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I love the internet.

Thank you Lee.

Steven Seidenberg peers into the future and reports back on the inevitable conclusion to last week’s Supreme Court ruling.

How moooving.

As seen on 2d code.

Fortunately the command has been shorted to M-x butterfly.

Obviously I have to post this.

Knuth’s Tex for the Math-kings of sigma, and pi,
Unix vim for the Server-lords with their O’Reilly tomes,
Word for Mortal Men doomed to die,
Emacs from the Bearded One on his Gnu throne,
In the land of Stallman where free software lies.
One Emacs to rule them all. One Emacs to find them,
One Emacs to take commands and to the keystrokes bind them,
In the land of Stallman, where free software lies.

– Raffael Cavallaro, gnu.emacs.help

In a similar literary vein: Emacs Haiku. To laugh with these is to weep for what you have become.

I found this buried in a drawer over the holidays.  It appears to be from a 1976 edition of the Readers Digest.

Happy Father’s Day!

The following essay, which had evidently been written by a young schoolgirl as a Father’s Day assignment, was found blowing around in the front yard the other day:

The best thing about my father is that he doesn’t use  words like groovy or gross or try to talk like a kid.  When he drives me and some of my friends to a show, he doesn’t tell any jokes.  He just groans a lot and sometimes mutters to himself.  All the kids think it’s funny the way he groans.  Many of them have fathers who tell jokes, which are boring.

When he taught me to throw a baseball like a boy, he didn’t say it was becasue girls throw baseball funny.  All he said was that if I would learn to throw a baseball the way he showed me, he wouldn’t get sick to his stomache watching.

My father says that women can be anything they want these days, judges or scientists or even President.  But he says in all these jobs it’s important to keep your room cleaned and brush your teeth after every meal.  He says it is bad to cheat at games, and points out that when he is playing with us kids, the only times he cheats are when he would lose otherwise.  My father has worked very hard for every dime he has, a fact which he mentions from time to time.

My father has this weird thing about telephones.  He says that were intended to convey a message in two minutes or less, not to giggle over for 45 minutes.  Alther he doesn’ think people should talk on the telephone, he talks to people on the television all the time.  We tell him the people can’t hear him, and he says that’s just a lot of propaanda the TV people put out to stifle dissent.

He always says that he doesn’t want anybody to give him anything expensive for Father’s Day, and he claims that’s the only thing he ever says that anybody around the house pays any attention to.

- Bill Vaughan, NANA

http://storyofman.tumblr.com/

My recent favorites:

• Man Twitters and is attacked by tree
• Man Rescued From Hole That Opened in Seattle Sidewalk
• Man Uses Horse Tranquilizer to Sleep
• Man Robs Convenience Store With Beer Box on Head
• Man finds snake head in his broccoli; restaurant ‘regrets’ the error
• Man shoves would-be suicide jumper off bridge for holding up traffic (includes video!)
• Man, 62, Sues for $125G Saying Ohio Police Made Him Walk Home in Polar Bear Pajamas

And I thought my blood pressure was bad.

Just got invited to this on Facebook. I guess I’ve been living in the dark (hey, get it? oh yeah..) as I hadn’t heard of it yet.

The premise: At 8:30 PM local time, wherever you live on planet earth, Saturday 28 March 2009… turn off your lights for an hour. A global rolling voluntary blackout. Started as a local Sydney event in 2007 and suddenly, last year, found 50 million people participating globally.

In a similar vein, I also joined the I Dont care How Comfortable Crocs Are, You Look Like A Dumbass Facebook group, which boasts an impressive 1.5 million members compared to Earth Hour’s measly 200,000. I mean, climate change is bad and all, but the Crocs? Global pandemic of epic proportions.

This has nothing to do with aliens.

Although the porcupine kind of looks like Larry King.

Lee, please stop sending me these links.