National Geographic: Jews Evaded Nazis by Living in Cave for Nearly 2 Years (link via BoingBoing).
They also have an interview with an American caver who visited the cave and investigated the story, with some more details of the daily cave live.
Author: Dotan Dimet
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.
In his review of Ash, John Clute refers to Ioan Culianu (the Chicago academic who specialized in Hermetic philosophy, and who was murdered in 1991)
. That sparked my curiosity. Google finds a chapter from a book about Culianu and his unsolved murder by Ted Anton, called Eros, Magic, and the Death of Professor Culianu. It also finds a transcript of a conversation with his ghost…
Compare It! is a shareware file compare and merge tool, and probably worth supporting if you can’t find someone to pay $129 for a copy of Araxis Merge. Yeah, for work it’s probably fine to keep installing the evaluation copy of Araxis Merge whenever you need to merge a big source code tree, for example, but for small jobs, like merging two versions of an ImageReady-sliced HTML page, you want something you don’t need to re-install every time you dust it off.
Compare It! seems to have picked up Araxis Merge’s use of softer colors, which is a definate improvement over the Windiff-style garishness of various freeware efforts I remember.
Why am I merging ugly generated HTML pages? Because I’m preparing an update of Guy’s site…
Sean Stewart’s account of writing for the A.I. tie-in web game, known among the developers as “The Beast”, and done in secret by a team headed by Jordan Weisman at Microsoft’s Game Group.
“Existential crisis of killer geisha robot, side order of Socrates,” I said. “When do you need that?”
“Um… 4 hours?”
“Four hours?”
“Yeah.”
“I’ll have a draft in 2.”
Damn, I thought, hanging up, I LOVE this job!