Random Linkage 2009-Jan-10 AM
- The ten best movie gunfight scenes of all time
There were a few clips from the often overlooked sci-fi thriller Equilibrium that could have gone here, but nothing tops Christian Bale and his gun-karate acrobatics in this scene. And there’s also a puppy! Aww. Shooting starts at the 3:30 mark.
- Comedian Ricky Gervais on overweight people. I agree, as I’m overweight and trying to fix it via diet, exercise, and lifestyle changes. Not doing so before was due to my laziness
The Office and Extras star said people who have liposuction and gastric band operations “lazy f—ing fat pigs”.
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“They have bits sliced off and tied up and sucked out. I want to say to them, ‘You lazy f—ing fat pig. Just go for a run and stop eating burgers. You might f—ing die’.
- Google’s Browser Security Handbook
- Gadgets that make you look like a jerk
Linux is great. It’s a free, open-source operating system (OS) based on work done by Linus Torvalds in the early ’90s. Again, it’s free, powerful and easy to …
Oh wait, it’s a pain to use. Let’s get this straight: Linux is very good, and leads the charge in an ongoing revolution in free software. However, a lot of Linux users out there give the whole thing a poor name. They forget that most people don’t know as much as they do about computers. Some people garden, write poetry, fall in love or … er, bloviate about gadgetry.
- All the world’s books going on line? Not exactly, but a substantial chunk will
And now comes the news, as book sales plummet amid the onslaught of digital media, that authors, publishers and Google have reached a historic agreement to allow the scanning and digitizing of something very much like All the World’s Books. So here is the long dreamed-of universal library, its contents available (more or less) to every computer screen anywhere. Are you happy now? Maybe not, if your business has been the marketing, distributing or archiving of books.
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