July 22, 2003
SCO Must Die
I don't know how many of my readers have been following the recent kerfuffle over SCO (The Santa Cruz Organisation) suing IBM for more than $1 billion. SCO alleges that IBM took code that SCO owned and put it into Linux.
Yesterday SCO's share price rose on news that they had registered copyright on the Unix source - a completely meaningless step. Copyright registration merely says they you filed a copy of the work with the copyright office on a particular date. Unlike patent or trademark registration, it says nothing at all about whether you actually have any legal right to the work. SCO's claim against IBM is nebulous - perhaps deliberately so. It is partly based on copyright, partly based on patents, partly based on trade secrets. So far SCO has not publically produced any evidence to support any part of their claim. Instead, they have moved directly to making not-at-all veiled threats towards Linux users: Pay us or we'll sue you too. It's pretty clear why SCO has taken this route: The company is doomed. Back in the day, SCO had a good and competitive product. Take a high-end PC - say, a 386/33, or later a 486/50, add a Stallion board (a popular multi-port serial card) and a bunch of Wyse 60 terminals, install SCO, and you had a capable multi-user system for a lot less money than the proprietary Unix boxes of the day, and much less money than a traditional mini-computer. A lot of small-to-medium businesses ran the company on SCO. In recent years, though, SCO has been caught between Windows NT - a cow of an operating system, but reasonably stable and backed by Microsoft's marketing department - and Linux, which is not only a substantially better system than SCO, but is free. There's no way out for SCO. There are no opportunities left. The only people still on SCO are legacy users - those who have always run on SCO, who have SCO-trained technical staff, and those who need an application that hasn't yet been ported to Linux. So SCO went where the money is, and sued IBM. It's quite possible that they don't expect to win the lawsuit, but are looking instead to get bought out as part of a settlement. IBM don't appear to by playing according to SCO's script, however, and have told them to get knotted. So now SCO have turned on Linux users, suggesting that they may be legally vulnerable if they continue to use Linux without paying SCO. This, without any case going to court, much less being proven. SCO have also issued warnings aimed at Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, saying that he too may be liable. So in a short period of time, SCO have managed to make deadly enemies of every geek on the planet and IBM, which is not a good combination. On their side, they have Microsoft, who have listed Linux as their number two threat (after the sagging world economy). Microsoft recently - as in, after the lawsuit - paid SCO an undisclosed amount for a Unix license. Note that Microsoft do not sell Unix. The remaining factor to this mess is that SCO is not a large company. Their market capitalisation is less than the likely tax they aim to extract from Linux users all over the world. In other words, to Linux users, it would be cheaper - and better in the long term - to buy SCO and close it down than to pay the tax. It's just a pity that no-one thought to do this six months ago when their stock was in the toilet.Posted by: Pixy Misa at 01:37 PM | Comments (62) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
A Maze of Words
When else the purple hippos fly,
I often stop to wonder why:
Why antlers only wear one boot,
Why libraries do not take root,
How people walk their marzipan,
How mice are greater yet than man,
Where turnips grow when I stand up,
What cornflour should I feed a pup,
Which eiderdown I lost at sea,
When all things meaningless to me,
Are spinning gently, feeling ill,
Nurse says it's time to take my pill.
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Absinthe & Cookies
Meanwhile, in non-Frank-related news, A Gaggle of Gals (& One Guy) has given itself a fresh coat of paint and changed its name to Absinthe & Cookies. Still as rewarding as ever, so pop over and say Hi to Ith!
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Frnak, Evil Overlord of IAMO
Kevin at Wizbang notes my interest in the Frnak meme.
The reason behind this is simple: Frnak is a much cooler name than Frank. Let's see what the dictionary says:frank (frngk)frngk? It's pronounced frngk?
adj. frank·er, frank·estThough I think we're Frank enough already, I'll allow this.
1. Open and sincere in expression; straightforward: made several frank remarks about the quality of their work.Yes, that's him alright.
2. Clearly manifest; evident: frank enjoyment.As long as he doesn't enjoy himself too much.
tr.v. franked, frank·ing, franks 1. 1. To put an official mark on (a piece of mail) so that it can be sent free of charge.Well, there you go! You don't need to buy stamps anymore - Frank will look after that for you!
2. To send (mail) free of charge.
2. To place a stamp or mark on (a piece of mail) to show the payment of postage.
3. To enable (a person) to come and go freely. n. 1. 1. A mark or signature placed on a piece of mail to indicate the right to send it free of charge.
2. The right to send mail free.
2. A franked piece of mail.
[Middle English, free, from Old French franc, from Late Latin Francus, Frank. See Frank.]Hang on, are you saying Frank is an old french guy? Or that he's a dead Italian? I really don't think he's English...
frank (frngk)There's that frngk again. Sounds like a sick heron.
n. Informal A frankfurter.Frankfurter. Also known as a wiener.
Frank (frngk)Bless you!
n. A member of one of the Germanic tribes of the Rhine region in the early Christian era, especially one of the Salian Franks who conquered Gaul about A.D. 500 and established an extensive empire that reached its greatest power in the ninth century.I bet that Frank was only able to conquer Gaul because they didn't have ninjas. All the sloths and platypi were probably on vacation at the time, too.
frank \Frank\, n. [OF. franc.] A pigsty. [Obs.]Aha! Paydirt! Frank is a pigsty. And obsolete.
frank \Frank\, v. t. To shut up in a frank or sty; to pen up; hence, to cram; to fatten. [Obs.] --Shak.Frank is Shakespeare? I'm not sure what they're getting at here. Anyway:
frank \Frank\, n. (Zo["o]l.) The common heron; -- so called from its note. [Prov. Eng.]I knew it! Frank is a heron! Or his parents were herons. Or he was named after a heron. Possibly a heron with a bad cold. Frngk!
frank \Frank\, a. [Compar Franker; superl. Frankest.] [F. franc free, frank, L. Francus a Frank, fr. OHG. Franko the name of a Germanic people on the Rhine, who afterward founded the French monarchy; cf. AS. franca javelin, Icel. frakka. Cf. Franc, French, a., Franchise, n.]And now the truth emerges! Frank founded the French monarchy! But beware of Frank, lest one of his trained herons throw a javelin at you! (Frank owns the French javelin franchise, so he has lots of money to spend on trained herons.)
frank 2. A native or inhabitant of Western Europe; a European; -- a term used in the Levant.Uh-oh! Better not let Buck the Marine know about that, Frank! Now, let's see what the dictionary has to say about Frnak:
Nothing.Yes, Frnak the Evil Overlord keeps his secrets well. Though interestingly enough, the dictionary suggests that I may be thinking of frink:
frink /frink/ The unknown ur-verb, fill in your own meaning. FoundDoes this mean Frnak has the lemurs working for him? Are they a match for Frank's trained javelin-hurling herons? Only time will tell.
especially on the Usenet newsgroup news:alt.fan.lemurs,
where it is said that the lemurs know what "frink" means, but
they aren't telling.
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July 21, 2003
Jennifer's History and Stuff
Blog of the Day is Jennifer's History and Stuff:
Apparently I am pretty morbid, because while I was on vacation, I went into the book store in Hayward, Wisconsin and saw two books side-by-side. One was titled "Sex: a User's Guide." The other, "Death: a User's Guide." I had limited funds available, and wanted both but could not justify buying both. So I had to choose. I chose "Death." (I already know all about sex, heh heh. J/K.)Lots of history, much of it relating to past presidents:
James Monroe, President 1817-1825. Liberia was founded by the American Colonization Society in an attempt to return freed slaves to Africa. Motives behind the society ranged from getting rid of "the negro problem" in America, to spreading religions, to sincerely returning blacks back to their native land. As a result, Liberia was heavily influenced by American culture. The capital city, Monrovia, was named after the fifth American President James Monroe who was a major supporter of the society.But not all:
For one thing, the brain was removed from mummies and discarded because the Egyptians didn't see any point to that particular organ. The heart was thought to be the location of memory and intellect. I always knew the Egyptians kept the heart in its place while placing other organs (liver, lungs, intestines, and stomach) in canopic jars. I also knew the brain was, er, scraped out rather unceremoniously through the nose or from behind an eye and thrown out. I just never realized why.Links too, of course, including this one to a delightful exchange on Susie's blog that I somehow missed. Jennifer's History and Stuff: Tell 'em Pixy sent ya.
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Soundtrack
Apple have introduced a new package called Soundtrack. It's a music creation system like Sonic Foundry's Acid, which is what I've used to make what you'll find here.
Two things occurred to me when I found this product: First, how much does it cost; second, where am I going to get loops for it? (Loops are the little snippets of sound that you can assemble into music: A particular chord progression on an acoustic guitar; a two-second drumbeat sequence; a synth arpeggio.) Sonic Foundry have a lot of loops available. What will Apple provide? As to the first question, at $499 it seemed a bit pricy... Until I realised that I'd come to Apple's Australian web site, so that was my dollars, not US dollars. US price is $299, which is pretty reasonable; ACID Pro 4.0 sells for US $399, though you can get the very capable Acid Music 3.0 for just US $79. (Currently US$1 = A$1.50.) As for the loops, Soundtrack comes with a library of 4,000 loops. That's pretty impressive; they come on a DVD-ROM and will take up 5GB of your hard disk. Not satisfied with that, Apple also fully support Acid loops - so my existing loop library can be used in Soundtrack. Since Acid is the only software - apart from games - that I had to run on Windows, this is a major breakthrough. I can now do all my work on Unix - MacOS X on the desktop, Linux on my servers. (The database system I use isn't available for MacOS X as yet.) What a pity then that I don't have the $5,599 for that dual G5 Mac. Sigh. Hey, Apple! Would you like someone to write a really in depth review of your latest systems? No, thought not.Posted by: Pixy Misa at 09:25 AM | Comments (66) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
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Bow Down Before Frnak
It would seem that the Frnak meme is spreading. Get yours today!
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July 20, 2003
Blessed Be
Frnak has a long post in praise of Glenn Reynolds and Kevin of Wizbang.
Go read it!Posted by: Pixy Misa at 11:56 PM | Comments (70) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
Flappy Me
All my life I've wanted to flyI'm a Flappy Bird!
Like the birds that you see way up in the sky.
Making circles in the morning sun,
Rising high in the sky 'til the day is done.
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Ramblings of SilverBlue
Blog of the Day is Ramblings of SilverBlue:
I've been giving this blog entry some consideration for several weeks. I have an acquaintance who is so airheaded, she would lose her ass if it weren't at the top of her legs. Before you ask, yes she is blonde. And forgetful. She forgets to pay her house payment. She forgets to let the dogs out. She forgets that her husband might want sex now and then. She forgets to do the dishes, to drain the sink, to answer the phone, but she knows how to email, how to use YahooMessenger (and others), and how to eat. She forgets to wear underwear, and when she does remember, it's normally some loud colour under white clothing. She forgets to put her fake hair on straight. To correct her mascara where it's smudged. Worse yet, she forgets to wipe the lipstick off her teeth. Good thing her head doesn't have a cork, or it'd deflate. Now, stop laughing and do something productive.It's hard to describe this blog - or even find a representative quote, because it's all over the map. In a good way.
Ok, so I'm jumping on every bandwagon possible ... and some that probably aren't possible. Here's a poll. Unless you are from Florida, you know how these things work.Rants, lists, pictures, links (I'll leave you to find Sumpoosie by yourself) - everything a respectable blog needs is there. This ain't no respectable blog, though: This is Ramblings of SilverBlue.
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Ready Please, Mr Music!
I've removed the disfunctional Bloglets subscription thingy and replaced it with a link to some of my work. First up are two albums of my music, Crunchy Frog Blues and What Dance Dance Kitten Did On Her Holiday. I've re-ripped them as 160Kb/s mp3s and oggs, so they should sound better than ever - but not to me, because the cord on my good headphones just broke (waaah!)
In coming weeks, I'll post the rest of my music, some (ugh!) poetry, and chapters from my novels. Look for it!Posted by: Pixy Misa at 08:52 PM | Comments (64) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
Crunchy Frog Blues
| track | title | time |
mp3 | ogg | story | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Long Dry Summer | ||||||
| 1 | Crunchy Frog Blues | 1:38 |
1.9mb | 1.9mb | The frogs are blue because their pond is drying up. The grass and leaves are all dry and crunchy, and if rain doesn't come soon, the frogs will be crunchy too. | |
| 2 | Tequila Mockingbird | 3:20 |
4.0mb | 3.6mb | The mockingbird has left his tree for the big city, and can often been found in his favourite bar drinking tequila and listening to jazz and blues. | |
| 3 | Stir-Fried Grasshopper | 2:08 |
2.5mb | 2.6mb | Damn, that grasshopper is noisy! The summer heat has fried his brain and now he just sings all day long. | |
| 4 | Electric Ant | 2:31 |
3.0mb | 2.7mb | While the grasshopper plays, the industrious ants are busy working... Except for this one! This ant is electric, and she and her friends are making groovy music down in the basement of the ant hill. (Besides, it's cooler in the basement.) | |
| 5 | Weasel Stomp | 2:48 |
3.3mb | 3.3mb | We all know how weasels love to dance. Right? Right! The weasels have got together for a midsummer party. Let's make the floor shake! | |
| 6 | Call of the Aardvark | 2:08 |
2.5mb | 2.4mb | The weasels can party, but some of us have to work. Such is life for the aardvark. But at last it's Friday, and time for Mr Aardvark to head on home. | |
| 7 | Bees and Butterflies | 2:48 |
3.3mb | 3.5mb | The rains are late, and the bees and butterflies alike are suffering. A touching ballad about the plight of the insect life. | |
| The Big Wet | ||||||
| 8 | Rain Dance | 6:00 |
7.2mb | 7.2mb | All the birds and animals and insects have got together to perform a rain dance to bring in the wet. But will they succeed? | |
| 9 | Bugtown Boogie | 3:45 |
4.5mb | 5.0mb | The rains have come at last, and all the bugs in Bugtown are boogieing their little hearts out. (Do insects have hearts? Well, these ones do!) | |
| 10 | Return of the Electric Ant | 5:20 |
6.4mb | 5.9mb | Liz, Harri and Su from EAO are back with more! The ant hill basement is really shaking now! | |
| 11 | Hedgehog Shuffle | 2:56 |
3.5mb | 2.4mb | Most of the time hedgehogs just shuffle along, but they can really move when they need to. Um, what was that you said? Sorry, I don't speak hedgehog. There's never a pocket translator around when you need one... | |
| 12 | Tomboy Kitty's Big Day Out | 5:20 |
6.4mb | 6.1mb | Meow! Meow! I want to go out! | |
| 13 | Crunchy Frog Reprise | 2:38 |
3.1mb | 3.3mb | Can't do anything around here without those darn frogs trying to get in on the act! | |
| all | zip | 43:00 |
51.3mb | 50.2mb |
| notes |
Crunchy Frog Blues is the first track, and the first album, I wrote with Acid. After playing with Acid Express over Christmas 2000, I went out and bought a copy of Acid Rock at my local computer shop. After installing the package and flipping through the manual, I sat down and created Crunchy Frog Blues (the track, not the album) in 45 minutes. I was so alarmed by this - what if I could never do it again? - that I was afraid to do any more work. Later that night, I sat down, steeled myself, and produced Tequila Mockingbird, Stir-Fried Grasshopper, and Electric Ant one after the other. The first half of the album was (if I recall correctly) created entirely with Acid Rock. The second half, particularly Rain Dance and Tomboy Kitty's Big Day Out used a wider range of loops; those two tracks in particular being inspired by the thunder and rain sounds, and the "meow" sound respectively. The name was inspired by the froglike bells (actually a synth) and puk puk sound (also a synth) in the title track, and of course by Monty Python's hilarious Crunchy Frog sketch. The theme of drought and rain is natural for an Australian; I'm not sure exactly how it came to be, but the tracks naturally arranged themselves in the order you find them. The centre of the album is the sequence of Bees and Butterflies, Rain Dance and Bugtown Boogie: suffering, salvation and celebration. It wasn't planned, though: it just worked out that way. The three tracks following Bugtown Boogie (particularly Tomboy Kitty) are just me playing around, but I think the results are pleasing. And if you can tell me what Bees and Butterflies reminds you of, I'd be very grateful. Thanks to Liz Formici, Harri "I'm a girl!" Apis, and Su Lepido of the Electric Ant Orchestra for their help with Electric Ant and Return of the Electric Ant. My first full album with the EAO is Return of the Return of the Electric Ant |
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What Dance Dance Kitten Did On Her Holiday
| track | title | time |
mp3 |
ogg |
story | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rio | ||||||
| 1 | New Shoes | 3:30 |
Every girl needs a new pair of shoes now and then. Shiny shiny! | |||
| 2 | Pin the Tail on the Kitten | 2:25 |
Eeyow! Not this kitten, silly! | |||
| 3 | Chocolate Salsa | 4:33 |
On ice cream. Mmm. | |||
| 4 | Slow Paws | 3:20 |
A little time to relax from the hectic bustle of kittenhood. | |||
| 5 | Railway Station Cafe | 3:09 |
Lunch with Mummy and Daddy! | |||
| 6 | Lazy Sunday | 3:33 |
Kittens need a lot of relaxing, y'know. | |||
| 7 | Moon Kitten | 4:00 |
Moooon kitten! That's me! My favourite TV show. | |||
| 8 | Peaches and Cream | 6:15 |
(Guilty look, wipes cream from whiskers, missing a bit.) What? | |||
| 9 | Rainy Day | 1:41 |
Happens to even the best of holidays. Oh well, time to lie on the rug and catch up on my comic books and colouring in. | |||
| New Orleans | ||||||
| 10 | Jam Tarts | 3:44 |
Strawberry? Or cherry? Both! Always both! | |||
| 11 | Strolling Through Summertime | 3:28 |
With my parasol and my new dress and my shiny shoes! | |||
| 12 | Tea and Toast | 3:00 |
Tea time is the best time of day! Lunch time, that's the best too. Any time but bed time. | |||
| 13 | Roadside Attraction | 2:48 |
Look! It's a... it's a... What is that, anyway? | |||
| 14 | Out on the Bay | 3:28 |
Here fishy, fishy! | |||
| 15 | Always Going Home | 5:44 |
All good things must come to an end, and all kittens must go home eventually. | |||
| all | zip | 54:38 |
65.2mb | 60.8mb |
| notes |
Who is Dance Dance Kitten? Although What Dance Dance Kitten Did On Her Holiday is listed as the third album in the series, it was in fact the first to be written. The name was, I think, inspired by two Japanese fads: Dance Dance Revolution, a video arcade dancing game, and Hello Kitty, Sanrio's horrifyingly cute flagship character. I think of Dance Dance Kitten as a little girl - I picture her about four or five years old, with long dark hair and enormous eyes - who loves music, and loves to dance. I can't quite make up my mind whether she is a real kitten, a normal girl, or an anime-style catgirl. Whatever she is, she is Dance Dance Kitten. In this album, DDK (for short) goes on holiday with her parents, first to Rio de Janiero, and then north to New Orleans. This gave me the excuse to play first with various Latin styles of music (using Acid Latin), and then with the excellent Vince Andrews loops for the second half. Careful observers may note that the track names go from 8 (Peaches and Cream) to A (Rainy Day). What happened to 9? It was intended to be a number called Caramel Salsa - Chocolate's little sister - but I couldn't quite make it work. One day I may come back to it. |
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Spork Me, Baby!
A big welcome, everyone, to Tuning Spork, who has made the leap to Movable Type and is settling in at his new digs.
[The monkeys seem to have gone to lunch, then. &mdash Ed.]Posted by: Pixy Misa at 01:31 PM | Comments (63) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
Aargh!
Blogging will be erratic - well, even more erratic than usual - because my ISP seems to have replaced the trained monkeys that used to run its network centre with untrained ones. Presumably as a cost-cutting measure.
These untrained monkeys seem to have a fascination for routing loops. In other words, I can connect to them, but my packets just go around and around in their network without ever going anywhere useful. Plus 70% packet loss to their own web server. Every few minutes, for thirty seconds or so, there's a window where things actually work, and I can send an email or post something. If I'm quick.I'm switching ISPs tomorrow.
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Your Magic Fairy's Name
Your fairy is called Fidget Icefly
She is a bone chilling revenger of widows She lives in rotting woodlands near poisonous toadstools She is only seen at midday under a quiet, cloudless sky (Get your own magic fairy! via Ramblings of SilverBlue)Posted by: Pixy Misa at 01:39 AM | Comments (64) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
July 19, 2003
The Few, The Proud
It's funny.
These days, when a web site won't load, often the first thing I think is:Oh shit, I hope the problem is at my end.That's because I'm now hosting a few sites on a dedicated server in the U.S., and I'd much rather my ADSL connection at home drop out than that the users and visitors to those sites get turned away. As I mentioned earlier, this is not a good weekend to be a network engineer. There's a security hole that's been discovered in Cisco routers, which are a major part of the Internet's infrastructure, and techies everywhere are scurrying to patch them before some script kiddy causes havoc. Whether either one of those is responsible I cannot tell, but this last half hour I've been suffering up to 98% packet loss here. Fortunately, it is just me, according to the remaining 2% that struggle through, battered and limping, to tell me that the rest of the world is still out there. So for all my readers (hi Susie!), this is Pixy Misa (who these days only does weekend tech support on a voluntary basis) signing off in hopes that the less fortunate will have this mess fixed by morning.
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Books out of Print
Me: Can you tell me who the author of ______ is?
Retailer: I can't.
Me: Well, can you look it up?
Retailer: I can't. Our computers are down.
Me: Ah. Well, can I take a gander at your Books in Print.
Retailer: [Smirks] We don't have a list of all the books in print. We wouldn't be able to fit it in the store.
Me: In fact you would. We had these great big volumes and then later microfiche when I worked in a bookstore a number of years back.
Retailer: Do you know how many books that would be?
Me: Lots, I do believe you. But the fact remains that Books in Print is indeed a real thing.
Retailer: Well, we don't have it. We have computers instead.
Me: Apparently not.
(Rael Dornfest, via comp.risks 22.65)
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From the Wires
Slashdot
Build your own Gauss Pistol - or, if that seems too tame, you can add a jet engine to your bicycle or go-kart, or maybe construct a 2 million volt tesla coil in your garage. For those hard-core thrill seekers, try being a network engineer this weekend.ZDNet
ZDNet bemoans the dangers of caching P2P data and wireless networking, or at least its current incarnations. Fortunately, they stop whining long enough to take stock of their current Top 10 Tech Gadgets.O'Reilly Network
Swaine Manor, one of the best computing columns around, has come to O'Reilly Network. Good thing too, as I haven't bought Dr. Dobbs (Michael Swaine's regular home) for months. [He should stick to commenting on computers, though. — Ed. Having now read his home page, I'd have to agree.] They also have a short article on BitTorrent, the nifty file-swarming application. The article introduces the term idempotence, which is a very useful concept that more programmers need to understand, dammit! Uh, sorry...The Register
It would appear that one of the many bad places to be a network engineer right now is British Telecom, where techies trying to prevent a Denial of Service attack instead created one of their own.OS News
The evil and irrelevant SCO is being evil and irrelevant again. I think it's time that SCO went quietly into the night.Designtechnica
Designtechnica reviews a 30 inch Sony LCD television. If anyone else has a 30 inch LCD TV that they need reviewed, please let me know.Wired News
Wired interviews a blogger who is making money out of it. And no, it's not Andrew Sullivan. (Thanks again to freshnews.org for their automatic Geek News aggregator.)Posted by: Pixy Misa at 07:55 PM | Comments (68) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
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