we have to admit we haven't watched the whole thing, but what we have seen included interviews with a couple of seriously fashion-challenged nerds discussing the exciting implications of computer networks and the movements toward digital technology. Rad. (Via)
- Yesterday was the 35-year anniversary of an historic break-in at an FBI office right in our very own state of Pennsylvania (in Media, to be exact). The group that did it (who were never caught or identified) called themselves The Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI, and got away with more than a thousand sensitive documents (which they then sent to newspapers, thus opening them to the public) revealing "years of systematic wiretapping, infiltration and media manipulation designed to suppress dissent." Heh. Well, it's good to know some things never change! (Via)
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Not to get too technical, Jim, but as a Texan I feel I should tell you that the University of Texas is what we call the main campus in Austin. The Nanotech Institute is at UTD -- that is to say, the University of Texas at Dallas.
Okay, I think I'm through with being obnoxious for the day. :)
I'm supposed to know there's a difference between the University of Texas and the University of Texas at Dallas? Bah!
Yup. Because UT kicked Penn's ass this weekend during the NCAA tournament, and UTD's team seldom does anything. Also, the UT system is a public system like the Cal system -- lots of schools, lots of cities, and not like the University of Pennsylvania, the deceptively named private university. (I apologize for being a pain in the ass.)