Author: Dr Wingnut
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Thanks for calling:
Thank you for calling the White House switchboard. Our new voice-activated system will help direct you to the proper office.If you are calling to complain about the mishandling of the war in Iraq, press one.If you are calling to complain about the abuse of prisoners and the White House’s endorsement of torture, press two, and…
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Science Fiction
Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction.Ray Bradbury
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That Wacky Web
History of speech balloons in comicsBig Lego creationsNYC subway mosaicsThe Darwin Awards Now a feature film!How products were namedEric Grohe’s amazing three dimensional muralsGood Experience newsletter and other sources
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Truth
The history of our race, and each individual’s experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.Mark Twain
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Salesmanship
A young man from Minnesota moves to Florida and goes to a big “everything under one roof” department store looking for a job.The Manager says, “Do you have any sales experience?”The kid says “Yeah. I was a salesman back in Minnesota.”Well, the boss liked the kid and gave him the job. “You start tomorrow. I’ll…
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RUM August
Last night I went to my second Ruby Users of Minnesota meeting at the Loring Park Dunn Brothers. Seems like a nice bunch. Here’s what I learned about:There was a discussion about using Simply RESTful in rails applications. This technique uses all the transaction methods of the HTTP protocol instead of passing every CRUD action…
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Unintended consequences
We had no idea that this [the Internet] would turn into a global and public infrastructure.Vinton Cerf