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http://www.thehumorarchives.com/joke/IRC_Idiot

http://www.electric-escape.net/node/1475
I almost fell out of my chair.

Kudos to Newton for having the best description for so long, but it turns out he was completely wrong.

"[W]hen people thought the earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the earth was spherical, they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together." - Isaac Asimov

However, how long will it take before Judge Taylor becomes just another of then "activist" judges?

The right-wing feces-flinging over this ruling has already begun.

"You could have poisoned our wells. You could have set fire to our houses. My daughter tells me you are very... advanced. You don't owe us anything. Why didn't you?"
  "I asked myself that, too," said Darktan. "And I told myself: What good would it do? What would we have done afterward? Gone to another town? Gone through all this again? Would killing you have made anything better for us? Sooner or later we'd have to talk to humans. It might as well be you."

Breaking News!! When Steve Jobs goes to the bathroom, he makes iPoop.

He could benefit from this, then.

I agree -- the idea that Steve Jobs would sell Pixar just to cash out and let it slide into mediocrity is as plausible as George W. Bush admitting on national TV that he simply does whatever the voices in his head tell him to do.

Jobs is not CEO of Pixar and Apple for the money or the fame; he's already got that by the truckload. He does what he does because he wants to be reknown as a guy who makes a dent in the universe, who brings style and quality to the masses. Pixar is too closely tied to Jobs for him to just toss it aside; if Pixar gets sold and turns into a factory for Disney cheapquels, that reflects poorly on Steve.

I can see Steve selling Pixar to Disney, but only if there are iron-clad guarantees that Pixar's quality and processes won't be compromised -- e.g., Pixar does the same stuff they're doing now, but as a wholly-owned tamper-proof subsidiary of the Mouse House. But that's not the same thing as what folks are speculating (More related rambling here).

I started using Drupal about a month ago to totally revamp my site. It's still under construction, but the bulk of the work has been adding my existing content more than anything else. I wrote a few PHP modules to add some functions I wanted that didn't already exist, and tweaked some of the existing modules to my taste, but there was nothing there a decent coder would find troublesome.

It's a bit confusing to learn at first, especially wrapping my head around how the taxonomy system works. But aside from that, it's been totally effortless, and I'd recommend it for folks who want a CMS that's more than just a WordPress-style blogging tool.