News You Can Bruise for 2003 March 6

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Sweetcode comes through again: RottenFlesh is the Katzdot of Freshmeat. To say more would be to detract from the obvious suitability of the compound-word-laden comparison I just used.

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My glasses fell apart today at the all hands meeting. I fixed them with a tiny screwdriver that Kevin has. Ha! Things: they live to annoy you. Fight back!

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Look at this map of population density which was APOD a couple days ago. There's a big hollow egg of population in the western US and southwestern Canada; almost everyone who lives inside that egg is next to a river.

Instant Rebuttal: That only works because the top of the egg is itself a river. Nobody lives there because that whole area is desert.