I heard on TV that police intend to go through cell phone records and email in order to understand why Cho Seung Hui killed a bunch of people at Virginia Tech.
Who could have imagined the police would do that? When I first heard this reported as if it were news, I thought [...]
Posted on April 21st, 2007 by pwyll
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My nine year old daughter asked why she should be polite to someone who has been rude to her.
Courtesy is not a tip handed out to people who deserve it. Courtesy is not about being nice, it is not even about other people. Courtesy is a discipline with the goal of mental clarity under [...]
Posted on April 18th, 2007 by pwyll
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This Roger Koppl editorial in the New York Post is so good I decided to quote it entirely. The emphasis are mine.
April 16, 2007 — A “NIGHTMARE” that took them to “hell and back” is how the three former Duke University lacrosse players described the nearly 400 days they spent accused of raping a stripper [...]
Posted on April 18th, 2007 by pwyll
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Hog Farm Members in Free Kitchen, Woodstock
Music and Art Festival, 1969, photo (c) Lisa Law
Woodstock (1979)
by Joni Mitchell
I came upon a child of GodHe was walking along the roadAnd I asked him, where are you goin’?And this he told me…I’m going on down to Yasgur’s farmI’m going to join in a rock ‘n’ roll [...]
Posted on April 17th, 2007 by Paco Malo
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I ran across an interesting piece of Haskell code in a post on teideal glic deisbhéalach.
sum (map ord “al gore”)
Bryan O’Sullivan, the author of teideal glic deisbhéalach, attributes the code to diffbavis on #haskell. Mr O’Sullivan does not explain the code; his audience already reads Haskell. But I want to present this program [...]
Posted on April 16th, 2007 by pwyll
Filed under: humor | 3 Comments »
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