News You Can Bruise for 2003 December 4

Permalink [Comments] (5) Thu Dec 04 2003 11:20 For All Their Faults:

I'd never heard of this: the Monty Python sketch "Wacky Queen", which was cut from the first episode of MPFC after it aired, presumably because... the queen... was too wacky... I guess...

television

Permalink [No comments] Thu Dec 04 2003 11:43 Why Programmers Hate Government: Exhibit Two:

Le Calendrier Républicain.
"This was an attempt to de-Christianize the calendar, but it was an unpopular move, because now there were 9 work days between each day of rest, whereas the Gregorian Calendar had only 6 work days between each Sunday."

technology/logistics