http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,3605,1261986,00.html 21:24
Archives
This month: 28 entries.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200407/s1163483.htm This is excellent: a United LA–Sydney flight returned to LA after “B-O-B,” used by air crews as a code to signal the best looker on board, was found written on an air-sick bag and interpreted as meaning “bomb on board”! (The main story addresses the problem of how much information should be disclosed to passengers while the aircraft is in flight.) 18:50
http://www.sveasoft.com/modules/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=3868 Sveasoft have produced a new firmware for a Linksys wireless router. The software, like the original software, is based on Linux, and is licensed under the GPL: once you own a copy, you’re free to give it to anyone you want. However, Sveasoft themselves will only give you a copy of “pre-release” version of their software if you pay to “subscribe” to this service. Ordinarily they wouldn’t be able to charge very much for their software, because once one person has a copy of the software, they are legally allowed to give it to all their friends. (They could also sell it for less than Sveasoft charges.) However, the deal with Sveasoft is that if you do this, they won’t sell you newer versions of their software. According to the FSF, this is quite okay. 09:17
http://www.jwz.org/doc/censorzilla.html Bad words once in the Mozilla source. 20:50
http://www.brianlucas.ca/roadside/ Rather comprehensive survey of which countries drive on the left, and which on the right, and associated issues. (Discussion of Sweden’s 1967 switch, what pedestrians do.) I can confirm that on London’s tube, you are instructed to stand on the right on escalators (and overtake on the left) but otherwise walk on the left. 07:46
http://www.bbc.co.uk/fivelive/fungames/bloopers.shtml BBC radio bloopers. Try Brian Johnston’s giggly attempt at the cricket score! 02:47
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3887493.stm Spammer-baiter gets Nigerian spammer to send him $80, draw on his chest with a marker. 08:06
http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/07/08/girls.name.ap/
If you accuse the California Education Secretary of
being racist … and you feel so strongly about this that you
plan a civil-rights demonstration against him … then surely
you should at least apologise when it turns out that you were
wrong? 18:16
http://www.theamericanmind.com/mt-test/archives/015247.html Who’s hotter: Kerry sisters or Bush twins? 08:37
http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/wdc/35014512.html “My dog the nihilist.” 00:55
http://tnr.com/blog/campaignjournal?pid=1792 McCain: everyone’s first pick for VP. 10:27
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0708042lay2.html How does the Smoking Gun get Kenneth Lay’s (private) letter to Governor Bush? It can’t be the case that all letters sent to Governors automatically become public property. 05:48
http://www.johannhari.com/archive/article.php?id=407 On the surprising connections between Fascism and homosexuality. (Some of the organisations mentioned here don’t check out—whilst they do seem to exist, they’re insignificant.) 20:00
http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?040614fa_fact On writer’s block. 20:00
http://slate.msn.com/id/2103432/ William Saletan: “This is why Kerry had to pick Edwards: Kerry sounds so much more attractive when Edwards is doing the talking.” 19:47
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/08/nyregion/08blocks.html The text of the Freedom Tower’s cornerstone is set in Gotham. 19:08
http://www.snopes.com/photos/accident/graphics/carwreck.mpg Pedestrian gets whacked by a car! (More info.) 08:43
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3866863.stm Princess Diana memorial: a ring of flowing water, £3.6m. A co-worker noted that this would make a wicked Pooh-stick course… 20:59
http://slate.msn.com/id/2103421/ Timothy Noah wants Barbara Ehrenreich to keep writing for the New York Times. 08:24
http://www.collisiondetection.net/mt/archives/000892.html Text message “synonyms.” (“Do you want to in out?” vs. “Do you want to go out?”, etc.) 04:30
http://slate.msn.com/id/2103261/ Don’t trust Islamists? (A surprisingly one-sided piece for Slate.) 18:22
http://slate.msn.com/id/2103167/ “Can you really review a 957-page book in 24 hours?” (re: Clinton’s memoirs.) 09:21