Americans Throw Subways into the Sea
Today must be the day of the absurd - disposing of asbestos-contaminated subway cars in the sea is completely insane even by American standards.
Archive 14. August 2003
Reader-Submitted: Fox "News" claims sole use of "fair and balanced"
What? Of all people, the warmongers at Fox News claim a trademark on "fair and balanced" and try to prevent the publication of a book that strongly criticizes right-wing media? Absurd.
At Morons Dot Org you can find the original article.
SCO declares GPL invalid
This is really audacious now: they release software under a license that explicitly permits free distribution and use. This fact is actually well-known in the industry - so one would think that this license choice by SCO for their own distribution was deliberate. Nobody forced SCO to distribute their distribution. At that time, the GPL was quite convenient for them. But now they simply sit down and declare the GPL unilaterally (and retroactively) invalid. Idiots.
At heise online news there's the original article.
Power Outage in American Northeast
Funny - the entire American Northeast and parts of Canada are without power. The pictures from New York are already absurd: thousands of people trudging among the cars on the streets, the whole thing reminds you a bit of an anthill.
Then they should start training midwives diligently, in 9 months they'll probably be urgently needed in larger quantities.
The current rumor about the cause is incidentally an overload of the hydroelectric power plant at Niagara Falls.
WyPy - Wiki in Python
Probably the shortest wiki in Python, just 23 lines of highly unreadable and cryptic source code. And thus proof that Python's mandatory indentation in no way prevents the creation of stupid code. Here you can find the original article.