The Tomarchin-Moko Story »
In the South Pacific, near Pitcairn Island of Mutiny on The Bounty fame, lies Henderson Island, which "was the site of a modern castaway story in 1957 – one of the marooned seamen was a chimpanzee!"
This is one of my all-time favourite stories and greatest finds on the Interwebs!
/for +Mz Maau
When political hacks subpoena online hackers, look out for
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There's something almost charmingly innocent about the parliamentarians' indignation about Anonymous's “flagrant disregard of our traditions.” Yes, it is just dreadful when someone is mean on the Internet, but I'm not sure who it is the Speaker imagines is going to arrive to testify at the committee. …
Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss! »
You’re wrong as the deuce
And you shouldn’t rejoice
If you’re calling him Seuss.
He pronounces it Soice.
"A little rhyme that a collaborator of Dr. Seuss made up on how to pronouce Dr. Seuss's name. You're doing it wrong! XD" — +Kimberly Hart
I was shocked when I arrived home last night to see system crash messages on a black console screen having just fsck’d another system following I/O errors after a power outage last night during which I discovered my UPS batteries have depleted. This, after having migrating from the safety net of RAID10 mirroring to the performance of RAID0 striping across my hard drives and installinging/customizing a whole new desktop environment (KDE -> Xfce), was not a pleasant sight. Fortunately, it was just a screensaver.




