woo free stuff

Just received my copy of Twisted Network Programming Essentials (the "Snake Orgy" book.)

Quick flick through it looks nice. It's also nice that it's a reasonable 236 pages, and not one of those 800 page doorstops.

I love free stuff. ;)

uncle charles say: you go, girl

French authorities are monitoring a retreat organised by a Queensland New Age guru, whose controversial philosophy has been linked to the deaths of three people.

Ellen Greve, who calls herself Jasmuheen, promotes what they call Breatharian, spiritual cleansing by living on air and light alone.

The 48-year-old claims to have eaten nothing since 1993.

Greve is holding a seminar in the south-eastern village of Devesset in France but local police are concerned it may be a dangerous cult.

The gathering has been put under high surveillance, the head of the French government's anti-sect unit told Le Parisien newspaper.

-- The Age

snark of the day

Al Franken is making his third visit to the troops in Iraq next month. "My wife doesn't like me going to Iraq. She says, 'You don't see Bill O'Reilly going to Iraq.' I said, 'That's not fair; he doesn't have any talent.'"