Coming soon, to a holiday near you: The celebration of the exploitation, theft, and racial cleansing of native americans. Appropriate thanksgiving gifts for your friends and family: Smallpox blankets, small glass beads, and pictures of barren wasteland. Thanksgiving is by far the most disgusting holiday Americans have. It's in just about as poor taste as if some Ugandans began an Idi Amin day, celebrating his wholesale slaughter of hundreds of thousands..

The Turkish government has always struck me as being a bit wonky. Here's another example -- laws forcing people to give their kids Turkish-Muslim names only were recently lifted, and there are still some strange restrictions. Of course, it's tied to that whole Kurdish mess, and also to the interesting tensions in Turkish society between the secular military and Islamic values.

It looks like the pressures within the geek community are having an effect on SCO.. the bad mojo they've been getting from the lawsuit is killing their tech business, leaving nothing but the lawyers. And now, SCO, it's time for you to die.

An interesting cousin to Google News: News-Images. Cool...

I came across some amusing commentary and humour about away messages while looking for the magic escape sequence (%n, for those interested) that, in AIM at least, fills in the screen name of the reader. Here you go..

While doing some research for a class, I came across an interesting condition that, in some ways, is like the opposite of autism.. It's called Williams Syndrome, and like Downs' syndrome, results in mild deformation and low mental function. Unlike Downs, certain areas of mental function remain very high (some sources suggest higher than average humans). Because of the specifics of the deformation, some have suggested that people with this syndrome might be a source of some of the myths of pixies/elves that humanity has had for awhile.

And yeah, Schwarzenegger has taken office, and is quick to repeal the car/drivers license taxes. This is a bad thing, both from the money flow perspective and for the planet.

Gah, gotta head to class now.