Non-Emergency Calls to 999 Emergency Centre

This will shame some folks in to stopping. I suspect it'll also generate copycat calls. I wonder if putting them up will make things better or worse?

Perspective

Mr. Wesley Emch contrasts the current Favre shambles with the example of his son, Hospitalman Lucas Emch. Thank you for taking the time to remind us about what is important.

Contrasting Ends of Life

Randy Pausch, famous for his Last Lecture, has left us.

Edward "Eddie" Davidson, the spam king who just escaped from prison, apparently did the unthinkable before checking out.

The immense difference between how these men lived their lives-- all the way to the end-- struck me when both stories landed in my reader a few minutes apart.

Wecome Home

Froggie.

Spam King Jail Break

Watch your inboxes.

Everyone knows someone...

...who drags every 10 second phone call out to 10 minutes. Even folks who don't do it regularly can still end up gabbing. SlyDial offers an interesting workaround if you are calling a mobile number.

How bad can you dance?

Hopefully not this bad...

New fees, less bars.

Possible new fees for adult entertainers, less bars downtown in Green Bay.

Rehabilitation by fire

No money for a dangerous, hellish job but the pride and self esteem might go further than any other program the state can offer. I'd love to recidivism see stats on these folks.

Cattle prods for plane passengers.

Not sane. Promotional video. (FF to 3:05.)

C in a browser

Quake in a browser.

The boundaries between script, tokenized, and fully precompiled languages are just going away. This is a good thing but it's a big change for old timers. Stevey talked about a similar topic the other day too.

"The man's attorney said there may be mental health issues involved in the case."

Ya think?

Green Burial

Hope I live long enough for this to be an option.