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Sunday, December 15, 2002

A cool thing

Jon Udell: "If your local public (or college) library is one of the nearly 900 Innovative Interfaces' Web-enabled libraries listed below, drag its link to your browser's link toolbar." [Scripting News]
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And in case we haven't pissed you off enough yet...

50 Most Loathsome People. Don't miss the Beast's 50 Most Loathsome People in America --it's funny, provacative and just mean enough without being ugly.... [Steve's No Direction Home Page] [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog]
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Finally!

The mystery unravelled: Google Glossary: "In old England, anyone caught in illegal cohabitation was charged with 'unlawful carnal knowledge'---that was the technical term. It was a very common offense and, on the blotter, instead of writing out that so-and-so was being held 'for unlawful carnal knowledge' they would just write, 'F.U.C.K.'

No idea on when it became a 'dirty' word. [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog]

No idea whether true or not, either....

[Several hours later:

At 4:54 PM -0800 12/15/02, Gautam wrote: not true
http://www.snopes.com/language/acronyms/fuck.htm

Sigh. And me the inveterate Snopes checker...
Oh, fuck.]
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A First Step to Cutting Reliance on Oil. Fuel cells could ease the threat of global warming without taking away freedom and mobility. By Tom Redburn. [New York Times: Science]
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Keeping Track of John Poindexter

John Poindexter wants to know everything about you. So people are starting to reurn the favor.

"Why, for example, is their $269,700 Rockville, Md., house covered with artificial siding, according to Maryland tax records? Shouldn't a Reagan conspirator be able to afford repainting every seven years? Is the Donald Douglas Poindexter listed in Maryland sex-offender records any relation to the good admiral? What do Tom Maxwell, at 8 Barrington Fare, and James Galvin, at 12 Barrington Fare, think of their spooky neighbor?" [Wired]
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