Wish people would stop taking themselves so seriously and start having a sense of humor. I mean, otherwise, you are just inviting people to make fun of you. Think about it, nobody makes fun of people who can laugh at themselves.

On a lighter note, they’re proably inviting Cohen over so they can behead him on video

Also,
“It’s a shame that some Americans will probably believe what they see there,” is funny because its more plausible than you might think. (If you don’t get it, don’t worry about it buddy.)

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They discovered that women whose antibody count was high – suggesting a substantial infection – had a much higher chance of having baby boys. In most populations the birth rate is around 51% boys, but women infected with toxoplasma had up to a 72% chance of a boy.

Source: Boing Boing: Cat parasite leads to more boy babies

Statistic are bloody stupid – a sample of 2000, phuf! The first sampling which indicated 51% might have been off, or this one coupled with a bad flu season. Fucking statisticians! I say we should enlist them in the army and test the effects of various munitions on them. That study will incidicate that 100% of statisticians subjected to a grenade up their ass are expected to meet a gory end. Also the study will show a 100% drop in statistics courses in colleges.

Full 43 pages of Vol VI of the fatawa Dar al-Ulum, Deoband are devoted to considering what breaks the roza fast and what does not. Mufti Kifayatullah gives a very qualified ruling on watching wrestling or kabaddi, “To see wrestling in such a way that private parts come to be seen is “na-jaiz”. Maulana Ahmed Riza Khan’s fulminations against doing anything which entails association with kafirs, Hindus in this case, extend over more than a hundred quarto-sized pages of closely packed text. These fatwas are grouped under the heading “Nafrat ke Ahkam” “The Ordinances of Hatred”. (P.245)

Chapter 6 entitled “Women and Shariah” is an exhaustive study of the man- woman or the husband and wife equation; and redundant to add that “the husband is always the master”. A woman is wickedest thing. And “when excited, she is a hundred times more passionate than man… A woman is “mom ki naak” (white hot tip of the candle), “balki raal ki pudiya” (a tight little packet of resin), “balki barood ki dibiya” (in fact a packet of explosives). If she is brought near a spark (of temptation) it will explode. She is defective in reason as well as in faith. And by nature she is crooked. (p.289) Which is why the husband has the power the absolute, unconditional power to exercise talaq for which he is not accountable to anyone on earth – to throw the wife out by just uttering the word talaq. (p.292). The chapter is replete with hundreds of examples of talaq, and every time the husband stands victor and superior.

Source: INDOlink Book & Media Review :THE WORLD OF FATWAS

I don’t know where you could get the book or if Mr. Shourie plans on publishing an electronic version, but I am sure if enough people are interested, Mr. Shourie could work something out.

Other than that, nothing extraordinary about it other than, nice colors and a sidebar to keep monkeys busy. I’ld still use BlogJet and hey, wonder what’s up with w.Bloggar and Marcelo…..

…. just checked, it seems his site was down again and is now up, barebones.

Top 10 Lies told to Naive Artists and Designers.

After 16 years in InfoTech, working as an employee, owning a business and freelancing, I can’t tell you how much of this post rings true for naïve programmers.

A variation or rather, an extension to #3 (“Do this for us and you’ll get great exposure…”) is where they try to convince you that your program will tap into this unexploited niche market and that they, as one of the insiders in this industry will try to sell the software for you. They even turn around and ask you to pay them to get this opportunity to tap into this vast business opportunity.

Right.

Student Shelly Rupp, 16, said she heard five shots and ran out of the school, but turned around and saw Mr Klang as he was shot.

“He was laying on the ground in the hallway. He had just a pile of blood by his leg,” she told the Associated Press news agency.

BBC NEWS | Americas | US head teacher shot in Wisconsin.

16 years old? In high school? Pile of blood?

Looking at all the laptops out there, I wonder about a few things; the speakers for instance. Who the hell is using these? I think laptop manufacturers should offer machines without speakers, just a single low-fi speaker like the ones in cell phones. No one can be serious about playing music on a laptop! At least in the work \ office segment. And put a damn volume \ on-off wheel on there for heaven’s sake!

Batteries and wall-warts! Integrate! Integrate! Integrate! I’ld rather have the battery and the transformer in one package, even if that means that the battery will only pump juice for about say 30 minutes. Think about it; these days one isn’t too far from a power outlet; airports, restaurants, etc. For instance, my laptop primarily runs off the mains. At most I might run it off the battery for maybe 10–15 minutes while I check email or something during a lay-over. Battery+transformer would be perfect! Hell, throw in a retractable cord too!

As an option, offer a “snap-on” battery pack, like those ugly things for iPods! So if you need the juice, there you go. If not snap-on, just a plug-in thingy; lets call it “strap-on” hee-hee.

And stop making those damn “notebook mice”. WTF! Just because you are using a notebook, does you hand get smaller? And is it really that much of a difference between the smaller notebook mouse and the regular ones? Instead, a notebook mouse should be a wired mouse (no batteries, no hassles, get it!) with a retractable cord or a short cord just about a foot and a half or so.

And now that you have a regular sized mouse, build a little storage compartment in there for the ear buds. Or not; who wants to have to stuff a pair in there, I’ld just throw them into the bag and be done with it. You use those for music and stuff while you are working, connected to an outlet – note, not while on the go – that is what mp3 players are for!

So without the big battery how do you enjoy movies on the flight while seated in coach? You don’t! Whoever “enjoyed” watching a movie on a laptop? Fuck it, read a book or catch a nap instead. Do yourself and your neighbour a favour! But if you still need to watch a movie, get yourself an iPod or a PSP or something. Don’t be bothering everyone with your laptop; because then you will hog the arm-rests as well as figet all over the place getting you shit unpacked and packed again!

One last thing, manufacturers, please switch to those way-cool slot drive for discs – I hate that tray !