New Framley Examiner

It's the 25th anniversary edition.
Excellent small town local paper stuff!

SCO's FUD missiles rain down on the infidel

"Particularly controversial was the claim that SCO had the capability to launch a wave of invoices within 45 minutes of an outbreak of licence infringement."

This was flatly contradicted by intelligence reports, which insisted that the only weapons in the company's armoury were a few elderly FUD missiles and the odd bluster bomb."

Like Grimy Handshake, only less contained

Mike Ferrentino - probably the world's best ginger haired Kiwi cycling columnist.

LISTENER: A book for the Internet in sixty entries

Oooh - new book. Reads a bit like Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency on acid. Well, _more_ acid than it was initially. Long wait looks highly likely - early 2005 by author's estimate. Author deadline estimates of any sort are usually about as reliable as that of a gas fitter, by the way. No offence to the chap himself.

Luckily, Neal Stephenson's latest, Quicksilver, finally comes out on October 2nd. And not before time. I can't even remember how long ago Cryptonomicon came out, but I'm on my third copy of the book at the moment. The first one was an early casualty to the (now) ex, and the other kind of just wore out...

Please,

Buy my Bike. I haven't any more room to store it when I move, so it has to go.

Dubya update

AP

Looks like Sara's visit with Dubya is off. The Bush family jewels are safe for another day.

Freshman's nuclear fusion reactor

Fun with fusion: and to think all my GCSE science classes at school involved Fun With Bunsen Burners, and the chem teacher accidentally gassing us all with Chlorine...

Mobile phones suck

Via Boing Boing, a good, funny bit on why mobile phones bite:

Things That Go Beep In the Night.

Nokia gave me a 6800 to try out about three months ago, and while everybody has raved about the cunning fold out keyboard, I still can't get my email set up on it.
For some reason, Vodafone only seems to support certain ISPs, hosting providers and POP configurations. Why is it so difficult to get something that simply offers Bluetooth, GPRS and support for SyncML? And no, I don't mean a T68i...

Pop quiz

What would you ask your colleague to do for you if you learned they were going to breakfast in Washington D C with Carleton S. (Carly) Fiorina and President George W. Bush?
We decided to ask Sara to Ro Sham Bo George for the keys to Air Force One.
Harj just wanted her to kick Dubya in the nuts as hard as possible.