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Comment Re:The conclusion... (Score 1) 7

That looks odd. The entire poem, for context:


        Ozymandias

        I met a traveller from an antique land
        Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
        Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
        Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown
        And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command
        Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
        Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
        The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
        And on the pedestal these words appear:
        "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
        Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
        Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
        Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
        The lone and level sands stretch far away.

                                -- Percy Bysshe Shelley

It really shows what can be done with the sonnet form.

User Journal

Journal Journal: AT&T Blocking Gmail?

AT&T appears to be blocking inbound mail from gmail, or at least from the server that is sending my mail. I've had bounces from two sbcglobal.net addresses, but one to a yahoo.com address appears to have gone through with no problem.

Anyone else have this problem?

Comment Division? (Score 1) 5

I don't see any references to the 36th Infantry Division among the top hits when I run that query. Most of the hits just say 36th Virginia Infantry, with no designation. From what I recall, most Civil War units identified by number/state are regiments or battalions, while brigades, divisions, and corps tend to be identified by the name of their commander. I could be wrong about that, though - I'm just depending on memory (rather than Google).

Lord of the Rings

Journal Journal: [Music][Beloved] I Will Not Forget You


I remember the nights I watched as you lay sleeping
Your body gripped by some far away dream
Well I was so scared and so in love then
And so lost in all of you that I had seen
But no one ever talked in the darkness
No voice ever added fuel to the fire
No light ever sh

Lord of the Rings

Journal Journal: [Music][Beloved] If I Could Be Where You Are (a trí)


Where are you this moment -
only in my dreams.
You're missing, but you're always
a heartbeat from me.

I'm lost now without you,
I don't know where you are.
I keep watching, I keep hoping,
but time keeps us apart.

Comment [Beloved] She Walks in Beauty (Score 1) 4


        She walks in beauty, like the night
                Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
        And all that's best of dark and bright
                Meet in her aspect and her eyes:
        Thus mellow'd to that tender light
                Which heaven to gaudy day denies.

        One shade the more, one ray the less,
                Had half impair'd the nameless grace
        Which waves in every raven tress,
                Or softly lightens o'er her face;
        Where thoughts serenely sweet express
                How pure, how dear their dwelling place.

        And on that cheek, and o'er that brow,
                So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,
        The smiles that win, the tints that glow,
                But tell of days in goodness spent,
        A mind at peace with all below,
                A heart whose love is innocent!

                        -- George Gordon, Lord Byron

But I used this one five years ago (3 August 2006). There was a bit more hope, at that juncture.

Lord of the Rings

Journal Journal: [Beloved] Bright Star 4


Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art --
Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night
And watching, with eternal lids apart,
Like Nature's patient, sleepless Eremite,
The moving waters at their priestlike task
Of pure ablution round earth's human shores,
Or ga

The Almighty Buck

New Twitter-Based Hedge Fund Beats the Stock Market 209

nonprofiteer writes "Derwent Capital, a new hedge fund that makes trades and investments based on Twitter sentiment, beat the market — and other hedge funds — in its first full month of trading. From the Atlantic: 'Using an algorithm based on the social media mood that day, the hedge fund predicted the market to make the right trades. Sounds unbelievable that something cluttered with mundane musings and media links could have anything smart to say about the market. But it's working so far.' Blind luck?"
Idle

Submission + - Right-Wing Extremists Tricked by Trojan Shirts (spiegel.de)

gzipped_tar writes: Fans at a recent right-wing extremist rock festival in Germany thought they were getting free T-shirts that reflected their nationalistic worldview. But after the garment's first wash they discovered otherwise. The original image rinsed away to reveal a hidden message from an activist group. It reads: "If your T-shirt can do it, so can you. We'll help to free you from right-wing extremism."
Books

Submission + - Indie Bookstore Refuses Amazon Author's Signing (typepad.com)

jaskelling writes: What happens when an author wants to promote his book at the Seattle Mystery Bookstore? He gets shown the door and told "no way." Why? The author's books are published and promoted by Amazon. It seems that Amazon wants to use the independent booksellers advantage of having a physical location to do their own promotion & sales with an author, all while taking away the business of that very same store.

The owner/operator posts his email conversation with the author — and the viewpoints from both sides are insightful.

Windows

Submission + - Microsoft to dump .Net for HTML5/JavaScript? (i-programmer.info)

joelholdsworth writes: Microsoft seem to be set on adopting HTML5 and JavaScript as its main application development tools for Windows 8 — is this the end of .NET?" "Microsoft developers feel left in the dark and very angry at the way they are being treated. You only have to browse the Microsoft forums to discover how strong the feeling is: forum post 1, forum post 2 and an open letter.
Apple

Submission + - Apple Steps Up in Lodsys Lawsuits (blogspot.com)

TwiztidK writes: Nine days after Lodsys sued seven little app developers in the Eastern District of Texas, Apple filed a motion to intervene in the proceedings.

If the court grants Apple's motion to participate as an intervenor, Apple has already submitted its answer to the complaint, and its counterclaim.

Lodsys can oppose Apple's motion to intervene. That may happen, but I believe Apple is fairly likely to be admitted as an intervenor.

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