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"Cookies today are doing all kinds of bad things, but did you know that the original creators wanted to stop that?"

"The Museum of Jurassic Technology in Los Angeles, California is an educational institution dedicated to the advancement of knowledge and the public appreciation of the Lower Jurassic. Like a coat of two colors, the Museum serves dual functions. On the one hand the Museum provides the academic community with a specialized repository of relics and artifacts from the Lower Jurassic, with an emphasis on those that demonstrate unusual or curious technological qualities. On the other hand the Museum serves the general public by providing the visitor a hands-on experience of "life in the Jurassic"."

"My absolute favorite genre of museum/attraction is eccentric rich person’s oddly sorted collection of items related to their special interest(s). I just spent part of today at the Mercer Museum..."

The entire Pro Git book, written by Scott Chacon and Ben Straub and published by Apress

"Scrollbars. Ever heard of them? They’re pretty cool. Click and drag on a scrollbar and you can move content around in a scrollable content pane. I love that shit. Every day I am scrolling on my computer, all day long. But the scrollbars are getting smaller and this is increasingly becoming a problem. I would show you screenshots but they’re so small that even screenshotting them is hard to do. And people keep making them even smaller, hiding them away, its like they don’t want you to scroll! “Ah”, they say, “that’s what the scroll wheel is for”. My friend, not everyone can use a scroll wheel or a swipe up touch screen. And me, a happy scroll-wheeler, even I would like to quickly jump around some time."

You don't have to pick any side other than that of civilization.
You don't have to pick a side in order to comfort the dying, to heal the sick, to feed the hungry, to clothe the poor, to provide for the homeless, to aid those in need, to confront evil, to stand with your neighbors whoever they might be. You don't have to make things worse.

"The numbers confirm what many of us have long suspected — that Twitter wasn’t worth the effort, at least in terms of traffic."

Official BitTorrent links for Debian Stable install images (both DVD and CD) on all supported architectures.