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From the Jargon Watch section of the April, 2001 issue of Wired magazine (p. 74):
Weapons-Grade Stupidity:Tech-support slang for customer intelligence that is so low it poses a severe hazard to those who come in contact with it.
I spent about 3 hours playing with Radio. Still haven't figured out how I'll do the rest of what Manila does for me. The weblog part is a piece of cake, but ths stories are another thing. Frontier is all there, and it knows how to render web pages, but I'm clueless so far as to how to get it to do it's thing. Supposedly, I can get OPML out of editthispage, then I can convert that to HTML with Radio, after writing some appropriate script to loop over a directory. Time to sleep.
Dan Russell - Agent Green: McCollum's "Silver Bullet" - In the Head: details on the biological warfare that the U.S. is practicing in South America. A crime against humanity if you ask me. [brianf]
Charley Reese at the Orlando Sentinel - Try to learn something from tragedy: Charley's take on the most recent "school shooting". Worth a read. Much more wholistic than the simple quote here. [lew]
A firearm is an inanimate, lifeless machine. It cannot do anything on its own but lie in one place until time and oxidation destroy it.To blame a gun for homicide is like giving credit to a hammer for a new house. One would think that, by the 21st century, we would have given up superstition and emotionalism.
David Dieteman Sweden and the Myth of Benevolent Socialism: according to Mr. Dietman, they're still practicing eugenics in Sweden, sterilizing and lobotomizing people deemed socially unfit. [lew]
Frequently referred to as a "benevolent" socialist or social democratic state, to distinguish it from the run-of-the-mill socialist butcher shop, such as Cuba, China, North Korea, the USSR, and most of Africa, Latin and Central America, and Asia, Sweden is the Promised Land of the Left. Where the USSR was a departure from the genius of Karl Marx, Sweden shows the potential.
Tony Smith at The Register - Tiny C code bests seven-line DVD decoder: Charles H. Hannum has released efdtt.c, a 442 byte C program that can unscramble DVDs faster than real-time.
"So what's the MPAA gonna do now?" Touretzky asks. "This code is small enough to put on a cocktail napkin. Commit to memory. Knit into a scarf. Whatever. It cannot be suppressed."
Nautilus 1.0 is available for download from Eazel. This is the first release of Andy Hertzfeld, Darin Adler, & Co.'s new UI for Linux. It's being slashdotted like crazy at the moment. Wish I had an intel machine running Linux so I could try it out without compiling it. I have varying luck compiling systems on my PowerPC 9500 Linux system. [cafe]
timothy at Slashdot - Eazel: The Honeymoon's Over: just after their first release, Eazel lays off the entire sales, marketing, and QA staff, 40 of their 75 employees out the door. Bummer, man. [/.]
