A humorous annotation on a car in the company parking lot. The FSM gets around and I didn’t realize the movement was this strong.
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My old friend John found this bag in a fashionable store in Vancouver. He noticed something about the bag that was a little bit more than “average”.
I’ll tell you what it is! This is our kindergarten class photo from the mid 1970s! Egads! People are walking around Vancouver wearing ME (and John) as a fashion accessory.
Apparently the guy on the right is the artist responsible. Neither John or I can recall much about him right now.
Incredible.
I realize that I am quite young in the big scheme of things. I am neither a post-war boomer, nor a veteran. However, I am old enough to remember the chilling effects of the cold-war on our collective psyche; and even to recall some duck-and-cover drills and debates about the Soviets from early grade school.
Today, as Canada takes a moment to reflect and remember, I also want to take a moment and reflect and remember what it means to be here and to be in the world we share. People I never knew gave so much that I cannot help but respect and thank everyone who has gone before me to afford all of us the chance to be where we are in the world today.I hope that as we all make choices now and in the future that we don’t lose sight of what excessive conviction or nationalism can bring. There are no assurances that someone is right or wrong, it is ultimately all opinion and we must respect one another as we resolve our differences.
A moment of silence seems to be only the beginning.
Hold on, it gets better:
However, these propagandists aren’t just targeting the young. Take for example Apple Computers, makers of the popular Macintosh line of computers. The real operating system hiding under the newest version of the Macintosh operating system (MacOS X) is called… Darwin! That’s right, new Macs are based on Darwinism! While they currently don’t advertise this fact to consumers, it is well known among the computer elite, who are mostly Atheists and Pagans. Furthermore, the Darwin OS is released under an “Open Source” license, which is just another name for Communism. They try to hide all of this under a facade of shiny, “lickable” buttons, but the truth has finally come out: Apple Computers promote Godless Darwinism and Communism.
Amazing. Truly amazing. The article gets better and better, if you are a godless UNIX commie : s/better/funnier/g
Wait it gets even better more surreal, you simply cannot make this stuff up:
However, this isn’t the only thing hiding behind this choice of moniker; according to my research, the name eMac is also a referrence to “Emacs”, a program that is a standard-bearer for the Communistic Open Source movement mentioned above and whose mascot is some sort of effeminate-looking, horned devil-man. Is there no end to this tangled web of evil?
And then, the obsession with the shell incantation:
… More clues have come in showing the dark nature of Apple Computers. … The new MacOS X contains another Satanic holdover from the [previously mentioned as obsolete] “BSD Unix” OS [sic] mentioned above; to open up certain locked files one has to run a program … type in a secret code: “
chmod 666[sic]“. What other horrors lurk in this thing?
Couldn’t possibly have anything to do with binary encodings of permission settings in a bit mask, could it?! Of course I’m sure I’d be told that binary encodings are evil too.
I cannot even being to refute or comment, I need to go have a hot bath to soothe my aching ribs. These folks are completely off their rocker – to the point that an intelligent person just has to ask – is this a humor site?!
Via /dev/null article 1194794224 (bonus points for you godless UNIX commies who recognise the numbering scheme).
The STIX Font creation project states the mission…
… of the Scientific and Technical Information Exchange (STIX) font creation project is the preparation of a comprehensive set of fonts that serve the scientific and engineering community in the process from manuscript creation through final publication, both in electronic and print formats. Toward this purpose, the STIX fonts will be made available, under royalty-free license, to anyone, including publishers, software developers, scientists, students, and the general public.
They are currently in a beta phase and it looks good so far. It would be wonderful to increase the portability of documents across platforms and creation systems and although a common font representation is only a small part of the overall problem, it is a great start.
There are unicode encoded fonts and a few that have characters that have yet to receive a unicode assignment ( the example image shows characters from the non-unicode assigned glyphs ).
I’m looking forward to the (La)TeX beta phase too.
(Via slashdot.org).
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