Notes:

Should children of illegal immigrants born in the U. S. be citizens? Children of visiting diplomats born in the U. S. do not get citizenship. There are all kinds of situations where the constitution that says “people” born in the U. S. are citizens..

You know, Open Solaris strikes me as a distribution that exists only to give a corporation (SUN, now Oracle) the ability to say they have an open products. Oracle, as far as I can tell, is dead set against the concept of “open” anything, on principle.

Heard on a financial podcast on the BBC. (from memory) “You can't get a pig by winding a sausage grinder backwards.” I believe the point was that something was not undoable. I'm so stealing this one.

There is a study that says children don't learn shit from TV shows. They switch their brains off while they watch and it all goes in one year and out the other. Older kids can learn, but younger kids basically didn't get crap out of TV. It turns out that social interaction is the really important thing. If a TV show is all about people learning and discussing they worked better. If the TV shows were just demonstrations, they did not.