SF's composting law caused businesses to compost edible food that they used to send to charities for people to eat. Yay good intentions!

Speaking of bears... ...a large culture decides that bear gall bladders will make them horny. Before ya know it, the last known bear dies at the hands of someone who bribed its zookeeper. Everybody wins (unless you were a bear).

Yeah, it cost your right nut and, even worse, still works as well as it did when new, but now it's just a valueless collection of plastic and toxic metals.

Almost half of WB's Ka beams are on Anik-F2. They should also be out unless "out of control" has a some very subtle nuances. Maybe CBC doesn't report on anything south of the border.

This summer ATT Long Distance decided to impose minimum charges. So, anyone NOT insane enough to pay $0.39/minute gets to pay $2 anyway. And it's not $2, it's $4.50 after the below the line fees they now add. I figure that $2 is their internal usury cost for collecting the fees, which makes sure that those fees remain pure profit. Blatant greed.

I wondered what an EMP will do to LEDs, particularly the ones in a flashlight.

You are not the only one.
Reminds me a but of the sentiment that cropped up in Western-genre stories where the old-timer sees the frontier close and feels a sense of loss that none of settlers understand.

It mystifies me that there were people who invented a programming language and thought it was a good idea that you turn over control of browser to these programs whenever and wherever it found them. Genius!

newegg decided that their product pages wiil now only display pices with javascript (I wonder how many realized that). How can I convince newegg to not do that? I can't--"be a good little consumer and run our javascript, we wouldn't hurt a fly". How can I run just the javascript to show the price? That's web2.0 heresy--run it all or get off the net. Like grandma says, a little bit of javascript is like a being a little bit pregnant. (hint: the price is in a javascript array of html snippets in a separate js file. Genius!)

Turning off javascript is not allowed.
<script>browser.turnJavascriptBackOn()</script>

As a monument to bureaucracy. It also "landed" closer to Houston than the others.

Several years ago some hucksters proposed capturing water from some rivers in northern California during the peak winter runoff and dragging it down to San Diego in a giant plastic bag. Since freshwater is already buoyant, er, floats in seawater, all they needed to do was keep the water from mixing with the ocean. The locals began to yell and scream immediately. I figured that the most likely outcome would be that the con men would vanish the instant their multi-acre bag of muddy water broke open and draped the coast with the mother of all grocery bags.

browser.display.use_document_colors defeats background-image in firefox. At least I think that's the correct one. Whatever it is, it's user accessible through the gui prefs interface. There may be some side-effects, like not being able to buy from amazon.com, but they're pretty insignificant.

Ask Tynt. They know what people have been copying/pasting.

I also hear some electronics.
I could hear the HP deskjet I had for many years "scream" when it received a new print job until the mechanism began moving and drown it out. If it was quiet I could hear high pitch beeping from an old thinkpad. In an outbuilding where I have computer gear I could hear a high pitched, nondirectional squeal which I eventually determined came from the mice...which had built a nest under the concrete slab.

Lately I've been trying track down the source of the irritating high pitch sound I hear in my computer room. I've found that the wifi router squeals. As do the modern generation of lightweight, compact wall warts. But none of those are the sole source.

cnt was always my favorite of the unnecessarily de-voweled identifiers. How many others could get you fired if you said it aloud the way it's written?

Take the next step toward internetification...<br>
Use an ssh connection for the serial stream.<br>
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I admire the simplicity of tty-based online banking of the olden days. The client was dirt simple and about as smart. Instead, banks push harder and harder for a big, bloated javascript app running in your browser. The browser doesn't care; it's runs the banks' app just as easily as the one from Eurasian organized crime. And what the browser runs is entirely the user's responsibility even though the "more toys" philosophy of browser development has left the user with little authority over what the browser actually does.
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I propose that if banks insist on using a web browser that they make their site lynx/links-able then users use their favorite tty app to ssh to the bank where lynx runs on the bank's system.<br>