A Day in Paradise

As you may know, it’s a sin for a Taliban male to see a woman other than his wife, naked. He must commit suicide if he does. So this Saturday at 4 P.M. eastern time, all American women are asked to walk out of their houses, completely naked, to weed out any terrorists in your […]

Hiro Nakamura from heroes is actually a code warrior in real life. His profile can be found at this great wired article.
“I’ve been programming computers since elementary school, where they taught us, and I stuck with computer science through high school and college,” said Oka. “ILM offered me an entry-level position at its Marin, California, […]

… and wearing a kilt

From the Perl Foundation Blog

This week the Perl community lost one of its long time contributors, Nick Ing-Simmons, who died of a heart attack on Monday September 25th 2006.
Nick joined the Perl community in the early days of Perl 5. He consistently contributed to the perl5-porters mailing list and later became pumpkin for 5.003_02 where […]

Gail Orenstein is currently on a shoot in israel, blogging and posting pictures on her flickr stream. Worth a look!

Our favorite BDFL talks about PHP on the most recent issue of FLOSS Weekly. Nice easy-going discussion about the genesis of PHP as well as other related technologies.
A couple of interesting tidbits:

PHP/FI was a joke on TCP/IP
Rasmus doesn’t like PHP as an acronym, “PHP is just PHP”. They joke about People Hate Perl and […]

www.myspace.com/rayzingsons
Some FUNKY Metal. While obviously not for everyone, these guys have a pretty awesome sound.
Found these guys through Accident Hash Summer Time Speed Trap 2.

We created this multi-lingual version of the Star-Spangled Banner to raise awareness of Senate Resolution 458 and House Resolution 793, which state that English is the only language in which our National Anthem should be sung or recited. This resolution was unanimously passed by the Senate and is currently before the House Judiciary Committee.
We find […]

World news from The Times and the Sunday Times - Times Online
And finally a bit of good news…
Three Western peace workers held hostage in Iraq, including retired British professor Norman Kember, were freed today in a special forces operation near Baghdad after four months in captivity.
Details of the operation early this morning are still […]