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Six life lessons.

Haiku error messages from http://www.strangeplaces.net/weirdthings/haiku.html. Apparently, some of those (or at least, similar ones), were included in NetPositive, a web browser for BeOS. http://www.8325.org/haiku/

Three things are certain:
Death, taxes, and lost data.
Guess which has occurred.

Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn discuss The Fellowship of the Ring

Chomsky: One of the problems with the perspective offered by the Man-Elf coalition is that you have to try so hard to get at the truth of the conflict, at what is really going on; it's so obscured by their propaganda and relentless militarism.

Outlandish examples of technical writing:

• vx32 README
  

  1 Welcome to vx32.

  2

  3 > look

  4

  5 You are near the bottom of a tree.

  6

  7 > look doc

  8

  9 You see PDFs of the two published papers about vx32.

• Acknowledgements section for the Scsh Reference Manual
  
  Who should I thank? My so-called ``colleagues,'' who laugh at me behind my back, all the while becoming famous on my work? My worthless graduate students, whose computer skills appear to be limited to downloading bitmaps off of netnews? My parents, who are still waiting for me to quit ``fooling around with computers,'' go to med school, and become a radiologist? My department chairman, a manager who gives one new insight into and sympathy for disgruntled postal workers?

On the proof of the supposed evilness of girls

Things They Don't Tell You about Life (but should)

The 9 Most Devastating Insults From Around the World, at cracked.com