#68 --
a) The code is buggy; I can't get it to run as written. In particular, he uses the -dump parameter to links. That causes links to dump a formatted version of the document, which does not contain any URLs at all.
b) He says that URLs of the form http://www.amazon.com/ri/product-listing/ generate a complaint. However, if you go to a URL with that format, you get a 404 page. It's possible that Amazon just pulled that functionality this morning, but there's no sign of that URL in their help system that I can see after a quick once-over.
Conclusion: bogus.
I used to be regularly amused when I walked past the Objectivist table in the Student Union, with the big yellow banner on it: "10 million copies sold!"
Yay! About time someone improved on my effort. *grin*
Yeah, it smells real. There are quite a few military LJs out there, if you look for 'em. I have a guy friended who was writing brilliant material about his time over there, until he took shrapnel in the foot. Amazing reading.
It's to be expected, in retrospect. The military is full of people around the same age as a large segment of the LJ userbase.
There's a chapter or two about Short Creek in Jon Krakauer's recent book on Mormon extremism.
Not to take the quip too seriously, but George Pelecanos has written a really excellent run of mysteries/noirs set in and among the poorer sections of Washington, DC. Not really overtly liberal, but certainly pissed off.
Calypso, Calypso... would that be this typeface?
Sadly, I can't find a "real" version, but that looks like a decent enough knockoff.
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