This is a cool fighting game (web based):

wayofthestick

Ananova - CIA put transmitter in cat and used tail as antenna to get Kremlin secrets

Headlines for root.skaletsky.org, Too Tired to be Root...

World: CIA put transmitter in cat and used tail as antenna to get Kremlin secrets. 02:51 ET - Ananova [NewsBlip.com]
3:13:54 AM
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Australian tax dollars at work. The Australian government has put together The National Public Toilet Map. As the name suggests, it is an interactive map of every public toilet in the country. [kuro5hin.org]
3:12:27 AM
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HP Calculator Department is Closing [Slashdot]
1:31:58 AM
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Does this mean that Microsoft can call anything it wants part of Windows??? I think the fix is in...
Did Brett Glass find the "killer clause"? [Scripting News]
1:09:35 AM
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Cisco.com: The Charlie Rose Interview: Linus Torvalds [Linux Today]
1:03:55 AM
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Wow... Unix is 30. This is a great timeline; I got on board at SunOS 3.0, I think. I don't see Venix, which I remember working with at JPL...

UNIX hits the Big Three-Oh [Slashdot]
12:17:46 AM
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Saturday, November 03, 2001
BOFHs to blame for LAN downtime after all. Guns don't kill people - routers do [The Register]
2:07:16 AM
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InfoWorld says WinXP much slower than Win2K [Slashdot]
2:05:49 AM
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Friday, November 02, 2001
Intel Chips For The Near- And Semi-Near Future [Slashdot]
1:27:18 AM
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Thursday, November 01, 2001
Doc Searles (Linux Journal Senior Editor) reports on the Geek Cruise with RMS (Richard Stallman), Steve "Wordy" Roberts (I used to subscribe to TechNomads a long time ago), and others...
11:29:45 PM
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Interview With the Creators of CRUX and ROOTLinux. 1 Nov 2001: Linux is much more than (the highly marketed) Red Hat or Mandrake. Assuming you got the skills required, a Linux distribution can be created, distributed or sold by anyone. This is what Free Software is all about anyway. Two Sweedish Linux coders are offering their own, home-brewed Linux distros for some months now (with newer versions on the way). Per Lidén has put together CRUX from scratch, while John Eriksson has evolved a lightweight Slackware version to his own ROOTLinux. OSNews inter [RootPrompt.org -- Nothing but Unix]
1:10:39 AM
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WIRED: Windows XP: EXtra Proprietary (Red Hat's Michael Tiemann says "Boycott the Monopolist") [Linux Today]
1:09:47 AM
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Interactive Fiction Competition 2001 [Slashdot]
1:09:12 AM
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John Robb: "Is the US Post Office worth saving?" [Scripting News]
12:30:22 AM
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Pentagon Has a 3-D View to a Kill. The U.S. military is using high-resolution 3-D maps so troops can view battlefields before a mission. By Wired News' Declan McCullagh. [Wired News]
12:28:17 AM
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The Lighter Side of CPAN. Alex Gough takes us on a whirlwind tour around the more esoteric and entertaining areas of the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network, and makes some serious points about Perl programming at the same time. [Perl.com Perl.com]
12:27:01 AM
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Jerry Pournelle rolled his truck in Death Valley in 1998 and had to walk out. [Scripting News]
12:26:43 AM
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Mine is, so's my wife and kids...Forget about your birthday ... is your name in pi? [Memepool]
12:22:38 AM
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This is a hoot. ...list of dangerous terrorists. [Scobleizer]
12:16:57 AM
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Business: Sun Micro CEO: Ready for Economic Storm. 20:31 ET - Reuters [NewsBlip.com]
12:15:16 AM
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Wednesday, October 31, 2001
Happy Halloween!!! Here's hoping you have a great day..
Just in case someone wants to have the candy X-Rayed: http://www.snopes2.com/horrors/mayhem/needles.htm
12:06:02 AM

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The Register: Win-XP vs Red Hat 7.2 [Linux Today]
12:02:01 AM
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Tuesday, October 30, 2001
BE CAREFUL - this food is da bomb...?
Reuters: U.S. warns Afghans of yellow cluster bomblets [Robot Wisdom]
11:59:49 PM

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ArabNews: ObL's cave located by pure deduction? [Robot Wisdom]
11:54:09 PM
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Gawd, I miss this... it was pretty cool for it's time.
http://catalog.com/hopkins/images/pizzatool.gif
11:34:25 PM

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Follow the links to catalog.com where you can read Don Hopkins' (Sims/Simcity designer) complaints about X-Windows!!!
PLUS:

The database client/server model (the server machine stores all the data, and the clients beseech it for data) makes sense. The computation client/server model (where the server is a very expensive or experimental supercomputer, and the client is a desktop workstation or portable computer) makes sense. But a graphical client/server model that slies the interface down some arbitrary middle is like Solomon following through with his child-sharing strategy. The legs, heart, and left eye end up on the server, the arms and lungs go to the client, the head is left rolling around on the floor, and blood spurts everywhere.

- The X-Windows Disaster; by Don Hopkins: "This is Chapter 7 of the UNIX-HATERS Handbook. The X-Windows Disaster chapter was written by Don Hopkins." How to make a 50-MIPS Workstation Run Like a 4.77MHz IBM PC


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This is what started this - this article on Slashdot: Maxis Developer on Linux Game Porting [Slashdot]
11:13:14 PM
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NeuStar to Manage .US Registry [Slashdot]
10:34:47 PM
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MS-DOS is Dead??? No, sorry, that's wrong.
9:05:36 PM
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User shows up at tech support pilot fish's cube, complaining about an error message he gets on boot-up. "What does the error message say?" fish asks. "I don't know," user answers.... for the rest - click here at computerworld
9:05:35 PM
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What Do You Know About Databases And XML? [Slashdot]
12:50:03 AM
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The Internet Reached It's Peak Today. The Internet reached it's peak today. Well, not as much today as within a few weeks or months of today, but the idea is there. Windows XP, lousy broadband, the RIAA, sites failing due to lack of funds: everything seems to be going downhill. Perhaps this is the natural evolution of things. [kuro5hin.org]
12:43:20 AM
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Scary stuff...
CounterPunch: Neo-Nazi Wm Pierce predicted many details [Robot Wisdom]
12:36:28 AM

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Monday, October 29, 2001
HDTV On Your PC And Hard Drive [Slashdot]
9:15:57 AM
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It's probably a good thing that someone is doing this....
1:51:18 AM
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Remember when the slogan was "Coke ADDS Life?"
The New Threat: Coca-Cola. From the site cokemachineaccidents.com:This site is dedicated to our dear son and brother Kevin Mackle, who was found dead in his Residence at Keuhner Hall, Bishop's University, Lennoxville Quebec on December 13th 1998, a day of sorrow for us, his family. A toppled Vendo Model Coca-Cola machine which was put in place, unsecured, by the Beaver Foods Company crushed him. [kuro5hin.org]
1:47:33 AM

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UK Telegraph: In case of war, steal (Pakistan's) nukes [Robot Wisdom]
1:45:08 AM
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Report on Shashdot about AMD chips frying with no heatsink; AMD disputes it.
The Report of My Thermal Death Have Been... [Slashdot]
12:25:20 AM

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Robert Scoble writes: Harry Potter Legos. I'm one too, but my son is totally nuts about Harry Potter. He's quite proud of the fact that he's the first kid in his class to get some Harry Potter Legos. (My wife works at Valley Fair Mall and got some of these highly-prized treasures. Already they are the hottest things for putting under the Christmas tree and extremely hard to find -- when I picked up my son from school two parents asked "where did you find those Harry Potter Legos?") [Scobleizer]
Okay, if I've seen this before, they will be featured on various TV shows this week (Rosie O'Donnell or Oprah will GUARANTEE this is a hit).
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From Doc Searle's weblog:

Speaking as one, are the spleenless among us safe from Anthrax? Nubbin: In translating Der Spiegel into English via Babelfish, I discovered that "anthrax" translates to "spleen fire."
Thanks to Kottke for introducing us to Nubbin, BTW. It's an A-1 blog by Ariana French.

This is Alex Cox's original REPO MAN COMIC - if you haven't seen this film, it's extremely weird - one of my favorites...

Okay, we've installed "BlogBack" so anyone can make a comment about any entries... Please give it a try.

We had a pumpkin contest at work on the 31st...

Can you tell this one is by the web designers?	This was GROSS - yes, a real cow's tongue...
Not too bad...	Whatta face...
Some of the others...	And here - the WINNER!

I've been playing with Radio UserLand software; see my new blog site...

from SlashDot (click here for article)

(about the Polaroid Bankruptcy)

(by "neema")

Never! (Score:5, Funny)
by neema on Sunday October 14, @12:03PM (#2427413)
(User #170845 Info | http://neema.redhive.com)
Digital cameras lack something real cameras have. Take the classic blackmail example:

Me: TAKE A LOOK AT THESE SENATOR!
*Neema throws down photos on desk*
Senator: *GASP*
Me: That's right. You. Dancing with the forbidden monkey. Dancing the forbidden dance with the forbidden monkey!
Senator: Please... if these get out, I'll never get reelected. And if I don't get reelected, I can't get the Senator's discount at Ben and Jerry's!
Me: And don't even think of ripping these up! I have copies at home! But, I think we can work something out...
*Senator pulls out check book*

But now, with these god damn digital cameras:

Me: TAKE A LOOK AT THESE SENATOR!
*Neema gently places digital camera on desk, so it doesn't break*
Senator: Yeah, my daughter has one of these.
Me: No, no, no. Argh. It turned off. It does that. Turns off automatically after 3 minutes... ok... gimme that...
*Neema turns on camera, places on desk again*
Me: OK, TAKE A LOOK AT THESE SENATOR!
Senator: It's a dog.
Me: Oh yeah, that's my dog Scruffy. Argh. Yeah, press the right arrow. Get past those pictures. Yep, that's Aunt Sally. Come on, a bit faster. ARGH, JUST GIVE IT TO ME!
*Grabs camera, scrolls to incriminating pictures*
Me: THERE YOU ARE! YOU, DANCING THE FORBIDDEN DANCE WITH THE FORBIDDEN MONKEY!
Senator: Please... if these get out, I'll never get reelected. And if I don't get reelected, I can't get the Senator's discount at Ben and Jerry's!
Me: Yeah, well, I'm going to stop by staples to get glossy photo paper and I'll be printing out a bunch of these!
*Senator pulls out check book*

I still like the first situation better.
[ Reply to This | Parent ]

Re:Never! by addaon (Score:2) Sunday October 14, @12:25PM
Re:Never! by torklugnutz (Score:1) Sunday October 14, @12:46PM
Re:Never! (Score:5, Insightful)
by Stanza (stanza23&hotmail,com) on Sunday October 14, @12:38PM (#2427572)
(User #35421 Info | http://stanza.techfocus.net/)
No no no. Your first part is correct, but the second part is all wrong:

Me: TAKE A LOOK AT THESE SENATOR!
*Neema gently places digital camera on desk, so it doesn't break*
Senator: Yeah, my daughter has one of these.

*Grabs camera, scrolls to incriminating pictures*
Me: THERE YOU ARE! YOU, DANCING THE FORBIDDEN DANCE WITH THE FORBIDDEN MONKEY!
Senator: That looks like something my daughter did with Photoshop.
Me: Yeah, well, I'm going to stop by staples to get glossy photo paper and I'll be printing out a bunch of these!
*Senator looks dubious*

From Robert Cringely's InfoWorld column:

"If you bought $1,000 worth of Nortel
stock one year ago, it would now be worth $72. If
you bought $1,000 worth of Budweiser (the beer,
not the stock) one year ago, drank all the beer,
and traded in the cans for the nickel deposit,
you would have $79."

I like this one..

.

Check out the ZOO - Giraffes and giant Bugs are BEST

BEWARE of the MOO-BAT

A Radar Trap to be wary of...

Here's how to get rid of the X10 ads (the spy cam pages that appear behind the web pages you're viewing...

click - HERE -> http://www.x10.com/x10ads.htm

SURVEY: MAJORITY OF WEB USERS ARE
FBI AGENTS POSING AS TEENAGE GIRLS

http://www.satirewire.com/news/0008/satire-fbiteens.shtml

Survey Shows Evolving Web No Longer Dominated by Male Techies

NEW YORK, N.Y. (SatireWire.com) — The Internet reached a demographic milestone this week as a new study revealed that for the first time, the majority of U.S. Internet users are FBI agents posing as teenage girls.

The report, by research firm Media Metrix, marks the first time the demographic group known as "males" has not been in the majority.


According to the survey, which tracked online usage from January through July, 50.4 percent of U.S. Web users -- or nearly 38 million -- are FBI agents posing as teenage girls. That's still below the percentage of FBI agents posing as teenage girls in the overall population, which according to U.S. Census figures is 55.7 percent. However, the report noted that FBI agents posing as teenage girls represent the fastest growing segment of Web users, increasing 185 percent in the past 12 months.

"This study reveals that the Internet has come of age as a practical medium and is no longer dominated by the male techie crowd," said Randall Stinson, editor of American Demographics magazine. `These newcomers are saying, 'The Internet is about more than being a geek. It's about shopping and staying in touch with family and posing as a little girl to apprehend geeks.'"

Web sites catering to teenage girls corroborated the findings. "At least half" of Gurl.com's 1.3 million unique monthly visitors are FBI agents posing as teenage girls, said Gurl.com spokesperson Helen Kattrall. "It's easy to tell the difference," she said. "Real teens chat with each other about boys and school and celebrities. But FBI agents posing as teenage girls are never interested in girl-talk. They tend to write things like, 'Hi, I'm Emily. I'm almost 13, and I'm looking for a father figure willing to cross state lines.'"

In a statement, the FBI disputed the study's findings and insisted its agents are not working on that many cases. However, the bureau conceded it cannot rule out the possibility that some agents are posing as teenage girls in their free time.

In other survey findings:

¤ More than 60 percent of female respondents say cybersex is equivalent to infidelity, but a staggering 92 percent of FBI agents posing as teenage girls approve of cybersex as long as it leads to an arrest and conviction.

¤ Nearly one third of pedophiles say they actually go to teen sites in hopes of meeting FBI agents.

¤ Four out of five men say they watch women's gymnastics and figure skating for the athleticism. Nine out of ten women say they are lying.

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Clueless

from the pages of Computerworld's Shark Tank

User's nine-track tape drive is failing, but it tests out fine with tech support pilot fish's test tape. User's tape is another story - it's so worn, fish can almost see through the mylar. How about some new tapes, fish suggests. "I've been using these tapes every night for 10 years, and they've always worked," grumbles user. "Why should I have to buy new tapes now?"


IT shop receives shipment from remote office with a note: "We found this server in our trailer. It's been sitting there for a year or two. Is it usable or fixable?" Inside, pilot fish finds the "server" - a fully functional uninterruptible power supply.


Investment firm is approaching the go-live date for its new Web site, but the hosting company stalls whenever pilot fish asks to do load testing. Finally, four days before showtime, the hosting vendor says OK, with one restriction: Limit the number of testers. Fish finds out why: "If more than four people are logged in to the server," she reports, "it will crash!"


Clueless with cables I Help desk gets call from exec: His dial-up Internet connection worked fine on Friday, but it's not working now. Pilot fish finds the modem phone line dangling from the back of the laptop. "Oh, I couldn't get that line removed Friday to take my laptop home," exec explains. "So I cut it."


Clueless with cables Ii Upset user calls help desk, complaining he can't access anything on the network. Pilot fish quickly pinpoints the problem: Overly tidy user not wanting network cable cluttering up the floor has tacked it onto a corkboard behind his desk - with a push pin.

Unix Humor?

barely.

Happy Birthday to Tanya - 19 years old today!

I was a film student!!! Here's the result of four years in school...

Different Pink Boys:
I was Once in Guam
Das Veeblefetzer - WINNER of NOawards this year at Cannes!