14 October 2003

$87,000,000,000.00 How big is $87 billion? 2:13:00 PM    comment []  trackback []

The top ten most dangerous jobs in America. "Many hazardous jobs are well-paid"  Hardly profound... 2:10:20 PM    comment []  trackback []

10 Worst Cartoon Characters Of All Time Scrappy-Doo makes it, obviously. 2:05:47 PM    comment []  trackback []

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Vatican: condoms don't stop Aids D'oh! 1:58:17 PM    comment []  trackback []

US soldiers bulldoze farmers' crops 'Asked how much his lost orchard was worth, Nusayef Jassim said in a distraught voice: "It is as if someone cut off my hands and you asked me how much my hands were worth." ' 1:54:43 PM    comment []  trackback []

Joel on Software - The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!) Now you know. 1:49:27 PM    comment []  trackback []

Many soldiers, same letter "Newspapers around U.S. get identical missives from Iraq" In no way related to the fact that "The Bush administration is engaged in a broad campaign to boost what polls show is sagging public support for the occupation in Iraq"? Meanwhile, Army probes soldier suicides. 12:40:27 PM    comment []  trackback []

The Observer | Review | The 100 greatest novels of all time: The list "The Observer has compiled its own list of essential fiction from the past 300 years." 12:21:36 PM    comment []  trackback []

Not Tonight, Honey. I'm Logging On. "Internet porn is everywhere; even “nice” guys are hooked. So where does that leave their girlfriends?"  “I’ll ask, ‘What did you do last night?’ and they say, ‘I was up till five in the morning jerking off to the Internet.’ It’s just like, ‘Oh, whatever.’ ”  “Our research has shown that if you spend more than eleven hours a week looking at Internet pornography, then it is starting to become problematic.” 12:07:53 PM    comment []  trackback []