How To: Random quotes in PHP

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"Quotes of the Day"

"Quotes of the Day" 12/22/2003 03:19 AM

"Film Quotes"

"Film Quotes" 06/24/2005 09:46 PM

In quotes: Life goes on

In quotes: Life goes on 12/30/2004 11:17 AM
Three people getting on with life in Thailand after the tsunami talk to BBC News.

Most obnoxious quotes

Most obnoxious quotes 01/03/2005 02:37 PM
Right Wing News lists the 40 most obnoxious quotes of the year. Most but not all are from the left. And some are truly obnoxious. If we did a left-centric one, we could fill it up just with Zell Miller-isms......

"Get Free Car Quotes Here"

"Get Free Car Quotes Here" 01/25/2004 03:03 PM

Smarty Quotes

Smarty Quotes 03/11/2003 09:43 AM
Nelson Minar rages against the dying of design, in his summary of a discussion with Cory Doctorow around using smart quotes and other typographic niceties in weblogs.

I want to use fancy Unicode characters like U+201C and U+201D ("smart quotes") in my blog. Cory hates that idea because non-ASCII characters behave badly when you paste them into your email or text editor and that they don't work well in RSS.

The underlying problem is an impedence mismatch between new Unicode oriented tech like the Web and XML and old ASCII oriented tech like email and text editors. Browsers and RSS readers should mediate between the two but software often gets it wrong.

This discussion continues a conversation on the SmartyPants plug-in I hacked together for Blosxom.

While compromising design for the sake of compensation for badly integrated technologies and encodings is not on in my book, some allowance must be made for the simple copy-n-paste. To that end, I've added a plainlink (txt) to my template alongside the permalink. This link leads to an utterly plain text (non-smarty) version of the story at hand.

Top 10 Linus Quotes on SCO

Top 10 Linus Quotes on SCO 12/07/2003 12:46 PM
An anonymous reader noted LinuxWorld running an entertaining little Top Ten SCO-related "Linusisms. If you're new to the story, you might find these ...

GIGA® Quotes

GIGA® Quotes 12/02/2003 01:22 AM
GIGA® Quotes
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Broad collection of 50,000+ ancient and modern quotations, aphorisms, maxims, proverbs, sayings, truisms, mottoes, book excerpts, poems and the like browsable by 4,000+ authors or 1,300+ cross-referenced topics

Quotes of the week

Quotes of the week 06/05/2005 11:20 PM
Talk of Steve Jobs has been rampant over the past week in the technology world. Here are a few of the most interesting quotes about Steve Jobs, Apple and Apple products recently found around the web. "The world would soon learn that Jobs wasn’t just joining the revolution; he was about to reshape it." - Jeffrey S. Young and William L. Simon, The Times Online "iCon fails as biography. Maybe that's the real reason that Jobs, perfectionist that he is, won't let it be sold in his company's stores. It's not good enough." - Hiawatha Bray, The Boston Globe "If you haven't got a CPU at home worth writing about, then Steve Jobs has a real gem for you - and it's about the size of a shoe." - Brian Dukes, Up & Coming Weekly "Behind the euphoria generated by the iPod, the skills of its industrial designers and charisma of chief executive Steve Jobs, Apple is quietly burrowing into the enterprise, buoyed by the Unix base of its still relatively new operating system." - Garry Barker, Sydney Morning Herald "By obeying the terms of KHTML's open source license, Apple is upholding every ideal it was asked to uphold. If the KHTML team now feels there are still more ideals they'd like upheld, they should adjust their licensing terms." Neil  McAllister, Infoworld "More iPods are bargain-priced these days and could be cutting into sales of Apple's premium products. There is also no evidence that young iPod users will be any more interested in a Macintosh computer than anyone else is." - Andrew Leckey, Tribune Media Services columnist "I started playing with it, and I don't know, you get kind of hooked on Macs. They have an appeal that never leaves." - Jeremy Seftor, general manager of Capitol Mac, an Apple Computer Inc. reseller and service provider on West Main Street in Richmond

Fuck direct quotes

Fuck direct quotes 07/03/2004 01:40 PM
Kudos to the Washington Post for being the only newspaper to actually spell out the word "fuck" when it came from Dick Cheney's lips last week. The LA Weekly has a survey of the substitutions:

The Boston Globe: Referred to the expletive as a “vulgar directive” and provided no other clues.

Calgary Sun: “(Bleep) off” or “Go (bleep) yourself.”

Daily News (New York): “Go f— yourself.”

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Miscallaneous out-of-context quotes of
the day

Miscallaneous out-of-context quotes of
the day 06/02/2004 04:38 PM
"I didn't want to pass the child making time. It was kinda fun - in a necrophile sort of way". -- Mr. Tactful after telling his wife he raped her while she was passed out to cover for the fact that in fact, it was really Satan who raped her.

"What does that mean?" -- A coworker after seeing my new hair.

"I do the same kind of work as him - except that I'm worse." -- During an introductory round in a meeting.

"NO!" -- Several times today.

"Lower your arms!" -- Also, several times today. (I seem to have a problem with that one.)

"You must drink Olvi! Fucking shithead! Perkele!" -- When I reached for a Pepsi bottle in a store. Huh?

"My boyfriend came yesterday in secret, hid in the bushes and took pictures of me!" -- A worryingly happy girl.

"Are you feeling pain, too?" -- Two minutes earlier. Different girl.

"Your personality comes through well." -- A colleague after reading my travel log. (See, Matt, not all of my traumas come from you!)

In quotes: Witness accounts

In quotes: Witness accounts 12/26/2004 12:50 PM
Witness accounts from people who saw the huge waves triggered by an earthquake off the Indonesian coast.

New Car Price Quotes - Free

New Car Price Quotes - Free 09/25/2004 11:09 PM
Ad - www.automotive.com Sep 26 2004 3:21AM GMT

GIGA for Quotes and Folks

GIGA for Quotes and Folks 12/02/2003 01:17 AM
If you're looking for over 50,000 quotes, biographical information on over 8,000 people, and a reading list of over 3,000 books, than you're looking for GIGA at http://www.giga-usa.com/ . There's a lot to see here but let's concentrate on the...

Great RSS Quotes from My Aggregator

Great RSS Quotes from My Aggregator 12/24/2004 12:58 PM

• RSS: a Shift, from What...to What?
  "He also neatly sort of answers his own question - with greater precision than I can ever muster - by saying: 'If I visit houses of content, as I seem to do on the Web, that is very different than the content as “visitor” to my house.'... What we’re seeing is the creation of personalised information hypermarkets.... Over time, you develop a rich cocktail of sources and you develop a new habit for browsing information. Some things you look at hourly, some daily, and some you deliberately save till Friday pm for a catch up. This is light years away from sitting down at the table in the morning looking at your paper, or even your paper’s website.”
   
• RSS and Blog Directories
  "Inspired by The Media Drop's list of newspaper RSS feeds, I thought I'd compile a list of RSS directories. Enjoy and spread the link."
   
• Newsmap as a Model for Smart Aggregation
  "Information overload. It’s the next big issue in publishing, and technology in general. The day you have 400 e-mails in your inbox, 900 new items in your RSS aggregator, and 8 Instant Messenger windows on your screen will come. For some people, it’s already here.... The key to our information gathering lives is all about smart aggregation. The days of media companies deciding what’s on your 'front page' are numbered. Within five years, I believe customizable newsreader technology (whether client-side like Net News Wire, or server-side like Bloglines), will be as prevalent as the web is right now."
   
• 500 down, 3061 to go
  "At the beginning of this week I had 310 feeds showing around 25,000 unread posts. I had toyed with the idea of declaring RSS bankruptcy and just starting again, but I was getting increasingly unhappy with chaotic state of my feeds and deep down I knew that hitting 'mark all posts read' would do nothing to solve the problem in the long run."

In quotes: UK witness accounts

In quotes: UK witness accounts 12/29/2004 01:39 AM
The stories of Britons caught up in the sea surges across south and east Asia.

Notable Quotes (Reuters)

Notable Quotes (Reuters) 12/30/2003 09:46 AM
Reuters - They said it -- notable quotes from the entertainment world.

"bush/palpatine quotes"

"bush/palpatine quotes" 02/10/2004 02:52 AM

Choice SxSW quotes

Choice SxSW quotes 03/19/2005 02:35 AM

My American adventure is ongoing; I'm still in Austin at the moment, but I'll be off to Washington D.C. in a few days and there's a small chance I'll get there via Dallas. This doesn't leave much opportunity for online shenanigans, but there were a few things from SxSW that really needed a mention. The conference, as ever, was awesome - if not for the panels then certainly for the socialising. If anything I stretched myself too thin this year trying to keep up with the Brit Pack, the WaSP crew, some ex-colleagues from Lawrence and the people I met in San Francisco back in May.

I met a lot of new people this year as well. Since David Nunez had pointed out that "what do you do?" was a bit of a dull opening question (not to mention a conversation killer for people who dislike their job) I stuck with "So what are you excited about?" instead. It worked pretty well - I got a whole bunch of great answers, with the most random probably coming from the guy who was excited about mopeds (it turned out he runs the world's number one moped site).

The most entertaining panel by far was the Home Star Runner one, in which the Brothers Chaps finally revealed the secret to their animation success: motion capture! I'll have to post a few pictures once I get back on a high speed 'net connection; suffice to say the constant laughter from the room was heard throughout the convention center.

Anyway, on to the quotes. The first two are from Jacob Kaplan-Moss:

PHP is like a beautiful woman... with syphilis

Maintaining badly written code is like trying to solve a crossword puzzle set by someone who can't spell

I also like this one from Jeremy Dunck, who was justifying sharing your ideas with people at the conference despite the risk of other people implementing them first:

It's like the lazyweb in meatspace

The credit for the last one goes (I think) to Yvonne Adams, who made the sage observation that:

South by South West is spring break for web geeks

It certainly is. See you all again next year!

Command line Futurama quotes

Command line Futurama quotes 02/10/2004 02:44 AM

Today's command line amusement:

lynx -mime_header http://slashdot.org/ | head -n 6 | tail -1

Quips, Quotes: CeBIT Notes

Quips, Quotes: CeBIT Notes 05/28/2004 03:35 PM
Internet News May 28 2004 6:53PM GMT

Tim Blair: QUOTES OF 2003 - JANUARY

Tim Blair: QUOTES OF 2003 - JANUARY 12/25/2003 05:34 AM
list of quotes for 2003 .. Fucktard Hall of Shame .. the year in quotes

timblair.spleenville.com/archives/005498.php
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Novell Quotes AT&T on Derivative
Works

Novell Quotes AT&T on Derivative
Works 02/10/2004 08:06 PM

Led Stock Quotes Ticker Applet 2.4

Led Stock Quotes Ticker Applet 2.4 04/14/2004 04:00 PM
A browser embedded tool that shows real-time stock quotes.

Get Up to 4 Quotes from Local Lenders
in Minutes

Get Up to 4 Quotes from Local Lenders
in Minutes 06/03/2004 03:29 AM
Ad - http://www.LocalRateSource.com Jun 3 2004 8:29AM GMT

Led Stock Quotes Ticker Applet v2.5

Led Stock Quotes Ticker Applet v2.5 07/17/2004 02:46 PM
Led Stocks Quotes Ticker Applet is the perfect browser embedded tool you can enhance your site by showing real-time stock quotes values in a stock market similar led display. Based on Java technology, this applet offers the following features:

- real-time quotes values
- customizable stocks or indexes
- customizable fields to display
- customizable colors & speed
- text message
- pop-up on click

Rants System Quotes Bug Fixed

Rants System Quotes Bug Fixed 10/08/2002 07:10 AM

AP collects quotes about Nader candidacy

AP collects quotes about Nader candidacy 03/06/2004 01:51 AM
Are there equivalent quotes on the other side missing from this?

Dreamless - Best Clients Quotes -
977desisgn.com

Dreamless - Best Clients Quotes -
977desisgn.com 11/19/2003 11:34 PM
Dreamless - Best Clients Quotes - 977desisgn.com .. Idiot web design client quotes .. crap like this

tofslie.com/clientquotes.htm
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News: Get Stock Quotes Through Google

News: Get Stock Quotes Through Google 04/08/2005 12:34 PM
Overclockers Club Apr 8 2005 5:14PM GMT

I'm interested in buying this soundcard.
Any quotes? I'm in Mumbai

I'm interested in buying this soundcard.
Any quotes? I'm in Mumbai 08/14/2004 02:54 PM
TechTree Aug 14 2004 5:40PM GMT

USA Today Quotes Etherlinx Founder as
Everyman

USA Today Quotes Etherlinx Founder as
Everyman 02/19/2004 11:23 AM
In this well-written, by-the-numbers article explaining Wi-Fi to mainstream readers, John Furrier, one of the founders of Etherlinx, is presented as an average user: I've met and talked with John several times, before and after he left Etherlinx well over a year ago, and he's an experienced Wi-Fi guy. No lack of props to him (and his decision to leave a firm he helped start that became a non-starter), but the reporter should have identified him as a current or former industry member, not an average Joe (or John). John reads this site, so we may get more information on this yet. A few weeks ago, The New York Times covered home Wi-Fi and used as its lead subject Oren Michels, who is the president of WiFinder, identifying him in his full-time day job as the head of a human resources benefits outsourcing firm. Surely there are actual consumers out there....

New Site for Health Insurance Quotes
Provides Best Service

New Site for Health Insurance Quotes
Provides Best Service 04/19/2005 04:00 AM
InsuranceRX.com helps find individual, family and small business health insurance plans. [PRWEB Apr 19, 2005]

Brainstorm 2004 - Quotes from Wesley
Clark

Brainstorm 2004 - Quotes from Wesley
Clark 07/15/2004 01:34 PM

Some good quotes from Wesley Clark...

Wesley Clark: The responsibility of Abu Ghraib does not lie in the men and women in the armed forces. It lies in with the commander and chief.

Q: Why isn't the administration being held accountable for this?

Wesley Clark: They will be held accountable in the elections.

--

Wesley Clark: You can't win the war on terror by killing terrorists. You have to cut of the recruitment. It doesn't involve killing people.

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"ESPN.com: Page 3 - Top 100 sports movie
quotes"

"ESPN.com: Page 3 - Top 100 sports movie
quotes" 03/17/2005 02:50 AM

Pablo Picasso Quotes - The Quotations
Page

Pablo Picasso Quotes - The Quotations
Page 07/16/2004 11:53 AM
Pablo Picasso

quotationspage.com/quotes/Pablo_Picasso
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"The Washingtime Times, for their
creative use of quotes in this article."

"The Washingtime Times, for their
creative use of quotes in this article." 05/20/2004 02:30 AM

Free National Mortgage Refinance Quotes

Free National Mortgage Refinance Quotes 05/12/2004 02:33 PM
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"The 40 Most Obnoxious Quotes Of 2004 -
Right Wing News"

"The 40 Most Obnoxious Quotes Of 2004 -
Right Wing News" 01/04/2005 05:59 PM

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