Logicat Test Engine build history transferred to earthli.

Stevie Wonder and Tiger Woods are in a bar. Woods turns to Wonder and says, “How’s the singing career going?”

Stevie Wonder replies, ”Not too bad. How’s the golf?”

Woods replies, “Not too bad, I’ve had some problems with my swing, but I think I’ve got that right now.”

Stevie says, “I always find that when my swing goes wrong, I need to stop playing for a while and not think about it. Then, the next time I play, it seems to be all right.”

Tiger says, “You play golf?”

Wonder says, “Oh,... [More]

Here’s a web site that lets you see who says pop and who says soda. This is only of interest if you have ever left your hometown and you’ve ordered a ‘soda’ only to get soda water.

You can even participate.

http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~almccon/pop_soda/

Seanbaby takes on the world while defending Jackass (MTV):

http://www.seanbaby.com/news/jackass.htm

This is George Bush’s daily journal as recorded by SatireWire. The note for April 9, 2001 is really nice:

http://www.satirewire.com/weblog/bushblog.shtml

http://www.theonion.com/onion3713/wdyt_3713.html

earthli systems offers the Mark I.

George Bush was invited to a get acquainted tour of the White House.

After drinking several glasses of iced tea, he asked Bill Clinton if he could use his personal bathroom. He was astonished to see that the
President had a solid gold urinal.

That afternoon, George told his wife, Laura, about the urinal. “Just think,” he said,“ when I am President, I’ll get to have a gold urinal!”

Later, when Laura had lunch with Hillary at her tour of the White House, she told  Hillary how impressed... [More]

This is an interesting article focussing child suicide rates and why they are ignored in favor of reporting child murder rates.

Another pick-me-up article:

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/03/2½018208&mode=nocomment

http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=10560

A new look for earthli.

The growing trend of speaking like the president.

This guy forged identities of most of the richest people on the Forbes 400. He almost got away with it too…

read on…

http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/26868.htm

Apparently, the Beta testers are somewhat upset about it already. There’s a good alternative suggestion culled from the newsgroups, and an all-too-real and all-too-expected reason why it probably won’t get done.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/17742.html

A major network is planning the show “Survivor 2” this winter. In response, Texas is planning “Survivor, Texas Style”.

The contestants will start in Dallas, travel through Waco, Austin, San Antonio, down to Houston and Brownsville. They will proceed up to Del Rio, on to El Paso, then to Midland/Odessa, up to Lubbock and Amarillo.

From there, they proceed to Abilene, and on to Ft. Worth and back to Dallas.

Each will be driving a pink Volvo, with a bumper sticker that reads:

“I’m gay, I... [More]

This is an interesting one on the manufacturing of a new type of screw head.

This site is by one of the leading hardware guys on the web…he’s from Germany. His writeup is huge, but if you’re interested in the feature set:

http://www.tomshardware.com/graphic/01q1/010227/index.html

My take is that the GeForce3 introduces some amazing new techonologies and the card kicks ass. However, the next card will take some of the rough edges off of those technologies and kick even more ass.

http://www.bbspot.com/News/2001/03/perl_test.html

A couple of more articles on the insidous approach of a dumbed-down era of computing:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/2/15718.html

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/2/17419.html

earthli Forums has been spun from the project manager.

Here you’ll find a 526 byte Perl script that can descramble DVDs in real time.

http://slashdot.org/article/.pl?sid=01/03/06/1954213&mode=nocomment

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/17319.html

One day the court hates MS:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/17192.html

Another, they seem to have no problem with MS:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/17192.html

http://www.bbspot.com/News/2000/6/exorbitant.html

http://bbspot.com/News/2000/8/hour_lost.html

The project manager is underway.

Bill Clinton’s still making the news because he had the nerve to pardon one of the few international  crooks and swindlers who was not a Republican.

- Michael Feldman (public radio’s “Whad’Ya Know?”)

In Thailand, a building has been named Clinton Plaza after ex-President Clinton. It contains six stories of discos, go-go bars and strip clubs. Apparently, Clinton is furious because they stole the idea for his presidential library.

- Conan O’Brien (“Late Night with Conan O’Brien”)

Can you imagine working at the following Company?

This company has a little over 500 employees with the following statistics:

• 29 have been accused of spousal abuse
• 7 have been arrested for fraud
• 19 have been accused of writing bad checks
• 117 have bankrupted at least two businesses
• 3 have been arrested for assault
• 71 cannot get a credit card due to bad credit
• 14 have been arrested on drug-related charges
• 8 have been arrested for shoplifting
• 21 are current defendants in lawsuits
• In 1998 alone,... [More]

This ones for software patches, issued to Symantec. It was actually issued in April of 2000.

Read it, the description is so general that any and all patching technologies fall under it.

http://www.delphion.com/details?pn=US06052531__