I had no idea
that
the iMac is really just a swollen PowerBook. Now I can't get the image of inflatable iMac pool-toys bobbing playfully in quiet suburban swimming pools out of my mind.
Andrew Shapiro
"In the context you mention -- protecting kids from sexual material while safeguarding the free-speech rights of adults -- I want to invite the reader to think about how commercial middlemen in society have traditionally helped us to strike this balance."
NY Times : High-Technology Sector Unmoved by Labor's Song
"I never think about unions, because they were never part of my life." Meanwhile, slashdot has a sysadmin's account of
The High Tech Sweatshop : "In exchange for high salaries and large stock options the company owns you all day and all night, every day and every night. You are 'Mission critical'. High salaries become an illusion because when it gets down to it your hourly rate isn't much better than the assistant manager of the local Pep Boys."
BBC : World's biggest flower blooms
"Last Monday, delighted botanists discovered that it had developed a 106 cm flower bud. On Wednesday, when the specimen was put on display to the
public, the bud had reached a height of 125 cm, and it is still growing." see also :
Fairchild Tropical Gardens for more pictures (beautiful!) and this page from
the Botanischer Gardens that will need to be bablefish-ed if you don't read German.