Dave's Weblog Link Page
making sense of the senseless, one link at a time...
Quotes:
Dave on Mother Nature
Terry Pratchett (dwarf ax)
Terry Pratchett (believing)
Terry Pratchett (glass)
Terry Pratchett (the way things are done)
Terry Pratchett (dwarf tools)
Terry Pratchett (fire)
Terry Pratchett (open mind)
Terry Pratchett (marriage)
Terry Pratchett (castle)
Terry Pratchett (words)
Terry Pratchett (whom the gods destroy)
Terry Pratchett (teaching)
Terry Pratchett (management)
Terry Pratchett (grass)
Terry Pratchett (education)
Terry Pratchett (community service)
Terry Pratchett (divisions)
Terry Pratchett (genius)
H.P. Lovecraft
Davey Allison on driving
The Holy Hand Grenade
faith
Roy Batty (Bladerunner)
Yoda
fortune - Core Dump Blues
fortune - tao of sh
Babylon 5 (TV)
Forsberg DSZ docs
Gerrold's Laws of Infernal Dynamics
Scott Adams (management)
History
photos at shorpy.com
Truman's decision to drop the Bomb
comments on archive.org
more comments about archive.org
the gulags supported the Soviet economy
great influenza epidemic of 1918
Deep Throat identified?
England's first income tax, 1799
Lee Harvey Oswald's mother
"Lincoln on Leadership"
Weimar Republic and fuhrerprinzip
the Whiskey Rebellion
Winston Churchill's career
short bio of Winston Churchill
funeral procession of Edward VII
should Russia feel guilty about the USSR?
printing and unintended consequences
Harry S Truman
creation of Israel
EU economic history
Military History and Intelligence
the imperative of war
chief of state aircraft
guerrilla warfare
guerrilla warfare 2
arms sales in the 19th century
WWI
FDR, imperialism, and the Philippines
fall of the Third Republic
MacArthur's island-hopping strategy
Freyburg vs. the Afrika Korps
US foreign policy wrt China, 1940s
origins of the Vietnam war
Iraq and "insurgents"
bomb damage at Hiroshima
homing beacons and radar
creation of NATO
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CIA and Khruschev's 1956 Presidium speech
Mitrokhin defection
overlapping US intelligence agencies
intelligence in the Third Reich
KGB and information partitioning
National Security Agency
National Security Agency charter
NSA and monitoring
Alternate History:
Alaska Purchase
Linux:
DOSemu
real-world DOSemu example
Wine
Wine and QuickTime
building Linux From Scratch
GKrellM
Apple Darwin OS
Whim and other window managers
Computers:
optical mouse troubleshooting
inkjet printers
difference between typing and computing
demented scanner software
ergonomic keyboards
super-TV entertainment system
touch screens
power supplies
84 vs 101 keyboards
Software:
user interface development
Kate tabbed text editor
browser autodetection
modular code
"media players" under Linux
web browser hassles
ReactOS
NT 3.5, CP/M-86, OS/2
Lazarus
Lazarus
GNU Hurd
Data:
copyright searching
Politics:
illegals and trash in Arizona
Lenin and the CPUSA
difference between "first, second, third world"
fair taxation
tax refunds
taxes and power
Arkansas sales taxes, 2
assassination in wartime
representative elections
Marx, labor, and unions
the limits of the Presidency
Tip O'Neill and Speaker shenanigans
Communist Party of the USA
the USA is America
early voting 2008
electronic voting
Bushisms
curtailing illegal immigration
Presidential draft
Society and Culture:
civilization is the largest machine
responsibility and rape
elections in the USA
Middle Eastern social structure
House of Sa'ud
currency
morals, ethics, laws
how the world has shrunk
'unique' baby names
totalitarianism in classic SF
ORBIS photo radar
photo radar and the law
internet spelling
internet spelling 2
spelling and spell checkers
crime and society
car pooling
Guaranteed Annual Income
jails and schools
large-scale debt
rural vs. urban crime
tolerance and diversity
school shootings at Columbine
American food
American vs. British English
English across the USA
schoolbooks and English
dictionaries and loanwords
phone and email conventions
inflated property taxes
vidiocy
female circumcision
foreign programmers
urban living
gay businesses
toiletry around the world
targeted advertising
marketing
freedom of the press
social workers
TV speak
teachers and money
nationalized healthcare
driving in the USA
free drug paraphernalia
abortion and the value of life
interaction and agreement online
Daytime Running Lights
police car zappers
group effort
educational methods
Religion:
fear and atheism
Catholicism in Gran Torino
Law and Civil Rights:
involuntary fingerprinting
jury duty
jury duty 2
observing in the courtroom
dataloggers and car zappers
church robberies
Heinlein's "polite society"
police as professionals
secret plaintiffs
Homeland Security and laptop searches
Psychology:
fake thermostats in offices
vandalism demographics
icons and signage
standardized testing
how people see things
Guns and Shooting:
cheap gun safe
returning fire in combat
G&F range falls to the antis
pistol handling under stress
basic reloading
NRA terrorism
"You can make ammunition?"
crossbow history
gun show hassles
guns on "Stargate"
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plastic-cased ammunition
Valmet musings
INSAS musings
Environment:
global water shortage
global warming
global warming
Home Remodeling:
running a water line next door
floor joist repair
Movie Reviews:
Charlie Chan
Alien vs. Predator
Cobra (Stallone)
Returner
Heavy Metal
Heavy Metal script commentary
Taffit (Brosnan)
Kill Bill
Red Heat (Schwarzenegger)
The Hidden
Babylon 5: The Lost Episodes
Armageddon (Willis)
Out For Justice (Seagal)
The Chronicles of Riddick (Diesel)
Driven (Stallone)
Primal Fear (Gere)
Brainstorm
3000 Miles to Graceland
Triumph of the Will (Reifenstahl)
Steamboy
Raw Deal (Schwarzenegger)
Stargate (original movie)
Shaft Goes to Africa (Roundtree)
Red Scorpion (Lundgren)
They Call Me Trinity
Looker
Buckaroo Banzai
Species 2
Akira
Judge Dredd (Stallone)
End of Days (Schwarzenegger)
Timecop (van Damme)
Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan
Timeline
Die Hard 4
Gattaca
Gran Torino
Gran Torino 2
"I Was A Zombie for the FBI"
World Builder
Quantum of Solace
Young Frankenstein
The Born Losers
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Doctor Who, end of "series 3"
Doctor Who, "Rise of the Cybermen">
Max Headroom
Space: Above and Beyond
Babylon 5
Lloyd Bridges, BSG, and Star Trek
Firefly
Books and Reading:
used book stores and reading
durability of paper
reading comprehension
new SF sucks
downsides to electronic service manuals
graphic novels
the decline of computer magazines
the decline of computer magazines
the decline of car magazines
audiobook problems
which five books to restart civilization?
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the Merck manual and its history
"Inside Russia Today" by John Gunther (1956)
"In Search of Identity" by Anwar Sadat
"A History of New Zealand"
"The Ancient Engineers" by L. Sprague De Camp
more on "The Ancient Engineers"
"Why Johnny Can't Read" by Rudolf Flesch
"Man of the House" by Tip O'Neill
"Nerds 2.0.1" by Robert Cringely
"Parkinson's Law" by C. Northcote Parkinson
Vance Packard's books
"Masters of Deceit" by J. Edgar Hoover
"The Sword and the Shield" by Christopher Andrew
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"Hitler's Wartime Picture Magazine - Signal"
"The Billy Mitchell Affair" by Burke Davis
"Infamy" by John Toland
"Hitler's Spies" by David Kahn
"The Rising Sun" by John Toland
"Mein Kampf" by Adolf Hitler
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E.E. Smith
E.E. Smith
Louis L'Amour
Tony Hillerman
The Epic of Gilgamesh
"Snow Crash" by Neal Stephenson
"Neuromancer" by William Gibson
"Neuromancer" (further commentary)
"The Anubis Gates" by Tim Powers
"Underland" by Mick Farren
"Aristoi" by Walter Jon Williams
"The Shockwave Rider" by John Brunner
Robert Ludlum books
"The Probability Broach" by L. Neil Smith
"The Light of Other Days" by Arthur C. Clarke
"Poker Game" by Fletcher Knebel
Music:
first LP, tape, CD, DVD?
musical DNA
the music of Charlie Manson
impersonations and tributes
"Lawyers In Love" by Jackson Browne
"Kyrie" by Mr. Mister
"E.T.I." by Blue Oyster Cult
Automotive Technology:
modify GM FWD transaxle for 4WD
mold your own dashboard
flathead vs. OHV
crank straightening
15-cylinder radial
dynamic mirror stabilization
electronic transmission synchros
Napier Cub engine
2WD motorcycle drive
rocker arm designs
tuning for best fuel economy
magnetos and spark boxes
automotive networking
using the ColorTune
development of F1 racing tires
before there were spark plugs
Toyota, innovation, and sales
seat belt design
dyno absorber
mirror regulations and styling
electric cars and infrastructure
bad timing belts
propylene glycol coolant
odd-fire motorcycle racing engines
tire rolling resistance in the rain
Motorcycles:
magnetic tank bags
crash documents
tailbag contents and crash kit
XJ900 LR<->Colorado Springs
development of the chopper
bicycles
helmets and helmet laws
crash helmets and medical staff
Science:
quantum foam
scientific progress
named ISO metric units
A-bomb construction
System Administration:
backups
RAID arrays
Security:
being a security admin
ID and authentication
airport security and metal detectors
NIH data loss
DaveWorld:
the alter-Dave - Sheikh Hassan Nasrullah
Office Depot and copiers
bank sluts
psychotic traffic lights
trash trailer
rural Who
living in glass houses
Feral Express
the local street department
air compressor repair
Churchill billboards
bunless hamburgers?
crackers and brand names
FSM
unusual rodeo
rodeo guys again
shopping at Kroger
Jack the Ripper
goatse
fonts in the wild
temporal spare
blue Mustang
mystery icons and literacy
Felix's toilet
strange sheriff's car
failed my driver's license test
Comcast scumbags
Alfred E. Neumann
Anubis yard art
ID requirements at the local DMV
guy dragging giant cross
General Rambling:
the different between "wealthy" and "rich"
science and its practitioners
Mars rover and American expansionism
YouTube, codecs, protocols, and retro-tech
unwanted phone features
more unwanted phone features
America is a big place
private planes and flight
James Lileks and tribalism
drafting and 3-D visualization
driving in the USA (for Europeans)
school lunches
school lunches 2
right of way in traffic
surgery and pillows
floppy archives
The Art of the Motorcycle
flaming pipe organ
Leatherman tools
marketing and brand names
NASA and space travel
Conway's Game of Life
odd town names in Arkansas
the internet and the Turing test
rode a V-8 trike
National Weather Service forecasts
restaurant-in-a-box
welding galvanized steel
Shelby, Moon, and Old Yeller
late-night cops
time spent commuting
Society of Automotive Engineers
uncomfortable couches
exoskeletal robots
bad restaurants
waiting for a doctor's appointment
phone protocols
smart parking meters
car shopping
give me pizza sauce!
first we kill the HR departments
traffic lights with arrows, icons
SETI@home
music on the radio
state competition in the private sector
Hubble telescope data loss
hard currency and gold
economic predictions
climbing Pikes Peak
cats vs. dogs
kidney stones
lithotripsy
lithotripsy expenses
bad neighbors
confused newspaper reporting
bitter fast food
dealership parts departments
"body snatcher" tools and parts
air compressor repair
power switches
a sales pitch you can't understand
Viagra marketing
town names
Victorian steam technology
statistics
Google information gathering
radio and advertising
buying a rental car
why people buy SUVs and trucks
marketing, focus groups, and feedback
customer support
killfiles
internet flaming
dress codes and casual days
un-friends and judgement
bamboo bike bozos
bottled water
weird glove billboard
Chinese notepaper
Tyrannosaurus RX:
engine water leak
fuel and brake work
fuel pump
split block