Win a t-shirt by helping us promote

Posted by Liz | Fractalspin News & Stuff | Friday 28 July 2006 11:32 am


“DJ Request Policy T-Shirt”
Digital Signal Processing Ahead T-shirt
Circuit Love Girly T-shirt

Just give us the emails of your friends who would dig our site and we’ll enter you in a drawing to win one of these shirts. The more emails you give us, the more chances you have to win. Go here!

OMG a sale–and new shirts!

Posted by Liz | Fractalspin News & Stuff | Friday 28 July 2006 11:18 am

If you buy any Cat5 jewelry, get 10% off your entire order! Might as well spend that cash on the new gear we have:

“ExSysOp”T-shirt

What better way is there to announce your uber-geek cred than in ASCII-style? If you had a multi-node BBS back in the day with h0tT Ph1l3z you were certainly hot stuff to the 20+ other geeks in your exchange.

“Data Jockey” T-shirt

Whether you spin your music-laden hard drives instead of records, or you’re a code-wrangling programmer, you should have a t-shirt!

Congrats to Simon Watts of Redditch, UK who won himself the last of the MAKE t-shirts in the Promote contest. It’s still going, and now you can win a DJ Request Policy T-shirt if you’re lucky.

Happy shopping,

-l!z

Credit card organizer available in cool colors

Posted by Liz | Fractalspin News & Stuff, Neat Stuff | Thursday 20 July 2006 2:56 pm

black credit card organizerThe popular gadget that allows you to have fanatical control over your credit credit card storage and retrieval procedures is now available in red, blue, and black.

These feature the same brilliant design as the original silver  model, but with a rubberized polymer coating. Each of six of your credit cards has its own slot, keeping its magnetic stripe away from those of the others’. Just push the corresponding switch forward and your card nudges forward just enough to grab its edge. A thoughtful design touch is that all of the buttons are removable, and a card comes with it with more button choices, so you can fully customize how your cards are organized. There’s also a money clip on the back, and with the colored models, the finish actually grips loose bills and receipts much better than the silver one.

Server response codes as text messaging “shorthand”

Posted by Liz | LOL, Nerd-tastic | Wednesday 12 July 2006 10:56 am

[By Liz Revision] Instead of awkwardly typing on your phone’s keypad something to the extent of “cant find yr house” or “theyre charging a cover here at this venue,” try using server response codes!

200 = OK
The client’s request was successful, and the server’s response contains the requested data.

[FRIEND] hows the sushi ovr there?
[YOU] 200

or

[FRIEND] is it cool if i come over after work w/ a 6pack?
[YOU] 200


202 = Accepted

The request was accepted but not immediately acted upon. More information about the transaction may be given in the entity body of the server’s response. There is no guarantee that the server will actually honor the request, even though it may seem like a legitimate request at the time of acceptance.

[FRIEND] come to our party tonite. addy = 2143 hoyne apt4. theres a keg
[YOU] 202


204 = No Content

A status code and header is given in the response, but there is no entity body in the reply. Browsers should not update their document view upon receiving this response. This is a useful code for an imagemap handler to return when the user clicks on useless or blank areas of an image.

Use this one in place of “lame” or “nothing exciting here”

[FRIEND] how’s the music ovr there? djs start yet?
[YOU] 204


300 = Multiple Choices

The requested URI refers to more than one resource. For example, the URI could refer to a document that has been translated into many languages. The entity body returned by the server could have a list of more specific data about how to choose the correct resource.

[FRIEND] hey whats goin on tonite?
[YOU] 300

301 = Moved Permanently
The requested URI is no longer used by the server, and the operation specified in the request was not performed. The new location for the requested document is specified in the Location header. All future requests for the document should use the new URI.

[FRIEND] yo im heading ovr there now ok?
[YOU] 301: rodan


302 = Moved Temporarily

The requested URI has moved, but only temporarily. The Location header points to the new location. Immediately after receiving this status code, the client should use the new URI to resolve the request, but the old URI should be used for all future requests.

Use this one in place of “brb.”

[FRIEND] yo im heading ovr there now ok?
[YOU] 302


401 = Unauthorized

The result code is given along with the WW-Authenticate header to indicate that the request lacked proper authorization, and the client should supply proper authorization when requesting this URI again.

[FRIEND] were u able to get in without yr ID? or no?
[YOU] 401


402 = Payment Required

This code is not yet implemented in HTTP.

But that doesn’t mean we can’t use it over SMS!

[FRIEND] is it a free show 2nite or is there a cover?
[YOU] 402

403 = Forbidden
The request was denied for a reason the server does not want to (or has no means to) indicate to the client.

[FRIEND] i herd the show was sold out. did u get in?
[YOU] 403

or

[FRIEND] how’d it go last night with that new girl???
[YOU] 403


404 = Not Found

The document at the specified URI does not exist.

[FRIEND] is there any parking outside the place? did you find any?
[YOU] 404

or

[FRIEND] where teh frak r you??? weve been waiting for 2 hrs now…
[YOU] 404

or, [*advanced*] as an inverted request, signalling “i’m lost”:

[YOU] 404
[FRIEND] 2 blks n of armitage at dickens, 3rd bldng on right


405 = Method Not Allowed

This code is given with the Allow header and indicates that the method used by the client is not supported for this URI.

[FRIEND] can i bring my dogs to the theater?
[YOU] 405


406 = Not Acceptable

The URI specified by the client exists, but not in a format preferred by the client. Along with this code, the server provides the Content-Language, Content-Encoding, and Content-Type headers.

[FRIEND] sup doo000000d?? im bringin 2 transvestites and some bondage gear to yr party tonite!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! RAWK on!
[YOU] 406


409 = Conflict

This code indicates that the request conflicts with another request or with the server’s configuration. Information about the conflict should be returned in the data portion of the reply.

[FRIEND] can you meet me @ 4:30 @ filter today?
[YOU] 409: dentist appt


410 Gone

This code indicates that the requested URI no longer exists and has been permanently removed from the server.

[FRIEND] what happend to that cute roomate you had?
[YOU] 410

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