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00:56:55 <[bjoern]> http://www.newser.com/off-the-grid/post/502/whats-really-going-on-behind-murdochs-paywall.html
01:29:10 <aspect> > an A-list entertainment publicist: “What was really interesting to me was that this person volunteered a blinding realization. ‘Why would I get any of my clients to talk to the Times or the Sunday Times if they are behind a paywall? Who can see it?’…”
01:29:51 <aspect> good observation .. but an A-list entertainment publicist? The idea of their "news" being excluded makes me want to pay Murdoch for such a service
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02:14:23 <[bjoern]> http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/07/16/219257/Germany-To-Test-Actively-Cooled-Spacecraft one good tag there
02:25:38 *** [bjoern] changed the topic to: ""The reason the Soviets beat us to space is that their German scientists were better than our German scientists.""
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05:28:47 <hunterp> .google stuff
05:28:53 <hunterp> !google stuff
05:32:25 <hunterp> anyone here?
06:04:11 <MacTed> .title http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2010/07/10_reasons_to_stop_apologizing.html
06:04:11 <phenny> MacTed: 10 Reasons to Stop Apologizing for Your Online Life - The Conversation - Harvard Business Review
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11:11:11 <sbp> "Relics of St Therese were taken to Baghdad in 2002 in an effort to forestall the Iraq war, and some have even been released into orbit around the Earth." - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8307697.stm
11:14:52 <sbp> .title http://www.precentral.net/woz-best-compromise-solution-iphone-4-pre-plus
11:14:53 <phenny> sbp: Woz: The "Best 'compromise' solution" for the iPhone 4? A Pre Plus! | PreCentral.net
11:14:59 <sbp> on a Pre Plus site, but you know
11:16:30 <sbp> haha: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-10637726
11:16:31 <sbp> .title
11:16:33 <phenny> sbp: BBC News - MP Tessa Jowell becomes a landmark on Google Maps
11:19:03 <sbp> —
11:19:03 <sbp> In the document, the attempted ordination of a woman is listed as a "grave crime" to be handled by the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, just as sex abuse is.
11:19:03 <sbp> Vatican sex crimes prosecutor Monsignor Charles Scicluna said that including the two issues in the same document was not equating them, but was done to codify the most serious canonical crimes which the Roman Catholic Church handles.
11:19:04 <sbp> "They are grave, but on different levels," he said on Thursday.
11:19:06 <sbp> —
11:19:10 <sbp> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-10658162
11:20:27 <sbp> .title http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-10670333
11:20:29 <phenny> sbp: BBC News - Germany rejects 'transfer bid' for octopus oracle Paul
11:20:40 <sbp> .c 2 ** 8
11:20:40 <phenny> 2 ** 8 = 256
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11:21:22 <sbp> nsh: two to the eight is two hundred and fifty six!
11:24:11 <sbp> oh this is great
11:24:13 <sbp> —
11:24:14 <sbp> Three Labour leadership contenders have accused Peter Mandelson of damaging the party with his controversial memoirs and urged him to leave politics.
11:24:14 <sbp> Speaking to the Times, David Miliband called the book "destructive".
11:24:14 <sbp> Ed Miliband said Lord Mandelson had "offended just about everyone". "It's time to leave," advised Andy Burnham.
11:24:14 <sbp> —
11:24:19 <sbp> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-10671510
11:35:17 <[bjoern]> nu
11:40:10 <sbp> "The discomfort causes whoever it's pointed at to immediately start moving away. They often scream but the US military says the chance of injury from the system is 0.1%." - http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/10646540
11:40:35 <[bjoern]> pictures of nude americans?
11:41:07 <[bjoern]> Could also be a sonic weapon, like one of their radio shows.
11:43:13 <sbp> more sidebar luls:
11:43:15 <sbp> "Minister Jeremy Hunt says licence fee &#"
11:43:23 <sbp> it's also very difficult to copy from
11:45:55 <[bjoern]> "Goldtrail collapse leaves Britons in Greece and Turkey" ooooh no, I have to stay in my holiday resort, can't return to my greyish, rainy, cold home! help me, help me!
11:47:51 <[bjoern]> "Most of the comments in response to my posts here on the redesign have been critical." - BBC.
11:48:14 <nsh> ubiquitous lols!
11:50:49 <[bjoern]> "How can I make sure videos will not start automatically? -- Our redesign gives a better indication of which stories are stand-alone audio or video pieces, so that users who wish to avoid them can do so." suuuuure...
11:51:47 <[bjoern]> "We have now started the move towards hosting the entire site at bbc.co.uk/news, as this will allow us to share the same, much improved, infrastructure with all other bbc.co.uk websites." - of course!
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11:56:51 <[bjoern]> "Please don't give in to the anti-change moaners. ... I have't seen a SINGLE valid criticism - in fact, every single negative comment can be summed up as 'I don't like change'." - Obama on the BBC News redesign.
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11:59:54 <[bjoern]> "Complete cobblers"
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12:04:07 <[bjoern]> .gs what shall we do with the *
12:04:08 <phenny> [bjoern]: drunken (6), preattentive (4), drunken sailor (4), vuvuzela (3)
12:04:15 <[bjoern]> .gs what shall we do with the preattentive *
12:04:16 <phenny> [bjoern]: processing (15), processing stage (10)
12:04:21 <[bjoern]> .gs what shall we do with the drunken *
12:04:22 <phenny> [bjoern]: sailor (84), soldier (4), sailors (4), nurker (3), king (3)
12:04:28 <[bjoern]> .gs what shall we do with the vuvuzela *
12:04:29 <phenny> [bjoern]: (22), from (3), http://bit.ly/91bljh (2), " song (2)
12:07:19 <[bjoern]> 'the only way to deal with the Palestinians is to "beat them up, not once but repeatedly, beat them up so it hurts so badly, until it\rquote s unbearable"' - Benjamin Netanyahu.
12:07:40 <[bjoern]> "This video should have been banned for broadcast to minors. This video should have been shown in every home in Israel, then sent to Washington and Ramallah. Banned for viewing by children so as not to corrupt them, and distributed around the country and the world so that everyone will know who leads the government of Israel." - http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/opinion/tricky-bibi-1.302053
12:12:40 <[bjoern]> "There are Jewish terrorists. They are no different from other terrorists in terms of the danger they present, except in one aspect: They are more dangerous." - haaretz.
12:13:38 <[bjoern]> "the Knesset House Committee on Wednesday approved a bill that would prohibit the government from authorizing a withdrawal from the Golan Heights or East Jerusalem without a referendum and a majority of 61 MKs"
12:14:27 <[bjoern]> (that'd be the absolute majority)
12:16:19 <[bjoern]> "A bill proposed by coalition chairman Ze'ev Elkin (Likud ) and the chairwoman of the Kadima faction, Dalia Itzik, together with MK Aryeh Eldad of the National Union, would punish any Israeli calling for a boycott of any Israeli individual or institution, whether in Israel or in the territories. The fine is NIS 30,000, plus any damages that can be proven."
12:16:44 <[bjoern]> (~6000 EUR +)
12:18:06 <[bjoern]> "Songbird -- Sh*tty app, use something else." ~ seen on /.
12:20:14 <[bjoern]> .leo Quadratlatschen
12:20:15 <phenny> die Quadratlatschen  Pl. (ugs.) (hum.) = hooves (coll.)
12:20:16 <phenny> — http://dict.leo.org/ende?search=Quadratlatschen
12:20:37 <[bjoern]> What you wear if you have square feet, most likely.
12:20:49 <[bjoern]> "Each photon of light exerts 0.0002 pounds of pressure on the 3,000-square-foot sail"
12:21:04 <[bjoern]> pound is probably the most confusing unit I encounter regularily
12:21:13 <[bjoern]> A pound is half a kilo, for all I care.
12:23:49 <[bjoern]> "20 skålpund = 1 lispund" - Wikipedia.
12:24:14 <[bjoern]> "It was abandoned in 1889 when Sweden switched to the metric system."
12:25:34 <[bjoern]> hehe "According to the US CIA World Factbook in 2006, the International System of Units is the official system of measurement for all nations except for Burma, Liberia, and the United States.[1] (Some sources identify Burma and/or Liberia as metric, however.)"
12:36:38 <[bjoern]> Apparently it is @566.beats in Swatch Internet Time right now.
12:36:44 <[bjoern]> @567.beats now
12:39:21 <[bjoern]> "In 1854 the German Customs Union decided that a Pfund must equal 500 grams in all of Germany.", yes, yes.
12:39:55 <[bjoern]> Contrast "A London pound was equal to 7,200 troy grains (16 tower ounces or, equivalently, 15 troy ounces)."
12:43:06 <[bjoern]> "Als 'Krämergewicht' war 1 Pfund = 16 Unzen = 32 Lot = 128 Quäntchen = 512 Pfenniggewichte = 1024 Hellergewichte"
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13:18:24 <[bjoern]> .wik NGC 6188
13:18:25 <phenny> "Diffuse nebula" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_diffuse_nebulae
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13:20:47 <[bjoern]> .wik Messier 4
13:20:48 <phenny> "Messier 4 or M4 (also designated NGC 6121) is a globular cluster in the constellation of Scorpius." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messier_4
13:21:33 <[bjoern]> "a fuzzy ball of light"
13:24:36 <[bjoern]> "This makes the star more than 6 million times brighter than the Sun" that's pretty bright
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14:13:25 <[bjoern]> phenny, ask sbp so for what should I put you down, re When will Google launch its first satellite into orbit?
14:13:25 <phenny> [bjoern]: I'll pass that on when sbp is around.
14:18:36 <[bjoern]> Oh I didn't know about these http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap100701.html
14:19:16 <[bjoern]> http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap100629.html
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16:45:26 <[bjoern]> sbp http://titanic-magazin.de/
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17:20:26 <sbp> heh!
17:20:26 <phenny> sbp: 14:13Z <[bjoern]> ask sbp so for what should I put you down, re When will Google launch its first satellite into orbit?
17:20:45 <sbp> first Gatellite will be in 2015
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17:39:36 <[bjoern]> They might just call it ... Gutnik? Goodnik?
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18:27:52 <[bjoern]> remind me in ten
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18:37:02 <sbp> [bjoern]: REMINDER
18:38:46 <[bjoern]> KKK THX
18:39:42 <[bjoern]> So, I was thinking how to bring some "PowerShell" goodness to the real world
18:40:15 <[bjoern]> in Powershell, if you pipe some commands output to another command, they don't pass only a bitstream between them,
18:40:32 <[bjoern]> you rather get more like proper objects
18:40:53 <[bjoern]> so you can reformat etc. the output quite easily
18:44:51 <sbp> proper objects = JSON?
18:51:20 <[bjoern]> Think actual objects, with methods and properties and such
18:51:52 <[bjoern]> though json-ish, or rather yaml-ish would be good enough for many things
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20:06:05 <laplink> .title http://photoshopdisasters.blogspot.com/2010/07/pure-silk-now-available-in-uncanny.html
20:06:06 <phenny> laplink: PhotoshopDisasters: Pure Silk: Now Available In Uncanny Valley
20:06:38 <laplink> Who knew Björn worked for their marketing dept.?
20:09:08 <[bjoern]> Thanks, but highlighting that the moisturizing shave cream is rust-proof wasn't entirely my idea.
20:29:08 <laplink> .title http://photoshopdisasters.blogspot.com/2010/04/cnn-how-to-get-head-in-television.html
20:29:08 <phenny> laplink: PhotoshopDisasters: CNN: How To Get A Head In Television
20:29:57 <[bjoern]> most of the pix there are somewhat crappy
20:31:47 <laplink> .title http://photoshopdisasters.blogspot.com/2010/04/en-marche-camping-disaster.html
20:31:48 <phenny> laplink: PhotoshopDisasters: En Marche: Camping Disaster
20:32:02 <laplink> This one just keeps on ticking...
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20:36:11 <[bjoern]> "A short while later she left and the cowboy ordered another drink. A couple sat down next to him and asked, "Are you a real cowboy?" To which he replied, "I always thought I was, but I just found out that I'm a lesbian.""
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20:39:29 <archels> .ety vestigial
20:39:30 <phenny> "1877, from vestige (q.v.)." - http://etymonline.com/?term=vestigial
20:40:01 <archels> .ety vestige
20:40:01 <phenny> "c.1600, from Fr. vestige 'a mark, trace, sign,' from L. vestigium 'footprint, trace,' of unknown origin." - http://etymonline.com/?term=vestige
20:40:54 <[bjoern]> this is okay http://photoshopdisasters.blogspot.com/2010/04/not-sure-welcome-to-costco-i-love-you.html
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21:02:25 <[bjoern]> http://photoshopdisasters.blogspot.com/2009/11/swedish-taxi-hard-to-handle.html
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