I had to set my cabbie roommate straight and I’m gonna head you guys off at the pass before you cross me, too. I know when your mother baked cookies for you, she served them soft and hot from the oven and you loved it. This is not your mother’s cookie.
Thin Mints are served best straight from the freezer, Samoas and Animal Treasures from the fridge. The only reason the box should be outside of the fridge/freezer is to get more cookies or to toss it in the trash after it’s empty.
These cute and friendly little girls may grow up to be mothers some day, but trying to force them and their cookies into your oppressive standards for feminine baking has to stop.
p.s. Yes, they are still called Samoas in my house. Anyone who would be insulted that the second-best selling Girl Scout cookie® of all time is named for their country/heritage/culture is just nuts.
I have seen Name of the Rose but I have never read the book. (Although I have read the supposedly most bought, least read Foucault’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco.) Here’s a review of the game Mystery of the Abbey based on the book. Summary: It is a more challenging/complicated version of the game Clue©.
Roadside America features a searchable database of out-of-the-ordinary attractions, like this Cathedral of Junk in Austin. I’ll have to check this out next time I’m going on a trip.
Tim Mullen writes a piece at The Register suggesting that Microsoft is not to blame for the new email worm that’s flooding the internet.
Was the vector some l337 0-day ‘sploit? Nope. Was it a complex multi-layer program leveraging several unpatched vulnerabilities? Nope. It was — wait for it — an executable attachment in an email. What genius! The author of Novarg (or MyDoom, or whatever you want to call it) really put his noodle to the test when he cooked this one up, huh?
While some of his arguments are specious and I don’t think abandoning support for older software is going to help the problem, he makes one very good point. The problem is not a hole in Microsoft’s software or a lack of effort on the part of anti-virus applications. People who don’t know any better will always fall into this trap. And don’t go all ‘Linux rules’ on me, because we all know that if the world suddenly switched OS’s the virus those same ignorant people would just be clicking Linux executables sent to ther Inbox.
Check out Encyclopedia Obscura for a good time waster. It’s full of bizzare geek oriented articles like a review of a Bugs Bunny rip-off NES game, a piece discussing Donald Duck during war times and bizarre comics made with old action figures — good stuff!
