http://dotclue.org/ "Need a clue, take a clue; got a clue, leave a clue." en-us jgreely@dotclue.org 2010-03-11T09:28:23-08:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://dotclue.org/archives/003523.html I think all search results would be improved by the ability to exclude departments. Instead of forcing me to guess whether an item has been filed under "Home & Garden" or "Grocery", let me instead exclude "Baby", "VHS", "MP3 Downloads",... 3523@http://dotclue.org/ Web 2010-03-11T09:28:23-08:00 http://dotclue.org/archives/003522.html As a general rule, office firewalls do not have to be configured to cope with simultaneous incoming syslog traffic from 80,000+ hosts. Mine did. Sadly, the default limit for a particular element was only capable of handling about 3/4 of... 3522@http://dotclue.org/ Sysadmin 2010-03-10T15:38:40-08:00 http://dotclue.org/archives/003521.html ...or will be in the state of New York, if the dumbest state legislators in American history can manage to pass their new bill. Not kidding: "No owner or operator of a restaurant in this state shall use salt in... 3521@http://dotclue.org/ Food 2010-03-09T16:17:46-08:00 http://dotclue.org/archives/003520.html One should never take this sort of story at face value, so I looked it up on Amazon, and my jaw dropped for two reasons. The linked disclaimer that the contents of The Federalist Papers "does not reflect the same... 3520@http://dotclue.org/ Books 2010-03-01T16:49:26-08:00 http://dotclue.org/archives/003519.html I was looking up a Japanese word. I knew what it meant. I knew how it had been formed from the parent word. I knew the writer had used it correctly. It just wasn't in my usual dictionaries, and I... 3519@http://dotclue.org/ Japan 2010-02-28T17:04:19-08:00 http://dotclue.org/archives/003518.html The first time I realized that Amber Benson had more going for her than I'd been shown was when she opened her mouth during the Buffy musical and sang. Suddenly a decent actress who'd capably immersed herself into a minor... 3518@http://dotclue.org/ Books 2010-02-28T13:55:20-08:00 http://dotclue.org/archives/003517.html We had a little contest tonight, to see who got the least comprehensible recommendation from Amazon. Here's my best: The Complete Benny Hill, because I bought a crockpot.... 3517@http://dotclue.org/ Web 2010-02-27T23:49:14-08:00 http://dotclue.org/archives/003516.html Jenny McCarthy, outspoken anti-vaccination activist, is now furiously beck-pedaling thanks to the discovery that her child is not autistic, and likely never was. You may now return to your regularly scheduled herd immunity. ...unless Jenny and the gang already killed... 3516@http://dotclue.org/ Reality 2010-02-26T16:53:31-08:00 http://dotclue.org/archives/003515.html Interested in Girls' Generation, but don't want to order CDs from YesAsia? You can buy their latest album from the US iTunes Store, but only if you know to search for "소녀시대". Interested in the extremely talented South Korean singer... 3515@http://dotclue.org/ Music 2010-02-22T15:29:38-08:00 http://dotclue.org/archives/003514.html The following four images are the front covers of the Japanese editions of two well-known science fiction novels (two each, because novels are frequently split into two volumes in Japan). I have crudely blacked out the author's name, so as... 3514@http://dotclue.org/ SF 2010-02-21T20:48:12-08:00 http://dotclue.org/archives/003513.html Please don't pollute the well. Search results for the writer Masako Bandou return a link to an Amazon US product page for the title "13 of Pornographic Chica Japanese Language Book". No details, no availability, no hint that the book... 3513@http://dotclue.org/ Books 2010-02-21T18:18:09-08:00 http://dotclue.org/archives/003512.html After being kicked out of Hello!Project in The Grownup Purge, idol group Melon Kinenbi's career initially didn't look much different. The label had been grudgingly giving them occasional promotion and a single once or twice a year, and they had... 3512@http://dotclue.org/ Music 2010-02-19T16:49:47-08:00 http://dotclue.org/archives/003511.html I've been following Mari Yaguchi for some time, starting with her debut in Morning Musume, and I've been impressed at how well she's diversified her career, enough that being kicked out of the band was only a minor setback to... 3511@http://dotclue.org/ Japan 2010-02-16T13:03:39-08:00 http://dotclue.org/archives/003510.html This story about the "Cambridge Climate Congress" would be hilarious satire if it weren't dead-serious social engineering. Click through to read the PDF about the "climate emergency" and the quest for "environmental justice". Count the fluff-headed buzzwords scattered throughout. Picture... 3510@http://dotclue.org/ Reality 2010-02-15T22:03:25-08:00 http://dotclue.org/archives/003509.html I've always thought of the phrase "comeback album" as meaning "first release in a long time from someone who's dropped out of sight". In the K-pop universe, it apparently means something quite different. Girls' Generation released two incredibly successful EPs... 3509@http://dotclue.org/ Movies 2010-02-13T09:23:09-08:00