“Terry Pratchett has rare, early-onset Alzheimer’s”
The full text of the news can be found here.
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What happened to actual news reporting?
Is it just me, or are many of the technology news sites doing nothing more than “reporting” press releases anymore? I subscribe to several tech-news sites, and it’s rare that there’s a subject that is only reported by one of them. I see a headline about a new coupons-by-cell-phone service called Cellfire in the RSS …
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“Pint-size hydro power on tap”
These guys know how to use their brains.
Dual Monitors
As someone who uses two monitors in the office, I found today’s Dilbert comic strip very amusing. Bu-wa-haha!
Crime and Punishment
It’s very interesting to study the differences between legal systems in different parts of the world. In the US, all crime — no matter what it was, or how minor, or whether anyone was injured or endangered, or even if anyone was actually responsible for it — must be punished. If no specific person is …
“Totally Oldies Eighties”?!?
While sorting through our music collection, I ran across a CD titled “Totally Oldies Eighties.” It startled me… the sixties are old, the eighties seem like just yesterday to me. Now I understand some of the things my mother was always saying during my youth.
Fun, and How To Have It
I’ve always felt a certain kinship to the character of Sherlock Holmes. Not for his ability to notice the most minute of details, or his reasoning skills, or his undeniable flair for disguise… admirable as those and many of his other traits may be, it’s his moods between cases that I’ve always identified with.
Ahhh!
The air conditioning fellow arrived about 45 minutes ago and spent maybe fifteen minutes isolating and fixing the problem (a blown capacitor). We’re finally starting to cool down now. I may be able to move back to the office in a couple hours. 🙂
“Ripped from Headlines or Plot from Scooby Doo?”
The sad thing is, I got all ten right on the first try. Apparently I watched too much Scooby Doo when I was a kid.
Grid Wars
I’ve recently discovered a great arcade-like shooting game, Grid Wars 2. It’s apparently a clone of something called Geometry Wars for the X-Box 360; I don’t have an X-Box, but Grid Wars is available for Windows, Mac OSX, and — wonder of wonders — Linux (if those links are broken, do a search, there are …