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Thursday, June 06, 2002 |
I'm Too Sexy For My Tongue. Michigan legislature declines to ban elective tongue-splitting surgery for those who wish to achieve that oh-so-sexy viper look. [Daily Rotten] Declines to ban, not decides to ban as I originally read it...
11:57:36 PM 
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Nickelodeon's secret agenda revealed. "Plans by the Nickelodeon cable television network to air a special on homosexuality and same-sex parenting have outraged thousands of parents, many of whom are threatening to tune out the show - or cancel it altogether. According to a poll conducted by CNSNews on June 4-5, 99 percent of 15,227 the people responding did not believe it was appropriate for the kid's channel Nickelodeon to air a show about homosexuality." [Daily Rotten] Best line: Correction: 16th paragraph should read " the program was not intended to brainwash anyone..."
11:54:24 PM
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Ok, there's a lot of handwaving in this Slashdot comment, but "it stuns me that people who want secure software don't simply use secure languages" is an interesting point. It isn't that simple, and security won't come instantly, but even something like Cyclone would be preferable to C. (Their paper is pretty good, too.)
4:44:25 AM
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Found an interesting site this morning, nerve.com. It looks like a weblog, but I haven't been able to find any xml feeds for it yet. [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog]
I thought Adam Curry was kind of cool, but he's just heard of Nerve and he thinks it's a weblog? Tragic.
2:39:36 AM
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Apology related to french fry litigation: "As part of this settlement, McDonald's is donating $10 million to Hindu, vegetarian and other groups whose charitable and educational activities are closely linked to the concerns of these consumers."
2:13:42 AM
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Microsoft plans new Web services push. The software maker will announce plans Thursday for technology that will allow businesses to authenticate user identities between companies and applications using Web services standards. [CNET News.com]
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