Michael J. Fox responds to Rush Limbaugh

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/10/27/fox-limbaugh/

This has sure been an interesting little story. I really like the tone and conciseness of Fox's response, though. He's got his head screwed on straight, that's for sure.

Trivia tidbits about Michael J. Fox: his middle name actually starts with an A, but he thought it would be imprudent to use Michael A. Fox (as in Michael, a fox) as his stage name. Furthermore, he and I share the same birthday of June 9th.

Six-Word Stories, for programmers

http://undefined.com/ia/2006/10/27/six-word-stories-about-programming-languages/

I can't believe how much mileage this story has gotten this week! I even heard about the 6-word stories (but the original, sci-fi versions) on CBC Radio One this week.

The programming language ones are pretty funny, though. Some of my favourites:

Visual Basic

I was “it” once! What happened?

Perl

They’ll come crawling back. You’ll see!

I was the original web service.

COBOL

Without me there wouldn’t be PCs.

FORTRAN

Without me there wouldn’t be H-Bombs.