And slashdot goes all funny like:
“JessLeah”:http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=114139&cid=9670747The thing only works with Pocket PCs? How ironic is that? Apple’s latest brainchild, co-opted by Windows CE hackers, to do something so geeky that only Unix nerds would want to do it… my head is spinning. Part of me says “Wow, this is cool”, but an equally large part says “EW, Windows!”… I’m so lost and confused.
yawhcihw The catch? You’ll be clubbed to death by any Apple evangelist who sees you doing this
(U)nder discussion at the conference were fun ways to harass spammers. Some even discussed plans to build a Hogwarts for Hackers — a national security college that would teach young adults security skills like lock picking, encryption, rewriting software in cars, running pirate radio stations and building nanotech labs from things stashed in the closet or basement.
… “Hacking is often just some kid trying to be funny,” Wozniak said in his Saturday keynote speech, delivered to a packed room. “The thing is, we have a particular sense of humor and most people just don’t get our jokes.”
Hey – Tomorrow’s stage takes place on Bastille day, which is apparently a big deal over there. Three reasons why you should be watching:
1. There’s a frog wearing the Yellow Jersey (ie, leading the race) – Some dude named Thomas Voeckler took it after an epic breakaway about a week ago, and since the race has been flat since, has kept it. The last time there was a frenchy in yellow on Bastille Day was way back while Marie Antoinette was asking pesants if they wanted cake. Heh. No, but it’s been a while. French cycling is in much the same state as American Baseball. In any case, it’s a national holiday, the event is bigger than the f’n Super Bowl,
2. Tomorrow’s the first moderately hilly stage. After over a week of flats, and new rules which stopped Postal from cracking the race open after the Team Time Trial, it’s pretty much knotted among the pre-race favorites. Armstrong, Ullrich, Hamilton – all within a minute or so of each other. They’re all also like 10 minutes down on Voeckler. Granted, Voeckler’s not a huge climber, but he’s pretty decent in the hills, and 10 minutes is a decent head start. My guess – Hamilton taking a flyer. Go Tyler, my Yankee Idol.
3. Podium Girls. Credit Lyonaise, the sponsor of the Tour, hires absolutely SMOKING chicks to present the awards at the end of each day. George Hincapie, one of Armstorng’s USPS teammates, and an absolute cycling badass in any case, fell in love with and subsequently knocked up one of these chicks.
So come on – you’ll be hung over from the All Star Game. Listen up to Bob Roll, make fun of Al Troutheimer, and catch the classic British pipes of Ligget and Sherwin while kicking back a bottle of Burgundy in honor of the only country in Europe whose ass we haven’t yet had to kick.
“You’re freakin’ me out, man!” This illusion is disturbing my sense of reality.
The evil liberals at Salon.com have a nice article out today dealing with the issues of being a parent who used or uses drugs and doesn’t see them as the outright evil that D.A.R.E. propogadizes to today’s youth.
I know there are people who occasionally read the BPB who had parents who did drugs, are parents who have done drugs, plan to be parents who have done drugs, etc. What did your parents tell you? What do you plan on telling your kids?
Feel free to post anonymously if need be.
Today’s reason: silencing dissent starts at home.
Teresa Chambers was fired from her role as chief of the U.S. Park Police Department, which serves as security (among other duties) for National Monuments in D.C. She believes her firing sprouts from her decision to talk to the media about underfunding the PPD after her complaints to superiors were ignored.
“My professional judgment, based upon 27 years of police service, six years as chief of police, and countless interactions with police professionals across the country, is that we are at a staffing and resource crisis in the United States Park Police — a crisis that, if allowed to continue, will almost surely result in the loss of life or the destruction of one of our nation’s most valued symbols of freedom and democracy,” she wrote.
W’s supporters will cry “aiding the enemy” ignoring the fact that spending $150,000,000,000 on the Iraq War is pulling money away from domestic security problems like this one. The PPD’s annual budget is about $1,800,000.