“RABAT (Reuters) – Surgeons have managed to stitch back a Moroccan boy’s penis after it was bitten off by a donkey, the official MAP news agency reported Thursday.“
“MAP did not say how the donkey managed to bite off the boy’s penis.”
Day: July 26, 2002
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XML is wonderful, but it’s a bloated beast. I was curious what efforts have gone into XML compression, and here are some sites I found:
I know there are more tools and sites out there, but several of the top google returns redirected to porn sites or companies that had been gobbled up by a company that was then gobbled up.
There are also mod_gzip, an apache module that compresses documents using gzip and decompresses them on the fly.
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DMCA Violation: Dan Gillmor reports that Bruce Perens decides not to violate the DMCA after some suggestion from his employer. That was probably a smart idea, too.
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Western Digital announced a 200 gig hard drive the other day. Now I just have to finish filling up the 40’s I picked up a little while ago…
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The shipping gods have smiled upon me. I recieved Web Services Essentials and Using Samba from Amazon a day before they were supposed to show up. I am about 30 pages into the web services book, and it is an extremely informative read.
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Jikes, the zippyfast Java compiler was released today. New features include a version number of 1.16.