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Spoonful of Quickies
Darren wrote in to blatantly plug his 'Darren's Penguin Habitat' which aims to be a newbie Linux site.
g8orade wrote in to say that Applix has Applix Anywhere which is apparently a Java compatible suite of mail, word processing, presentation, and spreadsheet software.
jimw wrote in to tell us about Vintage Computer Festival if you're into that old stuff, and near Santa Clara.
yack0 warned us that
Elijah Wood will be Frodo Baggins in the upcoming Lord of
the Rings Trilogy of movies. Verne "Mini-Me" Troyer
is also rumored to have a part.
rawlink sent us a
URL with some Hi Res Fractals that prove
Rob' First Law of Art: All art is better if you can use it as your background image.
An anonymous reader wrote in to plug these Y2k Posters which actually look surprisingly sweet if you're into those classic movie type posters. I dig 'em.
Abe Zuckerman sent us pictures of the new Rios (hint: Butt ugly)
Randy Rathbun wrote in to note that several new pictures of the empeg have appeared on their website.
Mikey LeBeau us pix of a metallic hand-crafted aluminum Palm case for those of us who are entertained by shiny objects.
Scooter sent us a report on how offensive South Park the Movie is. Absolutely Hilarious.
Finally, matthewg pointed us to After Y2K which pokes some fun at Hemos, Martha Stewert, and Me.
OK, let's read through our history books...
:))
Jesus preached love, peace, non-violence and helping your fellow man. So what have Christians done over the years?
War on those that didn't agree with them (and even on some groups that did); genocide; slavery; spread intolerance; destroyed ancient texts (especially in the New World); kept countless groups in subjugation (mostly by preaching that suffering in this world is ok...you'll get your reward after you're dead); and forced conversions by swordpoint and gunpoint; etc. etc. etc....
Oh, and one more thing...the movie also made fun of Jews, Muslims, Satanists *and* atheists. Christianity isn't the only religion in the world, you know.
My view of the movie? Don't take your kids to see it. Don't see it yourself if South Park offends you. But as for me, I've seen it 3 times (once after reading the Christian page on it) and will probably see it one more time (need to get a few more quotes straight).
"That movie has warped my fragile little mind" -- Eric T. Cartman (think he's in on the Eric rule?
While I understand that people could be worried about the intolerance shown on the web site (I personally thought his objection to men wearing pink underwear was the most amusing part), I think it's all to easy for us to be intolerant in return.
I should point out that I haven't seen the movie -- I haven't even seen the TV show, and it is unlikely to ever make it to Japan.
But why can't people at least acknowledge the validity of some of his points, instead of issuing blanket condemnations. You don't have to agree, but you should admit when some points are valid.
He was shocked by images of children suffering and dying. Can any of you say that that is a negative thing?
It seems to be popular to find someone, declare him intolerant, and beat him with a metaphorical stick. I'd say that many of the views expressed here are just as intolerant.
You may think the guy is a goof, a moron, and dangerous, but sticking labels on him and dismissing everything he says is no better.
Very, very few things in this world are absolutely evil, or absolutely good. Hitler probably had some good qualities, although they were completely overshadowed by the evil he did. Likewise with Hussein, Qadaffi, or the current flavour of the enemy-of-the-month. Anyone can be right sometimes, no matter how much you dislike them.
I just don't like the practice of dogmatically opposing people because you decide that they are fill in the blank. If you can't acknowledge when your opponent is right (as in our current political situation), everyone suffers as a result.
I am a teen that, without his parents really having absolutely any idea at all, has been all around the web. Yeah, that includes all those places kids shouldn't see. When we first got unlimited access, I just went around, clicking absolutely anything that piqued my curiosity, disregarding those stupid "adults only" warnings the way that south park kid did. The porn sites, the anarchist's cookbook and related mailing lists and sites, the warez kiddies, the hate sites, everything. I think I turned out ok.
You know what? I ended up here (meaning Slashdot). My "fragile little mind" just sort of lost interest in those places quickly because they weren't restricted and really didn't have anything interesting to say. I think I'm better off now, as a matter of fact. Having seen hate sites, I now have a pretty good idea of how bigots think, and in any situation I can "try on" their point of view (and debunk it of course). Funny how people think we need to be "protected". I would rather shape my own point of view - I think it came out pretty balanced.
Vidi, Vici, Veni
The South Park movie is designed to offend people. To push buttons. To slaughter sacred cows. As such, we can use the movie to see what our sacred cows are, where our buttons are, and how we might be offended. With this knowledge, we are less likely to be distracted by unproductive emotions which may follow from offense. A condemnation of this movie is in some sense a vote for emotional weakness.
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