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From ABC News:

The Worst Incident of School Violence

Columbine? Virginia Tech? It was actually a 1958 fire that burned down Our Lady of Angels, a Catholic school in Chicago, and killed 92 students. One or possibly two fourth graders set the fire. The nuns told the students to pray rather than escape.

Judge dismisses “potty-mouth” case

Attention People of the Internet: if I ever make pathetic statements like those uttered by the moguls in this article, you have my pre-authorization to whop me on the back of my head, preferably with a baseball bat:

They're Single, Ambitious, Worth Millions, But Can New York Women Download Their Megabyte Egos?

location: 2821 Mission College Blvd, Santa Clara, CA

mood: indifferent

Image stolen from uncov without permission.
Please don’t sue.

Most of what Secret Pants does in sketch comedy is, well, sketchy, but occasionally they’ll produce a real gem.

Mature Themes

(suggested by the iTunes Music Store)

For posterity's sake, I must preserve:

The Bouce-ometer

So, you need to know what’s going on with Samuel L. Jackson’s forthcoming opus magnum Snakes on a Plane? How about a blog dedicated to the movie that I found when referrer mining?

Snakes on a Blog

(via Wonkette)

Iraqi Invasion: A Text Misadventure

(via SF Gate Culture Blog)

I was reading the big Business Week story on Intel, and it quoted CEO Paul Otellini: “He lays particular emphasis on marketing expertise because he thinks the only way Intel can succeed in new markets is by communicating more clearly what the technology can do for customers. […] This seems deeply wrong to me on a whole bunch of levels. People already know what computers and game consoles and telephones and all the other things with CPUs in them can do for them, and if they don’t, it’s not Intel’s job to explain, that belongs to the people who build the boxes that the consumers slap down their plastic for. […] Intel’s real customers are Apple and Intel and Dell and HP and IBM, and I guarantee those guys care about bits and bytes (and wattage), and even more about dollars per unit.

(via ongoing)

This explains Otellini’s appearance in a bunny suit: if it truly was Jobs’s idea for him to come onstage and act like a fool, then it may have been a subtle hint for him and Intel to fade into the background.

Neat interview for fans of The Mythical Man-Month.

Quoted Often, Followed Rarely

Bill Gates Sets Indian Software Professionals on Fire

(via Fark)

Mr. T lends his voice to in-dash GPS system

Turn on your speakers and go click on the voice samples. You will not be disappointed.

(via Web Two Point Oh)

How to manage the egos of stars with the needs of teams

Very applicable to my life right now.

(via Screenhead)

Vatche Panos and Myke Chilian’s spoof of mass produced anime in which three badly-drawn heroes fight the evil of those who fail to rock.

Incredibly painful to watch, so be sure to keep your finger on the “pause” button just in case you start bleeding from the ears. Think of it as the internet equivalent of ordering whiskey in a dirty shot glass—a touch of ritualistic self-flagellation that proves just how manly you are.

• Episode #1
• Episode #2

(via Screenhead)

The War on Terror as a Bourne Shell Script.

(via Tim Bray)

Spain Goes “Infinitely Gay”

I am just completely amazed that neither the reporter nor his editor caught the graphic and oh-so-inappropriate imagery of the phrase “spilling into the Plaza de Colon.”

(via FARK.com)