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Wow. Pre- and post-explosion comparative imagery of the town of Ryongchon, DPRK

RSS WILL DOOM US ALL

Death of Internet Predicted, Film at 11. Couple of hints: 1. don't provide an RSS feed. 2. Don't advertise your RSS feed beyond people you're actually interested in having read it. 3. Provide an RSS feed with correct syndication headers, so that RSS readers know only to hit your feed once a week or whatever - sure, not everyone respects this, but it's at least worth doing.

in order to avoid X, we must X

The goal of cable select is to eliminate having to set master and slave jumpers, allowing simpler configuration.

To use cable select, both devices on the channel are set to the "cable select" (CS) setting, usually by a special jumper.

Learn about using Cable Select here, kids!

Governement in shock "independant commission" move

Our minister for voting and stuff has agreed to can the planned e-voting for the upcoming elections. This is a pretty major turnaround in government policy.

chat silliness

<wisn> snork. the US is ending the siege of fallujah and withdrawing troops. the pentagon is denying there's an agreement.
<waider> they also denied there was a truce, or a ceasefire, or both, or neither, or a falafel stand in the highway.
<waider> and the assualt wasn't an assault.
<waider> it was self-defence, except for the offensive bits.
<wisn> donald rumsfeld heard denying that there was a fallujah, and that we can't control that sort of thing beforehand anyway.
<waider> and it was all done by contractors who are not in Donald's jurisdiction, Hussein supporters, and Al Qaeda
<waider> and John Kerry
<waider> and the Democratic Party
<waider> this horse is broken. I demand a replacement.

hey, we could be onto something here

Qatar to review Al Jazeera after complaints from Washington - maybe if enough people from, oh, Riyadh or Bagdhad or Tehran complain about Fox coverage we can get that Murdoch tosspot off the air.