Of Botflies and Men and a very icky picture

"There is, in a word, far less understanding at the top than successive leaders have claimed, and domestic politics and short-term factors play a much greater role than they will ever admit. The world and now the American people cannot afford U.S. foreign policy's opportunistic and ad hoc character, its wavering between the immoral and amoral in practice but which official speech writers portray as rational and principled" --Another Century of War? by Gabriel Kolko

Dr. Zoe D. Katze, Ph.D., C.Ht., DAPA

Using genetic programming to emulate the cooperative food collection behavior of ants

"There once was a man who feared his own shadow and who hated his footprints and tried to escape from them. The more he lifted his feet, the more tracks he made. As fast as he could go, his shadow remained with him. Thinking he was still going too slow, he streaked like an arrow until all his strength was spent, and he died. He didn't realize that sitting in the shade of a tree would do away with his shadow, and living quietly would leave his traces to fade away." --Chuang Tzu

The dangers and effects of nuclear, earth-penetrating weapons

Just fixed the blog archives. A lot were missing, but now they're back. Browse around... have fun.

Savagery, ignorance, and hypocracy in the persecution of Salamon Rushdie

World Food Program

What "Homeland Security" really means.

New cannabis study

Strange quark matter

"the United States [is] both a terrorist state and a haven for terrorists... the US is the only state on record to have been condemned by the World Court for international terrorism (in Nicaragua) and has vetoed a UN Security Council resolution calling on governments to observe international law."

MILITARY AND PARAMILITARY ACTIVITIES IN AND AGAINST NICARAGUA: (NICARAGUA v. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA)
Contains the full text of the judgement against the United States by the International Court of Justice, where the US is found guilty of conducting large-scale terrorist actions against Nicaragua and ordered to pay massive reparations.
The United States maintained the court had no jurisdiction in the matter and contemptously refused to even attend the trial. Of course, no reparations were ever paid.

"The young people of today love luxury. They have bad manners, they scoff at authority and lack respect for their elders. Children nowadays are really tyrants, they no longer stand up when their elders come into the room where they are sitting, they contradict their parents, chat together in the presence of adults, eat gluttonously and tyrannise their teachers." --Socrates, 470-399BC

The Campaign To End Genocide

Noam Chomsky interviewed in India

"Combat situations in Iraq will be lightning fast... with Special Forces coordinating aircraft. It's not going to be large divisions and brigades moving laboriously across the sands of Iraq. It will all be happening before we know where or when it's happening, and the reporters will all be mesmerized at the briefings, and that will be it. It will be total information management and the real reporting will be done in Washington, not on the ground."

"The Washington press corps is complicit... The game that's played in Washington—and it's always been played this way—is the trade- off of access for patronage. If you agree to sing their song, you'll be invited for an audience."

--The state of censorship in the coming Iraq war--

I took out the comment code. It was just slowing down the blog.

Zipf, Power-laws, and Pareto - a ranking tutorial

The murder of civilians on a massive scale during WW2, by the "good guys".

disk based caching library
cdb: a fast, reliable, simple package for creating and reading constant databases
freecdb
PureDB
QccPack: Quantization, Compression, and Coding Library
Shaman library provides - Portability, Resource management, Language support, Caching
Ubiqx: list, trees, arrays, db, caching libs
TLTools: large library of misc functions
BetterC: library to help debugging
Mark Malloc: more debugging help
More...

US fears World Court will prosecute Bush for war crimes

NJAMD: Not just another malloc debugger

Truly excellent talk on Iraq by Scott Ritter, former Chief UN Weapons Inspector

Mirror matter

Oranisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons

Everything you always wanted to know about why Microsoft sucks, but were afraid to ask.

Hackers

Raven Graphs: graphs of the first stanza of Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven, made with txt2graph and GraphVis

"LZO implements the fastest compression and decompression algorithms around."

The Church of Euthanasia

"CONS is a replacement for MAKE. It is not compatible with make, but it has a number of powerful capabilities not found in other software construction systems, including make."
Opt "is a subroutine library which facilitates the convenient input of parameters to a C or C++ programs"
gitty-gitty "is able to generate an already compilable, very sophisticated "hello world" program, written in C or C++ and constituted by a main program, two internal modules (classes), one static and one shared library and one shellscript. All these sources exept the shellscript contain a full set of possible doxygen-comments. And this complex documented "Hello World" is already fully embedded into GNU autoconf/automake."
"Kazlib is a collection of program modules portably written in ANSI C. There is a dictionary module based on red-black trees, an extendible hashing module, and a system for emulating exception handling."

pinky?

"I don't know that Atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered patriots. This is one nation under God." --George Bush

What is Bayesian Inference?
Vista and DataPlot for statistical visualization

want less pain...

Exhaust: a redcode simulator

"You might think these Christian activists represent the furthest shores of American politico-religious wackiness. The politicians don't think so. This conference began with a videotaped benediction straight from the Oval office. Some of the most influential republicans in Congress addressed the gathering including - not once, but twice - Tom DeLay, who is hot favourite to take over as majority leader of the House of Representatives after the midterm elections on November 5, thus becoming arguably the most powerful man on Capitol Hill." <-- sadly, this is not a joke

Differential Evolution

Some prices of protest:
> Exorbitant bails -- some as high as $1 million -- keeping peaceful protesters in prison.
> Felony charges used to threaten or punish protesters with loss of voting rights and jobs.
> Federal RICO and domestic terrorist legislation employed to stigmatize peaceful protesters.
> Permits to protest denied for legitimate protests by activist groups.
> Trespass and other false charges fabricated by police.
> Police granted immunity from lawsuits, leaving them free to abuse protesters' rights.
> "Zero tolerance" rules which expel students who participate in nonviolent protests.
> Long sentences in overcrowded and inhuman conditions meted out to protesters
> Seizure of organizations' bank accounts so that members who protest can be fined.
> Protesters arrested and held without charge, preventing them from further protest.
> Legal distinctions blurred between violent and nonviolent protest, so that all protesters are demonized as "anarchists," "hoodlums" and "domestic terrorists."
> Pre-protest surveillance, infiltration and investigations to identify, arrest and detain nonviolent protesters prior to protest.
> Police entrapment used to fabricate grounds for arrest and charges.
> Permits denied to activist groups to keep them from gathering on public lands.
> And nonviolent protesters barred from talking about their causes or motives during trial.

VoteNoWar

"We argue a connection exists between the restrictiveness of a country's civilian weapons policy and its liability to commit genocide upon its own people"
More...

"Neurotypical syndrome is a neurobiological disorder characterized by preoccupation with social concerns, delusions of superiority, and obsession with conformity."

"Eleven years ago, I spent my summer holidays as a guerrilla in northern Iraq. It was the end of my second year at university and the Gulf War had just finished. I neither wanted to go inter-railing nor work in Waitrose. So I went to Iraq with a friend in search of Kurdish guerrillas. Both of us had recently been dumped by our first serious girlfriends and had read too many French post-war novels. We met in Istanbul and hitched across Turkey towards the Iraqi border. It was a phenomenally stupid thing to do. I'd like to say it was because we deeply believed in the Kurdish cause, but actually we just wanted some good stories for the college bar."

Everything you wanted to know about your C Compiler and Machine, but didn't know who to ask

Freedom of the Press around the world, ranked by country
...the full table

What were the net.unix-wizards up to in 1982?

Armchair Anthrax Investigators

ccache: speeds up your recompiles 5-10x

"The initiation of the freely voluntary act appears to begin in the brain unconsciously, well before the person consciously knows he wants to act"
(Thanks to Mike)

The Giuliani Regime and NeoFascism in New York

Kompressor does not dance!

"Yes folks, you heard me right. Real powered urine directly from our state of the art labs."

telnet blinkenlights.nl

VXE allows only blessed syscalls through, and isolates applications for security

Thinkers in Existential-Phenomenology and Related Areas of Scholarship

The dreaded hikikomori condition.

Mark Mulroney

Bill Feeney

Check: a unit test framework for C
Compilercache

False - "Programming language with two main goals: confusing everyone with an obfuscated syntax, and designing as powerful a language as possible with a tiny implementation: this compiler executable is only 1024 bytes, written in pure 68000 assembler."

Ashcroft's guidelines for limiting the Freedom of Information Act
Military is not even bothering to be subtle when fiming antiwar protestors

Scientific Applications on Linux
Ploticus
xldlas can do data summaries, OLS regression, ANOVA, line plots, scatter plots, and histograms.
R is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics

Escher via LEGO
Balcony
Belvedere
Ascending
(Many many thanks to Mike)

Fenris is a set of tools that include a high-level tracer, library fingerprinter, debugger, and a data exploration interface
Design and learn access controls in networks, systems and applications with Access Road
Memphis can be used for the definition of abstract syntax trees and the implementation of tree walkers.
Use Cqual to add type qualifiers to C
...and Mpatrol to diagnose run-time errors that are caused by the wrong use of dynamically allocated memory

"The Paste-Code Service on Profett.Com is meant for users of IRC (or similar) where pasting large amounts of text (e.g. source code snippets) is a universal 'no-no' since it disrupts discussions"

Vim tips and scripts
Notes on VIM's syntax highlighting

C-C++ Beautifier HOWTO

Grasp: Graphical Representation of Algorithms, Structures, and Processes

A cop pulls over Heisenburg. The cop says, "Do you know how fast you were going?" Heisenburg replies, "No, but I know where I am."

SPLINT: Annotation-Assisted Lightweight Static Checking Secure Programming Group
Gimpel: PC-lint and FlexeLint will check C/C++ source code and find bugs, glitches, inconsistencies, non-portable constructs, etc...

"My attempts to have Americans enter into discussions about double standards [in regards to the US stance on nuclear weapons] have been an abject failure - even with highly educated and engaged people," Mr Butler said. "I sometimes felt I was speaking to them in Martian, so deep is their inability to understand."
"I confess, too, that I flinch when I hear American, British and French fulminations against weapons of mass destruction, ignoring the fact that they are the proud owners of massive quantities of those weapons, unapologetically insisting that they are essential for their national security, and will remain so."

"Inspectors" will really be invaders
"In a leaked proposal for a UN resolution drafted by the US with help from British officials, the Bush administration is seeking to transform the inspections process into a coercive operation."

Doxygen: source code documentation system

Browse through source code with CScope
Cross-reference it with cxref
GNU Global source code tagging system
Exuberant Ctags
ID Utils makes searching through source easier
(From GCC Hacker)

GraphVis: an amazingly useful graphing tool

Fuck Microsoft

This is it

Afghanistan worthless as a natural gas pipeline

Groundbreaking UN speech by Iranian President Mohammad Khatami

First, hear the Bush cutup, then, roll your own

Stepford Citizen Syndrome

Just don't ask...

**cough**Legos**cough**

Red Dwarf: the movie
(click on "Movie Deck")

Chatting

IRC Junkie

SILC: Secure Internet Live Conferencing is like IRC+SSL and then some

Anti-Psychiatry

"A new analysis has found that in the majority of trials conducted by drug companies in recent decades, sugar pills have done as well as -- or better than -- antidepressants"

Smudge Report

Top Ten Conservative Idiots

South Carolina's and Oklahoma's tattoo ban on trial