Sunday, March 29, 2009

Internet Anagram Server / I, Rearrangement Servant : anagram, anagram, software, anagramme, anagrama, wordplay, word play, anagram creator, anagram solver, anagram finder, anagram generator, anagram maker, anagram unscrambler, anagram machine, crossword, transmogrify, pangram, shuffle

Internet Anagram Server / I, Rearrangement Servant : anagram, anagram, software, anagramme, anagrama, wordplay, word play, anagram creator, anagram solver, anagram finder, anagram generator, anagram maker, anagram unscrambler, anagram machine, crossword, transmogrify, pangram, shuffle: "Did you know that parliament is an anagram of partial men? Or, Clint Eastwood an anagram of Old West Action? Someone once said, 'All the life's wisdom can be found in anagrams. Anagrams never lie.' Here is your chance to discover the wisdom of anagrams."

Tolkien Reading Day - The Tolkien Society

Tolkien Reading Day - The Tolkien Society: "That enquiry was sent to the Tolkien Society in January 2002. The then committee liked the idea and after a certain amount of discussion picked March 25th as “Tolkien Reading Day”. The rest, as they say, is history!"

DVD | Brain Rules |

DVD | Brain Rules |: "Welcome paper back readers

Watch the DVD as an introduction to the book"

Saturday, March 28, 2009

Balsamiq Mockups Home | Balsamiq

Balsamiq Mockups Home | Balsamiq: "Using Balsamiq Mockups feels like you are drawing, but it's digital, so you can tweak and rearrange controls easily, and the end result is much cleaner. Teams can come up with a design and iterate over it in real-time in the course of a meeting."

Thursday, March 26, 2009

Mastering Oracle SQL: Chapter 7: Set Operations

Mastering Oracle SQL: Chapter 7: Set Operations: "As we can see the CUSTOMER_KNOWN_GOOD and CUSTOMER_TEST tables have the same structure, but different data. Also notice that none of these tables has a primary or unique key; there are duplicate records in both. The following SQL will compare these two tables effectively:

(SELECT C1.*, COUNT(*)
FROM CUSTOMER_KNOWN_GOOD C1
GROUP BY C1.CUST_NBR, C1.NAME
MINUS
SELECT C2.*, COUNT(*)
FROM CUSTOMER_TEST C2
GROUP BY C2.CUST_NBR, C2.NAME)
UNION ALL
(SELECT C3.*, COUNT(*)
FROM CUSTOMER_TEST C3
GROUP BY C3.CUST_NBR, C3.NAME
MINUS
SELECT C4.*, COUNT(*)
FROM CUSTOMER_KNOWN_GOOD C4
GROUP BY C4.CUST_NBR, C4.NAME);

CUST_NBR NAME COUNT(*)
----------- ------------------------------ ----------
2 Samsung 1
3 Panasonic 3
2 Samsung 2
3 Panasonic 1"

Oracle PL/SQL Code Library and Resources

Oracle PL/SQL Code Library and Resources:
"(Formerly known as 'Morgan's Library)"

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

TigerMikeMemos - very funny

TigerMikeMemos - very funny: "Described as 'real man memos,' these inter-office communications from Tiger Oil Company owner Edward Mike Davis are a hoot!"

Saturday, March 21, 2009

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

A/V Geeks � Our Films Online

A/V Geeks � Our Films Online: "Our Films Online"

List Table Names, Rows, and Created Date

List Table Names, Rows, and Created Date:

"for t in (select object_name, created from user_objects where object_type='TABLE') loop"

THE OLD, WEIRD AMERICA

THE OLD, WEIRD AMERICA: "With this blog, i want to use the Folkways Anthology as a roadmap to explore american folk music and maybe other countries traditions along the way."

Glasshouse injects 3D representation of data into a virtual world | CyberTech News

Glasshouse injects 3D representation of data into a virtual world | CyberTech News: "Green Phosphor’s product is called Glasshouse, and it is a gateway which can take a database query or a spreadsheet and place a 3D representation of it into a virtual world. Users can see data, and drill into it; re-sort it; explore it interactively - all from within a virtual world. Glasshouse produces graphs which are avatars of the data itself."

My Life With Cables - Abstract City Blog - NYTimes.com

My Life With Cables - Abstract City Blog - NYTimes.com: "My desk is far from organized, but the mess on top pales compared to the chaos lurking below. I just did a quick inventory and counted a staggering 31 cables running riot down there."

Monday, March 16, 2009

Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable � Clay Shirky

Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable � Clay Shirky: "The hard question Eisenstein’s book asks is “How did we get from the world before the printing press to the world after it? What was the revolution itself like?”

Chaotic, as it turns out. The Bible was translated into local languages; was this an educational boon or the work of the devil? Erotic novels appeared, prompting the same set of questions. Copies of Aristotle and Galen circulated widely, but direct encounter with the relevant texts revealed that the two sources clashed, tarnishing faith in the Ancients. As novelty spread, old institutions seemed exhausted while new ones seemed untrustworthy; as a result, people almost literally didn’t know what to think. If you can’t trust Aristotle, who can you trust?"

Saturday, March 14, 2009

Mark's Famous Dry Rub

1/4 c kosher salt
3 T cumin
3 T paprika
2 T black pepper
2 T chili powder
1 T garlic powder
1 T celery salt
1 T dry mustard
1 t cayenne

good for 8 lb pork shoulder.
reserve 3 T to sprinkle on finished meat.

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Ask Tom "how to get around Dbms_output limitation..."

Ask Tom "how to get around Dbms_output limitation...":

tkyte@ORA734.WORLD> create or replace package my_dbms_output
2 as
3 procedure put( s in varchar2 );
4 procedure put_line( s in varchar2 );
5 procedure new_line;
6
6 function get_line( n in number ) return varchar2;
7 pragma restrict_references( get_line, wnds, rnds );
8
8 function get_line_count return number;
9 pragma restrict_references( get_line_count, wnds, rnds, wnps );
10
10 pragma restrict_references( my_dbms_output, wnds, rnds, wnps, rnps );
11 end;
12 /

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Monday, March 09, 2009

Welcome to CoinOpVideogames.com - Classic Arcade Sounds

Welcome to CoinOpVideogames.com - Classic Arcade Sounds: "Experience the magic and the wonder of the early years of coin-op video games. Hear the classic arcade ambience like you haven't heard it in over a quarter of a century! The blend of several video games being played simultaneously, the kids yelling and the quarters clanking. We will never hear such beautiful chaos quite the same way again...."

Saturday, March 07, 2009

Problem getting a "clean break?"

Problem getting a "clean break?": "With a basic cheese, the step which most often presents difficulties is the ability to achieve a clean break. Test for a clean break by plunging a clean finger into the inoculated & renneted milk and lifting. Properly coagulated milk should break cleanly around the finger, and clear whey should fill the gaps produced:"

Cheese -- G. K. Chesterton

Cheese: "Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese."

Friday, March 06, 2009

TripAtlas.com - About Woot

TripAtlas.com - About Woot: "'Ferdinand Magellan, the Circumnavigator, He crossed the danged Meridians, He crossed the danged Equator...'"

Thursday, March 05, 2009

The Pac-Man Dossier

The Pac-Man Dossier: "Welcome to The Pac-Man Dossier! This web page is dedicated to providing Pac-Man players of all skill levels with the most complete and detailed study of the game possible. New discoveries found during the research for this page in December 2008 have allowed for the clearest view yet of the actual ghost behavior and pathfinding logic used by the game."

URBAN CAMOUFLAGE

URBAN CAMOUFLAGE

Wednesday, March 04, 2009

old timbers from china

大量供应老榆木梁-中国建材网
old timbers for sale, reclaimed from farmhouses.

Cult of Done Manifesto: a name for my disease - Boing Boing

Cult of Done Manifesto: a name for my disease - Boing Boing:
"1. There are three states of being. Not knowing, action and completion.
2. Accept that everything is a draft. It helps to get it done.
3. There is no editing stage.
4. Pretending you know what you're doing is almost the same as knowing what you are doing, so just accept that you know what you're doing even if you don't and do it.
5. Banish procrastination. If you wait more than a week to get an idea done, abandon it.
6. The point of being done is not to finish but to get other things done.
7. Once you're done you can throw it away.
8. Laugh at perfection. It's boring and keeps you from being done.
9. People without dirty hands are wrong. Doing something makes you right.
10. Failure counts as done. So do mistakes.
11. Destruction is a variant of done.
12. If you have an idea and publish it on the internet, that counts as a ghost of done.
13. Done is the engine of more."

Monday, March 02, 2009

Oracle VVWare Appliance

Bert Scalzo's Software: "This VMware appliance includes Oracle Enterprise Linux 4.6 (32-bit), Oracle Express Database 10g, Oracle Application Express, and SQL Developer. All the key Oracle freeware products are already setup and fully optimized for you. So learn the key Oracle database and application technology stack all within one self contained and fully optimized virtual machine - and all using fantastic yet simple Oracle freeware."

Sunday, March 01, 2009

Hot Wieners Rhode Island Style Recipe : Guy Fieri : Food Network

Hot Wieners Rhode Island Style Recipe : Guy Fieri : Food Network: "Ingredients

* 4 tablespoons margarine
* 2 yellow onions, minced, divided
* 2 tablespoons chili powder
* 2 tablespoons paprika
* 1/2 teaspoon allspice
* 1/2 teaspoon curry
* 1 teaspoon dry mustard
* 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
* 1 pound ground beef, 80/20
* 1/4 cup water
* 20 hot dogs
* 1 teaspoon salt
* 20 hot dog buns
* Yellow mustard
* 2 tablespoons celery salt"

An Opinionated Play-by-Play of the Plantinga-Dennett Exchange - The Prosblogion

An Opinionated Play-by-Play of the Plantinga-Dennett Exchange - The Prosblogion: "How important was such a meeting, and of what worth is discussion about it? Did Plantinga or Dennett take away anything new by way of argument or philosophy from the meeting? Probably not. Did anybody in the audience learn anything new by way of argument or philosophy? Maybe; perhaps some people there never heard some of Plantinga's arguments, and they learned something new.

So I'm not sure how important the meeting was from the standpoint of philosophy. But I'm interested in reading/hearing discussion about the meeting to get a better idea of how theism and atheism are perceived by the philosophical community. I'm curious to hear how atheists might have perceived what went on at the meeting."