Recent reading: Julian Sanchez (and those whom he links, and so on) on the specter of conscription. Will Wilkinson‘s argument (from last summer) is especially readworthy.
netfilter project was granted a preliminary injunction against Sitecom GmbH
“To my knowledge, this is the first case in which a judicial decision has been decreed on the applicability and the validity of the GNU GPL”, says Dr. Till Jaeger, partner of the Berlin and Munich based law firm JBB Rechtsanwaelte that represented the netfilter/iptables project in the litigation.
Wanting to learn about database programming, it occurred to me to resume work on my fullerene search code. I’m a bit surprised to find that I haven’t touched it in two years.
Speaking of surprises – Angel the vampire had (as far as I can see) the same makeup in Buffy as in his own series, so it’s odd that Harmony’s is completely different. I liked the Sunnydale version better.
Debra of Wolfesblog reports:
the federal government (you know, the guys who swear they’re doing ‘everything possible’ to protect the beef supply) does not allow such private testing for mad cow disease.
Perhaps that should read “to protect the beef suppliers“.
I used to sneer at those so tone-deaf as to mistake the soundtrack of Conan the Barbarian (1982) for Carl Orff’s arrangement of the Carmina Burana. (Which, by the way, ought to be pronounced cármina, not carmîna.)
This last Frinight I was at the Paramount theater in Oakland to see Monty Python and the Holy Grail in a slightly longer edit than usual; and before it there was shown a trailer for Conan with, guess what, the Orff. I gather it’s common for movie trailers to be made before the feature’s soundtrack is complete, requiring the trailer’s music to be borrowed from elsewhere.
Continuing to catch up on events in Sunnydale, I find the writing sloppier in season 5. My remarks at greater length. Another fan replies:
When Buffy was rockin’ this sort of trivia didn’t matter. The show was about Buffy’s tears, Xander’s angst, Willow’s neuroses, Giles’ inhibitions.