For some strange reason, out of the blue, Jed sent me this through ICQ. It’s a surprisingly catchy children’s song by Chantal Goya rendered in Shockwave, and although my French is a little rusty, it seems to be about a rabbit who shot some hunters with a gun. It’s silly. Here’s Google’s not-quite-right translation of what she’s singing.
A smorgasbord of photographs. And yes, that’s me in the Viking helmet. I was at a night of improv comedy with the Penn State Monty Python Society, and at times like that it’s best to blend in and act silly.
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Incredible, absolutely incredible. A mother sends ashes to have her son’s student loan discharged, and the loan officers mistake it for anthrax.
Found via Boing Boing.
The first snowfall of the season
is a wet and messy affair, shortlived,
of little consequence,
and interrupted quickly by the sun.
There is little evidence to suggest a repeat performance.
And yet, for those few moments, we are like children again,
gawking at windows, amazed it is this cold,
anxious and afraid for the winter we know is coming.
We have had no warning,
and we are not dressed warmly enough for this.
Over at Metafilter, in an unrelated post, someone named yarf writes:
Google will be taken to court someday and its cache will go away. Why? Because its clearly a copyright violation when some company makes a copy of my work and profits from that copy. Google is a for-profit company and makes money from advertising. Their cache service is making a copy of my content, without my permission, and serving it to users, again, without my permission. This is completely different than a local cached copy made automatically by your browser for technical reasons, versus a server-based copy made by some third-party company for the enhancement of their services. I’m just surprised it hasn’t gone to court yet.
I have absolutely no idea how to respond to that, and I genuinely like Google as a search engine, but I think he just might be right.