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From CNN: People who joined the cult-like following of Iraq’s wartime spokesman Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf can now buy a talking doll and hear him say things like “our initial assessment is that they will all die” as often as they want.
The doll says, “There are no Americans infidels in Baghdad, never. Our initial assessment is that they will all die. I am not scared and neither should you be. They’re not even within 100 miles of Baghdad.”
The anti-gay hate group “Focus on the Family” is finding that in a difficult economy, hate does not pay… [Morons Dot Org]
A bit of good news 🙂
Krishnamurti discussing war, belief, and the desire for security in response to the question “How can we solve our present political chaos and the crisis in the world?” “As long as each one of us is seeking psychological security, the physiological security we need – food, clothing and shelter – is destroyed. We are seeking psychological security, which does not exist; and we seek it, if we can, through power, through position, through titles, names – all of which is destroying physical security. This is an obvious fact, if you look at it.” [metafilter.com]
Keith Whitney writes: An iBook was stolen from our office over the weekend (it’s not the first time this has happened). The police officer taking the report said “200 laptop computers are stolen each day in the District of Columbia.”
Yikes!
I got some Targus security cables a while ago, but they don’t work if nobody uses them. At the very least, laptops should be locked in a drawer at night. [Mac IT]
Paul Graham: The Hundred-Year Language. [Hack the Planet]
A great read. Don’t miss this article.
You can read this article for yourself, but I prefer the summary from “The Week”, where it came to my attention:
Bad week for: translations, as PETA launched an anti-dairy campaign urging Hispanic youth, Eche la leche. The phrase, literally translated as “dump milk,” is slang for ejaculation.”
Yet another case where marketing screws up a translation. It took Chevrolet years to figure out why the Nova didn’t sell in latin America. The makers of this detergent probably wonder why it doesn’t sell in the US.
Staggeringly weird MP3 collection over at April Winchell’s blog. Everything from Hindi ABBA covers to hideous celebrity sing alongs from the likes of Hulk Hogan and Catherine “Daisy Duke” Bach. My favorite so far is the german cover of the theme music from Bonanza.fromCKB‘s blog. [metafilter.com]
PHP-Nuke 6.5 has a very annoying security feature which prevents you from posting an article with any URL that contains the word ‘script’ anywhere, not just a script tag. I had lots of fun trying to post the URL for scripteur. I ended up changing a character and then editing the text in the database.
“Although we’ve been bombarded in the last few weeks with techno tales of the U.S. Army, I found this story in the NY Times (FRRYYY) to be quite interesting. The director of the Army’s simulation technology center said that Ender’s game influenced how and what they will build for future training.” [Slashdot]
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