This gave me a good laugh, sadly due to the ever-increasing depths of human stupidity. This time it’s the boot of Europe, Italy. The country that gave us pasta, spaghetti, pizza and all those other delectable comestibles has gone off its rocker and decided to ban non-Italian food. This is in some misguided attempt at [...]

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This made me laugh. World War II for the /b/ generation.

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This about sums it up. Click to enlarge.

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I ran into some troubles with Gentoo and glibc over the weekend. Here’s what fixed it, in case it helps anyone out in the future. Why it broke: Someone upgraded glibc from 2.6 to 2.9_p20081201. It’s masked, and what’s worse, installing it moves the old glibc libraries from /usr/lib to /usr/local/lib, which is a most [...]

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This is a coincidence. I’m researching multicore computers and it turns out that the very world we live on might be multicore. Well, just dualcore for now. Two cores spinning in opposite directions that might be responsible for all the friction that gives rise to plate tectonics and so on. What’s not surprising is how [...]

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I’ve been watching the classic TV adaptation of Agatha Christie’s Poirot of late and it’s pretty good. The one with David Suchet as the inimitable egg-shaped Belgian and his sidekick, the predictable and dull Hastings. With the redoubtable Japp and the efficient Miss Lemon figuring in every episode as well, the series is simply a [...]

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