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11/15/2005: "HTML O' the Day"

"We are hoping to have a small battery powered version on sale in the shops in time for Xmas."

I live in New York state, and I've tried searching through the weapons laws and could not find anything specifically mentioning a flame thrower, but still, I wouldn't want the cops showing up when you're playing with this.

Really? Who would have guessed?

The military people reached this conclusion, and they wrote it down on a memo, and then they classified the memo and Adel went from the hearing room back to his prison cell.

Alaska's whaling commission began researching new weaponry when the 66-member International Whaling Commission mandated two decades ago that more humane methods be developed.

... the world's ninth largest country yet still little known to many in the West.

Archimedes Palimpsest Project Summary

When your roommate has a death wish.

Google updates page ranking algorithms.

In pioneer days they used oxen for heavy pulling, and when one ox couldn't budge a log, they didn't try to grow a larger ox. We shouldn't be trying for bigger computers, but for more systems of computers. (Rear Admiral Grace Hopper)

"What would you rather have to plow a field two strong oxen or 1,024 chickens?" (Seymour Cray)