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• Just wondering how came that nobody told me about that beautiful CTRL-x o mode in GDB!

• Thank you Cody Russell for having fixed bug #56070!

R.I.P Usenet: 1980-2008 ?? Surely you jest, surely this is one of those "the rumors of my death are greatly exaggerated" moments? Ah, but, there is some kernels of truth to the story.. Namely, well, I haven't dipped into any...

Seven years, 157 comments later.. IT IS DONE!

Well, advertising for the win right?

Was looking up a song I vaguely remembered via youtube, and I noticed that > 30% of the search results are taken up by a single advert for a film (Liam Neeson in Taken, ironically) which sits at the top right, leaving the rest of the column blank.

SHEESH

To describe India’s relationship with OLPC as “rocky” would almost be an understatement. Back in 2006 for example the Indian Ministry of Education was very critical of the project and called it "pedagogically suspect". Later that year some Indian organizations came together and announced their work on a “$10 laptop”. Then suddenly in autumn of 2007 the first information about a small pilot-site in Khairat became available which was soon followed by quite an extensive report from the school which appeared on the OLPC wiki.

According to the Daily Mail, Elizabeth Taylor is recovering in hospital after being reportedly put on a life support machine with congestive heart failure Wednesday evening.

Th National Enquirer said her children were at her bedside and doctors warned she might not survive.

But Ms Taylor’s rep says: “Ms Taylor is fine. Her hospital visit was precautionary. She will be returning home shortly. At present, she is surrounded by family, friends and fabulous jewels.”

The dual Oscar winner was taken to hospital on July 15 when flu turned into pneumonia and her condition was said to have deteriorated since last week.

Not good!!!

UPDATE: A rep of Liz Taylor just told Perez Hilton:

“Ms. Taylor is fine. The Rumors which began in England about her health are dramatic, overstated and untrue. Her hospital visit was precautionary. She will be returning home shortly. At present, she is surrounded by family, friends and fabulous jewels.”

Get well soon!!!!

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For those participating in the Ubuntu Maryland/CALug NSA Museum GPG keysinging, you should see the keyring with the keys I have in your email. The md5sum is 13325b1f1bd14ed78b44c016bec77398 and there is a detached .sig file as well.

See you Saturday!

PS Don’t forget August 9th is the day the Ubuntu Maryland Team will be participating in the Global Bug Jam as a group at the Loyola College Center for Community Informatics in Columbia, MD. I’ll be posting more details in a few days.

Need to keep this streak of having fun all the time going. Anything going on 2nite? # Helped my neighbor friends move today. They are being evicted to. # A pig, a cock, and a serpent. Ignorance, desire, and malice. # @natfriedman *blush* Dangerous idea tho, paying for a twitter feed. # I keep wondering when and how we’ll [...]

The official cover of Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen’s new book, Influence.

The one on the left is cuter than the one on the right.

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It seems I have been wrong about the origins of the Seville Orange joke

Rather than Algernon Sidney It would appear to have been quipped by an 18th century Anglo-Irish actor named James Quin as recounted in "Lives of the Players" by John Galt (not that John Galt but this one) in 1831.

Quin once, in the character of Cato, received a blow in his face by an orange thrown from the upper gallery; such a circumstance would have disconcerted many an actor possessed of less presence of mind, but instead of being disturbed, he wiped his face, and taking it up, observed, "It was not a Seville orange."

A proto-version of the joke does date back to Sidney's time. It was made by none less than William Shakespeare in "Much Ado About Nothing" Act II, Scene 1:

DON PEDRO: Why, how now, count! wherefore are you sad?

CLAUDIO: Not sad, my lord.

DON PEDRO: How then? Sick?

CLAUDIO: Neither, my lord.

BEATRICE: The count is neither sad, nor sick, nor merry, nor well; but civil count, civil as an orange, and something of that jealous complexion.

Note Don Pedro is from Aragon which is close enough to Seville for Elizabethan comedy purposes.

But while 300+ years is impressive, this joke from Sumeria c. 19th-16th centuries BC is older by far:

Something which has never occurred since time immemorial: a young woman did not fart in her husband's lap.

See The world's ten oldest jokes