A Note from One of Our Chief Scientists, Victor Von Doom

Posted on May 28, 2001 by Pace Arko

This is a public announcement! Do not enter the main factory! Apparently, a misplaced plutonium bolt has mutated serveral termites into giant, man-eating monsters! We repeat, do not enter the main factory building! Our last testing cow came out 30 senconds later with no marrow at all! This has been a public service announcement from Victor Von Doom, representing your friends at Farlops Industries.

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I've decided to remove the karma votes feature

Posted on May 26, 2001 by Pace Arko

I did this because I was interested in what people have to say about about my entries. If they can just vote them up or down that really doesn’t give me any idea as to why they did so. Also the URLs they pass to the journal script contain ampersands, which is is a no-no if I want to stay strict to standards.

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Tubular!

Posted on May 18, 2001 by Pace Arko

Having explained two cunning workarounds, the Baka enabled Mr. Farlops to upload new content to the Fish Farm once again. Mr. Farlops finally gets to show the public the fruits of his many hours of testing and labor. Introducing the new table-free, 3 column layout! Thanks to the powers of CSS, this site uses no tables for layout at all.

Sometime by this evening, Mr. Farlops expects the pages generated by the Greymatter script to be made congruent with the new style.

Also, expect new content and layout revisions to The Temple of Mank! In fact we’ve already started!

Additionally, our testing engineers have fixed a bit of link rot as well.

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Remember that Scene in Superman?

Posted on May 17, 2001 by Pace Arko

Where the crook is climbing the office building with suction cups? Turns out that is not so far fetched. A German company by the name of Gekkomat has invented something like that.

Of course this reprises my post about human limb amplification a month or so ago.

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The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul

Posted on May 12, 2001 by Pace Arko

Douglas Adams died of a heart attack on Friday, May the 11th. He was 49.

First Joey Ramone and now this. My generation’s icons are getting whacked and it makes me feel old and mortal.

Kinda ticked there wasn’t more press about it in the States, considering how influential he was to nerd subculture. Those who’ve read his work can see the obvious parallels between the Guide (The ultimate PDA.) and the Internet. He was 23 years ahead of his time. Maybe there where others that scooped him but they weren’t nearly as funny.

Of course Marvin wouldn’t be surprised by any of this.

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New CSS Rules

Posted on May 10, 2001 by Pace Arko

I’ve developed some new CSS rules that work better in Mozilla and Netscape 6. I’ve tested them on my staging server but I can’t upload here until baka fixes the Fish Farm.

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Hashing Out an Editing Process

Posted on May 10, 2001 by Pace Arko

Over the past few days, my friend and I have been sending huge mails back and forth to work out a means for him to transfer new site content to me. Hopefully we’ve got the details worked out.

It’s sort of a moot point anyway. The server his site sits in is still partly broken so, I really can’t upload the new content yet.

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Why the Brief Hiatus?

Posted on May 3, 2001 by Pace Arko

Well, primarily I was concerned about getting out of synchronization with a backup server in the Fish Farm. However I am now of the opinion that this fear is unjustified. Baka can just copy things again. Now the entries will continue.

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Guerilla Warfare Once Again Thumbs Its Nose at High-tech

Posted on May 3, 2001 by Pace Arko

I just read a story about a cheap and simple device that can fry the electronics of most of the military’s high-tech weapons systems. At some point, when the US engages in another bout of cruise missile diplomacy, the people who are the targets of this diplomacy will just use this device to fry the missile guidance systems and laugh at us on global television.

I think President Shrub’s plan to revive Reagan’s dubious Star Wars missile defense ought to be reconsidered in this light.

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Everybody but me seems to be busy

Posted on April 19, 2001 by Pace Arko

This idle time between job assignments and server updates is mildly irritating to me. I need to go do something. I think I’ll go build a few pages on one of those commercial services. Maybe I should go get the hardmail.

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