“Master/Slave” considered discriminatory; guess everybody has read about that stupid piece by some guy at the ISD, County of Los Angeles.
But considering a posting by Justin from the day before the story was circulated, I wondered if it’s real news or just a hoax. So I finally found the Urban Legends Reference Pages which told me: Yes, it’s true. (That site looks almost as useful as the German computer hoax info pages.)
Here are some pictures of a really beautiful sunset, somewhere in Colorado, US (via Glimpse of a Grrl). Plus some Platt schnack via Wyberlog:
Morn ma sehn, wie da heutiche Tach so wird.
Wie wahr, ab in die Heia…
Just back from the sneak preview. It was “Mystic River“. Nice Film. Nico, a friend of mine said it was probably the best he ever saw in a sneak. I can’t remember all of them, but he might be right. But don’t expect a happy end…
Have you ever thought how it would be to “record” your experiences and replay them whenever you want? And how this could be abused?
“Strange Days” tells the story of Lenny Nero, an ex-cop who’s dealing with such illegal “playbacks”. He lives his live until he stumbles into some nasty crimes…
The story takes place in an alternative present; it’s shortly before the millenium and in the streets are riots, hardly kept in bay by the corrupt police. The film’s got a great atmosphere and it somehow reminded me of the series “Dark Angel“. And you know what? Both are written by James Cameron…
Before I went to a party yesterday night, I watched the first episode of the German version of “The Bachelor” on TV. It’s called “Der Bachelor” here. You’ve read it right. Not “The Bachelor” or “Der Junggeselle” but “Der Bachelor“. There is definitely no German word “Bachelor”, so why the hell do they use a German pronoun? This is almost as stupid as the term “ich habe gedownloaded”…
## Standard shell script disclaimer blurb thing: ## ## This script is a hack. It's brute force. It's horrible. ## It doesn't use Artificial Intelligence. It doesn't use Virtual Reality. ## It's not perl. It's not python. It probably won't work unchanged on ## the "other" thousands of unices. But it worksforme. --ramiro
Very nice. Seems like it’s originally from the run-mozilla.sh.
This morning I added [we]blogcheckup as a meta source to my KNewsTicker feed (and immediately found a bug *sigh*). It just let me to this weblog entry where Stefan Weigand looked for a translation of a Chinese site mentioning his name.
As I’m working for a company with a Chinese subsidary, I know his problem 
And was interested in a solution, too. I knew that Google doesn’t support Chinese. And I thought that the fish doesn’t know it either (which was wrong as I just saw). So I went and looked around for another online translation service. What I found was WorldLingo. Seems like the results are as bloodcurdling as those of the other services but pidgin English is still better to understand than Chinese (at least to me).
While looking for a (possible) name for a (possible) new software projects (using HTTP/Apache) I found this page with a list of Native American tribal names and their meaning. I didn’t know that there are (were?) so many tribes. And (even more stunning) that quite a bunch of US states are named after them. (I think “Karok” might be a good name…)
WAP is the sound a clunky Internet-enabled cellphone makes when you throw it at a brick wall in frustration.
No comment (from kuro5hin.org via #!/bin/blog) — but it reminds me of this.
“War Criminals limited edition dolls” and Donald Duck in “Der Fuehrer’s Face“… ummm… doh! (both via plan B). Hmmm… will they probably go and censor those pages in NRW, too?
I’m not sure what I should think about this either — may I call it confusingly funny? (via satta.de). For that matter, here is another sort of weird page made by somebody at my university.
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