November 2009
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As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving...
– Mike Godwin
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you don’t yell in a bookstore, you’ll piss off the books
– Rands In Repose
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While the impact of network neutrality obligations on network investment is...
– S. Derek Turner, research Director at Free Press
(via La Quadrature du Net : FINDING THE BOTTOM LINE:
The Truth About Network Neutrality & Investment)
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Cybersex
bloodninja: Baby, I been havin a tough night so treat me nice aight?
BritneySpears14: Aight.
bloodninja: Slip out of those pants baby, yeah.
BritneySpears14: I slip out of my pants, just for you, bloodninja.
bloodninja: Oh yeah, aight. Aight, I put on my robe and wizard hat.
BritneySpears14: Oh, I like to play dress up.
bloodninja: Me too baby.
BritneySpears14: I kiss you softly on your chest.
bloodninja: I cast Lvl. 3 Eroticism. You turn into a real beautiful woman.
BritneySpears14: Hey...
bloodninja: I meditate to regain my mana, before casting Lvl. 8 Cock of the Infinite.
BritneySpears14: Funny I still don't see it.
bloodninja: I spend my mana reserves to cast Mighty F*ck of the Beyondness.
BritneySpears14: You are the worst cyber partner ever. This is ridiculous.
bloodninja: Don't f*ck with me bitch, I'm the mightiest sorcerer of the lands.
bloodninja: I steal yo soul and cast Lightning Lvl. 1,000,000 Your body explodes into a fine bloody mist, because you are only a Lvl. 2 Druid.
BritneySpears14: Don't ever message me again you piece of ****.
bloodninja: Robots are trying to drill my brain but my lightning shield inflicts DOA attack, leaving the robots as flaming piles of metal.
bloodninja: King Arthur congratulates me for destroying Dr. Robotnik's evil army of Robot Socialist Republics. The cold war ends. Reagan steals my accomplishments and makes like it was cause of him.
bloodninja: You still there baby? I think it's getting hard now.
bloodninja: Baby?
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…organizations which design systems … are constrained to produce designs which...
– Melvin Conway
(via Wisdom and Wonder : Fare : Wikipedia)
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I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
– Douglas Adams
(via @moccacino)
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Partly Cloudy
A beautiful short movie by Pixar, shown before Up (2009)
(via Víctor García Fernández)
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Flat Earth News newsletter's headlines
“Sun Is a Light 32 Miles Across”
“Galileo Was a Liar”
“Nikita Krushchev Father of NASA” (misspelling in the original)
“The Earth Is Not a Ball; Gravity Does Not Exist”
“The Earth Has No Motion”
“Science Insults Your Intelligence”
“World IS Flat, and That’s That”
“Australia Not Down Under”
“Whole World Deceived Except the Very Elect”
(via Wikipedia)
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HD Movies & TV Shows Online Streaming →
This page offers high quality actual movies an series, it is really well done and it’s ad free. However, it is a bit of a mystery since nobody seems to know who’s behind it.
Yesterday I watched Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince and I’m really impressed. I had only some problems with the video stalling, but reloading the page did the trick.
It looks to good to be true...
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A good political speech is not one in which you can prove that the man is...
– Sir Humphrey Appleby, fictional character from “Yes Minister”
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Office XP is so easy to use that Clippy is no longer necessary, or useful
– Lisa Gurry, a Microsoft product manager
(via Microsoft Press Pass)
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It is a staple of Science Fiction that once a computer (or computer network)...
– The Fishbowl
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T E X T F I L E S D O T C O M →
Great webpage that files ancient textfiles from the early internet. Perfect for killing time…
From the page:
On the face of things, we seem to be merely talking about text-based files, containing only the letters of the English Alphabet (and the occasional punctuation mark).
On deeper inspection, of course, this isn’t quite the case. What this site offers is a glimpse into the...
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Telecom package: Final agreed text « Christian... →
The Telecom package final text in the European Parliament.
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Over preparation is the foe of inspiration
– Napoleon Bonaparte
(via @raiha : @startupstudent)
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October 2009
54 posts
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Why MIT switched from Scheme to Python
…
But programming now isn’t so much...
– Wingolog
(via Wisdom and Wonder : wingolog)