Archive for August 11th, 2003

UNIX v LINUX Lawsuit Explained

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glasscastle - August 11, 2003 @ 11:22 pm · ESL Links

Confused by the ongoing lawsuit over UNIX code in LINUX?
Not certain what small-cap SCO Group, copyright holder
on the most popular flavor of UNIX, is trying to get out of LINUX booster
IBM? Worried
because last week, SCO announced the kind of fees it wants to collect
from individual LINUX users– $699 per
Linux
desktop
PC?

Hiawatha Bray explains all in his Boston Globe "Upgrade" column. In plain English. The
bottom line? Not to worry.

from the Boston
Globe

Women Untouchable with Electro-Armor

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glasscastle - August 11, 2003 @ 4:02 pm · ESL Links

Shocking New
Jacket Hits Street

A new anti-assault device for women wards off potential assailants
with an 80,000-volt electric shock.

Dubbed "exo-electric armor," the No-Contact
Jacket looks like an ordinary fashionable women’s coat. But an inner
layer of conductive fiber carries a low-amp
charge that delivers a nasty but non-lethal shock to anyone who messes with its
wearer.

"It’s kind of like sticking your finger in a wall socket," said
Adam Whiton, an industrial designer at MIT and one of the jacket’s inventors.

from
Wired

Chile Chilly to Bikini Cafes

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glasscastle - August 11, 2003 @ 11:56 am · Wacky News

Chilean politicians are campaigning to close around 100 coffee
bars where waitresses wear bikinis.

Santiago congresswoman Maria Antonieta
Saa says the non-alcoholic cafes appeal to the "depraved simplicity" of
men’s minds. She said: "On the surface, they’re selling coffee, but
really they’re selling women’s bodies”. from
Ananova

Bentley Grad Finally Leaves Liberia

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glasscastle - August 11, 2003 @ 9:42 am · Wacky News

The New York Times is reporting that Bentley College grad and EX-Liberian President Charles Taylor has finally left office. What a week for delayed departures: first Billy Bulger and now Charles Taylor……latest
from the New York Times

Schwartznegger as Hamlet

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glasscastle - August 11, 2003 @ 12:48 am · ESL Links

Funny British take on Arnold’s chances in California:

“Okay, Arnold’s not a Nazi. He was born in the Austrian town of Thal, but not until 1947, and thus was technically unable to join the Nazi Party no matter how much he may have wanted to. But he certainly has family ties to the Nazis. His wife’s grandfather, Joe Kennedy, was one of America’s most prominent Nazi sympathisers.

Oh, wait. That’s not the Nazi family ties the Dems had in mind?”

by Mark Steyn in the London Telegraph

Rare Triple Play in MLB

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glasscastle - August 11, 2003 @ 12:27 am · Wacky News

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Atlanta Braves shortstop Rafael Furcal
turned the 12th unassisted triple play in major league history Sunday
night against the St. Louis Cardinals .

With runners on first and second in the fifth inning, Furcal made a leaping
grab of pitcher Woody Williams ‘ liner. The runners were going on a 1-1
pitch, and Furcal stepped on second base to double up Mike Matheny before
tagging out Orlando Palmeiro as he made a futile attempt to scamper back
to first.
from YahooSports