Today is weird people day. My co-worker Jason sent out this wacked eBay auction. He claims to be selling a new compression algorithm...for $30,000,000...and then it goes down hill from there: "APPLICATIONS: ... Transportation Increase storage mass of any fuel, thus output of any engine Space travel, space fuels that are compressed in mass thus reducing to transport the fuel Space travel, space engines that are compressed-teleported in bubbles, thus no need to actually carry the fuel, fuel is streamed Medicine Increase mass of any medications without increasing volume, thus facilitating augmentation of administration of any medications of procedures"

His site shows that's just the beginning. He's got proof that the timeline has been altered, causing him finacial censorship. Truly bizare.

Perhaps weirder than the Time Cube guy...

Or, maybe, R. S. Tolley? Among other things, he reveals the connection between Amy Grant, John Madden, King Arthur, and the virgin Mary...followed by the inexplicable inclusion of Dave Matthews lyrics.

ArsDigita co-founder and internet hero of yore Philip Greenspun has a blog. Philip is outspoken (is that too mild a word?) on just about every topic, so his blog is sure to be interesting.

Now that he's rich, he cares less about changing the status quo and more about using whatever Microsoft is offering and flying his airplane.

Ry4an had a sharp critique of Gabe and my "Bleek" mailinglist-to-blog software. One of these days, I'll print his email and my response.

But now, he's got the upper hand, with Ry4an's Un-Blog. It's not a blog -- it's a MHonArc template that looks like a weblog. It even has an RSS feed (cough which sucks cough ;).

Ry4an says "I still fail to see the difference between modern blogging software and 1990s style vanity mailing lists." He's right. The famous FoRK (Friends of Rohit Khare) mailing list is considered one of the precursors to blogs.

His inagural posts include one which graphs the perserverance of "annual" events using Google.

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