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  1. Quark on Best Easter Eggs and Other Software Surprises · · Score: 1

    With the right keystrokes in Quark, an alien will walk onto the screen and blast the selected object out of existence. Try it enough times and much larger and more impressive alien will appear!

  2. The Hard Way on An Ethical Question Regarding Ebooks · · Score: 1

    Buy the print book, convert to ebook yourself (but don't read it), send the eBook to the publisher along with $25, and ask them if it's OK to read it now.

  3. Use a Real Language on Ioke Tries To Combine the Best of Lisp and Ruby · · Score: 1

    Meh. Call me when someone writes an operating system in XSL.

  4. Re:Make it tastier on Slashdot's Disagree Mail · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't delivering the pudding clog up the tubes?

  5. Stuff that matters on Did NBC Alter the Olympics' Opening Ceremony? · · Score: 1

    I once photocopied a book, and then dropped all the pages, and when I picked them up they were in the wrong order.

  6. Re:Know when to hold 'em... on Purported ACTA Wishlist Would Put DMCA To Shame · · Score: 1

    Steve Jobs pondered #3, and the result is the iTunes Music Store.

  7. Re:NeXT and Amiga at SLAC on Tour of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center · · Score: 1

    Surely you don't mean to imply that Dr. Rokicki was the creator of TeX... I seem to recall some guy named "Knuth" or something...

  8. XSL is not XSL-FO on Printing XML: Why CSS Is Better than XSL · · Score: 1

    Everyone seems to be confusing XSL-FO (formatting objects) with regular XSL (what used to be called XSL-T). Formatting objects are admittedly more complicated than CSS. But "regular" XSL, which transforms XML to XML, (X)HTML, or even text, is incredibly useful, flexible, and fun! The work I do takes XML files, transforms them using XSL into XHTML, and then formats that with CSS. Simple!

  9. Re:LCD's suck? on 12" Powerbook: Slick and Sexy, But Not Without Issues · · Score: 1

    I replaced my dual USB iBook with the 12" PowerBook. I've experienced the same problems the reviewer mentions. The screen seems rather worse than the iBook's, and the motion blur while scrolling webpages is certainly annoying (using the arrow keys to scroll rather than the scroll bar helps). I love the keyboard, though, and the machine feels very fast.