Evil, pure evil, in any language:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/slideshow/ALeqM5h5f3B-Kb1SjRRDSOe4mX8g_J1FFg?index=0
Story:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5h5f3B-Kb1SjRRDSOe4mX8g_J1FFg
Quote:
Bahrami, who moved to Barcelona after the attack to get medical treatment, said the court had originally ruled that she was entitled to have the man blinded in only one eye in Iran because “each man is worth two women”.
Version status of some key web development related packages in the repositories of the upcoming Ubuntu Linux 9.04:
Languages: Groovy 1.5 (1.5.7-1) Perl 5.10 (5.10.0-19ubuntu1) PHP 5.2 (5.2.6.dfsg.1-3ubuntu2) Python 2.6 (2.6.1-0ubuntu3) Python 3.0 (3.0.1-0ubuntu2) Ruby 1.8 (1.8.7.72-3) Ruby 1.9 (1.9.0.2-9ubuntu1) Databases: MySQL 5.1 (5.1.31-1ubuntu2) PostgreSQL 8.3 (8.3.6-1build1) SQLite 3.6 (3.6.10-1) Web Servers: Apache 2.2 (2.2.11-2ubuntu1) lighttpd 1.4 (1.4.19-5ubuntu6) nginx 0.6 (0.6.35-0ubuntu1) Frameworks & Applications: CakePHP 1.2 (1.2.0.7692-rc3-1) Catalyst 5.7 (5.7015-0ubuntu1) CherryPy 3.0 (3.0.2-2) Django 1.0.2 (1.0.2-1) Drupal 5 (5.15-1ubuntu1) Drupal 6 (6.6-3) Grails --- (not included in 9.04) MoinMoin 1.8 (1.8.1-1.1ubuntu1) phpBB 3.0 (3.0.4-0ubuntu1) Pylons 0.9.6 (0.9.6.2-2) Rails 2.1 (2.1.0-6) TurboGears 1.0.8 (1.0.8-1)
Ubuntu 9.04 packages: full list of packages (text only)
You won’t find many more deserving recipients of a cup of slime:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/mar/06/mandelson-green-slime-protest
It’ll no doubt be the National Extremism Tactical Coordination Unit database for the seditious slime-chucker (probably for me too, for being aware of the existence of their website).
Has it always been media policy to blur out the registration numbers of ministerial cars, or did this begin after Section 76 of the Counter-Terrorism Act 2008 came into force?
UPDATE: Craig Murray is more pithy.