A good day for Pastafarians and FSMists worldwide.

The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is available for purchase at bookstores today.

Read more about Him and his followers.

Sing songs of praise and worship.

The Flying Spaghetti Monster created the universe, Earth and its creatures after drinking heavily from heaven's beer volcano.

WHY YOU SHOULD CONVERT TO FLYING SPAGHETTI MONSTERISM

• Flimsy moral standards.
• Every friday is a relgious holiday. If your work/school objects to that, demand your religious beliefs are respected and threaten to call the ACLU.
• Our heaven is WAY better. We've got a Stripper Factory AND a Beer Volcano.

From Omar Chowdhury

UNIX Airways

Everyone brings one piece of the plane along when they come to the airport. They all go out on the runway and put the plane together piece by piece, arguing non-stop about what kind of plane they are supposed to be building.

Air DOS

Everybody pushes the airplane until it glides, then they jump on and let the plane coast until it hits the ground again. Then they push again, jump on again, and so on...

Mac Airlines

All the stewards, captains, baggage handlers, and ticket agents look and act exactly the same. Every time you ask questions about details, you are gently but firmly told that you don't need to know, don't want to know, and everything will be done for you without your ever having to know, so just shut up.

Windows Air

The terminal is pretty and colourful, with friendly stewards, easy baggage check and boarding, and a smooth take-off. After about 10 minutes in the air, the plane explodes with no warning whatsoever.

Windows NT Air

Just like Windows Air, but costs more, uses much bigger planes, and takes out all the other aircraft within a 40-mile radius when it explodes.

Windows XP Air

You turn up at the airport,which is under contract to only allow XP Air planes. All the aircraft are identical, brightly coloured and three times as big as they need to be. The signs are huge and all point the same way. Whichever way you go, someone pops up dressed in a cloak and pointed hat insisting you follow him. Your luggage and clothes are taken off you and replaced with an XP Air suit and suitcase identical to everyone around you as this is included in the exorbitant ticket cost. The aircraft will not take off until you have signed a contract. The inflight entertainment promised turns out to be the same Mickey Mouse cartoon repeated over and over again. You have to phone your travel agent before you can have a meal or drink. You are searched regularly throughout the flight. If you go to the toilet twice or more you get charged for a new ticket. No matter what destination you booked you will always end up crash landing at Whistler in Canada.

Linux Air

Disgruntled employees of all the other OS airlines decide to start their own airline. They build the planes, ticket counters, and pave the runways themselves. They charge a small fee to cover the cost of printing the ticket, but you can also download and print the ticket yourself.

When you board the plane, you are given a seat, four bolts, a wrench and a copy of the seat-HOWTO.html. Once settled, the fully adjustable seat is very comfortable, the plane leaves and arrives on time without a single problem, the in-flight meal is wonderful. You try to tell customers of the other airlines about the great trip, but all they can say is, "You had to do what with the seat?"

Did you know..

NEARLY 20% of the 23,688 known human genes are patented in the United States. Private companies hold 63% of those patents.

Or what about..

FOR INCLUDING a 60-second piece of silence on their album, the Planets were threatened with a lawsuit by the estate of composer John Cage, which said they'd ripped off his silent work 4'33". The Planets countered that the estate failed to specify which 60 of the 273 seconds in Cage's piece had been pilfered.

Scary to consider that.

PATENT LAWSUITS have more than doubled since 1992.

Read this and loads more at Mother Jones.
Via: BoingBoing and StumbleUpon.

Now if someone would sell me a 'stick-on' mask and pre-made led magnets..

I'd so buy it !!

It looks damn cool..

From: Instructables.
Via: BoingBoing.

If you missed updates or think my work on int main ( void ) and SwarmTv is lagging, here is the cause..

I'm addicted to this damn game..

Get the linux version here: http://developer.berlios.de/projects/taspring-linux/

As posted before, friday I was at a workshop on technical and legal aspects of peer-to-peer television.

It was nice to hear about our competition and see that the are verry little compatibility issues..

The workshop was also the launch of Tribler (as seen on boingboing).
I personally don't like tribler that much.. they seem a bit naive in a couple of areas.

1. Decentralised community systems tend to have a downward spiral, because no top level moderation can be done.
2. Using friends to speed up your download doesn't work.. it just generates more overhead for the origional seeder.
   

But it's a study model, so who cares ;)

I did have a great time meeting and greeting some people in the industry. [Read More!]

If you miss me online 17th march..

Tomorrow I'll be at a workshop on technical and legal aspects of peer-to-peer television from Creative Commons.

I'll post a report at SwarmTv project site.

Some great food for thought here.
kuro5hin.org/story/2006/3/6/15145/93789

Theories on the origin of religion as a stress reliever..

I've allways said (at school) that your attitude is important isn learning as well as your knowlege..

Go to a test stressed even after studdieing a lot and you are just as likely to pass as when going there less prepared but relaxed..

Take a magnetic card.. Like a hotel keycard.. or a copycard (some schools use them)..

Copy someones creditcard data to it and abuse it..

It's not that hard..
We did this with debet cards (which do require a PIN) at school about 5 years ago as a POC!!

The hardware is easy to make.. All you need is a PC and a tape recorder..

Take a PC and use the tape heads (read and write) from a (prefferably old) tape recorder.. the only hard thing is positioning them correctly..

Useing a fixed speed (with the parts from the tape recorder) you can just record and the data (audio) and play it back to write the data on the keycard..

You could even skip the computer entirely and just use two tape recorders of which one you disassemble.. [Read More!]