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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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 [...]

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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The news that Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Eric Schmidt had made a verbal commitment to work together for two decades struck me as interesting, because it implies that they indeed have a roadmap for much of those two decades already thought through. [link]
Certainly, Google’s made some acquisitions and embarked on other projects that don’t [...]

Here is an excellent video I found via dmiessler.com that gives a profoundly stirring demo of Compiz Fusion running on Gentoo on the desktop: [link]
This, more than anything I’ve seen in a couple months or longer, gives me some motivation to finally ditch Windows for good. Now if I could just learn GiMP…..
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Chris Lamb shows how to give cp a progress bar like wget: [link]
This might seem like some very minor hackery, and it is. But of such things are real advances made, eh?
This guy has brightened every single working day of the rest of my life. Thanks, Chris.
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Well, it looks like the free tunes ain’t gonna start streaming right now, after all.
The Big Four ducked out of, and disavowed any agreements with Qtrax just prior to the service’s much-ballyhooed beta launch.
I’m guessing they mainly wanted to show Qtrax that it ain’t Apple, and it’s CEO ain’t Steve Jobs. If he wants in [...]

Apparently, the at least three of the Big Four music distribution companies –EMI, Universal Music, and Warner Music– have given their blessing to a new venture called Qtrax.
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People just can’t stop themselves from pushing the envelope on stuff like this, apparently. A doctor has created –and since destroyed– five human embryos cloned from his own skin cells implanted into eggs: [link]
And here’s an unrelated classic from Frankenstein’s labs: [link]
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As reported around the web, the RIAA’s ISP removed a GPL-infringing piece of content (to wit: an piece of snitchware infringement-detection “University Toolkit”) after a DMCA notice was sent by Ubuntu developer Matthew Garrett.
It’s nice to see the RIAA getting some of its own medicine, but I’d rather see the broader public getting a better [...]