Round-up of weird links:
- Jungle girl vs. the Shmoes – a really bad comic, recapped, with pics.
- Isaac Hayes’ Three Laws of Robotics (via jwz).
- Also from Jamie Zawinski, a page where he’s collected a list of “inappropriate language” the lawyers removed from the Netscape Communicator source code for its release. As a bonus, he adds the comparable lines from the Navigator 3.x source. Sample gems:
/* "Object oriented? Fuck that shit! Pabst Blue Ribbon!" --Dennis Hopper */
// They'll never fix the damned warnings. To hell with quality:
// to make Symantec Cafe function properly -- piece 'o crap compiler)
// ok, we are formatting an image. turn off the buggy piece of crap feature
PissOnThisDocument(fHContext);
/* This function is a complete piece of shit - it takes a billion flags */
# define rename hpux_sucks_wet_farts_from_dead_pigeons
// Read in the user's sig and do Jamie pacifying crap to itI could go on…
- A directory of heavier-than-air flying machines in western Europe, 850 B.C. – 1783 A.D. by Clive Hart lists various attempts at flight by hopeful fools jumping off castle walls with Chicken feathers glued to their arms, and such.