Well, essentially a repository for some of the best IRC quotes through the ages. http://bash.org/?top Be sure to check out the Random and Latest as well. Some of these are priceless, as evinced by the following: gentoogod: omg dude gentoogod: today i might the stupidest 3 people i ever met gentoogod: thier 3 brains combined [...]

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I stumbled upon this article and thought I should repost it. The original is at http://www.scienceaddiction.com/2006/07/23/95-theses-of-geek-activism/ Reclaim the term ‘hacker’. If you tinker with electronics, you are a hacker. If you use things in more ways than intended by the manufacturer, you are a hacker. If you build things out of strange, unexpected parts, you [...]

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is that if you’re interested in them, there’s always one around. Unlike soccer fans who wait for the World Cup every four years, to use a sport analogy, a military buff literally has a plethora of military activity to choose from. Take this moment in time, as of July 2006, there are 24 major wars [...]

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One of the neat things about some books is their list of literary milestones, the markers that litter the pathway along the life of a great author. I just finished reading Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison and the preamble to the book has an excellent instance of this type of literary timeline. I’ve read [...]

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