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Tuesday, October 24 2000

Peter Y. Sussman : How stupid can an e-mail program be?

"Words become offensive by the nature of the attention that is paid to them. When a corporation tacks a chili onto this or that word in an e-mail message or builds a software barrier around a word on a Web site, it invites writers and readers to consider the word one-dimensionally, with only the meaning and intent that the corporation has interpreted as offensive."

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National Post on Economy Class Syndrome

"On airplanes, [deep vein thrombosis] can result when passengers sit for too long without moving, which forces the blood to fight gravity on its flow back to the heart. Slow blood flow causes a conversion of fibrinogen to fibrin in the bloodstream, which causes a clot, or thrombus. Cabin pressure, dehydration and long overseas flights add to the risk."

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Kyle Smith : XML2SQL

"is a collection of Perl scripts used to convert XML files into SQL scripts for creating tables."

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