Flutterby™! From 2000-02-02 to 2000-02-29

Apologies for the lack of updates, I'm in ship mode on my hardware project, and I'm testing a colocated server that's finally in place and will let me do all sorts o' cool and groovy stuff like database backing Flutterby, and experimenting with a few other web sites and mail services.

A new Clean Sheets is up.

[ related topics: Erotic ]

Keith Knight on life's little victories.

[ related topics: Humor ]

Via Hack The Planet, a great article on all the hangers-on who came late to the Linux and open source party, and who are attempting to profit without contributing to the community: Who Invited the Pirates

[ related topics: Free Software Web development ]

One of my problems is that most of the charities I consider worthy aren't tax deductible. Debra Hyde made me aware of the Club X San Diego Six, five of whom had their charges dropped after the sixth was acquitted, but who are still faced with heavy legal charges. Sounds like reason to buy a T-shirt.

[ related topics: Politics Sexual Culture ]

Woman loses court battle over split condom, she sued Durex in London's High Court for approx $198,200, but lost. "The judge said the split had occurred after an "unremarkable" four minute Saturday afternoon sex session in May 1995."

[ related topics: Erotic Sexual Culture ]

Yeeha! Two years after Flutterby! started publishing, it's now on a colocated server with database backing and everything. This means little to you right now, except that the new format for February's archives shows a bit of that. After I get a bunch of other commitments taken care of I'll fix the search engine, doing record by record indexing will be much more useful.

CERT Advisory CA-2000-02 talks about the issues involved with web bulletin boards and similar systems that can display unchecked user-input HTML. It suggests something I've long practiced: "Web Users Should Disable Scripting Languages in Their Browsers".

[ related topics: Web development ]

A new Need To Know is up, talking about the DeCSS fight, and passing on this amusing note about eighth graders patching up an injured tarantula.

The heck with cell phones, platform shoes are the real menace on the road today.

Interesting article about prostitutes fighting a new Portland ordinance.

[ related topics: Web development Sexual Culture ]

Local Rant: <link url="/archives/2000_Feb/4_Vasectomy.html">Vasectomy</link> is some notes on why I've been less responsive for the past couple o' days.

[ related topics: Web development ]

I didn't realize that Scarlet Letters started around the same time that Flutterby did! Happy 2^nd Birthday to both of us!

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Several people have expressed amazement that Microsoft is <link url="http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200-1541952.html?tag=pt.isyndicate.hl.ne">calling the personal edition of Windows "Windows Me"</link>, but frankly it makes perfect sense, they're trying to turn "Windows" into a verb: "Oooh baby, Windows Me^tm harder." Dori of Backup Brain suggested that this was to prepare for renaming WinCE (as a verb that one's dead on!) to "Mini Me".

[ related topics: Web development Microsoft ]

User Friendly takes on DeCSS, once again hitting too close to home to be funny.

[ related topics: Humor Web development ]

I want one: This one's too good not to poach from Mouthorgan, Vulvacious, the amazing Vulvabed.

[ related topics: Sexual Culture ]

Morality in Media is trying to change FCC policy over indecent broadcast complaints, currently complaints to the FCC about broadcasting of indecent materials that aren't backed up with recorded documentation are routinely ignored. Go FCC. But a question: If the bluenoses start recording indecent TV shows, what sort of copyright remedies are available?

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Technology and Culture ]

Stupid discovery of the day, leading to a question: With the Apache server, turning on server parsed HTML turns off the Last-Modified HTTP header. This is annoying, because people like me and Cam use it for some things that don't really change content, like the weblog ads and the color schemes, and therefore it gets in the way of some spiders which use the header information to check for content change. Since I discovered its lack today, I also discovered that you can turn it back on with the option "XBitHack full" and setting the execute bit on the appropriate server parsed files, but I'd hoped to get away from all of that. Anybody know how to make this the default behavior with Apache?

[ related topics: Free Software Cameron Barrett Web development Weblogs ]

A new RISKS digest talks about John Deutch's reckless endangerment of national security (this guy sounds like he only aspires to drooling idiot status), little else in it seems terribly newsworthy.

[ related topics: Web development ]

I don't check in on Marylaine's Neat New Stuff nearly often enough, 'cause it always turns up a gem, like the Colorado State School of Veterinary Medicine and Biological Sciences online Guide To Poisonous Plants. The Poisonous Plant Guide is constructed to enable location of a plant by either knowing the common or botanical name of the plant. Alternatively if the plant is not known, but the disease symptom is, it is possible to search by the presenting clinical sign eg: Abortion, Sudden death, photosensitization.

[ related topics: Children and growing up Interactive Drama Web development Sexual Culture Marylaine Block ]

At first glance, Sisters in Christ seems further over the top than Landover Baptist, but it appears as though it actually is sincere. The Sister in Christ articles tell the story: As you can see by our headers on the web page we have resolved to live our lives in obedience and, therefore, you will find articles on modest dressing, submission, homeschooling, and allowing the Lord to not only take control of our lives, but our wombs, also.

[ related topics: Web development ]

If you're a web publisher, please, do not output XML unless you've run it through a conforming parser. Bad XML breaks stuff, and it makes cynical old hands like me think that they should just be parsing your HTML with regular expressions. Now back to the paying work.

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Web development Content Management ]

Oh. My. The Work and Family Bill of Rights asks for still more from those of us who choose to act responsibly. These people must be stopped.

Interesting profile of Eleanor "Ranger" Hamilton, currently 90, a long-time sex educator and advocate.

[ related topics: Web development Erotic Sexual Culture ]

Doug Henning dead at 52.

[ related topics: Web development ]

An interesting Salon look at William Wegman's career, the guy who photographs the Weimaraner dogs.

[ related topics: Web development ]

Is linking to <link url="http://www.slashdot.org/">/.</link> or stealing their links a sign of terminal conformity? I'll risk it: IIS Sites Double Apache's Downtime, and Corporate Websites and the Lack of Accessibility. Now if I can just get my stupid cookies to stick or them to use a format that doesn't put the whole *^$#@ page in a single table...

[ related topics: Free Software Interactive Drama ]

Back in October I <link url="/archives/1999_Oct/17_OnISPeconomics.html">ranted about ISP economics</link>. Recently I was working on a document about web design, and came up with some theoretical numbers on getting under that 8-12 second barrier to a usable page, and then wondered why I wasn't seeing anywhere near the theoretical response on my Ricochet link. It turns out that I am, but only from a select group of top tier ISPs. Interestingly, most of those ISPs are small ones like highertech.net (where Flutterby is hosted), the big ones are routinely giving me downloads in the 500 bytes/sec or lower range). Net service isn't yet a commodity.

[ related topics: Web development ]

After my complaint about <link url="http://slashdot.org/index.pl?light=1&noboxes=1">/.</link>, Jason Simpson pointed me to the URL that's the only way to read it: http://slashdot.org/index.pl?light=1&noboxes=1

Quick, before it goes away, Debra Hyde explores the history of the condom in the time capsule in the weekly edition of Scarlet Letters.

[ related topics: Web development Erotic Sexual Culture ]

QOTD: "In the unlikely event of losing Pascal's Wager, I intend to saunter in to Judgement Day with a bookshelf full of grievances, a flaming sword of my own devising, and a serious attitude problem." Rick Moen in rec.arts.sf.written.robert-jordan, October 11, 1997 as quoted in http://www.gaydeceiver.com/quotes/

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An interesting <link url="http://x22.deja.com/[ST_rn=ps]/getdoc.xp?AN=451090617&CONTEXT=950111180.1800011853&hitnum=2">Usenet article that puts population density into perspective.

Are you a member of the The Evil Atheist Conspiracy?

[ related topics: Religion Web development ]

Via FactoVision, A Cornell University Ergonomics study says don't spring for that expensive chair, it probably won't help your RSI.

[ related topics: Web development ]

A Salon update on Annie Sprinkle, half retrospective, half plug for her new movie.

[ related topics: Web development Sexual Culture ]

Keith Knight complains that celebrities get everything free.

[ related topics: Humor Web development ]

Since when is an IQ of 130 on "the cusp of genius", and why does being slightly smarter than normal let one get away with murder. Not that I'm any fan of the penal system in this country...

Just in case you haven't been following it, Salon has a great wrapup of the DeCSS case. Would someone get a crowbar and help Valenti get his head out of his ass?

[ related topics: Web development ]

The new Clean Sheets includes a tongue-in-cheek Brief History of Condoms: It is hard to ascertain whether a condom is capable of the emotions you and I regard as a part of sentient life. Does a condom experience depression, or fear death? Does it have a soul? If so, then we must examine carefully our treatment of this useful creature. Should it, for example, be so quickly relegated to the floor beside the bed, or the trash in the bathroom, or the weeds of the vacant lot?

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Humor Web development Erotic Psychology, Psychiatry and Personality ]

Pictures from the road, from the intersection of Seaman and Cummings streets to the picture of the woman looking out from the mangled car with the driving school sign on the door.

[ related topics: Children and growing up ]

Jim "Ernest P. Worrell" Varney, dead at 50. If you've never lived in the south you probably only know him from the "Ernest" movies and as Slinky Dog in the Toy Story movies, but the rest of us remember "Hey, Vern!" and "They never say 'don't touch that, it might be luke'."

[ related topics: Pixar Interactive Drama Animation ]

I got a flame yesterday over my notes on the Annabel Chong documentary where I compared the spectacle around the movie at Sundance last year to the excesses of sports and the attitudes that have caused the various Olympic scandals. I'd softened my attitudes about her (rather than the furor over the documentary) when I read the Amy Goodman Interview with Chong in Nerve (Nerve apparently doesn't understand the web, you'll have to enter that URL twice because they send you to their main page if your referrer isn't from them), but a New York Times interview of the documentary complains about many of the same issues I saw in the earlier media coverage. Now that I'm worked up about it I suppose that I ought to make an effort to see it somewhere.

[ related topics: Sexual Culture ]

Why didn't I see this: One of the proposals in CERT Advisory CA-2000-02 was "Don't browse promiscuously", something so over the top and against the nature of the web that I thought it was inserted as irony. In a great article, John Dvorak points to Microsoft's influence in the matter. Obviously, I'm not being cynical enough, because my experience with CERT in the past is that they're extremely political and only issue official advisories long after any responsible admin has patched the holes. Thanks to Robot Wisdom for the link.

[ related topics: Jorn Barger Politics Web development Microsoft ]

Something that bothers me: media coverage that looks at the election as tactics, it's very appealing to think "I'm above all this, isn't it fun to watch how those loser voters are affected", but in truth we are the loser voters, and we're the ones being affected. This detachment is just a matter of arrogance, which is getting in the way of people actually making a difference. But it sells, so as long as stupid people think that they're smarter than they are it will continue.

[ related topics: Politics Web development ]

Via Scripting News, the LiveJournal protocol cuts through a lot of needless complexity. There'll be a longer rant coming on scripting the web sometime early next week when I've got a chance to put up some code. Right now I'm just struggling through some really gross hardware issues and waiting for a (choke) 1200 baud download. That's been awhile.

[ related topics: Dave Winer ]

Phil passes along Uncle Duke in 2000 for those of you who want to vote for an admitted "compassionate fascist".

Roger offers this note about an arcade game involving live lobsters, kind of a variation of the old "crane game", apparently. Japanese culture is so much fun to take out of context (and probably even in context too...).

[ related topics: Games ]

New on the SHS website: David Steinberg on the anti-drug paid TV programming, a review of Gore Vidal: Sexually Speaking which I've bought, but haven't yet had time to read, and more.

[ related topics: Politics Web development Sexual Culture Technology and Culture ]

National Research Council looking for pornography experts to "protect" kids from pornography and "other inappropriate internet content". Objective #1 is a "when did you stop beating your wife" sort of question: "(1) an objective description of the risks and benefits of various tools and strategies for addressing pornography that might be used to protect children from inappropriate material on the Internet"

[ related topics: Children and growing up Erotic Sexual Culture ]

Publishing.com to deliver Down There Press books online

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Rafe Colburn passes along this note about Virginia legislators trying make oral sex just a misdemeanor rather than a felony. Great, now if the other 17 states can just catch up...

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Erotic Sexual Culture ]

Marylaine muses about teaching in My Word's Worth.

[ related topics: Web development Marylaine Block ]

Today's Userfriendly has the best "Peanuts" tribute I've seen. For those of you living in a cave, Charles Schultz died on Saturday, I haven't been a Peanuts fan for many years, but I remember that it used to be edgy and as nasty as kids really are, and that it was funny then.

[ related topics: Children and growing up Humor Web development ]

Lord of the Dance's fascist appeal captivates crowds

Regarding my notes about Charles Schulz, Tara Calishain tells me that the National Cartoonists Society is arranging a mass tribute for May 27.

A new Clean Sheets includes some poetry and photos and a Mouthorgan column, nothing which leaped out at me.

[ related topics: Erotic Sexual Culture ]

Keith Knight on website launch parties.

[ related topics: Humor Web development ]

The new RISKS digest has a PFIR response to the recent DoS attacks and a note from some folks who reverse-engineered the closed source part of the MP3.com "Beam-it" protocol and say "yeah, it's pretty secure".

[ related topics: Web development Music ]

I was at an NBMA meeting last night, the program was some folks from eGreetings. They were talking about some of their licensed properties and mentioned the ways that Christina Aguillera's publicity agents hung out on chat rooms and drummed up false teen interest in the music. I suppose that it's old news, but it bothers me that deceit is something that's admired and even bragged about. I suppose that once you've convinced people that exchanging clips from popular culture count as sentimental expression anything goes. Oh yeah: fart jokes sell. Big time. QOTEvening: "Fast is gonna equal high content and better content..."

[ related topics: Music ]

Via Backup Brain, a comparison of Windows NT versus CP/M.

[ related topics: Web development Microsoft ]

So, Pacific Bell just called me for the second time saying they're offering a free month of caller ID. This time I was halfway tempted so that I could know when they're calling and not answer the bloody phone. I wish I weren't an atheist, because it would be comforting to believe that a just god would make telephone solicitors burn in the fiery depths of hell for eternity.

[ related topics: Religion ]

greg's weblog is another journally sort of 'blog. I've been trying to cut down my 'blog consumption, although maybe the new Palm Vx and some better scraping software will help me keep up more. While I'm rambling on personal stuff (sorry, Greg, but free association works this way) I'm thinking about community and social groups again. I got an email from a Marin IJ reporter asking about my attempts to host the (pretty defunct) Fairfax-Chat mailing list, and my relationship with Charlene is at a pivotal point and we'll probably be going separate directions. Anyway, don't quite know how these all tie together, but I'm realizing that the Internet isn't helping to build some of the really lasting friendships that grew via Fido, and I'm wondering what can be done to change that.

[ related topics: Web development Dan's Life Weblogs ]

"Who Said you can't buy love at discount prices?" Discount Babies, including eBaby, your personal baby trading community.

Palm & Un*x update: Found it! There's an "install-user" utility in the Un*x tools. Thanks to Larry Burton for convincing me that it really should be there and I should go read the man pages some more. The question was: I want to buy some shareware, but I'm asked to enter a "Hot Sync name", and told that I can find this by starting the Hot Sync app and looking at the top. All I see up there is "HotSync". I assume that this is 'cause I'm using the pilot-xfer Un*x utilities to communicate with it. Anybody know how I can purchase these shareware apps?

Snippet of coffee shop conversation:

"Yeah, we've got 25 million in funding, one more round then we can IPO."

"What does the company do?"

It's not what you do, it's how much you can get from other people to do it. I can't wait 'til this bubble bursts and we can get back to function first, form second. But only after I've made my own millions, s'il vous plait.

From the source I should remember every time I think the web is fully tapped out, the Daily Illuminator, comes a link to Furious George and the Cross Country Crime Spree. See if you can best my score of 832 (quite likely).

[ related topics: Interactive Drama ]

Help me! I'm actually starting to remember TCLoad commands without having to refer to the manual! Madness of the sort only envisioned by H.P. Lovecraft (If you've heard of TCLoad, let alone done any work with it, you have my sincerest condolences...)

[ related topics: Interactive Drama ]

The new RISKS digest chronicles the successful efforts of Rep. Thomas Bliley (R-VA) in shutting down the EPA website (which seems to be up now, although that may have been accesses to databases and other back-end information), has a quick squib on the H&R Block fiasco, and talks about yet another IE security hole.

[ related topics: Web development ]

Gray areas of the law I've always wondered about get tested: "A Canadian court this week began considering whether live images of <link url="http://www.apbnews.com:80/newscenter/breakingnews/2000/02/16/netsex0216_01.html">erotic acts relayed over the Internet in exchange for money constitute prostitution</link>." The reason for the hullabaloo in the first place appears to be the lack of age restrictions that, say, a strip club can impose. I'm not a lawyer, but that doesn't sound like it's a legal basis for differentiating between performance and prostitution, that sounds like a bad excuse.

[ related topics: Web development Erotic ]

Marylaine reviews Freaks and Geeks in this week's installment of My Word's Worth.

[ related topics: Web development Marylaine Block ]

In good news, it's now legal in Louisiana to throw women's underwear from Carnival floats.

[ related topics: Web development ]

One of my arguments against the possibility of broadband actually being sucessful is that the N² issue gets out of control fairly quickly. People are finally starting to realize the real costs of streamed MP3. "It would be cheaper for us to go out and buy radios for all our employees than to increase our bandwidth for these sites."

Jeff Uslan, manager of information protection at Twentieth Century Fox

[ related topics: Web development Music ]

Yet another new RISKS digest, this one has a mention of the ITS4 Software Security Scanner which looks for potential security holes in C and C++ code; software called Mission Performance Plan in use in U.S. embassies around the world, written by programmers from the former Soviet Union, a fact which panicked the U.S. State Department recently; some less-than-charitable comments about Microsoft's Authenticode system; and some interesting notes on trying to read the privacy policy at http://www.foxkids.com in either the fonts defined by the web page or without images loaded (black on black).

[ related topics: Web development Privacy Microsoft ]

Remember the inadvertantly funny lumbermansexchange.com, well there's a new one: CoreLusers, anyone who's tried to work with the &^%#@! Corel Linux distribution (What sort of Un*x doesn't have Emacs on the distribution CDs?) probably thinks this is pretty apropos.

[ related topics: Free Software Music ]

Caffeine Destiny looks like an amazingly vibrant little web 'zine.

[ related topics: Web development ]

Via Medley, Al Gore says killing innocent people for the sake of the death penalty is okay: BG: Are there people on death row elsewhere, or federal death row, who are innocent? Isn't that something we should be worried about? AG: I would hope not. But I'll tell you this: I think that any honest and candid supporter of the death penalty has to acknowledge that that support comes in spite of the fact that there will inevitably be some mistakes.

[ related topics: Politics Web development ]

Big update at Clean Sheets today.

[ related topics: Erotic ]

Keith Knight offers teens alternatives to sex.

[ related topics: Humor Web development Erotic Sexual Culture ]

Austrian shoppers get free clothing for showing up naked. When's this coming to the US? I need new clothes...

the nessie files: hooray for the denial of service crackers!

[ related topics: Web development ]

Via Fresh Hell comes the Grim Reaper Age Guesser, the best part is at the end it shows you how it did it and has a cool feedback mechanism to make it more accurate. (lest anyone get too excited, it did guess older than I really am, but that's okay 'cause people always guess that too...)

[ related topics: Weblogs ]

Via Indirection, the Gluetrain Manifesto which makes a whole lot more sense than the Cluetrain Manifesto. "On-line markets are like the endless conversations you have with your in-laws about when are you going to have another kid. You really don't want to deal with it, but, hey, how else will you get `em to leave you the country house?"

Uh oh! According to Guinness, my mustache costs me money.

Interesting look at Edgar Leeteg's black velvet paintings of Tahiti's naked beauties in Spectator Magazine.

[ related topics: Web development Sexual Culture ]

Spam OTD: I'm almost tempted to go and raise hell, an IT consulting firm (nameless, 'cause I don't want to give 'em any press at all) just spammed an old address for a party the Wednesday after next at SFMOMA launching their services in dealing with "the emerging technology of the Inernet" (sic). What pisses me off is that there are presumably morons for whom this advertising strategy will work, thereby encouraging more spam.

Mike's Electric Stuff, tesla coils, big args, things that go boom, and interesting historical artifacts.

In the current Scarlet Letters, a great article about early sexuality and kindergarten

[ related topics: Web development Erotic ]

Discovery: Bike riding is best when it's rainy and muddy and cold and uncomfortable. The gender balance out on the trails and roads this morning was heavily female. I only wish I didn't want to actually get some work done today.

I've been staying away from the whole Fox "Who Wants to Marry a Millionaire" thing, but this Salon article on how courtship and marriage are prostitution is too good to pass up.

"The tricky part of the sex-for-money trade is that there's a slippery slope. On one end is a man sending flowers to a woman after a first date, and on the other is the prostitute and her client. In a typical dating scenario, it isn't sex for money, exactly, but it may be sex because of money -- sex because a man's behavior gives signals that he has money and is willing to spend it. It's sexy, we women often think, when a man insists on taking us out to dinner or sends flowers, when he gives jewelry, when he promises a big diamond if things work out. But we also feel it's sexy when he earns more, when he has more heft and impact in the world."

[ related topics: Books Sexual Culture Television Marriage ]

QOTD: Ever noticed how they who wail about all the babies never born thanks to snippage, oral sex, birth control, gays and lesbians, abortion, etc. rarely (if ever) shed a tear for all the births prevented by virginity?

--- Omixochitl in alt.support.childfree

[ related topics: Quotes Interactive Drama Erotic Sexual Culture Child-Freedom ]

For anyone who's ever read a management theory of the month book, A Way Too Short History of Fads.

[ related topics: Books ]

For some reason while I was on my bike today I got to thinking about SUV marketing, thinking about the Chevrolet Behemoth or the Ford Subdivision, when it hit me: Ford's been using variants on trips for names, "Expedition" and "Excursion" and such. So I humbly propose the Ford Outing. In attractive shades of lavender and pink, for size queens who aren't afraid to 'fess up to their... umm... "compensation issues"..

[ related topics: Humor ]

Scary Devil Monastery QOTD: "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; give him a freshly-charged Electric Eel and chances are he won't bother you for anything ever again"

--- Tanuki

[ related topics: Quotes ]

A warning from the American Medical Association

[ related topics: Web development ]

Maybe the reign of intolerance and hatred that's run the Republican party since Atwater is waning? While Bush is backpedaling on his support of hatemongering groups that condemn interracial marriage, McCain is blasting Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell as "agents of intolerance".

[ related topics: Politics ]

Ya know all those cracks about Japanese condoms? That stereotype may just have come from jealousy. Turns out the EU standard condom size is often too big for German men.

Oooohhhh: The perfect toy for dealing with salesweasels: "The amperage generated by the Violet Wand is exceptionally low, and as such it is not as dangerous as playing with, say, line current, but care should be taken with any electrical toy."

[ related topics: Web development ]

I'm sitting here doing some coding, and have NPR on in the background. Terry Gross is interviewing Robert Moog. A great interview, lots of flashbacks to sounds of the avant-garde '70s. His company is Big Briar, and his moogerfooger line of products looks neat if you're into the purity of staying away from digital. A cool trip down the memories no matter what.

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Web development ]

LAPD display unexplicable behavior, harassment (but what else is new...).

The new RISKS digest is worth reading all the way around, it's also got a cautionary note about the risks of automated parsing systems.

[ related topics: Web development ]

Wbile Amazon is busy enforcing patents on paying commissions and keeping customer records, a British woman attempts to patent herself. Donna Rawlinson MacLean says:

"It has taken 30 years of hard labor for me to discover and invent myself, and now I wish to protect my invention from unauthorized exploitation, genetic or otherwise,"

[ related topics: Intellectual Property ]

One of my favorite comic strips, The Norm, doesn't have terribly wide circulation. But now you can get collections of The Norm strips from 1999 in dead-trees format.

[ related topics: Web development Books ]

Does it bother anyone else that there's a Sendmail Switch product? I'm sorry, but I want my MTA to be a top. There's no place in the world for those wussy little submissive mail systems (not that I'd mention any *cough*exchange*cough* names).

Unclear on the concept: Poland tries to ban porn, but even opponents of the ban, like Edward Wende, are saying things like: "The distribution of pornography has nothing to do with freedom of speech, Democracy gives you the right of free speech, but you cannot violate someone else's freedom. You cannot insult or offend other people." Luckily, it seems that the people themselves do get it, a shopkeeper says: "Prices will be higher, but everything will still be available. It will be just like under the Communists in the past, only now it's the church that is pushing us around."

[ related topics: Religion Erotic Privacy Sexual Culture ]

Interesting systems design note of the day: Implantable systems (pacemakers and such) don't need to worry about temperature variation, more than a few degrees and the patient's dead anyway.

The BOFH returns: BOFH2K

[ related topics: Web development ]