Evolving keyboards

"Hello and good day to you, fellow American! You'ver eached the automated voice response system for TIPS.

Please choose from one of the following options:

- If you'd like to report suspicious behavior by a co-worker, press 1
- If you'd like to report suspicious behavior by a friend, press 2
- If you'd like to report suspicious behavior by a family member, press 3
- If you'd like to report suspicious behavior by yourself, press 4"

Ghost In The Shell TV series

There is no escape...
(Thanks to James)

Bad Flash: if you've trashed your computer's BIOS
Wim's BIOS
motherboards.org
Motherboard Manuals Data and More
SysOpt
The Masters Estate

"If I read a book and it makes my body so cold no fire could ever warm me, I know that it is poetry" --Emily Dickinson

Wendy

Living In Greytown

Flem

The original Sesame Street shows "were built around the notion that Israeli and Palestinian children (as well as puppets) might become friends. Now, reflecting the somber mood in the Middle East, producers see their best hope as helping children to humanize their historic enemies... The utterance of every Muppet is potentially inflammatory."

"Rock and roll is readjusting itself from its previous anti-war, anti-establishment stance"

"I worry about my child and the Internet all the time, even though she's too young to have logged on yet. Here's what I worry about. I worry that 10 or 15 years from now, she will come to me and say 'Daddy, where were you when they took freedom of the press away from the Internet?'" --Mike Godwin, Electronic Frontier Foundation

"The Memory Hole Website" is a nice idea, but has many practical weaknesses. Those weaknesses are addressed by the following projects, among others:
Permanent web publishing
HiveCache(originally MojoNation, then MNet )
and Freenet

"In George Orwell's novel 1984, news articles containing inconvenient facts were thrown down a memory hole to be incinerated. Now The Memory Hole Website rescues knowledge in danger of being forgotten, ignored, or suppressed.

The reason that literal memory holes don't exist is that they don't need to. Thanks to litigiation, spin control, self-censorship, media laziness, and info-glut, a lot of important facts are buried. Websites disappear. Articles from the Associated Press are changed. The New York Times buries a major revelation in the 18th paragraph of an article on page A23. The FBI withholds evidence. Transcripts of Congressional hearings go out of print after a week. Crucial government documents are never put online. Citizens have to pay hundreds of dollars for a single Freedom of Information Act request. Investigative books reveal startling facts, but who has time to read 900-page exposes? There are lots and lots of reasons why important facts often don't get the exposure they deserve." --Library Juice vol 5
(Thanks to Jesse)

"It's Difficult to Comprehend how Insane Some People Can Be, Especially When You're Insane"

Anvil Firing
(backup links: 1 2 3)

"...a man that I met asked me if I had a cellular phone and then asked me to lift up my shirt." Mor-Yosef, who doesn't speak Hebrew well, didn't respond. "I thought it was a game, then he pulled out a gun and shot me" 14 times!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hearings on whether to attack Iraq are a sham.

Stevens Johnson Syndrome
(Thanks to James)

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