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Mozilla is getting aquafied (screenshot.)
AOL/TimeWarner is apparently in negotiations to buy Red Hat.
That would sure be interesting. But why would they buy a linux distro? A content company? Doesn't make any sense. They should buy a BSD distro (or just make their own) and then lock everything down. Of course I'd be happy if they went with Linux.
I'm discovering that my browser (Mozilla 0.97 on OS X 10.1.2) doesn't show up in referer logs. That is very strange.
Bruce Schneier on national ID cards:
I am not saying that national IDs are completely ineffective, or that they are useless. That's not the question. But given the effectiveness and the costs, are IDs worth it? Hell, no.
I've been busy. Had one interesting meeting I'll hopefully be saying something more about in the near future. The new restaurant opening keeps slipping slightly. Second week in February now. Oh well. Just lots of little problems; no show stoppers.
Not much time to write. Maybe you want to check out some new finds: quantumslip, and environy for some unusually high quality general purpose bloggage, and the all star team at satn for something a little more geeky.
Pretzel. Right.
I think maybe W. forgot his role, spoke up at some meeting, and Cheney had to give him a little smack down. "Remember George, you fell and hit your head while choking on a pretzel."
"Aw, jeez Dick, can't we make up something better than that?"
"You want some more frat boy?"
I saw The Fellowship of the Ring yesterday. I don't have too much to say about it. I thought it was a great if somewhat impossible film. Of course I wasn't going to really like it. Not like I really liked the books the first time through when I was young. But given what it was up against, the film did quite well. I just have no idea how it would go over if you don't know the books. Good cave troll anyway.
Gandalf was perfect. I thought Galadriel was too, although Alex thought she was stiff. I guess I can see what he means, but still...
Couldn't they have done it in 6 episodes but released 2 at a time in December for three years? The first could have been just up to Rivendell - with all the Tom Bombadil scenes added back in. The second would continue to the end of The Fellowship - but with a much more expanded opening council at Rivendel.
Probably The Return of the King could just be one movie.
I guess that's too risky (or expensive,) but there was a lot of material that had to be skipped. Still, given the actual time constraints, I generally agree with all the choices.
Sure makes me want to go to New Zealand.
Google is now indexing up to the minute news from over 70 sources. While traditional publishers, especially the New York Times, keep getting it wrong, Google leaps straight to the top of the on line news world. This is the front page of the news web. Thanks again Google. [via joho]
I've actually gotten this email more than once. It would be funny except the tone is so serious that I don't think it's a joke. I almost didn't post it because I don't want to make fun of him if he really believes this stuff, but he is sending these out to random people, so here goes:
From: webmaster@***.comWow. I'm thinking about sticking that last line onto the end of all my emails. Good luck Frank Young.
Date: Thu Jan 10, 2002 03:37:49 PM US/Eastern
To: *******
Subject: Time travelers PLEASE HELP!!!!!!
Anbei ist das Ergebnis des Antwortformulars. Es wurde versandt von
Frank Young (webmaster@***.com) am Donnerstag, 10. Januar 2002 um 21:37:49
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message: If you are a time traveler or alien disguised as human and or have the technology to travel physically through time I need your help!
My life has been severely tampered with and cursed!!
I have suffered tremendously and am now dying!
I need to be able to:
Travel back in time.
Rewind my life including my age back to 4.
Be able to remember what I know now so that I can prevent my life from being tampered with again after I go back.
I am in very great danger and need this immediately!
I am aware that there are many types of time travel, and that humans do not do well through certain types.
I need as close to temporal reversion as possible, as safely as possible. To be able to rewind the hands of time in such a way that the universe of now will cease to exist.
I know that there are some very powerful people out there with alien or government equipment capable of doing just that.
If you can help me I will pay for your teleport or trip down here, Along with hotel stay, food and all expenses. I will pay top dollar for the equipment. Proof must be provided.
Also if you are one of the very few beings with the ability to edit the universe PLEASE REPLY!!!
Only if you have this technology and can help me please send me a (SEPARATE) email to:
Robby0809@***.com
Please do not reply if your an evil alien!
Thanks
I pointed to something similar a long time ago, but this one is even better. Night time picture of the earth from the space station. [via FMH]