Mah monster-piece ... mah perfect-murder-machine.

[reddragdiva]

• Remember that study the press reported as claiming that bisexual men are a myth? dr_d tracked down the original study and researcher and reveals it to be non-peer-reviewed complete bullshitting with statistics. Gosh! Well I never! etc.

• Buzz Aldrin's Conspiracy Smackdown! (courtesy sclerotic_rings, of course)

It's been packages and technology day! This morning we got a bird feeder stand and bath, which is sitting out the back and failing to attract any birdlife in the pre-storm weather. This afternoon we got a DVD±RW writer and a PCI 11g wireless card. This evening we put the DVD into the Macintosh. (The blue and white G3 is a wonderful machine to work on. Designed not to piss off hardware techs.) Right now redcountess is doing software and firmware foo and tomorrow I'll try burning something with it.

Someone on #wikipedia asked for help getting shots of Wikipedia on Palms and phones, so I volunteered Liz's Zire 72s and arkady's Tungsten C. The C's stock browser is Palm Web Browser 2.0.1.1 (from 2002) and renders it horribly; the Zire's is palmOne Web Pro 3.5 (from 2003) and does a surprisingly good job (having the small screen rendering foo). It was actually enjoyable to use, reading and editing. Now all it needs is multiple browser windows. Arkady is considering a more recent browser for hers. Here's to Minimo making it to Palm.

Tomorrow I will put the old DVD reader/CD burner and the PCI wifi card into the FreeBSD box and start on getting the card working. I am being interviewed in the afternoon about Wikipedia for a radio show (not sure who, I'm speaking to a Clara Long) and in the evening I will be having dinner with the luvverly nisaba. I really should buy a new phone as well.

I am eyeing up a new camera. I'm really annoyed the current Casio Exilim range doesn't include the MP3 player cameras. Though I might get a 1.3 megapixel one (the old EX-M1) real cheap soon.

Oh, and a few days ago I got a pile of backup CDs from 2002 which I thought were lost forever. More photos to put up before I die!

Comments

[reddragdiva]

This was in the New York Times and several other places as well. It got a surprising amount of play for a three-year-old non-study. WTF?

[reddragdiva]

Yes, it's got much better standards of unreliability.

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

I don't think it's three years old. The preprint I have says "Copyright 2005 American Psychological Society" at the bottom, and cites their own papers from 2004.

[lothie.livejournal.com]

Wikipedia is pretty, if cramped, on my PocketPC Phone Edition.

[reddragdiva]

It's cramped but eminently usable (reading and editing) on the Zire. Have you tried Minimo on yours?

[lothie.livejournal.com]

No, wazzat?

[reddragdiva]

Mozilla for small devices. http://mozilla.org/projects/minimo

[lothie.livejournal.com]

Whodathunk!

[reddragdiva]

Nokia sponsored it, presumably so they'd have negotiating room with Opera ;-) So far it works on Linux for iPaq and on Windows CE. No-one's done a Palm port yet.

[lothie.livejournal.com]

I've downloaded it and will be installing it....:D

[reddragdiva]

Note that the CE version is pretty much alpha as yet! Make sure you're ready to do a lot of bug reporting!

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

Sadly, there seems to be no open-source way to carry Wikipedia around with you on the Palm. You can either buy TomeRaider in which case the database is free, or you can get Plucker, and download a converted version "at a modest cost" "when this project is fully completed"...

[reddragdiva]

A printout!!

[zotz]

Thanks for that. It's nice to see someone actually reading the study and trying to understand it rather than just screaming about how awful it is and throwing their toys out of the pram.

[reddragdiva]

Queeahs are just normal people: boring, evil and stupid.