Seriously, this stuff is really, really great. “Badass of the Week” [LINK] is a page that deals with, well, people that are badass. The author goes to great lengths explaining the various badass deeds of a wide variety of people. I’ll give you a taste:
About Thor Heyerdal [Wikipedia]
Then he published a scientific paper called, “Eat Shit, Motherfuckers: The True Story of How Thor Heyerdahl Made You Assholes Look Like a Bunch of Fucking Morons”, which stated that his adventure proved that it was in fact scientifically possible for the Incans to have settled in Polynesia.
About Rommel [Wikipedia]
But Rommel wasn’t just going to sit back like some fucking chumpburger and do lame shit like dig trenches and erect fortifications - he was going to go nutsack-to-the-wall and charge a force of over 700 tanks with his group of about 260 tanks and some Italian motorized infantrymen riding around on Vespa scooters eating canolis.
About Ahmad Shah Massoud [Wikipedia]
Without the proper equipment and supplies, the Russians weren’t nearly as effective as they could be, and Massoud’s guerilla warfare skillz were more 1337 than a mad hax0r invading a LAN party at the senior citizen’s center.
This is just a taste, there’s quite a collection of articles on lots of pretty badass people. Enjoy.
I am responding to this post [link] on mainframe.gr. Vangelis Bibakis writes about how the past year was a lost one for Linux and brings up a couple of points. Go on and read them, but be warned: There aren’t really any valid arguments in there. After all, it is written by someone who admittedly uses a ‘W.A.M.P. (Windows Apache Mysql PHP)’ machine to code PHP [link].
The zealots issue (He writes about how Linux zealots install Linux on unsuspecting users’ PCs only for theM to find out later that there is no Photoshop on Linux and they can’t play their Windows games.)
I consider myself a Linux envangelist (I don’t like the term zealot). I have installed Linux for a number of people. I told them before that it is a new OS and that some things won’t work the way they do on Windows. And honestly: Does ‘Joe User’ (as Vangelis calls the average user) REALLY USE Photoshop? And even if he does use it, what are the chances that he is just using it to crop a picture or change the saturation in one every once in a while. YOU DON’T NEED PHOTOSHOP FOR THAT! And since it is probably pirated anyway, I might be doing someone like that a favour.
Playing the current Windows games is the only (!) reason why a home user might still want to have windows. If you don’t tell people about that before installing Linux for them, you are being a plain asshole.
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I don’t quite remember where I came across this but it is priceless. I present to you:
The official website of the Democratic People’s Republic Of North Korea
http://www.kcckp.net/en/
Make sure you check out the slideshows of Kim Jong Il being ridiculous. In this picture he demonstrates that he is cool enough to wear his stylish sunglasses even when inside inspecting some unit of his minions. An activity by the way that he seems to spend most of his time pursuing.