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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.
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.