Mr. Ironside, who had his own page in the yearbook, had been elected valedictorian in a vote carefully orchestrated by his peers and designed to embarrass him.

But when graduation night arrived, he gave a speech that transformed a malicious high school joke into an ad libbed sequel to Revenge of the Nerds.

• The Last War did not end in E.Y.E. 1835, it ended in 1858.
• My online maps of the Stofonian empire leave out the entire elikaln of Sibinni.

bad software never dies; it just gets an increasingly fanatical crowd. The BileBlog

Command Extensions are enabled by default. You may also disable
extensions for a particular invocation by using the /E:OFF switch. You
can enable or disable extensions for all invocations of CMD.EXE on a
machine and/or user logon session by setting either or both of the
following REG_DWORD values in the registry using REGEDT32.EXE:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor\EnableExtensions

and/or

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor\EnableExtensions

1. Your ideal theoretical candidate. (100%)
   
2. Libertarian Candidate (66%)
   
3. Dean, Gov. Howard, VT - Democrat (54%)
   
4. Edwards, Senator John, NC - Democrat (46%)
   
5. Bush, President George W. - Republican (45%)
   
6. Clark, Retired General Wesley K., AR - Democrat (45%)
   
7. Sharpton, Reverend Al - Democrat (44%)
   
8. Gephardt, Rep. Dick, MO - Democrat (42%)
   
9. Lieberman, Senator Joe, CT - Democrat (39%)
   
10. Kucinich, Rep. Dennis, OH - Democrat (37%)
    
11. Kerry, Senator John, MA - Democrat (37%)
    
12. Moseley-Braun, Former Senator Carol, IL - Democrat (33%)
    
13. Phillips, Howard - Constitution (21%)

1. Mainline - Liberal Christian Protestants (100%)
   
2. Mainline - Conservative Christian Protestant (79%)
   
3. Orthodox Quaker (77%)
   
4. Liberal Quakers (73%)
   
5. Seventh Day Adventist (70%)
   
6. Reform Judaism (68%)
   
7. Unitarian Universalism (68%)
   
8. Eastern Orthodox (66%)
   
9. Roman Catholic (66%)
   
10. Orthodox Judaism (51%)

This page collects some software and proposals aimed at developing an HTML submission format for RFCs, to supplement and (perhaps) eventually replace the traditional flat-text primary format.

When an Elven Warrior falls off the Deeping Wall, the scream is the famous "Wilhelm Scream", commonly used in scenes where someone is hit or is falling to their demise.

there are some things that just need to be shot. Take soccer balls, for example. Nobody likes soccer balls. Sure, the Europeans pretend to like soccer, or "football" as they stubbornly insist on calling it. You know what? They're faking it. Why? Just to confuse the rest of the world. Also, 95% of all computers are practically begging to be shot. The last time your Compaq froze didn't you want to pump it full of hot lead? Of course you did.

So it didn't go unnoticed when a particular scream appeared once in each Star Wars movie -- The stormtrooper plummeting down the Death Star chasm; a trooper tossed from the freezing platform by an enraged Wookiee; a normally tight-lipped Weequay plunging into the grisly maw of the Sarlacc. It had to be more than coincidence. There had to be a story behind all this.

Unix culture values code which is useful to other programmers, while Windows culture values code which is useful to non-programmers.

Contrary to popular belief, Lorem Ipsum is not simply random text. It has roots in a piece of classical Latin literature from 45 BC, making it over 2000 years old.

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But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you a complete account of the system, and expound the actual teachings of the great explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human happiness. No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is pleasure, but because those who do not know how to pursue pleasure rationally encounter consequences that are extremely painful. Nor again is there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of itself, because it is pain, but because occasionally circumstances occur in which toil and pain can procure him some great pleasure. To take a trivial example, which of us ever undertakes laborious physical exercise, except to obtain some advantage from it? But who has any right to find fault with a man who chooses to enjoy a pleasure that has no annoying consequences, or one who avoids a pain that produces no resultant pleasure? Cicero

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It's easy to dismiss these loopy ideas as a lunatic fringe, but that would be a mistake. The widespread popularity of this End Times mania has very real and very dangerous consequences, for America and for the church. ("Premillennial dispensationalism" -- the technical terms for what these prophecy freaks teach -- teaches that the Sermon on the Mount does not apply to Christians living today. It also undermines the core of Christianity -- Jesus' death and resurrection, and the hope of that resurrection. These are not tangential matters for Christians.)

The cultural standard bearer for these Very Bad Ideas is the "Left Behind" series of novels by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins. These books have become so popular that every pastor in America is now confronted with the task of gently, pastorally explaining to their congregation why the theology of these books is misguided and misguiding.

I'm not a pastor, so I won't be pastoral here. These books are evil, anti-Christian crap.

The open-source movement and agile programming may be converging. While reading Martin Fowler's excellent book "Refactoring", I realized development by refactoring is a sharp description of the normal style of open-source hackers.

It is a MS marketing manager wetdream when all the people with the most traction on a competing community can't seem to be able but babble their heads off about csharp and dotnet in every public space they have the privilege (our duty) to appear.

The notion that worse is better has become something of a truism in the programming industry. The usual examples are the C language (worse than lisp, but it dominated anyway), Unix (or more recently, Windows) as opposed to Multics or VMS, and (in a completely different arena) VHS tape over Beta. Each of the dominant technologies, it is pointed out, was worse than the alternative, but the worse technology became the standard anyway. The moral to the story, or the reason that people bring the principle up in argument, is to convince whoever is on the other side of the argument that we should set our sights on the quick and dirty, less elegant solution to a problem, because "worse is better."

Of course, this received wisdom is just so much crap.

The Code Style font sampler is a reference point to the most common fonts available on Web users' computers.

• Your website is an advertisement.
• Make it enjoyable.
• Actually sell something.
• Give something away.
• Gather email addresses.
• Let your visitors contact you.
• Optimize each page for the search engines.
• Don't neglect the little things.

Many site designers would like to have three source ordered columns, and have the two side cols be of a fixed width while allowing the center col to fluidly fill the remaining screen space. Sadly, this just isn't possible.

1. There exists a Sunday comic strip based on The Simpsons
2. Simpsons fans tend to hate it
3. It does not appear in the Atlanta Journal Constitution nor in any of the newspapers that I read when I visit relatives in other cities

4 album set available for $2000.00 and $1000.00 for one cd. This is how much music should be worth, if there is talent there. They are cheapening music and talent, by selling it like it is fried chicken at kfc.

The ascot is the new dickie.
Mo Rocca

Despite great promise, technology is dumbing down the classroom.

Take the much vaunted effort to close the "digital divide." Popularized by the Clinton administration, this initiative was aimed at the poor, who were supposedly being shut out of social and economic opportunities because they had fewer computers than wealthy families do. This campaign has been so appealing that, according to a recent U.S. Department of Education report, computers are now more prevalent in poor schools than in wealthy ones. Yet political and education leaders haven't stopped crying about this terrible "divide." Meanwhile, the schools' new technology riches took the real divide between rich and poor children -- the educational divide -- and widened it.

One of the most common selling points for computers in schools, even in first and second grades, is to prepare youngsters for tomorrow's increasingly high-tech jobs. Strangely, this may be the computer evangels' greatest hoax. When business leaders talk about what they need from new recruits, they hardly mention computer skills, which they find they can teach employees relatively easily on their own. Employers are most interested in what are sometimes called "soft" skills: a deep knowledge base and the ability to listen and communicate; to think critically and imaginatively; to read, write and figure, and other capabilities that schools are increasingly neglecting.

A mob of shoppers rushing for a sale on DVD players trampled the first woman in line and knocked her unconscious at a Wal-Mart Supercenter.