Via my friend Crawford:
"someone's signature on a IMDB message board: How many kids with ADD does it take to screw in a light bulb? Let's go ride bikes!!!"
Just thought that was funny...
Via Hans Nowak, this OCaml tutorial. OCaml's been one of those neat high-powered functional languages that people do cool stuff in -- winners in whatever functional language programming contest often use OCaml, and a compiler for something cool that escapes me right now is written in OCaml.
Oh yeah, it's C-- that's written in OCaml.
Sam Ruby: Low tech fix. Cool. I didn't know you could use a vaccum to fix your computer.
Via WHEDONesque, Whedon's 'Firefly' Lights Up a Holiday DVD
Despite what Amazon and every release of the DVD stats say, Whedon still says the discs are in widescreen:
Also, the episodes are presented in widescreen, as they were originally filmed, and are arranged in order. "That was the most important thing to me," Whedon says. "Everything else is gravy, but there does seem to be quite a bit of gravy."
Though, I still wonder whether Fox would have screwed him again by putting the fullscreen versions on without him knowing until it was too late, and I'm wondering how old this comment by him is. Though, I suppose, if it hadn't been in widescreen, something would have gotten out complaining about it on all the fan boards, but I still can't know for sure until I actually get the DVD.
Plus, here are some choice quotes from Joss, explaining some of the Firefly "formula" (scare quotes around "formula" because Firefly was anything but):
"I'm very much of the 'make it dark, make it grim, make it tough,'" he says, "but then, for the love of God, tell a joke. Show some love. I can get by on that stuff. I like a hard world, but I like a hard world that molds good people and people with a sense of humor about the world they're in.
"Otherwise, it's unrelenting. People don't live like that.
"You take people, you put them on a journey, you give them peril, you find out who they really are. If there's any kind of fiction better than that, I don't know what it is."
Susan Estrich: Politics of hate won't beat Bush
The way to defeat Bush is not to advertise how much you hate him. Hard-core ideologues who hate Bush are not going to decide this election. They'll vote for the Democrat, as they do every four years, but there aren't enough of them to elect a Democrat. You need swing voters to do that. Hatred may motivate the left to contribute money, but it is hardly an effective talking point for public consumption if you want to win elections.
The people whose votes Democrats will need to defeat George Bush don't hate him. On a personal level, they like him. They need to be convinced not to vote for him, for reasons that have to do with the war, or special interests or the economy. "Hate Bush" headlines do just the opposite.
Via my referrers, check out this programming font discussion. I still have more reading to do to finish the thread, but I've already come across at least one very good font I wasn't aware of before. Pragmata looks excellent, but it costs 50 euros.
Awesome domain though, typographi.ca 
Thursday, December 4, 2003
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new⇒Java join function
Meh, don't have null strings inyour string arrays imo, but you'rewelcome ...
Keith: Nov 19, 7:51pm