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  1. Sonic Hedgehog Antibody on A Look Back at Sonic the Hedgehog · · Score: 5, Funny
    "Sonic [Hedgehog] ultimately changed the course of the 16-bit platform wars."

    Not mention eventually inspiring the name for a crucial signaling pathway, one imperative for the normal development and patterning of numerous human organs.

  2. Tit for tat? on French Government Bans Term 'E-Mail' · · Score: 2, Informative
    The French view English the same way Americans view slang. Certain words and phrases maybe seep into the colloquial language, but people rally against their admittance into the official lexicons.

    In my opinion, email is fairly neutral-- its basis may be English, but global usage has sanitized it of any sort of unique nationalism. Perhaps then this is just a tit for tat move to highlight the pettiness of a certain anti-Gallic linguistic maneuver made by Americans earlier this year, i.e. "freedom fries"?

    In any case, the ban only refers to governmental related documents and web material. There is surely a similar provision in place in the States for federal documents.

  3. Re:Important Distinction on Red Hat To Drop Boxed Retail Distribution · · Score: 1
    I'm not condemning Joe Simian as a simple creature because he fails to choose Linux, but because he succumbs to the opinion of his immediate consumer peer group.

    Now condescension towards the technically challenged? Guilty as charged.

  4. Important Distinction on Red Hat To Drop Boxed Retail Distribution · · Score: 2, Interesting
    The company's next major release, codenamed "Cambridge," will not be provided in boxed, retail form, according to company communications with employees and developers, which have been made available to Linux and Main.

    Next release, not permanently.

    At the moment, Red Hat doesn't control enough of the market to warrant a full-blown retail version. True, a boxed set at least implants the Red Hat name in the small brain of Joe Simian, but as none of his butt-scratching cohorts are using it, he'll opt for Windows.

    So Red Hat withdraws and bides its time, allowing its missionaries to slowly convert the masses, while throwing a small bone to the independent distributors. If the fervor spreads widely enough that the production costs will far outweigh by profits, the boxed sets will reappear in the garish light of Best Buys nationwide.

  5. Elaborate April Fool's joke perhaps? on Square To Merge With Enix · · Score: 1

    According to CBS MarketWatch the new company will launch on April 1, 2003...