At the Springfield Elementary.
Krabappel: OK class, can someone tell me what Linux is? Yes Ralph.
Ralph: You use it to blow yellow liquid out of your nose and block red liquid from coming out of your nose.
Bart: Don’t you mean “Kleenix”, Ms. “Rabappel”?
Class giggles.
Krabappel: Shut up Bart. Yes, Milhouse?
Milhouse: I saw it on the laptop of my dad’s divorce lawyer once: it’s some sorta penguin that likes to eat kernels of the Debian plant.
Krabappel: Milhouse! Why didn’t you tell me your dad’s getting a divorce! I want your father to call me after 10 o’clock tonight so we can discuss your academic dishonesty problem. As for the rest of the class, watch and learn!
Krabappel dims the room and puts a VHS in the VCR.
McClure: Hi! I’m Troy McClure, you may remember me from educational films such as Amoeba: What You Don’t Know Might Not Kill You and memorable blockbusters such as Snakes on the Rollercoaster. In the next 20 minutes we’ll be learning about this revolutionary operating system called Linux.
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June 1st, 2007
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geek pride, my pet penguin, rejected episodes from The Simpsons >>
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Thailand is banning YouTube for hosting videos ridiculing the monarchy, after giving a 10-year prison term only last week to a Swiss man for spraying graffiti on the poster of the king. Weeks after lifting a similar ban on YouTube, Turkey is now considering blocking all websites that are insulting to Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey, as well as websites with information on Kurdish rebels in the country.
So what do you do when your dictator governments are denying you access to information on the Internet? Reporters Without Borders offers some technical ways to get around censorship.
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April 7th, 2007
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party like it's 1984, unfinished business >>
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I just finished reading the wonderful American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang. The graphic novel opens with Monkey King attending a dinner party in heaven with the gods. Monkey King is a fictional character from the Chinese Classic novel Journey to the West written in the 1590s. The wildly imaginative fantasy story chronicles a monk’s journey to India to bring Buddhist scriptures back to China. The monk has recruited three disciples before his treacherous odyssey: a flamboyant monkey, a deferential fish, and a lascivious pig. These creatures, appearing in human form, all know their Kong Fu and have magic powers, for their task is to protect the monk from all sorts of monsters along the way, who want to eat the monk in order to gain eternal life. In Yang’s book, the story of how the handsome Monkey King, who once defied all the gods, succumbs to the Monk and becomes his faithful apostle is beautifully captured and succinctly adapted into the first of three interweaving tales.
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February 9th, 2007
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judge a book by its lover, the unwearable proudness of being (Asian), thought for food >>
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