I’ve only seen 16 out of the top 100. ‘Casablanca’ named top film romance [CNN]
I’ve only seen 16 out
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Neat Story. How Yoda Became
Um. Duh. A Message in
Um. Duh. A Message in an Arrest. Monday’s announcement on the alleged plot to build a “dirty” bomb seemed to reinforce the Bush administration’s repeated warnings that Al Qaeda remains a threat. By Patrick E. Tyler. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]
Who is it? I’m dying
Who is it? I’m dying to know. 
Theoretically, a week from yesterday, we will know who Deep Throat was. The Washington Post, whose reporters invented the name, says “Only four people on the planet are known to have the name — [Bob] Woodward; his partner, Carl Bernstein; Ben Bradlee, the former executive editor of The Washington Post; and of course, Deep Throat himself.” If this is true, then we know that Deep Throat is John Dean, who plans to spill the beans in his book, coming out next Monday. John Robb thinks Deep Throat was Alexander Haig. Others say Henry Kissinger, William Colby (CIA) and L Patrick Gray (FBI). [Scripting News]
Impressive! GFX: Industrial Light &
Impressive! GFX: Industrial Light & Magic. Discussing the move to Linux on ILM’s renderfarm, with speed and stability comes responsibility. [Linux Journal]
MRTG Fun! I spent the
MRTG Fun! I spent the better part of last night and this evening wrestling with MRTG to get it to monitor the bandwidth of my servers, T-1, and the BayStack 350T switches. If I had only realized that /mrtg/bin/cfgmaker did the trick. Fun, eh?
A fitting end. John Gotti
A fitting end. John Gotti Is Dead at 61; Ex-Mafia Boss Courted Limelight. John J. Gotti, who had a flamboyant reign as a Mafia boss, died today at a federal prison hospital in Springfield, Mo. He was 61. By Selwyn Raab. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]