Quickies Keep on Coming

Loic Dachary wrote in to say that catalog, a GPLd perl script to create your own Yahoo style directory is up for download. ja wrote in to say that LyX, TeX a frontend for dummies has officially hit v1.0 From my own blatant self promotion department, I actually registered CmdrTaco.net and have moved most of my non-slashdot stuff there- as well as cleaning up some design issues and making pages smaller and faster and prettier. Update your links, the old stuff will go away in the not so distant future. David Carver noted that the March 1999 issue of (What? Paper?) Performance Computing magazine mentions Slashdot on Page 13 regarding last Novembers reports on Cheap Alphas. For something truly strange, we have something Blaxthos sent: The Church of the Quivering Otter. It's actually even wierder than it sounds. An anonymous reader sent us a link to a CNN article about the Victoria's Secret commercial during the superbowl: Apparently the website got a million hits in the following hour. Was the game boring or do we just really like Stephenie Seymour? The answer to both of these is probably yes. Somewhat related is another patent following the one we mentioned yesterday. Rosmo sent us (Not for the ultra moral!) a patent that might be even scarier that that one.

condom-mania

[phil reed]

What I want to know is this: What the hell do you record in a music-playing condom? What piece of music would be appropriate? "Stranger in the Night" ???

Better yet, is it a straight audio recorder? We could have all kinds of amusing sounds.

Segregation of ports by sex

[heroine]

Women may outnumber men for email but 99% of my website hits are men. I say men own port 80 while women hang around port 25.

Lyx widget set - What is it, anyway?

[free779]

XForms, a non-free toolkit. Although free as in free beer, the source code is not available.

Surprised it's still used after all the flaming Troll Tech got over Qt, which was/is more 'free' than XForms.

Lyx widget set - What is it, anyway?

[Passacaglia]

Is it Motif, or some homebrew widget set? I was looking all over their site yesterday for some clue, figured I might get a quick answer here - ?

I don't know what scares me more...

[Pulsar]

...that someone actually patented such a device or that apparently it has actually been advertised in mainstream print...

What next? No, forget that I asked that, the answer would probably scare me...

Lyx's widget set

[lich]

Lyx should definately be ported to gtk. The widget set it uses now is horribly ugly and opperates in a weird way.

A gnomed version would be great addition to the modern *NIX desktop. The power of LaTeX in a smoothly integrated, eyecandied enviorment.

It sure would be a cool project if anybody's looking for something to do with spare, or not so spare, time.

Time to face the music....

[unitron]

Time to face the music when it breaks.

And people think patents should be outlawed!

[unitron]

If it wasn't for the patents you couldn't get anybody to believe some of these things really exist!

Church of the Otter.

[Poopdbq]

I think I'm going to convert to that religion. Did anyone else notice how dumb those "First Post" people are? Yack.

COQO Rules!

[BrianJAckermann]

I just want to take this opportunity to thank all the new members of the COQO for joining up. Welcome Everybody!

Reverend Brian J. Ackermann.

comments

[mattc]

I hope that Yahoo-like script includes broken link checking and removal. I know the "real" Yahoo's sure doesn't. I think it is because they want to advertise more links than they actually have (at least 35% are nonfunctional). I also hope it adds new links faster than the "real" yahoo!

PS: Stephenie Seymour is probably the worst looking of them all. Look at some of the other models.

Catalog? Bah.

[Twyst]

There's a MUCH better, and more feature-filled links system out, called (of all things) Links.

check it out:

http://www.gossamer-threads.com

condoms

[krb]

is there really anyone out there who's thinking, "Gee, I really don't enjoy SEX enough... it would be way better if some low quality audio were to play at every thrust." What's wrong with this picture? Maybe i'm old fashioned or something, but I think sex is pretty damn cool in and of itself...

condtracks?

[blargney]

i wonder how much RAM those condoms'll have? *grin*

-blarg

Brother SlashDotLongHair ????

[SuperDuck]

Aight, Commander, since when did you become a Choosey One?

And since when did you start drinking Diet CoQo?

;P

condtracks?

[braque]

640kB should be enough for anybody.

Condom....

[four]

Now, wouldn't that be the greatest joke gift?