jwz: friends don't let friends post raw irc logs
Tim Peters: "At least one of us should become a professional spammer so we get a better handle on these tricks. Anyone want to get rich quick?"
Matt Seargent: "Unfortunately I find python incredibly difficult to read"
<AaronSw> Further proof Perl and XSLT programming induce brain damage.
Spam Conference (spamconference.org).
Most promising spam project: SpamBayes. Too bad Graham isn't working in the open like this.
The Elements of User Experience: User-Centered Design for the Web
<AaronSw> One more "The Elements of" book and I'm going to write "The Elements of The Elements of Books".
Movable Type: TrackBack at OSXCON.
Brent's Law of CMS URLs: "The more expensive the CMS, the crappier the URLs." (More...)
iSync, RedHat 8.0 (it will change the way you look at hype).
<em> writing an additional shell script over blosxom is like adding a mathematical equation to an article... you immediatly loose have your audience
Chris Lilley: "Last I liiked, this was www-font not wareZ.FoNt"
<drue> cocoa is cool
* drue is a coconut.
Rewritten radical PyObj-C lets you write entire Cocoa programs in Python!
The unknown message is: some things are better left unread
<uberfunk> I just read about the channel on your website and thought, hey, a vanity irc channel, i should check it out
/. Poster on ESR's gun habit: "ESR, however, is bald as a coot which explains his need for penis proxies..."
FSF: "[Linus] goes even further, and rebukes anyone who suggests that engineers and scientists should consider social consequences of our technical work--rejecting the lessons society learned from the development of the atom bomb."
<deltab> Warning: puddles are deeper than they appear
Cory via Wes: "The entertainment biz is also starting to think about redesigning the Internet and using "great firewall of China"-style stuff to shut down P2P."
screen python -ic
nard asks: How will d.net spend the $6000 prize money?
<Decibel> we'll spend in on hay for the cows, of course! ;P
d.net: "Our peak rate of 270,147,024 kkeys/sec is equivalent to 32,504 800MHz Apple PowerBook G4 laptops"
CNET: "Despite launching its Trustworthy Computing initiative in January, the software giant [Microsoft] has racked up more than 70 vulnerabilities outlined in 53 advisories this year"
Stars Come Out Against Net Music Piracy in New Ads
<AaronSw> Like I really trust Buttney to explain the ethical implications of new disruptive technologies.
Sean's Email: "I looked at this site......copywrite, copywrite, copywrite!!!!!! is my reaction. Betty"
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<wmf> AaronSw is gone; the swhackers can run wild
Katzdot via Seth: "Can Online Flamers Stop The Digital Music Industry?"
DMc: ""We had an interesting side topic about how people don't read. I told him I learned in the last two years that the majority of folks are functionally illiterate because they won't read and not because they can't read. I told him I planned to make docs interesting by using characters always on the verge of killing each other, to engage a reader's interest."
<zooko> But Intel et al. are desperate to prop up sagging sales. Sagging, IMO, because nobody needs a faster CPU anymore.
<raph> right. one wonders why they don't just push python
<someone> that is why they pushed Java.
Kevin Burton: "Hacking Mozilla is like dating a beautiful but crazy woman. Sure she is hot, and sure the sex is great, but the constant attention she demands and the way she freaks out at a seemingly ordinary request just get old after a while."
insidious new urban crime: johnchalkers
"He was rather like Ralph Nader, but brighter," says [Richard] Posner [about Lessig].
NYTimes: 'Still, buried within the Commerce Department statement explaining the decision is perhaps the most relevant reason for the extension: that "no obvious alternative exists" to giving Icann another year, particularly given the government's continuing commitment to private-sector management of the Internet address system.'
<wmf> "Ayn Rand said we must STRIKE DOWN our common enemy BITKEEPER with GREAT VENGEANCE!"
K.M. Self: "LNX-BBC: Bootable GNU/Linux -- Don't leave /home without it."
/. commentor: "All this was explained to you when you got your GEEK membership card, next time please pay attention. We woulden't have to explain Amigas to you again."
Google News: "This page was generated entirely by computer algorithms without human editors. No humans were harmed or even used in the creation of this page."
Dustin Mierau: "Actually the Option symbol represents a face, a face of a guy named Option. The fact that the guy's name is Option, of course, just an amazing coincidence. Option's last name is Kare, younger brother of Susan Kare, who originally designed the glyph. She decided to use his face because it was very unique, he was gifted with a nose that was perfectly straight at an angle of 45 degrees which connected to his right eye. In fact, his face was used for the first Finder icon. Now the reason for using a face to represent the option glyph can be traced back to the ancient Mayans who's word for 'face' is 'optchean' or 'option' as later translated by Spanish explorers. And once you realize that Susan Kare's ancestors are Mayan, the symbol makes perfect sense."
Lessig's Mom: "I think he came from outer space."
LA Times: "Lessig was a professional singer as a child,"
<wmf> yeah, when you get Morbus on the phone you can tell he's actually Morbus the Evil, lord of Morbor