Saturday, July 18th, 2009

Time	Event
12:11p	calling out sexism. Just like they did in Salem, Mass.! Open source, why must you be so fail? This has shown up all over the Planet Gnome RSS feed lately. It started when Richard M. Stallman gave a tongue-in-cheek speech at the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit about the text-editor-worshiping 'church of Emacs'. The epic command-line text editor wars between emacs and vi would normally be entertaining, but... not this time. ( Where did religious parodies go so wrong? ) More blog links: A much better summary than mine, Monotonous is all for fighting sexism, rodrigo thinks it isn't there, and uraeus insists that sexism cannot be to blame for anything short of a trail of bloody footprints leading to sexism's front door. (33 Comments | Comment on this)
3:08p	Businessman being unfunny in a good way Massachusetts businessman Robert I. Lappin was among those taken in by the Madoff pyramid scam. He lost much of his personal fortune. He also invested, and lost, most of the funding for Robert I. Lappin Charitable Foundation. Even worse, he invested all of his employees' 401(k) plans with Madoff, wiping out the retirement funds of 60 working people. What did Mr. Lappin do in response to this? He and his family put together five million dollars of their own money to restore those 60 employees' retirement savings. Current Mood: Amazed (23 Comments | Comment on this)

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