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I saw a really classic Usenet exchange recently. This was on rec.bicycles.tech in a thread about women's bicycle saddles.

J: The distance between the ischial tuberosities ("sit bones") is known as the transverse diameter of the pelvic outlet.
B: Who says they don't teach anything useful in high school nowadays?
J: ???
B: Didn't you claim to be a pimply high school nerd last week?
J: I am 30,000 lines of lisp.
B: ???
J:(loop (post (eval (read))))

Summary: B caught J out pretending to be a high school student. J now claims to be a computer program.

A post about mobile blogging is interesting both for the interactions among bloggers and for the assumption that blogging will become a way of easily sharing information on the internet that people will do much more casually than sitting down to write something.

Will found one.

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Campbell-Kelly and Aspray write that the internet as a source of information is still, when they write, not effective. Most of the world's information is still "rotting in silos."(p. 300) Do you think that is still true today? Here's a discussion of some of the problems of organizing information.

We mentioned the use of the internet as a source of information for people living in repressive regimes. But it facilitates extremists as well as liberation movements.