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somewhat disappointing as I had (and still have) high hopes for Androids potential.

via ilovecharts:

Personally, I HATE it when people don’t capitalize the word Bible on purpose.

Most often it happens because someone doesn’t agree with the Bible and as such, to prove their point, they don’t capitalize the word Bible and instead write it as “bible.”

This is clearly done on purpose to show disdain and demean the Bible. The fact remains, however, that the Bible is a book and as such it should be capitalized.

Those same people would not write “the catcher in the rye” if they didn’t like the book - they wood capitalize it properly as The Catcher in the Rye, because that is proper grammar. Titles of books are capitalized. Period.

We all learned that in elementary school, and the rules still haven’t changed.

dstrelau:

You know, I’ve always wondered why requiring a library on the command line is ruby -r library but you can require rubygems with ruby -rubygems. Here’s why:

[rubygems-1.3.5] cat lib/ubygems.rb 
# This file allows for the running of rubygems with a nice
# command line look-and-feel: ruby -rubygems foo.rb
#--
# Copyright 2006 by Chad Fowler, Rich Kilmer, Jim Weirich and others.
# All rights reserved.
# See LICENSE.txt for permissions.
#++


require 'rubygems'

Nice hack.

ilovecharts:

fightingevil:

Seems you are more likely to die in a fire than of swine flu. Seems you are more likely to die of anything than swine flu. Panic!

Swine Flu Mortality (via.)

Just a note that over the past 300 days the Dengue fever killed 3x as many people as the swine flu and leprosy was neck and neck with H1N1. Yes, leprosy. So, again, just calm down people.

Another Celtics championship season begins.

webkitbits:

A preview of the unreleased and unofficially announced Verizon Droid phone with Google’s Android 2.0.

Good news today for those of us Ruby Gem publishers