Fresh hope for fat bunnies (Reuters)

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Fresh hope for Equitable victims

Fresh hope for Equitable victims 07/19/2004 11:34 AM
The Parliamentary Ombudsman is to re-open her investigation into how the world's oldest insurer is regulated.

Tabasco Crops Too Hot for Bunnies
(Reuters)

Tabasco Crops Too Hot for Bunnies
(Reuters) 09/09/2004 09:16 AM
Reuters - Dutch farmers have devised a hot and spicy way to stop rabbits and rodents from munching their lettuce, carrots and wheat.

Tabasco crops too hot for Dutch bunnies
(Reuters)

Tabasco crops too hot for Dutch bunnies
(Reuters) 09/09/2004 05:42 AM
Reuters - Dutch farmers have devised a hot and spicy way to stop rabbits and rodents munching their lettuce, carrots and wheat.

Serbia seeks fresh spies (Reuters)

Serbia seeks fresh spies (Reuters) 04/19/2004 06:53 AM
Reuters - The Serbian secret service ditched a lifetime taboo this month and advertised in the newspapers for a fresh intake of spies to replace the retired, worn-out, monolingual and politically incorrect.

"The USDA, fresh from categorically
refusing to protect us from mad cow
disease, has classified batter-coated
french fries as a fresh vegetable"

"The USDA, fresh from categorically
refusing to protect us from mad cow
disease, has classified batter-coated
french fries as a fresh vegetable" 06/17/2004 11:33 AM

Fresh Direct's fresh approach to
expansion planning

Fresh Direct's fresh approach to
expansion planning 09/24/2004 03:39 PM
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He'd Better Hope He Doesn't Get Sick
(Reuters)

He'd Better Hope He Doesn't Get Sick
(Reuters) 06/03/2004 08:44 AM
Reuters - A British man with a fetish for medical items has become the first person to be banned from every hospital in England and Wales, the government said on Wednesday.

Palestinians Say U.S. Destroys Hope Over
Settlements (Reuters)

Palestinians Say U.S. Destroys Hope Over
Settlements (Reuters) 08/22/2004 07:46 AM
Reuters - Palestinians accused the United States on Sunday of destroying the Middle East peace process after Washington signaled it could accept some growth of Israeli settlements in the West Bank.

Attacks Raise Fresh Doubts Over Afghan
Elections (Reuters)

Attacks Raise Fresh Doubts Over Afghan
Elections (Reuters) 01/10/2004 11:20 PM
Reuters - A spate of deadly attacks has cast fresh doubts over Afghanistan's ambitious plan to hold its first ever free elections in June, fueling fears they will be hijacked by Islamic militants and strongmen.

Fresh Clashes in Iraqi Holy City of
Najaf (Reuters)

Fresh Clashes in Iraqi Holy City of
Najaf (Reuters) 05/18/2004 06:12 AM
Reuters - Fighters loyal to rebel cleric Moqtada al-Sadr attacked a U.S. base on the edge of the holy Iraqi city of Najaf on Tuesday with mortar bombs, witnesses said.

Fresh Fighting Erupts in Iraq's Najaf
-Witness (Reuters)

Fresh Fighting Erupts in Iraq's Najaf
-Witness (Reuters) 08/10/2004 01:52 AM
Reuters - Fresh fighting broke out in Iraq's Najaf on Tuesday, with explosions and gunfire coming from the heart of the holy city where militiamen loyal to a radical Shi'ite Muslim cleric are dug in, a Reuters witness said.

Music Industry Readies Fresh Wave of Net
Lawsuits (Reuters)

Music Industry Readies Fresh Wave of Net
Lawsuits (Reuters) 06/08/2004 04:38 AM
Reuters - A new wave of lawsuits is being prepared against the most prolific Internet song-swappers as part of an expanding global crackdown on Internet piracy, music industry officials said on Tuesday.

Celebs hope to turn fame into votes
(Reuters)

Celebs hope to turn fame into votes
(Reuters) 06/25/2004 05:15 AM
Reuters - Celebrities trying to turn fame into votes are a staple of Japanese elections and next month's poll is no exception, with a lineup including a female pro wrestler, an ex-swimsuit model and Japan's own "Bob Dylan".

Diplomat's Release in Iraq Offers Some
Hope (Reuters)

Diplomat's Release in Iraq Offers Some
Hope (Reuters) 07/27/2004 02:29 AM
Reuters - The release of an Egyptian diplomat in Iraq offered a ray of hope Tuesday for a dozen other nationals held captive and under threat of execution.

Doctors hope to aid baby with extra head
(Reuters)

Doctors hope to aid baby with extra head
(Reuters) 01/22/2004 02:10 AM
Reuters - An international team of doctors hopes to operate in the Dominican Republic next month to remove an undeveloped second head from a baby girl born with one of the world's rarest birth defects, caused when a conjoined twin fails to develop in the womb.

Prostitute Sees Sex Trade Hope for
Jobless (Reuters)

Prostitute Sees Sex Trade Hope for
Jobless (Reuters) 02/01/2005 09:23 PM
Reuters - A celebrated Berlin prostitute said Monday that German job center advisers shouldn't shy away from offering jobs in the sex industry to the long-term unemployed.

Fresh Fighting Erupts in Iraq's Holy
City of Najaf (Reuters)

Fresh Fighting Erupts in Iraq's Holy
City of Najaf (Reuters) 08/10/2004 03:03 AM
Reuters - Fresh fighting broke out in the southern Iraqi town of Najaf on Tuesday, with explosions and gunfire echoing from the heart of the holy city where militiamen loyal to a radical Shi'ite Muslim cleric are dug in.

Filipino Hostage Faces Fresh Death
Threat in Iraq (Reuters)

Filipino Hostage Faces Fresh Death
Threat in Iraq (Reuters) 07/11/2004 04:17 AM
Reuters - A Filipino driver remained captive Sunday after militants denied he had been freed and issued a fresh threat to kill him unless Manila showed in 24 hours it would withdraw its troops from Iraq.

German prostitute sees sex trade hope
for jobless (Reuters)

German prostitute sees sex trade hope
for jobless (Reuters) 02/01/2005 09:23 PM
Reuters - A celebrated Berlin prostitute has said that German job centre advisers shouldn't shy away from offering jobs in the sex industry to the long-term unemployed.

Pigeon lovers hope nasty taste will save
birds (Reuters)

Pigeon lovers hope nasty taste will save
birds (Reuters) 08/21/2004 04:56 PM
Reuters - Pigeon fanciers, tired of having their prize racing birds snatched away by predators, have a plan to save them -- make them taste too nasty for other birds to eat.

UK Muslims Hope Prayer Will Free Briton
Held in Iraq (Reuters)

UK Muslims Hope Prayer Will Free Briton
Held in Iraq (Reuters) 09/25/2004 09:17 PM
Reuters - A two-man delegation from Britain's biggest Muslim group arrived in Iraq on Saturday on a quest to free British hostage Kenneth Bigley, seized by Islamic militants nine days ago and threatened with death.

Swiss Soccer Fans Hope Stockings Will
Sock It to England (Reuters)

Swiss Soccer Fans Hope Stockings Will
Sock It to England (Reuters) 06/16/2004 07:07 AM
Reuters - Usually reserved for the overweight and pregnant, support stockings are Switzerland's secret weapon before Thursday's Euro 2004 game against England.

bunnies again

bunnies again 08/19/2004 11:56 AM
JAWS reenacted by bunnies

More Bunnies!

More Bunnies! 07/09/2004 08:25 AM
Alien in 30 seconds As re-enacted by bunnies. (via Milk and Cookies)

not just dust bunnies...

not just dust bunnies... 01/22/2004 06:16 PM
Squalor Survivors Is your house messy?

"Titanic in 30 seconds with bunnies."

"Titanic in 30 seconds with bunnies." 06/11/2004 05:57 PM

Alien in 30 seconds, with bunnies

Alien in 30 seconds, with bunnies 07/09/2004 05:04 PM
Alien

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The Exorcist in 30 seconds with bunnies.

The Exorcist in 30 seconds with bunnies. 03/08/2004 11:12 PM
The Exorcist in 30 seconds as performed by cartoon bunnies

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"The Exorcist in 30 seconds with
bunnies."

"The Exorcist in 30 seconds with
bunnies." 03/08/2004 11:16 PM

The Shining in 30 seconds with bunnies.

The Shining in 30 seconds with bunnies. 05/04/2004 09:17 PM
...with bunnies .. Heeeeeeeere's .. here's Bunny! .. The Shining

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The Shining in 30 seconds, re-enacted by
bunnies

The Shining in 30 seconds, re-enacted by
bunnies 05/04/2004 11:48 PM

I love the fact that people spend time creating things like this. It makes the Web much more entertaining than TV (via MetaFilter).

"Jaws in 30 seconds as re-enacted by
Bunnies"

"Jaws in 30 seconds as re-enacted by
Bunnies" 08/19/2004 09:01 PM

Gaming Gothic Sun Bunnies Attack

Gaming Gothic Sun Bunnies Attack 05/22/2004 03:39 PM
A market I didn't know existed: Affluent live-action role-playing goths who like sunny Jamaican beaches and outdoor activities such as scuba diving and shuffleboard.

Titanic in 30 seconds re-enacted by
bunnies

Titanic in 30 seconds re-enacted by
bunnies 06/11/2004 03:38 AM
Bunnified

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Fluffy Bunnies and Lilly pads

Fluffy Bunnies and Lilly pads 05/22/2004 08:21 AM

Lilly pads in the Helsinki Botanical Garden taken on XP2 film.

Well, the blogosphere experienced a collective slashdot moment over the past week with the sound and the fury over the news that the MovableType software decided to change licenses and pricing. While I read quite a lot more than I probably should have, I wasn't going to mention it here at all except that I think there are some valid concerns being drowned out by the angry rhetoric out there that resembles a playground where the popular kids still call the shots with the only discernable difference being that now they want far more than your lunch money. Amidst all the rage and rebuttals there are some older and calmer voices who have some interesting and intelligent things to say.

Perhaps the most surprising person to discuss the MT licensing switch is Alan Burlison. Alan is the British version of Jarkko as he is taciturn and shrewd with his opinions, particularly with technology. Alan's no freeloader as he has been an active perl developer for quite a few years, is largely responsible for all the perl in Solaris and helped CPAN get 3 free enterprise class systems from Sun for the CPAN search engine and other sites. He took particular notice of and offense to the original source being pulled from the 6A sites and the poorly written license. Phi l Ringnalda also takes apart the license and this blog does the economics of the backlash. Shelley also has a heartfelt rant which, in spite of the vitriolic tone, is spot on. Licensing and copyright probably make my eyes glaze over faster than Dan Sugalski talking about the innards of the VMS kernel. There's nothing like getting an email from RMS over your morning coffee trying to stir the pot about licenses and the lack thereof on CPAN. It's not a great way to kick of your morning but, in the end, licenses and copyright in a litigation happy society do matter quite a lot, even if you think that there's no possible way to enforce them.

In an age where quite a few open source projects have made a profitable business out of offering service, support, consulting and training for their software, TypePad made, and still makes, a lot of sense in the 'everybody has got to eat' mantra that seems to be the most popular defense of the MT announcement. There is also corporate licensing of the software. I doubt anyone is actually going to starve at 6A, especially in America, so that's a bit of a red herring. So, too, is the argument that we're all a bunch of freeloaders. A lot of us are involved in open source in one form or another and have given our time freely to projects without compensation in the form of cash. Many of us are not zealots in the service of RMS or the FSF and actually buy software and shareware on a regular basis. We're a bunch of people who liked the software enough at one point to use it, continue to use it, donate a little money and now find all that good will replaced by a positively awful license and a fee schedule that seems all about screwing the very people who put them on the map to begin with.

In the end, it's just software that we can choose to use or not use, this is the one true shining light in the sea of words spawned by this whole debacle. However, it's rather galling when some call the reaction 'childish'. A lot of the opinions defending 6A against the onslaught sound eerily like the 'you're either with us or against us' anti-terrorism chant. We're not against them, but people tend to react negetively when they feel like they're being given only one option, one that is radically different than the one expected. I started using MT because Nat Torkington said he liked it and because the server I have my blog on also hosts a number of CPAN websites which already had mod_perl[obviously :)] but I didn't really want to wedge mod_php into it. Sure, I read the license and I lived with the 'free enough' attitude since it was reasonable to assume that they'd go the same way as a few of our friends have who are making 6 figures a year by selling training and support for their perl products. It comes down to a few sticking points that lead a thinking person to believe that there are parts to this story that we're still missing.

• What happened to the 2.6X source code? If we're all still welcome to continue using it for free, where is it? A new user who wants to install MT today will be forced to use MT3 which is still a development version.
• More than a few developers and coders on the beta test of MT3 have quietly registered a feeling of betrayal since they weren't informed of the license update any sooner than the rest of us. I don't know whether to think of that as an implication of sneaky doings behind the scenes or just a continuing pattern of infrequent communication.
• Aside from minor improvements in spam management, MT3's only new feature would appear to be the license which, after more than a year of promising the addition of some of the typepad features, is a huge disappointment.

These 3 things are primarily what is driving a lot of the discontent which put 6A into a reactive instead of proactive stance. Perhaps we should think that they do need the money to eat since I'd really like to believe that the license wasn't written by or checked by a practising copyright lawyer. But how could a company of smart people bungle this so incredibly badly? I mean, the Aw shucks, gee whiz kind of explanation is endearing like a fuzzy bunny, but if we're going to cough up $150 for a bit of software shouldn't we expect something a lot more polished and professional? When you ask people for $150 for your software and give them a license it's no longer about friends and fuzzy bunnies, it's a binding contract that deserves a lot more care and respect than it seems to be getting. It's a tough way to learn that it's essential to hire business professionals. Programmers always like to think they can be sysadmins, too. Well, at least until the system melts down at 4am and they've no clue what to do. Programmers always like to learn things the hard way I think.

Watching and waiting to see what happens is a good plan, but the WordPress application is really generating a lot of enthusiasm. There have been dozens more well done posts around the net about transitioning to another software package, PhotoMatt seems to be doing a fine job of rounding up many of them, including an amazing WordPress blog in Hindi. There's also a nicely done Blog software breakdown for people wanting to comparison shop. I'm going to wait another week or three and see what problems other people encounter and then move to WordPress, even if it is PHP. If it turns out that I wind up using WP, I'll even donate $150 to the project just on principle.

Jaws in 30 seconds … with bunnies

Jaws in 30 seconds … with bunnies 08/19/2004 02:23 PM

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Fresh UI v6.60

Fresh UI v6.60 11/07/2003 07:46 AM
Fresh UI is the fresh solution for configuring and optimizing Windows. Loaded with hundreds of useful hidden settings in Windows XP/2000/98/95/Me, this software covers the customizing and optimizing technique that you'll be glad to know, such as: customizing Windows User Interface (UI), optimizing system settings, optimizing hardware settings, customizing Windows application settings, control user environment with policies. [Freeware 743 KB]

Fresh paint

Fresh paint 07/09/2004 03:38 AM

If you’re reading this in a browser you’ve no doubt noticed that the site looks different. If you’re reading this in a news reader, then you probably don’t care what the site looks like. The previous design has been hanging around for nearly four years, although the details have changed over time.

Many times over the last few years I’ve wanted to redesign this site and several times I’ve actually started on a new design. Each time something has kept me from completing the design and putting it online. Instead, I’ve nursed the old design along, changing elements here and there, refactoring the site and evolving the design.

This time, I didn’t set out to redesign the site. I simply wanted to continue the progression of small improvements. Something I’ve always felt about the design of this site is that the logo wasn’t strongly tied into the rest of the site. The orange hexagons weren’t reflected anywhere but the logo. My plan was to simply add some orange and some angles into the design. Before I knew it, I had completely changed the design of the site.

Although there were some technical problems with the layout and some things about the new design I didn’t like, but overall things seemed to be working pretty well. So I dumped the old stylesheet, tweaked my templates and uploaded the new files. Now I have a new point from which to start my refactoring.

Some of the technical problems have now been solved, but others remain. A portion of the banner at the top overlaps the menu in Opera. That particular problem was introduced after a workaround of an IE/Win CSS bug. Given the numbers of people using Opera on this site, I’m not going to spend much effort fixing the Opera problem.

One problem I’d like to fix is in Safari. The search field and the graphic at the right of the banner both are positioned about 100 pixels too low—but only on pages within my blog...

The CSS is the same as the rest of the site, so there must be something in the HTML that’s fouling things up. I’ll hunt it down when I get a chance. Safari also won’t let me style the form buttons. I don’t really want to use an image for the submit button for a variety of reasons, so I’ll have to live with the unstyled button.

Poke around the site and let me know if you find anything terribly wrong. If you come across a page with the logo sitting on a white background, it’s using the old template with the new CSS and will be updated eventually. Constructive criticism and suggestions on the design are more than welcome.

Fresh Air Radio

Fresh Air Radio 01/03/2005 10:24 AM
Here in the Twin Cities of Minnesota, we are truly blessed to have a independent radio station that is not run by a big company or college. It's home to many shows including Crap from the Past, (Fridays at 10:30, CST), and the surf twang sounds of Radio Rumpus Room, (Fridays, 9:00 CST) or a big selection of other shows all available in streaming audio off the website. Take a look around, who knows what kind of audio gems will be found??
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