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date: "2000-08-03T12:58:00Z"
title: Cows everywhere!
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Just a quick one:  <a
href="http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=00/08/03/2058227&amp;cid=27">This post</a>
on Slashdot is one of the funnier computer analogy jokes I've seen in 
a while (the top one being the infamous <a href="http://www.towson.edu/cans/helpcenter/humor/airlines.html">airline analogies</a>).
Also, be sure to read 
<a href="http://students.ou.edu/W/Amos.P.Waterland-1/wellspring/command_line.html">this short article</a>
by Neil Stephenson (the author of
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0380973464/qid=965347414/sr=1-2/103-6422703-6090214">Cryptonomicon</a>,
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0553380958/qid=965347443/sr=1-1/103-6422703-6090214">Snow Crash</a>, and
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0553380966/o/qid=965347466/sr=2-1/103-6422703-6090214">Diamond Age</a>).
Finally, (and I haven't had time to read this yet), but it looks like good
ol' prez Billy is _still_ extending the national state of emergency on
the Encryption Export regulations.  Read about them
<a href="http://216.167.120.50/hd106-256.txt">here</a>.