Sunday, August 28, 2005
Friday, August 26, 2005
CRASH TEST DUMMIES LYRICS
"Superman's Song"
Tarzan wasn't a ladies' man
He'd just come along and scoop 'em up under his arm
Like that, quick as a cat in the jungle
But Clark Kent, now there was a real gent
He would not be caught sittin' around in no
Junglescape, dumb as an ape doing nothing
[Chorus:]
Superman never made any money
For saving the world from Solomon Grundy
And sometimes I despair the world will never see
Another man like him
Hey Bob, Supe had a straight job
Even though he could have smashed through any bank
In the United States, he had the strength, but he would not
Folks said his family were all dead
Their planet crumbled but Superman, he forced himself
To carry on, forget Krypton, and keep going
Tarzan was king of the jungle and Lord over all the apes
But he could hardly string together four words: "I Tarzan, You Jane."
Sometimes when Supe was stopping crimes
I'll bet that he was tempted to just quit and turn his back
On man, join Tarzan in the forest
But he stayed in the city, and kept on changing clothes
In dirty old phonebooths till his work was through
And nothing to do but go on home
[Thanks to kevin_c4@hotmail.com, sean_ee@hotmail.com for correcting these lyrics]
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Tuesday, August 23, 2005
Molly.com That's why it's Called Beta:
I WOKE UP this morning to find countless emails and IMs pouring into my accounts asking me about the IE 7 beta.
Some developers are expressing relief at seeing some of the bug fixes and improvements, but of course as I’ve been expressing all along, this is a process with which we have to be patient. Expecting full bug fixes and implementation in any beta software is ridiculous, as is expecting that WaSP / Microsoft Task Force can perform retroactive miracles. more »
E-Mail Wiretapping' Prosecutions Could Increase in the Future
A federal appeals court ruling in Boston last week on e-mail wiretapping is reverberating throughout the Internet community-and legal world-with a consensus emerging that there may be prosecutions in the future for what today is considered normal business practice by ISPs.
The First Circuit Court of Appeals, voting 5-2, ruled that an e-mail service provider that supposedly read e-mail, intended for customers only, could indeed be tried on federal criminal charges.
This is True: The Lord Giveth, the Feds Taketh Away:
Saturday, August 20, 2005
Plug-and-play bots worming and warring among Windows systems
Joe Stewart, senior threat researcher, Lurhq The worms--which appear to come from three families of code dubbed Zotob, Botzori and IRCBot--started spreading on Sundaywithout much fanfare. However, on Tuesday, computers at CNN and the New York Times became infected by one or more variants of the worm, and the public profile of the programs increased a notch. more »
Friday, July 29, 2005
Lost in Translation - Government Technology:
This January, two handheld voice translation devices -- the Phraselator developed by VoxTec, and the Voice Response Translator (VRT) developed by Integrated Wave Technologies -- were tested by the Chula Vista, Calif., Police Department in conjunction with the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR) in San Diego. read more »
IE7 nukes Google, Yahoo! search
Users with search toolbars from Yahoo! and arch-rival Google have discovered that these vanish. Other third-party toolbars designed to block pop-ups or aid with form filling appear to be working normally, according to reports from Reg readers. read more »
Thursday, July 28, 2005
Yemeni cleric jailed for 75 years
Sheikh Mohammed Ali Hassan al-Moayad was convicted on charges of conspiring to support the al-Qaeda network and Palestinian militant group Hamas.
At a meeting with two FBI informants in Germany, he was recorded promising to funnel more than $2m (£1.1m) to Hamas.
He was arrested by German police in January 2003 and extradited to the US.
For each of five counts, he received 15-year sentences, each to be served consecutively.
He was also fined $1.25m in a federal court in Brooklyn.resd more »
Sunday, July 24, 2005
Thursday, July 14, 2005
EXIT MUNDI: A COLLECTION OF END-OF-WORLD SCENARIOS:
Isn't life a bitch? The world is going to end. You don't even have to be a religious fundamentalist to see that's true.
Some people collect postal stamps; Exit Mundi collects scenarios of what could go wrong with the world. Sure, our planet could get hit by an asteroid. But hey, that's nothing. Did you know we could all be munched away by hungry molecules? Or that our physicists could unintentionally wipe us all out while tinkering with particles? `Oops, sorry...'
Exit Mundi isn't in it for doom preaching, but strictly for fun. It's a fascinating thought: if that &*%#-comet didn't wipe out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, we wouldn't be here pondering about apocalypses and armageddons in the first place. The dinosaurs roamed our planet millions of years longer than we did. If it wasn't for the comet, they still would.
Sounds good, doesn't it?
Fallen Heroes of Operation Iraqi Freedom
Remembering the soldiers who died in the service of their country.
The list was last updated at 8:30 PM EDT Wednesday, July 13, 2005
Source: DefenseLINK
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American soldiers listed: 1754
Tuesday, July 12, 2005
Eben Rawls, Attorney at Law
Sunday, June 26, 2005
Homes may be 'taken' for private projects
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that local governments may seize people’s homes and businesses — even against their will — for private economic development. more »
Tuesday, June 07, 2005
This page is dedicated to Voltaire!
Voltaire, Epître sur Les Trois Imposteurs:
Si Dieu n'existait pas, il faudrait l'inventer
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him
This statement by Voltaire was so famous that Flaubert included it in his Dictionnaire des idées reçues, and it is still frequently quoted today. But where does it first appear? And what precisely did Voltaire mean when he wrote it? Does it imply, as most of Voltaire's parrots seems to suppose, that God is a fictitious being, created for the comfort of the human race?
Saturday, June 04, 2005
Red Hat Frees Fedora to the Fedora Foundation
Saturday, 04 June 2005
Red Hat announced that it is releasing the copyrights and development work of the free Fedora version of Linux over to the Fedora Foundation.
Fedora FoundationRed Hat, one of the most popular Linux distributions, forked into two projects back in 2002. Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) was targeted at commercial customers, while Fedora was the free, community distribution. Red Hat, Inc. has failed at trying to attract the outside involvement that it hoped to get with the Fedora project.
"The goal of The Fedora Project is to work with the Linux community to build a complete, general purpose operating system exclusively from open source software. Development will be done in a public forum ... By using this more open process, we hope to provide an operating system more in line with the ideals of free software and more appealing to the open source community," the Fedora Project Web site says.
Many developers have critisized the direction Fedora has taken with Red Hat, Inc. at the wheel. Fedora has become a testing ground for new technologies that eventually find their way to RHEL.
Some members of the community think that transfering control of the project to the new Fedora Foundation will keep the project community-driven.
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Intel Security:
In the event of an emergency, you may need to evacuate. A natural disaster as well as a terrorist attack can strike quickly and without warning. Depending on the nature of that evacuation you may have to walk a half a mile or more and/or be outside for as long as three hours.
We recommend that you have an emergency "GO" kit that includes:
Comfortable shoes, socks and warm, dry clothes.
Medication,
A bottle of water, and
Some energy bars.
If told to evacuate, follow the instructions of the Pentagon Police and their Evacuation Assistants.
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Thursday, June 02, 2005
Malcolm Wells.com - underground buildings, earth sheltered architecture, energy efficient houses, passive solar...:
* underground buildings,
* earth-sheltered architecture,
* eco-friendly design, and
* energy-efficient houses
... particularly the ideas of pioneer architect Malcolm Wells.
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