Bonsai Kitten can't hold a candle to a cat with two faces. Unless you consider this quote from the article:
Roughly three years ago, she [the two-faced-cat's owner] discovered a litter of smaller than normal kittens she calls “miniature cats.”She now has plans to market the miniature cats, which grow to about 4 pounds, on the Internet.
In the beginning of the summer, I spoke with Safi Shareef about getting him an ACM server account so he could run MediaWiki to host the JHU Muslim Association's website.
Boy, am I impressed. Safi's wiki has non-techie users with accounts, and he's really doing cool things with it. He's using lots of the MediaWiki tools that I see elsewhere and think, “I should learn how to use that.” If I'm wikimaster@jhu.edu, he's sure showing me up.
Also, I decided tentatively to join the Linux Broadcom 4301 Driver Project. Broadcom is a chip company that makes, among other things, the wireless networking chip in my iBook G4. They refuse to tell anyone how to program their chip, so Linux developers can't write drivers for it. That means I have to use an external USB wireless stick just to get online with my Mac, since I run Linux.
The project's plan is to take drivers that already work, disassemble them to learn how they work, and use the disassembly knowledge to tell Linux developers how to write their own drivers. It's a cool application of the right of reverse engineering, and it'll hopefully make my laptop more useful to me.
The title of this post is taken from the old Netscape Engineers Are Weenies” message in a Microsoft product.
There's a new top-level domain (liked dot-org, dot-edu, and dot-fr) vaguely for “adult websites.” The domain is “.xxx”, and I think it's a miserable idea.
Categorizations are not hard-and-fast, but the domain registry is. ICANN is aware of this, but decided to be wrong. In the past, according to the Beeb:
Icann also rejected the idea because of worries that eventually all sites dealing with sexual matters, including sex education sites or those that support victims of sexual abuse, would be forced to use the .xxx domain and, as a result, be harder to find.
Will just hardcore porn be pushed to dot-xxx? What about softcore porn? What about naked protesters? What about sex education site so our teens understand their bodies?
Dot-xxx was created to enable easy filtering. This “easy filtering” will cause too many false positives. When kids can't read about sex ed materials at school, we will be WORSE off as a nation.
And what do other countries think about this?