Minuteman weirdness
It never occurred to me to wonder about the residual environmental effects of nuclear weapons, what with their primary purpose being to destroy said environment anyway, but it appears someone worries about these things: EPA Approved ICBMs:
In order to comply with EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) regulations, and at a cost of about $5.2 million per [...]
Stupid developer tricks
For any software development argument any developer can provide a seemingly brilliant example to either support their argument or belittle another’s. Such is the case of this: Hello world in Patterns in which some guy decides to use a strict adherance to design patterns to write “Hello World” in a mere 160 lines of code. [...]
Why little sisters are awesome
I love this story:
The most ridiculous thing happened to my sister, which has caused me deep, Kim Du Toit-style angst about men in America today. Check it out. She was at a WWII re-enactment, just hanging out in the evening with a bunch of guys. Keep in mind she was the only girl there, out [...]
Apple to RealNetworks: No alliance
From Wired:
RealNetworks’ CEO Rob Glaser asked Steve Jobs for a license to Apple’s copy-protected music format, FairPlay.
In exchange, “RealNetworks would make the iPod its primary device for the RealNetworks store and for the RealPlayer software,” the Times reported.
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Laughably, Glaser threatened to join Microsoft against Apple if his olive branch is rejected.
One word: good. In [...]
No more comments
I’m tired of dealing with comment spam so… no more comments. Even with MT-Blacklist the deluge is just too great to try and manage.
Thank you spammers, for all your hard work in making this change possible.
Donald Rumsfeld, you’re my hero
Donald Rumsfeld:
“We’re trying to explain how things are
going, and they are going as they are going,” he said. “And
this is a moment in Iraq’s path toward a democratic and a
free system. And it is one moment, and there will be other
moments. And there will be good moments and there will be
less good moments.”
Someone get this [...]
Software engineers? Riiiiiight…
I love this line from Scott Berkun’s latest Programmers, designers and the Brooklyn Bridge:
Many computer science folks seem to want to claim the heritage of engineering, without inheriting the breadth of knowledge and perspective that comes with it.
Berkun goes on to dissect the folley of our modern “software engineers”, those who claim title to a [...]
Archiac throwback thrives
Wired explores how technology makes the daylight savings change painless and the problems still caused by DST:
Virtually all computers have been capable of adjusting for daylight-saving time automatically since the mid-1990’s, and do so by synching their internal clocks to the system’s calendar function. Cell phones display the time of the local network that they [...]