October 2006 Archives

Early childhood TV viewing may trigger autism

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Whose Line Is It Anyway Wiki - useful.

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Things a singer would never do to his wife

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  • Stabbed her in the arm with a broken wine glass after one argument then flung her into a wheelchair, demanding she apologise for "winding him up".
  • Grabbed her by the neck and pushed her over a coffee table.
  • Pushed her into a bath while she was four weeks pregnant.
  • Started choking her after she asked him if he had been smoking drugs.
  • Continued to use illegal drugs and drink excessively, despite promises made before they married.
  • Called her an "ungrateful bitch" in a dispute over an office.
  • Tried to stop her breastfeeding, saying: "They are my breasts" and "I don't want a mouthful of breastmilk".
  • Made her cancel a crucial operation because it interfered with his holiday plans.
  • Objected when she asked to buy a bedpan to save her crawling to the toilet at night, saying it would be like being in "an old woman's home".
  • Forced her to crawl on her hands and knees up the steps of a plane because they were not wide enough for her wheelchair.
  • Vomited on himself after a drinking session and staggered home drunk and slurring, demanding his dinner.

Not saying anyone would do this, but I think it's worth recording it for posterity.

The Art of Complex Problem Solving

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A very nicely designed diagram of complex problem solving.

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How I Explained REST

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This is a very interesting article that describes in very easily understandable ways what REST is and why people in the computer since field need to pay much more attention to standards and the amazing things that would be possible if we did.

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Here are 15 exercises that will help you learn and get familiar with a programming language in no time.

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CNET’s Ruby on Rails Toolbox

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Find out all the open source servers, plugins, libraries, and other tools used by two of CNET's Ruby on Rails powered sites, Chow.com and Chowhound.

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AMAZING AJAX-driven web development reference!

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A must have bookmark for developers doing web development.
Features:
* PHP / MySQL / CSS / JS reference
* Examples
* Search as you type
* Fast results

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Quick Lookup : Info - PHP CSS MySQL JS Reference

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More opinions on IceWeasel

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I was reading Slashdot today and came across another article about the upcoming fork of Firefox, called IceWeasel. This article, much like the other articles with an anti-IceWeasel viewpoint, is chock-full of logical failings and trollish flame bait.

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IceWeasel developers Interviewed

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Interview with the GNU Developers involved in the new firefox-based IceWeasel. The interview is about the future of IceWeasel, new features, and the differences between Debian/Ubuntu and Mozilla Foundation.

Also in Spanish (http://navegadores.org/entrevista-a-los-desarrolladores-de-
iceweasel)

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The Linux community splits off from Firefox and starts using IceWeasel, causing further fragmentation and confusion.

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There have been a lot of rumours, trolling and flamewars about the proposed name-change of Firefox to "Iceweasel" for Debian Etch. This post by FF/IW Debian maintainer Mike Hommey straightens out some of the wilder claims/accusations that have been made, and confirms that Etch's Iceweasel will be vanilla Firefox®, save for the change of name.

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Comments on why the competition between Firefox and IceWeasel won't cause any harm to the open source movement in general.

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The author argues why the recent IceWeazel vs Firefox, saga will have a negative impact on Open Source, because it sets a bad precedent which may discourage companies such as Sun to open source Java.

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The Debian fork of IceWeasel does nothing but hurt FireFox development for little or no reason.

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5 Reasons to Support IceWeasel

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Some people from GNU have forked a version of Firefox and have called it IceWeasel, they also made a few small security fixes while doing so. Great solution, right? Some people think not. Well, I
’m going to try and persuade them right now. Here’s five reasons to support (and use) IceWeasel.

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Iceweasel, a free-as-in-speech version of Firefox

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IceWeasel is a version of Firefox created for use in "free" operating systems like Debian (and its derivatives, such as Ubuntu), which eschew any element that can't be freely reused by anyone, for any reason. Iceweasel was developed because Firefox and the Firefox logo are trademarked.

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IceWeasel - Firefox and Freedom Redefined?

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Gnutella, part of the Free Software Foundation's GNU Project, is creating "the 'GNU/Linux' version of same, to be dubbed 'IceWeasel.'" This may, or may not, become the logo-free version of Firefox that Debian will ship in its next distribution.

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Microsoft Corp. helped a Utah company raise money for its legal challenge to the GNU/Linux operating system, an investor said in a court filing.

webpodge Top 10 Headphones Reviewed

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Black Box phone concept is one big touchscreen. This could be cool, though Beth's just got her self a Samsung E900 in the office and the touch sensitive parts are way too sensitive. So it just sucks.

Coke Machine Hack and Boycott Coke.

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Bob Dylan says modern music is worthless

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The Beatles are to sue music companies EMI and Capitol for millions of pounds in royalties. Not sure if this good or bad.

An interview with John Buckman, from Magnatune

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How to make a Zach Braff film

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Recreate text-based GUI interfaces with Unicode support in Web browsers. Time for someone to write an AJAX Speccy emulator, now ;)
There's an article up on A List Apart that's all about exploring footers in a web standards layout.

Cunts Are Still Running The World

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I love this.

Well did you hear, there’s a natural order. Those most deserving will end up with the most. That the cream cannot help but always rise up to the top, Well I say: Shit floats. If you thought things had changed, Friend you’d better think again, Bluntly put in the fewest of words, Cunts are still running the world, Cunts are still running the world.

Now the working classes are obsolete,
They are surplus to societies needs,
So let ‘em all kill each other,
And get it made overseas.
That’s the word don’t you know,
From the guys thats running the show,
Lets be perfectly clear boys and girls,
Cunts are still running the world,
Cunts are still running the world.

Oh feed your children on Cray fish and Lobster tails,
Find a school near the top of the league,
In theory I respect your right to exist,
I will kill ya if you move in next to me,
Ah it stinks, it sucks, it’s anthropologically unjust,
But the takings are up by a third, Oh So
Cunts are still running the world,
Cunts are still running the world.

Your free market is perfectly natural,
Or do you think that I’m some kind of dummy,
It’s the ideal way to order the world,
Fuck the morals, does it make any money?
And if you don’t like it? Then leave.
Or use your right to protest on the street,
Yeah, use your rights but don’t imagine that it’s heard, Oh no no,
Cunts are still running the world,
Cunts are still running the world.

© Jarvis Cocker

Things Online That I Am Sick Of: Free Culture

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"Free Culture". Or: people with salaried day jobs telling me I shouldn't have the right to own and control my ideas and creative property and have it handed down in any way I fucking well see fit. You go and make a living solely off your own imagination for ten years and then come back and talk to me, shiteyes. Or go and design your own house and build it with your own money and sweat -- and I'm going to come and fucking live in it. How's that? Get away from me.

From Things Online That I Am Sick Of by artbomb.net

Copyrights, Licenses and CDDL Illustrated

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At the time CDDL was being introduced, I wanted to write an illustrated version of it. Merely because hardly anyone would read the full license text. Even if they did, I doubt 9 out 10 would have understood it completely. A recent CDDL/GPL misunderstanding that made news and started flame wars, prompted me to revisit an old illustration.

Copyrights, Licenses and CDDL Illustrated

With the choice of Creative Commons licenses Creative Commons users decide usually for the more restrictive variants. Free software representatives criticized OS 4 in Berlin Creative Common initiator Larry Lessig with the Wizard OF for the fact that thereby the original idea of a larger movement for free culture becomes counter cross-hatched. “If I the FreeCulture movement regard, am really anxious I,” said FOSS Aktivist Benjamin Mako Hill of WITH Media lab. , Thus which “liberty” actually my, is missing to Hill, a general definition of it. “Creative Commons did not bring a movement toward “works any longer not protected”,” to criticized Hill. Today less programmer would generally program free software than still in the 90s-years. The “municipality” must inform itself therefore in principle over it where one wants.

English translation or Original German article.