Archive for January, 2007

Are you ready for some comedy gold?
Windows Vista is “dramatically more secure than any other operating system released”, Microsoft founder Bill Gates has told BBC News.
OMG! Stop, you’re killing me!
Security analysts have praised the improved tools in Vista but many feel that holes in the operating system eventually will be exposed and that [...]

Has someone you chat with been acting funny? Are they babbling about this new keyboard they have that’s more comfortable than their old one, and you’re wondering what they mean? They may have gotten the Dvorak keyboard. The Dvorak keyboard is superior to the more traditional QWERTY keyboard because QWERTY was arranged primarily to keep [...]

In the recent past I’ve had a few run-ins with this guy. He prides himself on being more “sensitive” than other people, and by that he means “more easily offended”. He seems to think that he is morally superior to people who aren’t as sensitive as he is, to the point of loudly accusing anyone [...]

Zeus makes a comeback in Greece
Unlike the monotheistic religions of Christianity, Judaism and Islam, the old religion lacked written ethical guidelines, but its gods were said to strike down mortals who displayed excessive pride or “hubris” — a recurring theme in the tragedies of Euripides and other ancient writers.
“We do not believe in dogmas and [...]

Mother wins dead son sperm case
The lawyer of an Israeli couple who won the right to use their dead son’s sperm to inseminate a woman he never met says the case is a boost for family rights.
Ewww. “Dear, would you be a doll and help my late son, whom you’ve never met, give me grandchildren [...]

You can actually get arrested for it. WTF? Jeeze, doesn’t arresting someone for jaywalking kind of imply that the police in Atlanta have nothing better to do?
“I come from a country where you can cross the road where you like,” said the visiting professor of global environmental history at Queen Mary College, University of London. [...]

Oh crap
This summer is going to be brutal, isn’t it? I don’t like summer. Can we at least get some snow before we get our brains boiled? Please please pretty please?

Seriously, I did. Then I switched to the dvorak keyboard and now when presented with a qwerty keyboard I can’t do much better than hunting and pecking. 70 wpm to nothing. *sniffle* Fortunately, it’s easy enough to rig any Winderz computer I encounter to let me type dvorak. I’ve even gotten good enough at touch-typing [...]

From IndiaDaily:
In a most bizarre stories ever heard, some people in Baghdad are claiming that they are seeing Saddam’s ghost in Baghdad public areas. Sources say, this may be a plot by the Baathists to keep Saddam “alive” among the Sunni communities.
Some claim he is seen in restaurants, markets and so on. It is possible [...]