A selection of steampunk, Victoriana and Second Life news about which I do not really wish to write at length.
For longer nonsense, please see An Engine Fit For My Proceeding, and for shorter, see my Twitterings.
here is one of my favourites (it also has great mouthfeel).
elelendish - of another land, foreign. from old english eilland (foreign land)
look at the first five letters of elelendish and tell me truthfully that the word does not describe itself. but beware of elelendish’s autological paradox: the more you use it, the less autological it becomes.
The human body literally glows, emitting a visible light in extremely small quantities at levels that rise and fall with the day, scientists now reveal.
Past research has shown that the body emits visible light, 1,000 times less intense than the levels to which our naked eyes are sensitive. In fact, virtually all living creatures emit very weak light, which is thought to be a byproduct of biochemical reactions involving free radicals.
April 20 (Bloomberg) — Taser International Inc. filed a trademark-infringement lawsuit against the Second Life online virtual world creator over claims it sells unauthorized virtual versions of its electric stun guns.
Taser, the world’s biggest maker of stun guns, claims San Francisco-based Linden Research Inc. is damaging the company’s reputation and hurting its sales by allowing virtual weapons to be sold online under the Taser brand name, according to a 102- page complaint filed April 17 in federal court in Phoenix.
A DWP spokesman said: “We are currently exploring the potential of using Second Life and have active interest from a number of government departments.
“Our new innovation centre in Second Life is a virtual area where both government and private companies can showcase technological innovations, such as low carbon footprint technology.
“We believe it could help make sharing technology more efficient and save taxpayers’ money as meetings, events and shows can be held online at a fraction of the cost and resources.”
A discussion, but the summary is that the arguments.txt file on the Mac comes after command line parameters, whereas on Linux, the gridargs.dat file comes before it.
