Quotes of the week
"The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it."
- John Gilmore
"Bug #1 is fixed, we are still trying to get people to apply the fix (aka Ubuntu Linux)."
- Mike Basinger 
10 things you did not know about Karmic Koalas
10 things you did not know about Karmic Koalas (or maybe you did)
- They originate from Barcelona, Spain.
- You can help create this wonderful creature from 25-29 May 2009 (http://wiki.ubuntu.com/UDS)
- They will be available worldwide in October 2009, consider adopting one.
- They may not be brown.
- They are crafty hackers, since it is a unknown fact that bamboo make great cantennas.
- They can make servers dance in the clouds.
- A Karmic Koala is amazing looking, even when it first starts up.
- They are one of the worlds fasts booting animals, much faster than the Chummy Cheetah.
- Community, they like saying community more than Jono Bacon. Community Community.
- Under their fur is another fist (of open source goodness).
Book Phrase Meme
Just started reading this book.
" He had, in fact, gone out of his way to staple things incorrectly just so he could prevail on his teacher to unstaple them, giving him another glimpse of the blood-chilling mandibles in action."
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson.
meme howto
- Grab the nearest book.
- Open it to page 56.
- Find the fifth sentence.
- Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
- Don’t dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.
Meme Mike
- Take a picture of yourself right now.
- Don’t change your clothes, don’t fix your hair…just take a picture.
- Post that picture with NO editing.
- Post these instructions with your picture.
Dinner with the Cavemen.
Last night at UDS we had dinner with the cavemen. I would suggest a visit to Restaurant Pravek if you ever visit Prague.
Don’t Copy That Floppy
A 1992 rap video about copy protection. If these kids used Open Source software, they would not have this problem. Warning this song will get stuck in your head.
Thanks to ubuntu-geek on the Ubuntu Forum for pointing it out to me
The Vista Commerical You Will Want To See
NSWF-ish
Thanks to Artificial Intelligence on the forums for pointing it out to me.
Ubuntu… I Choose You
I want to get the Legendary Sabdfl card for my deck.
Thanks to xkcd for the great web comic.
Ubuntu in Marvel comics
In the Mighty Avengers #4 the last page shows the Ubuntu grub screen on a computer in the panels. Kernel 2.6.10-5, they should really upgrade from Breezy.
Story from Digg.
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