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Pigdog Journal Articles
2003-06-02
When was the last time some company produced a new Search Engine and you actually gave a shit?
2003-05-18
Consider the plight of the Black Man. The Black Man on "Saturday Night Live," I mean. Has there ever been a more pathetic thing than a token unredeemed for 28 years? Where is the NAACP when you really need them?
2002-04-22
So I saw this news article titled "Hydrogel-Based Nanoparticles Make Photonic Crystals." And I have no real idea what any of those words mean, but I think I really like them.
2001-01-06
Dig: it's called "Craft." It's a game like Warcraft, except it's not Warcraft and there ain't no orcs and shit. And it runs on Linux and it has little smart people that do smart things. It's fun and I like to play games so good.
2000-10-05
Man, the Forth Interest Group (FIG) of the UK (U) is really pretty damn on top of things. Not only has their Web site been updated like 30 million times since the last update of forth.org, but they also publish their newsletter, "Forthwrite," on the Web. Which, like, coolio, eh?
2000-10-05
Excellent! Are the Olympics over yet? I wasn't really paying attention, because I've been RIVETED by the TRUE FASCINATING trials and tribulations of the 22nd Century's greatest athletes, the simubots who participate in the ROBOCUP TWO THOUSAND!
2000-03-13
So, here's the diddly-d0: the once titanic BeOS is now moving into the same boring space as other also-rans like SCO. They're going to be giving away the new version of their interesting operating system to all comers. Yippee for that!
2000-01-24
Speaking of JAVUR, how bout that there JAZILLA? It's a Mozilla browser, written in JAVUR. Talk about your SHITHOUSE CRAZY SCHEMES.
2000-01-11
Sure, the big ol' new DNS TLD rules mean that you can get a dumb ol' DOT COM from any of a number of big dickhead entrepreneur company. But did you know you can get a domain for FREE or ALMOST FREE from the coolio .us NIC? I bet you didn't. Well you should get one!
2000-01-10
Okay, I think maybe someone is trying a little too hard with this one, but it's still a cool concept. Someone has implemented a thing for managing process load using Doom. No, really.
2000-01-06
Oberon is this TOTALLY BITCHEN light-weight, highly portable operating system. It roxx like roxx in a boxx, or something. But it never went anywhere. What's up with that?
1999-12-08
Wow! Everybody's superfavorite editor now has its own fabulous community Web site! This is so great! Everyone should dig this!
1999-11-02
Yeah, I know, I know. First-person shooters and real-time strategy games are big, Big, BIG! But I've got ADD and I get bored easy. Walking around a maze and shooting at the same 4 monsters over and over gets old quick. To keep me challenged, interested, and excited, man, I GOT to have a good Rogue-like game. And Zangband is the best.
1999-10-24
It's so cool! Robot auto racing simulations! Rocking the HOUSE, baybee!
1999-10-03
dewdz! I finally found a good Forth tutorial on the WEB! Praise be to Jesus!
1999-08-14
I believe it was Ken "The Snake" Stabler who said, "I'm ashamed to live in a country where white slavers and drug smugglers go to jail, yet Forth programmers are allowed to walk the streets as free men." I concur! have been investigating the world's most BAD CRAZY programming language: FORTH, and I must say, it's REALLY GODDAMN EVIL.
1999-08-12
d00d, you HAVE to get GPG! The Age of Encryption is here! If you don't get some GPG, your VIRTUAL ASS will be hanging out in the WIND!
1999-08-10
All right, I know that remote-access software is not only insecure and bloatacious, but it's also REALLY OLD and BORING technology. But I don't CARE! I love VNC!
1999-06-28
OK, so, maybe the people who say that Free Software is, like, 30-year-old technology kinda have a point. Because this GNURobots game is, like, real real real real low tech. And unless you're a total HACK-crazed maniac, it's gonna bore you to tears.
1999-06-18
Johnny Royale loves his Trackman ultra pointer thingy. It's coolio! Read all about it!
1999-06-17
The Dublin Core sounds like a really cool Irish drum-and-bass group or something. But it's not! It's a crazy ass metadata specification for EVERYTHING on the Web. Crazy!
1999-06-12
Dig it: XML is funky fat. Everybody knows this. But you can't DO anything with it unless you got a SCHEMA. You got a SCHEMA? I thought not. So, check out schema.net.
Offsite links shared by staff writers
2002-12-23
2002-11-05
Janchor is cool. Receive RSS updates by Jabber! That's so cool.
2002-07-29
Coolio new game from George Pucas coming out this Spring. Check it out!
2002-06-24
2001-10-16
2001-07-22
2001-07-15
2001-06-23
Lisp: provably faster than Java and C++. Coolio on that!
2001-06-21
2001-02-02
2000-02-10
Man, this is the greatest! More than you never wanted to know about the history of computer code systems (like ASCII).
1999-10-20
Be a true nerd! Overclock your pocket calculator!
1999-08-04
If you read the XML spec as much as I do, you'll think this annotated version -- with comments by Tim Bray -- is really really cool.
1999-06-28
Cool interview in Web Review with Scott McCloud, author of "Understanding Comics", just about the coolest book about graphics + text ever.
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