Mary Poppins – corrupter of youth
Metaphilm – Mary Poppins Mary Poppins Practical Citizenship for Toddlers : How Mary Poppins corrupts the minds of our good capitalist youth. Who knew! Where’s Senator Mccarthy to save the day?
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A few new things to Read and/or Gift.
via Slashdork : Locus magazine has published its 2003 Recommended Reading List of science fiction, fantasy, and related titles.
Hubble finds oxygen, carbon in faraway planet’s atmosphere
Hubble finds oxygen, carbon in faraway planet’s atmosphere The planet, nicknamed Osiris and known as HD 209458b, is a gas giant 150 lightyears from Earth. It orbits a star similar to the sun. This happen WAY faster than I expected.
The Orkut Identity system
Dave (aka Scripting News): writes about Orkut being their identity system. jeremy.zawodny speculates along similar lines as well. (actually jeremy was there first) They should not forget August 2009: How Google beat Amazon and Ebay to the Semantic Web on Continue reading The Orkut Identity system
Fire up your Windows Update, Microsoft Patches Serious IE Flaw
Microsoft finally released a patch for a dangerous vulnerability that lets attackers trick Internet users into visiting malicious sites. The flaw has been public knowledge for some time, but Microsoft (Security is Job None) failed to include a fix for Continue reading Fire up your Windows Update, Microsoft Patches Serious IE Flaw
2004 Super Bowl Ads
IFILM Super Bowl Ads Everything but Janet Jackson. Pretty disappointing this year. I liked : MasterCard, Homer Gets His Errands Done; FedEx : Alien Shipping (“All you need to Know”) (although Elicia loves their MBA commercial); the 7UP, Delivery Truck Continue reading 2004 Super Bowl Ads