- tales of incompetent computer security consultants “I marched into my manager’s office and told him his new gateway user name and password,” fish says. “He thought I was psychic until he thought about it for a second.” (via Charlie Stross , I think
- McDonald’s salads have more calories than a big Mac – for added fun, check out the intra-nutritionist battles between the vegetarian Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine and some weaker pussier dieticians. It’s a food pyramid – of pain!
- really bad Matrix-inspired clothing – worn by really bad Matrix-inspired people.
- most journalists have stories about colleagues who make shit up – antinews.
- big honking map of computer language history
- easynet Stellios wants to fill cinemas by introducing extreme ticket price flexibility. Some films will go for 20p. (hyped to death back in the UK, I imagine)
- gene that gives long-life via calorie restriction identified? – live to 114 without living off roots and berries.
- latest wifi cards won’t get linux support – because they can programmed to work at any frequency, and “various government agencies don’t like it”.
- free market drone robots – “An Arizona vigilante group is testing homemade drone recon planes on the U.S-Mexican border to monitor illegal immigrants”. It’s the 21st century, what did you expect?
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must try harder. see me.