EAT YOUR BRAAAAAANE.
Konstantin Ryabitsev posted a humerous, but for many people poignant, message to fedora-devel-list looking at how Red Hat and the community have interacted on the Fedora Project.
Ghost Town
While reading a blog about the recent X.org meetings I came across this site of pictures from a trip through the Chernobyl area. Some interesting & scary stuff.
If I step 10 meters forward, geiger counter will run off the scale. IfI walk
a few hundred meters towards the reactor, the radiation is 3roentgens per
hour – which is 300,000 times normal. If I was to keepwalking all the way to
the reactor, I would glow in the dark tonight.
Some tourists companies have been trying to arrange tours…but the first
group of tourists found the silence unnerving and downright SPOOKY….They
charged 1200 hryvnas for a 2 hour excursion and after some 15 minutes, they
wanted to flee to the outside world.
Airport security
Here’s a genuine conversation from the days of 128bit SSL being US only, at Philadelphia airport:
"Did you pack your own bags today, Sir?" "No, my work packed it for me." "Have you been with your bags at all times, since they were packed?" "No, they were sitting around an office building all day." "And what's in the bags, Sir?" "This laptop. It has 128 bit encryption on it. It's currently regarded as a US military secret and can't be exported to anywhere else in the world." "Well I don't know anything about that." "It means it's illegal to take it out of the U.S." "Sir, you're causing a scene. Please move along." "But it's illega-" "Please move along."
Granted, that was in the days before nail clippers and breast milk became terrorist weapons.
Tube Haiku
The other night while sitting on a train at Edgeware Road station, with my good friends from Philadelphia, Hugh & Kim (of Harp Column fame), we had a short Haiku competition. Kim came up with this gem which sums up ‘Edgeware Road’ perfectly:
The train sits in the station, but it does not go. I wonder, why not?
NeXT Step
Most NeXT Cube machines pre-date the web, so there is very limited information out there.