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Archive for June, 2005

Dangerous Books

Posted in trifle on June 1st, 2005 by Michael R. Mennenga

Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries.
(Disclaimer: We are not saying that we agree or disagree with these titles, and do not proclaim support of these books in any way.)
I just thought that I pass along the link.

HUMAN EVENTS asked a panel of 15 conservative scholars and public policy leaders to help us compile a list of the Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries. Each panelist nominated a number of titles and then voted on a ballot including all books nominated.

Be sure to check out the list under the top ten. (Very Interesting.)

So much for saving bandwidth via CoralCDN

Posted in trifle on June 1st, 2005 by Evo Terra

A heartfelt apologies to the listeners who have been without their Dragon Page fix for the last two days. I was experimenting with a novel approach to bandwidth reduction called CoralCDN. Coral sounds like a very cool product, and it works really well– unless you are listening from work.

Most IT departments block all but the most necessary ports to allow people to do their job and accesss the internet. HTTP traffic travels on port 80, so that’s always allowed. But Coral uses port 8090 to serve content. Works great as long as no one has blocked your ports, and lots of IT departments do.

So I tried it for the last two shows. Three emails today caused me to pull the plug on the experiment early. Nope, not ready for prime time. Too bad, as now I’ll have to go into the chapter I just finished and add a “Warning” section on Coral.

We now return to our regular programming, already in progress.

Dragon Page Wingin’ It #13: The Search for a Nickname

Posted in DPWI Shows on June 1st, 2005 by Summer Brooks

What’s on this week:

Update on the “Name Summer & Joe” contest.

  • We finally pass along a few of the more interesting suggestions sent in by our listeners.
  • Stormtrooper TD0013 In case you missed some, we are re-running “A Differn’t Point of View.” (They are even better the second time around.)
  • We all hate Summer! (And we’ll tell you why.)
  • Mur Lafferty (Geek Fu Action Grip) tells us about the world games in the second part of this four-part essay.
  • Joe tells us about a new movie coming out that sounds like loads of fun. Sky High.
  • Evo explains what the hell was going through his head when he created Dr. Neville.
  • and for those of you wondering about Evo’s comment about The Joker’s nipples that caused Summer to almost lose it, read “Ripping Yarns”, direct from the source, and be sure to set aside your drink before doing so.
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