"Wiens Erzbischof Christoph Schönborn setzte sich in der New York Times vom 7. Juli in einem Kommentar an die Spitze einer Bewegung, die die Evolutionstheorie nicht nur anzweifelt, sondern als unwissenschaftlich ablehnt."
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(Not a surprise for anybody with a shred of common sense; but this instance at least is funny.)
On Friday, Ms Robertson sent a letter to the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, near Los Angeles, asking directors to take fish off the cafeteria lunch menu, adding: "Serving fish at an aquarium is like serving poodle burgers at a dog show."
Now what's wrong with that? I guess if poodles tasted any good...
I hope the members of this "Fish Empathy Project for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals" (Judean People's Front, anyone?) show their empathy with the fish by not breathing any more air. Soon, please.
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The murkins are one truly fucked-up society, with an even worse legal system. One of the recent bad moves of said legal system was to allow seizure of private land if giving it to another sucker would generate more revenue for the city/state/gvmt.
Now a private developer is using this decision to get a hotel built on one of the responsible judges' private land. How very sweet! I would so very much love to see that actually happening. (Yeah, as if there was any chance of the corrupt bastards bending over. But one can dream.)
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You'd better, if you want to pass the HGFA exam for an advanced rating (paragliding or hanggliding). I found this quite amusing.
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This is "Bad Table", a piece of real-world furniture made and sold by a Vancouver Company (fittingly called "Straight Line Designs"). (To the designers of their flash eye cancer webshite: here's a nickle, kids, get yourself a real editor and a copy of the relevant RFCs.)
If only I had the money for such practical jokes...dream
and I reach the 100 hour mark. And all of it is inland flying.
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Subject: Re: a sad host From: Brian Kantor Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 05:28:34 +0000 (UTC) Newsgroups: alt.sysadmin.recovery Garrett Wollman ... wrote: >Yeah, it is kind of sad when machines have to be rebooted weekly. > 4:15PM up 409 days, 22:02, 1 user, load averages: 12.34, 9.87, 8.01 >-GAWollman Or yearly, even: >Last login: Wed Apr 20 15:56:09 2005 from karoshi.ucsd.edu >10:26PM up 1453 days, 18:20, 3 users, load averages: 0.35, 0.17, 0.15 >----------------------------------------------------------------------- >[brian] 1 :
hehe
MS UK, transatlantic offspring of the Evil Empire is sponsoring a short film competition, titled "Thought Thieves".
"The theme of your film should be about how intellectual property theft affects both individuals and society."
The entry form clearly shows its origins:
"...Should I be selected as a finalist in this competition, I confirm the following: 7. I will formally license on terms acceptable to Microsoft, all intellectual property rights in my film and agree to waive all moral rights in relation to my film if requested to do so..."
Pot. Kettle. Black. Assholes.
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snort! The quote is from a
newspaper article
on some fellows taking a bus for a joyride (after the driver had gone for a pee and forgot the keys
in the ignition).
Australians seem to like public transportation only if they can drive themselves, as evidenced by the final paragraph of said article:
"The trio resisted picking up passengers during their short trip, say police, unlike in Melbourne a month ago, when a 15-year-old boy was caught after picking up passengers in a tram he had taken."
Bolero Large Yellow/Red/White,
DHV 1, 90-110kg. 3 years old, 63 hours. No beach, in perfect condition,
just inspected: 130+ seconds on the porosity meter. Comes with glider bag and
stirrup. $1400 ONO.
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(snarfed from the Earth Edition of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy or short H2G2)
Australia is a very confusing place, taking up a large amount of the
bottom half of the planet. It is recognisable from orbit because of many
unusual features, including what at first looks like an enormous bite
taken out of its southern edge; a wall of sheer cliffs which plunge deep
into the girting sea. Geologists assure us that this is simply an
accident of geomorphology and plate tectonics, but they still call it
the "Great Australian Bight" proving that not only are they covering up
a more frightening theory, but they can't spell either.
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says R.S. McNamara in The Fog of War. His fellow citizens in the U.S. of Jesusistan don't believe in proportionality anywhere: 3-10 years of jail for making a copy of a movie. The act which has just been passed (with a big majority...) is called FECA -for "Family Entertainment and Copyright Act"- and the title is a perfect example of doublethink. They've all got FECAl matter for brains.
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"It's made out of poo, but also it's so Aussie."
say Joanna Gair of Creative Paper Tasmania who is the manufacturer of a paper made from roo dung.
Which seems to be a solid seller despite looking like, well, shite.
King Midas would be impressed.
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the ABC's story
A mad norwegian has made this yahoo+google mashup: two frames showing you both search engines' results side-by-side. Very cool, especially as one shouldn't trust google to far anyway. (Nor is yahoo the One Source of Truth)
A firefox searchplugin is available over there.
Yes, I had a good day: I did 23.1km from Beechmont to Beaudesert.
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Well, more than a few - and some kooks, as usual. debian-devel feels like nan-ae at times... This is how my email load went up after the infamous "proposal" hit the nets (blue being spam, green being real mail):
That TINC is not true for Debian is unfortunately pretty obvious by now, even to a non-political tech like me; that there are voices of reason left in high places is good to see reinforced, however.
So thank you, Martin Schulze, for that post. You put the concerns of lots of us in words very nicely.
If I'll ever end up having too much free time on my hands I'll try out some stuff from Abandonia, where classical games are kept alive.
...the legend for some false-colour relief goes only up to 800m.
The Bureau of Meteorology, source of often misleading weather forecasts but otherwise providing a lot of very good services IMHO, now has a height relief for the live weather radar images. Very nice. This is the one for the immediate surrounds.
\rho and I "own" some perl software packages related to topicmaps,
mainly the XTM package (or libxtm-perl as it's called in Debian).
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Just read this at BoingBoing:
A high-school student writes zombie story for english class. About
an unnamed high-school being run over by zombies.
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It fells almost like software-archeology to dig through these old RCS revision logs. I can trace back certain constructs in there to my days at aut.alcatel.at and to hints from Klaus Reichl, emacs geek extraordinaire in the Elektra team.
this is how it looks when az has a bad day and takes a big hammer to the mh-e defaults:
;; gehts scheissn mit die bunten smileys... (setq mh-graphical-smileys-flag nil)
The murkin legal system is utterly fubar'd: having an ad-blocker setup
for your browser is illegal according to the letter of the law
as it's "contributory copyright infringement" not to
watch all the blinking lies.
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I just couldn't resist plotting things. That's total airtime and airtime per week (x 10 in order to see something).
No. Never. NO! Go Away! This is not what I want.
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This is pretty cool stuff.
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Google Maps helps us to identify the greatest liar.
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