Stuff on the Spam Conference.
It's a bird, it's a plane: "There, are you satisfied that I am smart enough to know how bad Smallville is? Good, now I can tell you why I watch it."
Oliver: Hypocrisy:
What is it about religious people that God hates the most? Ungratefulness? Gossip? Lack of compassion? Yes, God hates all those things, but I believe the one thing that God hates the most in religious people is hypocrisy.
AOL sucks. I don't know why anyone would even consider signing up with AOL today.
A couple of years ago I broke down and installed one of those get a month of AOL free disks. Called and cancelled to days later. I explained that the service was not worth what I was paying (nothing).
The Simpsons: 2 more years!
Blech. I almost wish the Simpsons had quit while they were ahead.
Interview with Marcelo Cabral, the creator of w.bloggar.
Great stuff from ScrappleFace:
289 Million Americans Avoid Peace Rallies
(2003-01-19) -- Police across the nation estimate the crowd that avoided yesterday's anti-war demonstrations at about 289 million. Americans from coast-to-coast voted in absentia against criticizing the Bush administration for Iraq's failure to comply with U.N. resolutions.
Protestor Takes to Street in Baghdad
(2003-01-18) -- A protestor took to the street in Baghdad today, chanting slogans against the policies of the Hussein administration.
Unfortunately, he had to cut short his protest when he learned that his house had burned to the ground in a matter of seconds, killing his entire family.
On his way home, he was accidentally killed when his car ran into a hail of gunfire.
InstaPundit: A reader sends this report from San Francisco
The ernest anti-imperialist drinking game
More stuff on the wacko craziness from Right Wing News.
Right Wing News: British Bizarro World:
Today, we're going to learn about "Topsy Turvy land", otherwise known as Britain! In this strange and fantastic realm, the justice system works to protect the criminals while the people the crooks are trying to victimize go to jail.
BBC: Why Britain needs more guns
As gun crime leaps by 35% in a year, plans are afoot for a further crack down on firearms. Yet what we need is more guns, not fewer, says a US academic.
"If guns are outlawed," an American bumper sticker warns, "only outlaws will have guns." With gun crime in Britain soaring in the face of the strictest gun control laws of any democracy, the UK seems about to prove that warning prophetic.
Old stereotypes die hard and the vision of Britain as a peaceable kingdom, America as "the wild west culture on the other side of the Atlantic" is out of date. It is true that in contrast to Britain's tight gun restrictions, half of American households have firearms, and 33 states now permit law-abiding citizens to carry concealed weapons.
But despite, or because, of this, violent crime in America has been plummeting for 10 consecutive years, even as British violence has been rising. By 1995 English rates of violent crime were already far higher than America's for every major violent crime except murder and rape.
You are now six times more likely to be mugged in London than New York. Why? Because as common law appreciated, not only does an armed individual have the ability to protect himself or herself but criminals are less likely to attack them. They help keep the peace. A study found American burglars fear armed home-owners more than the police. As a result burglaries are much rarer and only 13% occur when people are at home, in contrast to 53% in England.
PHP Look Back looks back at PHP developments in 2002.
/php4/sapi/activescript/README
"Probably the most useful of these will be using it with the scriptlet control, or in your own activescript host, so that you can very easily embed PHP into your win32 application."
Please excuse me while I go out to do my evil grin-and-hopping-in-circles routine.
Struts 1.1 is on its way
When I've found problems, I've patched them - good ol' open source. I haven't found any issues in quite some time - and when I have, the committers usually fix them the same day. Gotta love that kind of customer service. Show me a company that can do that with commercial software and I'll be impressed.
SelectORacle -- very cool!
Ever wondered what a particularly complex CSS selector really means? Here's your chance to find out! Simply enter one or more semi-colon separated selectors or rulesets into the following "Direct Input" area, or provide the URL of a stylesheet in the "URL Input" area. Best of all, the SelectORacle will flag potential errors and other problems, and it won't choke on any actual rules. You've always wanted to know what makes those line-noise posers tick-- now you can.
A Simple Performance Test of Java Generics
Now that Generics are coming to the Java Platform (in the next JDK), I was curious as to how they would perform, since everything depends in how efficiently they are managing the type management internally (yes, in theory there shouldn't be much difference, but you never know). So I downloaded the Early Access prototype to add generics to JDK 1.4.x, and did a couple of simple tests, with the idea of finding out two things: 1) whether there would be a noticeable performance hit and 2) whether it was necessary to modify JDK 1.4 to run generics-enabled classes.
LWN: "Understanding the Linux Kernel, Second Edition" Released by O'Reilly
Relevant segments of code are dissected and discussed line by line. The book covers more than just the functioning of the code, it explains the theoretical underpinnings of why Linux does things the way it does.
It's a sad day at the Devens household. My brother has just become an idiotarian... he just compared the situation in Israel to Apartheid in South Africa, and he called Israel "bullies". Sad, sad day.
Sunday, January 19, 2003
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