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# The Linux Launderette

### [OT] One for Ben: pTerry made his own sword

Jimmy O'Regan [joregan at gmail.com]

Mon, 20 Sep 2010 16:25:12 +0100

http://www.news.com.au/technology/terry-[...]-meteorites/story-e6frfro0-1225926584339

'Pratchett, who has Alzheimer's disease, also said he had thrown in "several pieces of meteorites - thunderbolt iron, you see - highly magical, you've got to chuck that stuff in whether you believe in it or not".' ... 'He said: "It annoys me that knights aren't allowed to carry their swords. That would be knife crime."'

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    <Leftmost> jimregan, that's because deep inside you, you are evil.
    <Leftmost> Also not-so-deep inside you.

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### The programmer hierarchy...

Jim Jackson [jj at franjam.org.uk]

Mon, 6 Sep 2010 21:36:51 +0100 (BST)

Dunno if people have seen this...

http://blog.linux-lancers.com/images/articles/2008/10/28/programmerhierarchy.jpg

I have no wish to start a programming langauages war[1], and only offer it up as amusement

Jim

[1] but it really is remarkably accurate in all sorts of ways :-P

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### The Web is dead, apparently.

Jimmy O'Regan [joregan at gmail.com]

Tue, 7 Sep 2010 15:46:14 +0100

On 18 August 2010 20:42, Ben Okopnik <ben at linuxgazette.net> wrote:

    > JS without Ajax? Awesome. Next up: Assembler to DOS Batch File Language
    > converter. The conversion is 100% accurate, but the output feature is
    > still in development...

Not quite what you mentioned, but not a million miles away:

http://www.secretgeek.net/dod_intro.asp "DOS on DOPE is the modern MVC framework built on the awesome power of Batch scripts."

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    <Leftmost> jimregan, that's because deep inside you, you are evil.
    <Leftmost> Also not-so-deep inside you.

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### Statistical Machine Translation, with rhyme

Jimmy O'Regan [joregan at gmail.com]

Thu, 30 Sep 2010 23:06:45 +0100

Discussed here: http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2673 ("it's too bad that they didn't set the system up to match the actual norms of English metered verse") they mention this: http://research.google.com/archive/papers/review_in_verse.html a review in verse

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    <Leftmost> jimregan, that's because deep inside you, you are evil.
    <Leftmost> Also not-so-deep inside you.

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Published in Issue 179 of Linux Gazette, October 2010

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