What’s Your Flavor?

Here is a user-friendly tool to help decide which Linux distros are a good match for your needs: Linux Distribution Chooser
I’ve recently been carrying around a JP version of a Knoppix Live CD for use at net cafes and public terminals – very handy.
The distros that this test recommended for me include Debian, Ubuntu, and Gentoo, which I have been hearing a lot about but just have not had time to check out yet.

Do As I Say, Federal Emergency Management Edition

Oh my god.
It’s like something I’d consider funny, except that it’s too retarded:

If I can help people focus on preparedness, how to be better prepared in their homes and better prepared in their businesses – because that goes straight to the bottom line – then I hope I can help the country in some way

Because we all know that loss of businesses is the real tragedy, right?
Rescue teams are still searching house to house looking for 600+ missing businesses in the swampy waters, right?

Shades of Cryptonomicon

HavenCo Limited is exploiting a unique opportunity to set up the world’s first real data haven. The initial showcase datacenter is the Principality of Sealand, the world’s smallest sovereign territory. It was founded over thirty years ago and has obtained a unique legal status as the only sovereign man-made island. Its claim to sovereignty has been tested and supported in several legal challenges.”
I’d heard of Sealand before, but never really thought about what it looked like. As it turns out, it wouldn’t have looked out of place on the set of Waterworld:
sealand.jpg
Kewl.
More pics here: LINK

Rules is rules…

From the Bangkok Post:

An ancient Thai marriage rite in which wives prostrate before their husbands should be revived to bring back the disappearing happy family, Social Development and Human Security Minister Watana Muangsook said yesterday.

Wow. I wonder what Nam will throw at me when I try to hold this one over her head… But honey, when in Rome…
(via Farang Affairs, the Bangkok Post)