The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to Tech Startups [slashdot post]

http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2114616&cid=35975978 “The history of every major tech startup tends to pass through three distinct and recognizable phases, those of Survival, Inquiry and Sophistication, otherwise known as the How, Why and Where phases. For instance, the first phase is characterized by the question “How can we make payroll?”, the second by the question “Why do we need VC?”, and the third by the question “Where shall we have lunch?” It should be the goal of every startup company to reach the third stage.” ...

The Lord of the Rings - a review by a Tolkien-virgin

http://adamcadre.ac/calendar/12763.html A review of three Lord of The Ring movies from someone who never read Tolkin’s books before. Hllarios, read it of you have 30 minutes to spare. Taken from AVVA ( http://avva.livejournal.com/ )

Help! Linux ate my RAM!

http://www.linuxatemyram.com/ this is funny (web page that shows to folks that are new to linux where [i.e. disk cache] the ram goes )

[OOM Killer Saga] Re: [PATCH] oom_pardon, aka don't kill my xlock [LWN.net]

http://lwn.net/Articles/104185/ whenever your are in discussion about OOM, make sure you mention this :-)

Linux Hater's Blog [rants about various things that sacks in linux and OSS in general]

http://linuxhaters.blogspot.com/ muahaaa! but the guy surely knows what he is talking about

Full text: An epic Bill Gates e-mail rant [from 2003, about his experience in installing MovieMaker]

http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/archives/141821.asp muahhahaha! but! BillG makes total sense here.

Robert Love: Those Dang DPCs Clogging the MMCSS

http://blog.rlove.org/2007/08/those-dang-dpcs-clogging-mmcss.html inetersing article showing “fixing bugs - microsoft style” at its best, ohoho … no vista for me

Stevey's Blog Rants: Ten Tips for a (Slightly) Less Awful Resume

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/09/ten-tips-for-slightly-less-awful-resume.html useful tips for a tech resume

Re: [00/41] Large Blocksize Support V7 (adds memmap support) [LWN.net]

http://lwn.net/Articles/250378/ funny note from linus about kernel development and people who want to do strange things