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Fine, fine, there are Asian-made bootlegs of The Two Towers. The
video capture is pretty good; subtitles,
not so much.

Reading list: How To Be A
Programmer.

“Tonight I am proposing $1.2 billion in research funding so that
America can lead the world in developing clean, hydrogen-powered
automobiles,” the former Texas oil man said, not quite a
Nixon-goes-to-China moment, since it actually hurts no corporation at
all, but still, at least he could promise “to make our air
significantly cleaner, and our country much less dependent on foreign
sources of energy.” Our air presumably will get a lot dirtier first: No
hydrogen cars are likely to make it on the road in the next decade, and
Bush is no fan of stricter fuel-efficiency standards.

Salon’s coverage
of the State of the Union address

If the Pentagon sticks to its current war plan, one day in March the Air
Force and Navy will launch between 300 and 400 cruise missiles at
targets in Iraq. […]
On the second day, the plan calls for launching another 300 to 400 […]

The battle plan is based on a concept developed at the National Defense
University. It’s called “Shock and Awe” and it focuses on the
psychological destruction of the enemy’s will to fight rather than the
physical destruction of his military forces.

“We want them to quit. We want them not to fight,” says Harlan Ullman,
one of the authors of the Shock and Awe concept which relies on large
numbers of precision guided weapons.

“So that you have this simultaneous effect, rather like the nuclear
weapons at Hiroshima, not taking days or weeks but in minutes,” says
Ullman.

Iraq
Faces Massive U.S. Missile Barrage, CBS News

“Between copyright and copy protection laws, generalized fear of
impinging on some rights, and a lack of incentive to preserve anything –
pretty much all the software ever written is just gone.” From Wired: Immortal
Code.

Manuel on “Hungarian” notation
in source code:

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vRead.