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Saturday, 28 July 2007
A small sample of American wit and humour from the folks behind Project Gutenberg, the largest single collection of free electronic books on the planet:
Alliance: In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other’s pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.
Beauty: The power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
Calamity: A more than commonly plain and unmistakable reminder that the affairs of this life are not of our own ordering. Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
Destiny: A tyrant’s authority for crime and fool’s excuse for failure.
Egotist: A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me.
Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
Idiot: A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling.
Liberty: One of imagination’s most precious possessions.
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder.
Misfortune: The kind of fortune that never misses.
Optimist: A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.
Patience: A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.
Reporter: A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words.
Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
Tariff: A scale of taxes on imports, designed to protect the domestic producer against the greed of his consumer.
Telephone: An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.
Truce: Friendship.
Ultimatum: In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions.
War: A by-product of the arts of peace.
Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
While you’re at it, check out the Top 100 as well.
Sunday, 22 July 2007
Now here’s a man we can all trust folks. He published his very first video on Youtube, telling us just how committed his government is to the global issue of climate change, despite the perception to the contrary.
What’s noticeably more interesting that the video itself, is that after more than 5 days, there are currently only 147 comments, the overwhelming majority of which are (naturally) derogative to our prime minister and his government. However, with the oldest comment being only 22 hours old, it’s evident that either our prime minister (or one of his lackeys) is logging on to Youtube and deleting those comments every day.
In the true spirit of democracy and free speech.
Now here’s a man we can all trust folks. Or not. Personally, I’d rather give my vote to Tozovac in the upcoming election.
Monday, 16 July 2007
If you’re into solving crosswords or word puzzles, you may be interested in word navigator. Their versatile wildcard engine allows a multitude of search options, including:
- words within
- words starting with
- words ending with
- words containing
By simply using * and ? in combination with letters, you’ve got a simple yet powerful way to explore words.
Tuesday, 10 July 2007
I got five copies of this over the weekend. It must be important if “Madam Cole” went to the trouble of sending it five times, right?
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Wednesday, 4 July 2007
I know that PHP has a lot of functions built right in, some of which are used frequently and
some sparingly. But what about “home made” functions that we’ve created? Which are the most used?
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