Monthly Archives: July 2003

Liberty quote by Jefferson

Found this in Freenet posting today:

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add “within the limits of the law,” because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual. – Thomas Jefferson

Was ist ein Kalfaktor? (German)

Habe am Wochenende das neue Wort Kalfaktor aufgeschnappt. Was ist das?

Wahrig Deutsches Wörterbuch:

Kal’fak·ter, Kal’fak·tor [m .; -s, -‘to·ren] jmd., der alle mögl. Dienste verrichtet, Heizer, Schuldiener, Hausmeister; Aushorcher, Schmeichler, Zwischenträger; Strafgefangener, der dem Gefangenenwärter zur Hand geht [mlat . cal(e)factor “Warmmacher”, d.h. der mit dem Einheizen betraute Schüler; zu lat. calidus “warm, heiÃ

irate

Found a new service today: irate. It’s a client which connects to a server a gets new mp3s once in a while. You rate the file you listen to and based on correlations with ratings of other users it will (hoopefully) send you the type of music you like most.
It suffers a bit of a lack of users so far, so the correlation is not really advanced yet. But it is an interesting concept.

What the tempory IRAQ emperior, err, ambassador said

From the Guardian (1 July 2003):

The words of Paul Bremer, Washington’s overlord in Iraq, need no “sexing up”. “We are going to fight them and impose our will on them and we will capture or… kill them until we have imposed law and order on this country,” he declared at the weekend. “We dominate the scene and we will continue to impose our will on this country.”

I don’t have any further comment on this one.