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Here Come the Quickies
An anonymous reader noted an amusing story where we learn that
Jar Jar will make space fun for children with attention spans destoryed by MTV, and senses
of humor rendered disfunctional by years of Sitcoms. It might be
better if it was hosted by
Darth Darth Binks (thanks
SissyLaLa)
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Sent us a really interesting site that has a
history of GUIs. Its just interesting to watch the evolution of those
clicky interfaces that we've been using for so long.
John Hebert
noted that there are
New Dune Novels coming out.
Tim Macinta sent us a super
hilarious
Microsoft Advocacy HOWTO. Worth the read.
$Bob was the first to tell us that the new obfuscated Perl challange is up (no I'm not entering Slash ;)
Bowie J. Poag has concocted
an epic poem known asTuxowolf: ..A retelling of the classic Beowulf legend in more familliar prose.
Gorak sent us a great 3D image gallery at Mastering 3D Graphics
that is laden with bit streams that fulfil Rob's Art Axiom (Art is better
when it is a desktop image)
And finally, the most disturbing bit was sent by an anonymous reader.
Ever want to
augment your cats the hi tech way. Check it out.
Update: 07/29 12:05 by CT :
Shaheen reminded me that I'm going to be on The Wednesday Night Wireside net radio thingee tonight at 9:30 EDT.
The histery of gui webpage showd all the MicorSoft windows but wen i downloded it there is no Space Cadet!!!! the gui histery webpage is run by a linus long hair or a appple hippie. Apples and linus doesnt rule like Micorsoft so there is no Space Cadet for apples and linus. okay, so the webpage gui histery is riten by a apple hippie or a linus long hair.
That guy is going to be in reel big trouble when i tell bill the he is voilatin his EULA of Micorsoft by giving windows away for FREE without Space Cadet. yeah scared huh. Micorsoft has smart lawyers and are going to rugh you up you stupidhead long hair. how do you like that? Bill will make me a rich man for gettin you in trouble he might even come over and place Space Cadet with me so there!!!!!!!!
Space Cadet rules what is your high score!!!!!
dont for get to go to my other page unless your a linus long hair or a apple hippie.
Sorry, guys... couldn't resist...
The following sentence is true.
The previous sentence is false.
Pining for the days when The Glorious MEEPT!!! graced SlapDash with his wisdom.
Frank Herbert wrote the original series. Was he also called John? I'm very confused.
Oooooooooooh, ok. So that really is your name. I figured maybe the cousin of the author submitted it to Slashdot or something, but no, it was just a coincidence! How devious.
Where else do they have beignets besides New Orleans? Quebec? I don't get out much, though living in Jackson, MS, I get to NO quite often.
Feline Linux = Felinux!
The have already warped Linus from an early age to build Linux, which is already on its way to World Domination!
xeyes is really a portal to which all cats can spy on us. Except their infatuation with the mouse cursor seems to distract them a bit, but none the less, they are EVERYWHERE!
Trakker
"Obfuscated Perl"? Dosen't that kinda go without saying? *grin*
/me dons protective asbestos suit
--John Riney
jwriney@awod.com
Oh, John Hebert. Now I'm confused. Is that a typo or is it just a coincidence?
Well, I for one am glad that Redhat created X for us 'Linux/Unix' users. ${DIETY} forbid MIT should create such an entity back before Linux gained its popularity.
:)
In addition, it seems that someone forgot to include those cool GUI administration tools with my FreeBSD version of X. Hmmm...should I email Redhat about this?
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You can find a write-up of last year's contest in issue 10 of the Perl Journal.
So, what relation is John Herbert? Not the son/author-of-new book, it seems, unless he is John-Brian. Just curious.
Not anymore! The all powerful Windos advocacy sight is too powerful to stay down long. It is back and it is pretty good. Like Space Cadet. I was so inspired that I have repented and written the guy a fan letter.
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It was a little too well done to really be a script kiddie. Because of its logical consistency, it surely is deliberately funny.
It is as if a draftee has scored a zero on a multiple choice military entrance exam. No one will believe the draftee is mentally unqualified because no one scores a zero on a multiple choice test without actually knowing the answers.
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What do you think, folks? Is the still-largely application-centric WIMP interface the absolute pinnacle of user interface innovation? Is the web browser really the ultimate means of interacting with a computer?
I just have to believe there can be something more.
(still waiting for the day when I will have a animated, rotating 3-D Max von Sydow (as Brewmaster Smith, of course) head on my screen that I can speak commands to...or is it the other way around? :-/ )
--
Save the Queen!
Which one's the Queen?
I am!
No you're not!
Freedom! Horrible horrible freedom!
Your right to not believe: Americans United for Separation of Church and
And here I am wishing for another Challenger.
:)
Sorry, perhaps that was in bad taste...
If anyone got the Simpsons reference in that article, you get a Scooby-snack.
I wear pants.