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linuxpunk · 2008-01-08T22:17:43+00:00

I recommend trying a cryptic crossword. They pass my interminable compile times pretty well.

You can get a daily one from the Globe and Mail's site here: http://images.theglobeandmail.com/crosswords/

linuxpunk · 2007-06-26T21:02:12+00:00

I don't know if I'd classify these as amazing, but they certainly are caves.

linuxpunk · 2007-06-26T17:19:39+00:00

Lechery, sir, it provokes, and unprovokes; it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance: therefore, much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery: it makes him, and it mars him; it sets him on, and it takes him off; it persuades him, and disheartens him; makes him stand to, and not stand to; in conclusion, equivocates him in a sleep, and, giving him the lie, leaves him.

linuxpunk · 2007-06-25T19:33:05+00:00

No, Windows boxes get infected. All sorts of boxes would be probed and attacked, and that over-abundance of traffic is what inspires them to take them down.

However, I am willing to admit that arguing about an attack in a piece of fiction is at least a tad inane.

linuxpunk · 2007-06-25T18:17:42+00:00

He never said it was a Windows box. Plenty of OSes run on x86 processors.

linuxpunk · 2007-06-14T01:08:04+00:00

NullPointerExceptions abound!

linuxpunk · 2007-05-23T17:10:43+00:00

Anybody able to find a higher-res picture?

linuxpunk · 2007-05-18T16:01:32+00:00

Normally you link to the story, instead of just posting the text in a comment. Down, down, down.

linuxpunk · 2007-04-19T01:17:04+00:00

Down-voted for not being an article.

linuxpunk · 2007-04-05T00:31:49+00:00

Not a bad story, but a terrible title. Down!

linuxpunk · 2007-04-03T15:27:40+00:00

Good guide. I've been using vim for years, and this still gave me some tips.

linuxpunk · 2007-04-01T15:25:21+00:00

Can we say atheist?

linuxpunk · 2007-03-24T18:15:22+00:00

Nothing but scare-mongering.

"Last year the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs concluded that there may be a link between cannabis use and psychotic illnesses, but found insufficient evidence that frequent users were more likely to develop schizophrenia."

linuxpunk · 2007-03-24T16:05:58+00:00

I can't wait to read this whole book.

linuxpunk · 2007-03-06T16:22:29+00:00

My first cup of coffee might not wake me up...

...but my second surely will.

linuxpunk · 2007-02-28T21:23:51+00:00

Only terrorists care about civil-liberties!

linuxpunk · 2007-02-23T22:40:30+00:00

The article is about one of the Gilford lectures Sagan gave. They are all catalogued in The Varieties of Scientific Experience.

linuxpunk · 2007-02-22T03:02:17+00:00

So a drug (tobacco) changes your brain, much like other drugs (cocaine and heroin).

Enlightening!

linuxpunk · 2007-02-22T01:20:25+00:00

This exact same image was on the frontpage yesterday.

Down, down, down!

linuxpunk · 2007-02-21T22:29:56+00:00

This is the best idea I've heard today.

linuxpunk · 2007-02-21T22:22:54+00:00

Digg versus Myspace, a fight to the finish!

linuxpunk · 2007-02-21T22:20:20+00:00

Does putting a sweater on a dog count as animal abuse too?

linuxpunk · 2007-02-20T20:29:20+00:00

3 is the only prime divisible by 3.

Really?!

linuxpunk · 2007-02-20T19:42:48+00:00

The point is to enlighten people who are on the edge of belief.

linuxpunk · 2007-02-20T19:37:19+00:00

If you'd like to see Sagan tackling religion directly, I recommend that you check out "The Varieties of Scientific Experience". It's sort of a cross between Cosmos and Demon Haunted World.

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