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I’ve always, always liked Canadian signage.

Friday, May 23rd, 2003

I’ve always, always liked Canadian signage. [another lovely bb find]

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OK, since I’m not really a regular reader of Homestar Runner (now why exactly is that?) I didn’t catch that, in the Buffy finale, “TROGDOR…

Thursday, May 22nd, 2003

OK, since I’m not really a regular reader of Homestar Runner (now why exactly is that?) I didn’t catch that, in the Buffy finale, “TROGDOR the BURNINATOR” is a Homestar Runner thing. I guess Joss is a Strong Bad fan!

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Senator Byrd seems to crop up here with some frequency.

Thursday, May 22nd, 2003

Senator Byrd seems to crop up here with some frequency. Here he is again, in a speech he made yesterday:

Regarding the situation in Iraq, it appears to this Senator that the American people may have been lured into accepting the unprovoked invasion of a sovereign nation, in violation of long-standing International law, under false premises. There is ample evidence that the horrific events of September 11 have been carefully manipulated to switch public focus from Osama Bin Laden and Al Queda who masterminded the September 11th attacks, to Saddam Hussein who did not.

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[T]he Bush team’s extensive hype of WMD in Iraq as justification for a preemptive invasion has become more than embarrassing. It has raised serious questions about prevarication and the reckless use of power. Were our troops needlessly put at risk? Were countless Iraqi civilians killed and maimed when war was not really necessary? Was the American public deliberately misled? Was the world?

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Oh, yeah, other reading material:

Thursday, May 22nd, 2003

Oh, yeah, other reading material: OSI c/o ESR on SCO vs. IBM. [Sorry, for the TLA-challenged, this is Eric S. Raymonad's position paper for the Open Source Initiaive about the lawsuit that the Santa Cruz Operation, or SCO (now owned by Caldera), is bringing against IBM for (allegedly) including proprietary SCO intellectual property (which IBM had legitimate license to use in its own Unix operating system as part of a collaboration with SCO) in its contributions to the public and open-source Linux kernel. More generally, SCO is arguing that the Linux kernel, as it exists today, infringes their intellectual property.]

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You know, I don’t know that much about how Dolby and Dolby Pro Logic II work, or why my dad tells me that attaching a…

Thursday, May 22nd, 2003

You know, I don’t know that much about how Dolby and Dolby Pro Logic II work, or why my dad tells me that attaching a speaker across the tip wire of your left and right channels magically generates a surround channel. Well, the concepts are more than casually related, and fortunately for me, the guys at Dolby can explain how.

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Where is Mars?

Thursday, May 22nd, 2003

Where is Mars? (Hint: later this year, it will be at its closest point to the Earth in 60 millendia.)

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<dsandler> My brain, by the way, sucks.

Wednesday, May 21st, 2003

<dsandler> My brain, by the way, sucks.

<bdolecki> You didn’t think this through then, sincewhen you telecommute, all people see is your brain. :-)

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