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2004 Hugo Awards Presented at Noreascon
Best Novel: Paladin of Souls, Lois McMaster Bujold
Novella: The Cookie Monster, Vernor Vinge
Novellette: Legions in Time, Michael Swanwick
Short Story: A Study in Emerald, Neil Gaiman
Related Book: The Chesley Awards for
Science
Fiction and Fantasy Art: A Retrospective, John Grant, Elizabeth L.
Humphrey,
and Pamela D. Scoville
Professional Editor: Gardner Dozois
Professional Artist: Bob Eggleton
and Pamela D. Scoville
Dramatic Presentation, Long Form: Lord of the
Rings:
The Return of the King
Dramatic Presentation, Short Form:
Gollum's Acceptance Speech at the 2003 MTV Movie Awards
Semiprozine: Locus
Fanzine: Emerald City
Fan Writer: Dave Langford
Fan Artist: Frank Wu
Campbell Award: Jay Lake
Special Noreascon Four Committee Award: Erwin Strauss, aka Filthy Pierre
IMPORTANT UPDATE: Please show your support for Ceren in this poll of Geek Babes!
Is it any wonder people think Linux users are a bunch of flaming homosexuals when its fronted by obviously gay losers like these?! BSD has a mascot who leaves us in no doubt that this is the OS for real men! If Linux had more hot chicks and gorgeous babes then maybe it would be able to compete with BSD! Hell this girl should be a model!
Linux is a joke as long as it continues to lack sexy girls like her! I mean just look at this girl! Doesn't she excite you? I know this little hottie puts me in need of a cold shower! This guy looks like he is about to cream his pants standing next to such a fox. As you can see, no man can resist this sexy little minx. Don't you wish the guy in this pic was you? Are you telling me you wouldn't like to get your hands on this ass?! Wouldn't this just make your Christmas?! Yes doctor, this uber babe definitely gets my pulse racing! Oh how I envy the lucky girl in this shot! Linux has nothing that can possibly compete. Come on, you must admit she is better than an overweight penguin or a gay looking goat! Wouldn't this be more liklely to influence your choice of OS?
With sexy chicks like the lovely Ceren you could have people queuing up to buy open source products. Could you really refuse to buy a copy of BSD if she told you to? Personally I know I would give my right arm to get this close to such a divine beauty!
Don't be a fag! Join the campaign for more cute open source babes today!
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Spankeys
Admin there needs something to do this weekend. Plus their such idiots
I'm a lonely office worker at the fourth floor of the Hampton-Macy building in Burgess Square. Most of the time I just stare at documents with all manner of boring graphs, charts, line-items, and signatures. I can't even tell you what I do for a living.
My work is quite possibly my most favorite thing in the whole wide world. I'll tell you why.
Each day I bring with me to my place of employment a small bottle. This bottle is white and opaque and has slight graphite marks on it from being in my briefcase, next to my seven No. 2 pencils. Inside this bottle is a number of gelatin caps with various substances inside.
I always arrive at work early. This gives me the advantage of appearing to be a model employee. I always stay later than him, as well, shuffling along with my game of solitaire. Sometimes I bring him lunch, which is usually the Cold Cut Trio from Subway, or a box of Vegetable Lo Mein from the Asian place accross the street. My supervisor never even inspects my work.
It's about 7:30 AM and I make my way to the coffee maker to brew fresh coffee for the whole office. I also place a few capsules in the mass of coffee grounds in the filter. These capsules have various things like my own semen and feces in them. Dehydrated and concentrated, of course. Everyone loves my coffee.
I also place dilute amounts of bleach in the water cooler. Sometimes I put sugar in it, too.
It's very gratifying to watch these very boring people slowly take more sick days. I've started to take a few every now and then, as to not appear suspicious. Nobody completely suspects anything yet. I've been doing this off and on for the last nine months, as to keep them all in a constant state of sickness and poisoning. I keep detailed logs, when I can, of each and every one of their sick days. I create Excel spreadsheets and generate charts from them based on this data. I'm thinking about creating an internet website detailing these results, anonymously. I'm sure somebody would find this information useful. Perhaps to exceed my own scientific techniques and perform a more thorough study. When that day comes I will be pleased.
.... I find amusing about this article is the NVIDIA add.
On the nVIDIA web site, following the add's link:
"A test performed by NVIDIA computer security experts found that a PC was detected and hacked within 15 minutes of being connected to a standard high-speed DSL broadband Internet connection. Within 24 hours, hackers loaded over 1,000 songs files using the PC's hard disk space as a storage device. This test illustrates how quickly hackers can steal your passwords and gain access to sensitive information such as your bank account."
I bet'ya all the hackers in the world are running after DSL connected PCs to use their storage space and system as digital jukeboxes...
I should have thought of it before!! A great way to get MP3s and not risk being sued by the RIAA.
(Full disclosure - I'm a wikipedia admin, and I'm the one who chooses the main page featured articles) -- The study that guy did was fishy - he had a very low sample size (5), a very short timeframe (1 week), and the articles he picked are very, very low traffic (several of them had =3 edits each).
To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
--E.C. Stanton
Three replies with the best slogans to advertize/support Linux get a gmail invite. Leave email addy (duh).