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NET NEWS Amazing There is a new kidzbot in #KIDZCHAT for anyone to try out for a game of trivia. Join the channel and have some fun! Also, for anyone who would like to try out their knowledge and have some fun at the same time come to #trivia or for the more advanced players try #TriviaPro. A reminder to all channel owners: If you happen to change ISP's or have a change of email address please let someone in #channels know. If for any reason cservice needs to get in touch with you in regards to your channel we need a valid email address. You can also let cservice know by sending an email to slirc-register@starlink-irc.org The Lexington and Birmingham servers have
passed test!
AN AWARD FOR US!!!! It looks like those of you with web pages and links
back to the SL-IRC website have been recognized! As it says in the email
included below, the only way to get this one is to be a popular site. Thanks
and congratulations to EVERYONE who has helped make the net a great place
to be for one and all!!! -------------------------------------- The page titled "Starlink-IRC Network", at http://www.starlink-irc.org/, was selected as a Links2Go "Key Resource" in the Internet Relay Chat topic, at http://www.links2go.com/topic/Internet_Relay_Chat. o How your page was selected Each quarter, Links2Go samples millions of web pages to determine which pages are most heavily cited by web pages authors, such as yourself. The most popular pages are downloaded and automatically categorized by topic. At most 50 of the pages related to a topic are selected as "Key Resources." Out of 50 pages selected as Key Resources for the Internet Relay Chat topic, your page ranked 20th. For topics like Music, where there are a large number of interested authors and related pages, it is harder to achieve selection as a Key Resource than for a special-interest topic, such as Quantum Physics. The Links2Go Key Resource award differs from other awards in two important ways. First, it is objective. Most awards rely on hand selection by one or more "experts," many of whom have only looked at tens or hundreds of thousands of pages in bestowing their awards. Selection for these awards means no more than that one person, somewhere, noticed your page and liked it enough to select it. The Key Resource award, on the other hand, is based on an analysis of millions of web pages. Any group or organization who conducts a similar analysis will arrive at similar conclusions. When Links2Go says your page is a Key Resource, we mean that your page is one of the most relevant pages related to a particular topic on the web today, using an objective statistical measure applied to an extremely large data set. Second, the Key Resource award is exclusive. We get literally
hundreds of people requesting that their page be added to one or more topics
per week. All of these requests are denied. The only way to get listed
as a Key Resource is to achieve enough popularity for our analysis to select
your pages automatically. We do not accept fees, offers of link exchanges,
free advertising, or bartered livestock as inducements to add new sites
to our lists. Fewer than one page in one thousand will ever be selected
as a Key Resource.
May Another new star in our link - Another birthday to celebrate - t (If we do not have your birthday or anniversry date, let us know so we can celebrate with you. Tell us which channels you are on, please)
Lois of #Norwich is offering lessons on self-banning with CStar. She has first-hand knowledge, and it took gyrene and itsy to pull her out of cyberspace when she banned herself. She blames it on her new pacemaker sending out the wrong signals. ********************************* (Tell us what's happening on your channel - send info to newsletter@starlink-irc. org)
IThe blue one has learned that mr winzip (Ed) has been caught molesting sculptures in the lobby where he works. The victim ( a really adorable (and endangered) baby dolphin was brutally ripped from his family and dashed to the floor. Well, Eds side is he brushed it trying to move it, but you decide which story is better. And speaking of cops, an unnamed police chief was observed (and photographed) trying to make his cruiser leap a gas pipe in a single bound. .. or possibly two bounds. The department had no comment other than to announce a dedication of the town's new sculpture in the park. And least, but last, we have collected a few more dalfugees wandering aimlessly thru the halls. If you see one, send them to #channels where we have hot blankets and warm food ! Your Obedient Spider Oh. By the way. If you missed it, we won a GREAT award by having folks link to our site here. Congratulations to all !!
http://www.teleport.com/~jrolsen/stereograms/stereo00.html These are those pesky pictures that you have to stare at until a 3D image appears. Now view these 3D images right over the Internet on your computer screen. Find other mind-bogglers at this same site
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YOU KNOW YOU'RE TOO SERIOUS ABOUT COMPUTERS, WHEN. * You comment, while watching a sunset, that the image would be enhanced with 10% more magenta and a higher resolution. * When someone tells you about a great new program and you're very disappointed to find that it's on TV. * If while driving down the street, you are confused by the numbers on the houses - they do not appear to be legitimate WWW addresses. * When you find it easier to dial-up the National Weather Service Weather/your_town/now.html than to simply look out the window. * When you start using phrases like: Hungry.must-eat.food.now@home.com. * If you call in sick because you found a great new WWW site. * If you can type your top 10 favorite Web sites, by heart. * If your fingers quit moving because you've been online for 36 hours. * If your net provider suggests you try a competitor, because you're exceeding 300 hours a month connect time. * If on the way home from work, you use your portable and cellular phone in your car, to reprogram a Tomahawk missile, in flight, and redirect it to take out the joker in the Cadillac who cut you off. * When your desk collapses under the weight of your computer peripherals. * If you try to press Alt-F4 to close your car window. (from Joke du Jour, via kookum)
A TRUE STORY submitted by Itsy A lady in a faded gingham dress and her husband, dressed in a homespun threadbare suit, stepped off the train in Boston, and walked timidly without an appointment into the president of Harvards's outer office. The secretary could tell in a moment that such backwoods, country hicks had no business at Harvard and probably didn't even deserve to be in Cambridge. She frowned. "We want to see the president," the man said softly. "He'll be busy all day," the secretary snapped. "We'll wait," the lady replied. For hours, the secretary ignored them, hoping that the couple would finally become discouraged and go away. They didn't. And the secretary grew frustrated and finally decided to disturb the president, even though it was a chore she always regretted to do. "Maybe if they just see you for a few minutes, they'll leave," she told him. And he sighed in exasperation and nodded. Someone of his importance obviously didn't have the time to spend with them, but he detested gingham dresses and homespun suits cluttering up his outer office. The president, stern-faced with dignity, strutted toward the couple. The lady told him, "We had a son that attended Harvard for one year. He loved Harvard. He was happy here. But about a year ago, he was accidentally killed. And my husband and I would like to erect a memorial to him, somewhere on campus." The president wasn't touched, he was shocked. "Madam," he said gruffly. "We can't put up a statue for every person who attended Harvard and died. If we did, this place would look like a cemetery". "Oh, no," the lady explained quickly. "We don't want to erect a statue. We thought we would like to give a building to Harvard." The president rolled his eyes. He glanced at the gingham dress and homespun suit, then exclaimed, "A building! Do you have any earthly idea how much a building costs? We have over seven and a half million dollars in the physical plant at Harvard." For a moment the lady was silent. The president was pleased. He could get rid of them now. And the lady turned to her husband and said quietly, "Is that all it costs to start a University? Why don't we just start our own?" Her husband nodded. The president's face wilted in confusion and bewilderment. And Mr. and Mrs. Leland Stanford walked away, traveling to Palo Alto, California where they established the University that bears their name, a memorial to a son that Harvard no longer cared about. You can easily judge the character of others by how they treat those who can do nothing for them or to them. --Malcolm Forbes
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