Author: senseiken
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Can you patent a storyline?
Some interesting links on a recent issue regarding creative writing and patent issues… Right to Create Patenting Storylines Right to Create Details of ‘804 First Storyline Patent in History Slashdot USPTO Issues Provisional Storyline Patent
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Foldershare and Xbox Live
Some tech news: Microsoft buys Foldershare – this is way cool news You can take a look at the new Xbox live features right now – awesome!
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I consent! (repost)
Ed. Note: Reposted with minor edits. Originally posted October 9, 2003 @ 18:12:33. The original was taken offline temporarily. A discussion of consent came up on one of the lists I am on. Basically this is a philosophical argument. It hinges on mostly on the question of whether we can state simply "everyone always has…
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The Hacker's Diet
The Hacker’s Diet – “how to lose weight and hair through stress and poor nutrition”. Seriously, it looks like an interesting primer to basic diet and health concepts.
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Richard III Society-15thCentury Life: Codpiece
Richard III Society-15thCentury Life: Codpiece – The following is a paper done by Ms. Kosir for a History of Costume class taken as part of her continuing studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. We are grateful to her for allowing its reproduction here, in the Fifteenth-Century Lifestyles section of the Richard III Society website.
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What Tolkien Officially Said About Elf Sex
What Tolkien Officially Said About Elf Sex – Summary: A cross-referenced list of everything Tolkien said about elf sex. Update Note: NEW linguistic update! From Tolkien word-lists published in 2002. Read this translated into German here!
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Building a dynamic webpage using PHP, MySQL and Smarty
I recently did some extensive work in PHP that needed a good template engine. I wound up using Smarty and it did the job just fine. In particular I wound up connecting Smarty to MySql for a cache store. Anyway, the following links are useful: Building a dynamic webpage using PHP, MySQL and Smarty – especially…
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Sometimes, no means harder… (repost)
E.d. Note: Reposted with minor edits. Origionally posted – November 10, 2003 @ 10:48:52. The origional was taken offline temporarily. The following was posted by my own Tatsumi to a mailing list for TES members. The discussion was one I was fairly deeply involved in, all about the concept of whether “no” neans “no” all…
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Review: Inboxer
note: this review is of the Inboxer trial – I have not yet purchased the full product though I have no reason to believe there are important differences As many of you know before the great blog re-set one of the topics I covered at some length was productivity applications. I don’t see any reason…