Archive for May, 2008

Obama is not Kennedy, and these aren’t the 60’s »

There’s an op-ed in the NY Times today making a rather puerile and pointless attempt to link Barack Obama to the more frivolous aspects of the character of the nation’s 35th President, John F. Kennedy.
Drawing some very tenuous parallels between JFK’s rocky first meeting with Nikita Krushchev, who opined of Kennedy that he was “too [...]

Ballmer Egged! »

As Fake Steve Jobs put it, “Honestly, if I could find that Hungarian egg terrorist I would kiss him on the mouth.” Truer words may never have been spoken.
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Microsoft Propositions Yahoo, Again »

A week after claiming they were done pursuing Yahoo, Microsoft has again made an offer. This time around, it’s so preposterously one-sided that Yahoo would be twice the fool to take it as they’d have been to accept Microsoft’s truncated stock-price offer the last time around. [link]
But that’s not what it’s really about, and everyone [...]

Funny Unix/Linux Commands »

Some of these seem to be platform-specific, but here’s a funny look at some odd results you can get out of your shell: [link]
% cat “food in cans”
cat: can’t open food in cans
% nice man woman
No manual entry for woman.
% “How would you rate Quayle’s incompetence?
Unmatched “.
% Unmatched “.
Unmatched “.
% [Where is Jimmy Hoffa?
Missing ].
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