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Friday, March 05, 2004

Creating Two Million New Jobs With A Linkdump

APOD: 2004 March 5 - V838 Mon: Echoes from the Edge
Variable star V838 Monocerotis lies near the edge of our Milky Way Galaxy, about 20,000 light-years from the Sun.
jwz - it’s martian! it’s meme-o-riffic!
What if the Mars rovers were 15 year old girls? spiritrover + opportunitygrrl.
Ohio Salad Arrives With Piece of a Thumb
“Red Robin spokesman Dwayne Chambers said that employees, in their haste to get the injured man to a doctor, failed to follow the chain’s procedures and throw out all food in the area.”
Internal memo proves that SCO is Microsoft’s sock puppet
“We now know that Microsoft raised at least $86 million for SCO, but according to the SCO conference call … their cash reserves were $68.5 million. If not for Microsoft, SCO would be at least $15 million in debt today.”
Bruce Sterling: Strategic Insights from the Zarqster
“This letter is just amazingly sinister, malicious, bonkers, and cynical. It reads like a crazed supervillain from a Fu Manchu episode.”
intendo: mindset in stone
“But why sell the company jet to pick up a moniker that suits your brand? Simply enter your name, choose your values and your goals and, Hey Prestognia!, your new name will be automatically displayed - absolutely free of charge.”
EFA files for bankruptcy
Big dance music distributor fails, it might take a lot of smaller labels with it. :(
Seniors Brawl After Salad Bar Dispute
A dispute at the salad bar turned into a food fracas at an upscale retirement home, with a man taking a bite out of another’s arm and other residents suffering minor injuries.
Unicode Checker 1.6 (Quarter Life Crisis)
Earthlingsoft’s quite useful swiss-army-knife application for dealing with character encoding gets a major update.
10th Anniversary of the Original Green Card Lottery Spam
I was around for this. It was the shitstorm to end all shitstorms. If only we’d known what kind of nightmare was going to follow it. The original seems almost quaint in its limited spread, and the way the sender used his own email address to send it.