Octopodial Chrome

My friend John posted that Don Knotts passed away a few days ago. It’s the end of a legend. He may not have been great, but he was funny.

A woman has given birth to two girls, one white and one black—and yet daughters of the same father. Both she and her man are mulattoes, and by a freak chance the genetics worked out this way.

Thomas Frey believes that the end of income tax is nigh. Would that he were right!

The GNU Compiler Collection 4.1 has been released, with some exciting new changes. Given that gcc is at the heart of almost everything running on my system, it’s good to see the development is continuing and improvements are being made.

And to think that once upon a time people charged huge sums for compilers!

Philip Greenspun has an interesting theory on why there aren’t more women in science: because science is a very poor career decision. An interesting point of view, although I don’t know enough about the matter to comment intelligently.

A recent study suggests that fruits and vegetables aren’t as vitamin-rich as they once were. Of course, the natural-foods folks have been going on about this for quite some time now…