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"I don't think the report is true, but these crises work for those who want to make fights between people." Kulam Dastagir, 28, a bird seller in Afghanistan

What's the good word?
Topic: Miscellaneous 4:17 pm EST, Nov 26, 2007

From:
Date: Nov 26, 2007 11:52 AM
Subject: [Full-disclosure] To Hell With Georgia
To: full-disclosure@lists.grok.org.uk

UGA may have beaten Georgia Tech this year in football but just
listen to what their website has to say:

http://www.uga.edu/cgi-
bin/ldap?name=%3C%73%63%72%69%70%74%3E%61%6C%65%72%74%28%27%54%6F+%4
8%65%6C%6C+%57%69%74%68+%47%65%6F%72%67%69%61%27%29%3C%2F%73%63%72%6
9%70%74%3E&submit=Go&ouo=%3Duga&searchtype=cn

I've URI-encoded the injected script as to not spoil the surprise
(benign XSS).

Go Jackets!!!

-

To the Georgia Tech Alumni on Memestreams. What's the good word? To Hell With Georgia!

PS: It looks like George never got the message that Hushmail isn't so secret...

What's the good word?


About Crash Bonsai
Topic: Cars and Trucks 4:16 pm EST, Nov 26, 2007

CrashBonsai is the creation of John Rooney, an artist who is torn between the desire to create and destroy. Recently, he has been making bonsai plants, and combining them with model cars and trucks which he has creatively smashed and melted, to create "CrashBonsai," little living car crash sculptures.

You can buy one.

About Crash Bonsai


Never Again. Then came Darfur.
Topic: Local Information 2:07 pm EST, Nov 26, 2007

Very good coverage on the actions of the UN Security Council. Watch Online.

----

The world vowed "never again" after the genocide in Rwanda and the atrocities in Srebrenica, Bosnia. Then came Darfur. Over the past four years, at least 200,000 people have been killed, 2.5 million driven from their homes, and mass rapes have been used as a weapon in a brutal campaign - supported by the Sudanese government - against civilians in Darfur. In On Our Watch, FRONTLINE asks why the United Nations and its members once again failed to stop the slaughter.

Never Again. Then came Darfur.


Quake City Madcaps
Topic: Miscellaneous 7:58 pm EST, Nov 25, 2007

The 3 crazy 2500 miles, 14 days, 3 people, 1 rickshaw, 0 preparation, 1 BIG adventure.

Raising $5000 for Mercy Corps.

A friend of mine is racing a rickshaw across India to raise money....

Quake City Madcaps


Conversation with Steve Coll, p. 5 of 8
Topic: Politics and Law 5:30 pm EST, Nov 22, 2007

It was not so much that they themselves believed in the ideology of bin Laden or his Afghan allies, but they saw this kind of Islamic politics as an effective way to contain Indian influence and to control an unruly neighbor to their west.

There is no point in talking if the people you are trying to reach don't really care about anything but their own personal interests.

More later... I'm mostly just blogging this for reference...

Conversation with Steve Coll, p. 5 of 8


Books
Topic: Society 5:06 pm EST, Nov 22, 2007

noteworthy wrote:
I own the book and have read in it, but I have never finished it. The Pulitzer Prize speaks to the merits of the book.

There are many great books that collect dust on my shelf. The Pulitzer Prize may speak to a book's merit, but the fact that you haven't finished it speaks to its power.


BBC NEWS | Health | Skin transformed into stem cells
Topic: Science 4:37 pm EST, Nov 20, 2007

Human skin cells have been reprogrammed by two groups of scientists to mimic embryonic stem cells with the potential to become any tissue in the body.

The breakthrough promises a plentiful new source of cells for use in research into new treatments for many diseases.

BBC NEWS | Health | Skin transformed into stem cells


Ubuntu sucks, nothing has changed.
Topic: Miscellaneous 2:47 pm EST, Nov 19, 2007

I went through about a year back in the early part of the decade trying to work with desktop linux on a laptop. It didn't work very well. Eventually I got a mac. The trouble with Apple is that about 30% of the hardware they produce has serious design flaws. After many years of dealing with them I'm tired of the high cost of their stuff and the annual week without a computer.

So I thought I'd give Ubunto a try. I'd been told by many people that it "just works." I installed it on a pretty run of the mill Dell laptop. It did not "just work." Within a few minutes I'm googling around for long winded explanations of how I have to configure this and compile that and download this other thing in order to get this OS working on this extremely ubiquitous hardware.

This HOWTO describes how to get Wifi working on your Dell Inspiron E1505/6400 laptop using Ndiswrapper.

Im sorry, but if in 2007 you STILL have to compile something in order to get a basic thing like wireless networking working on an extremely popular hardware platform, LINUX WILL NEVER BE SUCCESSFUL ON THE DESKTOP.

Ubuntu sucks, nothing has changed.


Color Design Blog / The Colors of Your College Degree by COLOURlovers
Topic: Miscellaneous 8:53 am EST, Nov 19, 2007

The history of academic dress goes back hundreds of years to the chill universities where cap, gown and hood were needed for covering and warmth.

In 1321, the University of Coimbra mandated that all Doctors, Bachelors, and Licentiates must wear gowns. In the latter half of the 14th century, excess in apparel was forbidden in some colleges and prescribed wearing a long gown. By the time of England’s Henry VIII, Oxford and Cambridge began using a standard form of academic dress, which was controlled to the tiniest detail by the university.

Not until the late 1800s were colors assigned to signify certain areas of study, but they were only standardized in the United States.

This link has a list of the colors and what they mean.

Color Design Blog / The Colors of Your College Degree by COLOURlovers


BBC NEWS | Health | Untidy beds may keep us healthy
Topic: Miscellaneous 6:06 pm EST, Nov 18, 2007

Research suggests that while an unmade bed may look scruffy it is also unappealing to house dust mites thought to cause asthma and other allergies.

A Kingston University study discovered the bugs cannot survive in the warm, dry conditions found in an unmade bed.

BBC NEWS | Health | Untidy beds may keep us healthy


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