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Mr. Slippery asks: "A recent `Ask Slashdot' asked for thoughts about the Street Performer Protocol for funding creative work. I'd like to ask the Slashdot community for feedback on a different method, something I call the sponsorpool. (Mirrored here in case my DSL line gets Slashdotted.) It's a Web version of this: `Imagine that a street musician collects money in his hat. After every song, he reaches into the hat and pulls out a dollar bill (assume that all contributions are dollar bills). Contributors write messages on their dollar bills, and the musician reads out loud the message on the bill he selects. The more dollar bills - the more money - a contributor gives with their message, the more often their message will be selected and read to the audience.'" An interesting thought, but is this really all that different from banner ads? Would something like this work?

Amoeba Protozoa has the first Quickie for the day: The Linux Image Montage Project needs logos to create a montage poster. If you have a Linux related logo, send it to them. mazeone sent us a link to the always excellent NTK which has a great note about Bruce Perens at the start, (And yes, I read NTK too ;) And now a whole bunch of fun little links that have been building up: PopeClayton sent us a link to a Homer Simpson Fortune File. cpfeifer sent us a link to another O'Reily Book Parody. Zibalatz sent us a link to a MacBeth Star Wars Parody. rpm sent us a link to the Magic Nipple. It predicts the future. Sorta. Now we have a few more Porn Parody sites: desertAngel sent us Amish Porn and Gambit32 sent us telephone sex. Both are hilarious. The Only Anonymous Coward sent us a link to an emergency Security Alert: apparently a dangerous bug was found in GNU acronym. An anonymous reader sent us an important page: a Guide to Babes for Geeks. Follow these to the letter. Oh wait, most of us probably already do. That might explain my social life anyway.

Joab Jackson writes "Funny page I found on a " Politically Correct Unix. Examples: "The term `daemons' is a Judeo-Christian pejorative. Such processes will now be known as 'spiritual guides.'" "There will no longer be a invidious distinction between `dumb' and `smart' terminals. All terminals are equally valuable." "From now on `rich text' will be more accurately referred to as `exploitive capitalist text.'" You mighta seen this before, but its fun. link "

Joab Jackson writes "Feature article on Linux from the Jan 1999 M.I.T. Technical Review. Little in the way in new stuff, but nice in-depth history and with some information on Gnome. I always appreciated this magazine's writing. "