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Here Come the Quickies

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the stuff-to-read dept.

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) Point_Blank 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.

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  1. Re:John Hebert? by Fizgig · · Score: 3

    Frank Herbert wrote the original series. Was he also called John? I'm very confused.

  2. Department of Redundancy Department by jwriney · · Score: 4

    "Obfuscated Perl"? Dosen't that kinda go without saying? *grin*

    /me dons protective asbestos suit

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  3. Hmmm...X by platinum · · Score: 3

    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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  4. Results from last year's Obfuscated Perl Contest by Ellen+Spertus · · Score: 4

    You can find a write-up of last year's contest in issue 10 of the Perl Journal.

  5. Re:ah... we slashdotted the MS Advocacy site. by Sun+Tzu · · Score: 3

    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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