Paint the Tiger, Carve the Swan

I was hunting for some artwork for some iTunes tracks tonight (very nearly this morning), and I came across this page for the album There is a Way to Fly, by Coda.

According to this, people who listen to Coda are likely to be on drugs!

Or maybe I just misinterpreted it: maybe Coda is an addiction I need to kick.

The Offer • Augie March • Sunset Studies

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MIT OpenCourseWare | OCW Home

This is kind of nice: MIT is now putting a whole lot of their courses online for free. Looks to be some interesting stuff in there, not sure how much detail there is in the courses though.

Will report when I’ve downloaded and played around with one or two…

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Those funny Americans and their love of banning books. Just one step away from burning them, really.

Anyway, over at Dose Magazine, I found a link to a list of the 100 Most BannedChallenged Books in the US (1990-2000).

The ones I’ve read:

• The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
• Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
• The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
• The Witches by Roald Dahl
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
• James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
• The Anarchist Cookbook by William Powell
• Guess What? by Mem Fox
• Lord of the Flies by William Golding
• Carrie by Stephen King
• The Dead Zone by Stephen King
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
• Where’s Waldo? by Martin Hanford
• Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett

I’m amazed as to the number of Roald Dahl books on there! And Where’s Waldo?.

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Donald Rumsfeld is giving the President his daily briefing on Iraq. He concludes by saying: “Yesterday, 3 Brazilian soldiers were killed.”

“OH NO!” the President exclaims. “That’s terrible!”

His staff wait, stunned at this display of emotion, nervously watching as the President sits, head in hands.

Finally, the President looks up and asks, “How many is a brazillion exactly?”

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I think this another thing new to Tiger: when I initiate a PPP connection, my hostname changes, to things like:

fliax7-a170.dialup.optusnet.com.au

Now, this doesn’t have too many issues, except when I try to initiate a connection with what the hostname used to be, such as a local VNC connection to the other user’s desktop.

The solution is to do the following: edit /etc/hostconfig, and replace:

HOSTNAME=-AUTOMATIC-

with

HOSTNAME=the_hostname

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I recently upgraded to Tiger, and just yesterday I noticed some strange behaviour from ManOpen, a great little tool for viewing man pages outside of a Terminal.

Most man pages still work okay, but openman bash results in a long load time, followed by a crash. Every time.

man bash still works fine. I might have to look back into the piping through Preview solution I was using a while ago.

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Okay, there is a new version of ManOpen available. I’ll just use that.

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