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Once upon a time there was Diary, and similar were logs, journals, travelog and such forth. In our info age, it is called blogs by inept computing geeks. (blogs = web logs). To keep in sync with humanity of fashionable business and nomenclature novelty, mine is called Periodic Dosage. This periodic, is bent on to inform the informed, and educate the educated, of all things and social things and ethological things. —Xah Lee.
above: Image added to WASP's Covert Obsession with Little Girls.
some Wikipedia reading:
Added web dev websites to Computer Language Websites Popularity Ranking.
What is a Tech Geeker (essay, software culture)
What Is Closure In A Programing Language (computing, essay)
Pattern Matching vs Pattern Specification (computing, essay)
Why Don't You Do Right (lyrics)
Don't Cry For Me Argentina (lyrics)
Elisp Lesson: Writing make-html-table. (computing tutorial)
Added 3 songs:
Spent like 5 hours and massively updated my html code in my World Literature Classics collection. That's about 500 pages of html. I've updated them from HTML 4.01 transitional to strict. One of interesting thing about Strict is that now “img” tag must be inside a block-level tag, such as “p” or “div”. (inside “body” tag won't do) Also, the “target=...” inside link tag “a”, for making a link opening a new window, is gone in html 4.01 strict.
Also standardized and consolidified my use of css.
Also, in the past week, spend like 2 hours to update the annotation in Shakespeare's The Tragedy Of Titus Andronicus.
Spent like 5 hours adding embedded youtube vids on Ethology, Ethnology, and Lyrics.
In the past 2 months, i've been working on my Visual Dictionary Of Plane Curves website a lot. In particular, adding GeoGebra files, filling up many proofs, and study algebraic curves. The additions is listed here: Special Plane Curves: What's New.
The Geometric Significance Of Complex Conjugate (math, essay)
Essay: Go as Cellular Automata. (math)
Fuck Sony.
Starting about 2001 i developed a dislike of their products. Their labtops (the VAIO) go out of the way to make it proprietary in both hardware and software, same with their camera. For example: they use their own proprietary firewire connector so that you can't buy a generic one and have to buy theirs. They modifify their Windows OS with their gook so that in general they makes it more difficult for you to have full standard control (e.g. modified BIOS↗). I bought a VAIO in about 2000, sent my rebate and didn't get the $100 refund, was very dissatisfied with the laptop, after a few months i sold it on ebay.
Sony, with their slew of electronic products like computer, camera, camcorder, audio and video players, tries to market them in the worst stereotypical negative aspect of brainless consummerism. They make it look like you just have to own their products so that your friends will think you have style.
Of course, brand names, especially luxury items, in general is sold for the sake of name and vanity (e.g. Apple products, BMW, Bang & Olufsen↗, Gucci↗, Rolex etc.). Most of these are sold for their quality, style, and the sheer fact being far more expensive. Brand name luxury items serve a inevitable social function, that is: class distinction. Being far more expensive also has economic justifications: the cost for the risk of bad purchase. (e.g. if you don't know anything about TV, you can just buy a brandname, and you are assured of quality; the cost of time and expertise in researching for a good purchase is part of the price tag.) The expensiveness is mostly a consequence of demand and supply.
Sony's products, do have quality and style like other brand names, but is in general targeting the class of average consumers (as opposed to the wealthy), and on the whole in combination of their marketing, seems to be the worste perpetrator of sending the vanity message: to own it just for the name sake so that you can APPEAR to be high class too.
I don't own any Sony products (excerpt throwaway $10 earphones) and never will.
Spent few hours updating this page: Cornu Spiral. Also added a Geogebra file: Cornu Spirals Applet, which allows you to interactively see a family of curves such that their curvature varies as the length of the curve. Fantastic.
$3k per hour prostitution, added to bottom of: A Close Encounter With A Prostitute In Las Vegas page.
Added a propaganda animation from Japan ~1934, featuring Mickey Mouse as USA, at bottom of The Art of Propaganda.
Apparantly, amazon.co.jp sells porn videos. For screenshot and url, see bottom of Nakedness — a WASP Crime.
Added a commentary on the terminology “implicit surface”, at Math Terminology and Naming of Things.
The fascinating need and creativity of human animals to communicate in unusual ways:
Added the song Lovers by Kathleen Battle, and much correction and update on the page 佳人歌 (The Beauty Song) (lyrics)
blog: Math Books Keeping and Reading.
Much update at: Great Math Programs page. Including news of: A excellent surface plotting software K3DSurf. The surface plotting software 3DXM now has a java version. GeoGebra is the best 2D interactively plane geometry software.
Some commentary about the chinese legend 牛郎织女 (the cowherd and the weave girl) and chinese info in Wikipedia, added to China page.
Find and Replace with Emacs. (computing tutorial)
Eight more images added to Leda and the Swan page.
Added images to Europa and the Bull page.
In my Ethology, Ethnology, and Lyrics project, there are 92 pages on songs and comments. About a year ago, i started to use the CSS “div style="white-space:pre"” instead of “pre” tag for the lyrics. So, about half of the pages is using the div tag.
I just found out today, that when viewing it in Microsoft Internet Explorer, the lyrics all become one continuous line. I found out, this is because Internet Explorer does not support the “white-space:pre”. O, shit.
So, i end up spending about 2 hours updating my lyrics page. Changing all the CSS to using pre, and also added a lot youtube links, updated link, and otherwise cleaned up.
Added Russian National Anthem to The Star Spangled Anthem. (essay, lyrics)
Added screenshots and much more commentary to the essay on the movie “Lust, Caution”: 天涯歌女 (The Wandering Songstress). (lyrics, essay, evolutionary psychology).
Update: Mathematics of Seashell.
Just watched movie “Lust, Caution”. Some thoughts about it: 天涯歌女 (The Wandering Songstress). (lyrics, essay, evolutionary psychology)
Suddenly, Last Summer (film)↗. A film, touching on lobotomy, insanity, homosexuality, cannibalism, and the portrayal of homosexuals few decades ago.
Lobotomy↗ Lobotomy is amazing. It is amazing how the brain can be cut and apparently the human animal can still function. It is amazing how this procedure can be carried out by a long needle-like instrument inserted thru the eye, for just about 10 min. It is also amazing, how this is used by human animals to carry out vengence, punishment, or in general inflict damage, on those you don't like, and under the auspice of care.
The guy who invented lobotomy, actually got a Nobel prize. See Nobel Prize controversies↗.
Rosemary Kennedy↗ US President John F Kennedy's sister, went thru a lobotomy at age 23.
Frances Farmer↗ (1913-1970). American actress. Pretty! It's rumored that she had a lobotomy but not true.
Update: Whirl Wheels Photo Exposition (photography)
Radiator Fan (photography)
XahLee.org Web Traffic Report 2008.
Computer Language Websites Popularity
A Notation for Plane Geometry. (math)
Was going to update my Wallpaper groups page The Discontinuous Groups of Rotation and Translation in the Plane, to upgrade my Cabrii Geometry files to GeoGebra files. I end up spending like 2 hours to correct a proof on theorem of rotations. See Some Theorems on Rotation and Translation.
POV-Ray Metallic Spheres and Reflection. (computer graphics)
A computer generated rendering of ball shadow added to Conic Sections page.
Spent several hours to construct ellipses in GeoGebra:
Added many Geogebra constructions to the conics sections page:
MGM Studios, Inc. v. Grokster, Ltd.↗
Extended: Text Processing: Emacs Lisp vs Perl (How Perl's Lies Damaged the Computing Community)
Xah Lee's Computing Experience Bio (essay)
Youtube interviews added to Modern Goddess Camille Paglia page. O, my goddess, how much i love you Camille.
Added Cuban Flag Porn page to Banners, Damsels, and Mores photo gallery.
Ursula Martinez↗, who has a vid of handkerchief disappearing magick trick while stripping stark naked. See: http://youporn.com/watch/129200
Is Lisp's Objects Concept Necessary? (essay; computing)
Neuro-lingusitic programing (NLP), another New Age shit that people wants to believe. See The Skeptic's Dictionary↗ entry: NLP↗.
Another kooky thing i recently learned is Transcendental Meditation↗.
Expanded essay on What is Technical Drawing, Descriptive Geometry, Projective Geometry, Linear Algebra. (art; illustration)
Expanded essay on What Is Perspective Drawing. (art; drawing)
“A subjective comparison of Germany and the United States” by Axel Boldt, 1995. http://math-www.uni-paderborn.de/~axel/us-d.html
Added a painting to page Art of Odalisque and Prostitutes.
Am reading: AWOL↗, a military jargon meaning Absent Without (Official) Leave, more or less a euphemism for “deserters”. Then, Wikipedia has this passage about the number of US deserters in Iraq War:
According to the Pentagon, more than 5500 military personnel deserted in 2003–2004, following the Iraq invasion and occupation. [2]. The number had reached about 8000 by the first quarter of 2006. [3] Another report stated that since 2000, about 40,000 troops from all branches of the military have deserted, also according to the Pentagon. More than half of these served in the US Army [4]. Almost all of these soldiers deserted within the USA. There has only been one reported case of a desertion in Iraq. The Army, Navy and Air Force reported 7,978 desertions in 2001, compared with 3,456 in 2005. The Marine Corps showed 1,603 Marines in desertion status in 2001. That had declined by 148 in 2005. [5]
Cum swallow vids links added to bottom of Xah's Porn Outspeak. (porn)
The Jargon “Lisp-1” vs “Lisp-2” (computing)
Jargons And High Level Languages (computing)
Modernization of Emacs Lisp (computing)
Elisp Lesson: Process A Thousand Files (computing)
Links To Wikipedia from XahLee.org.
Paulina Rubio Spanish Cosmopolitan Cover Controversy, added to the page: Flags Babes in Asia.
Xah's Java Logo. (graphics art)
Elisp Lesson: Hash Table (computing)
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