News: More Stuff Than You Can Shake a Stick At, Part II

Geeky:

It goes without saying, the bearded guy is me. Except, well, for what should be obvious reasons, I have no beard.

• The Unix bash(1) shell has now added associative arrays, but I can't help but read the title of this article, "Bash Associative Arrays," and want to start insulting them. "You're just a perl wannabe! And you're just making your interactive shell a memory-sucking hog!"
• Further proof that PowerPoint is e-vil: the Time Square terror suspect lists it on his resume.
• FAQ, complete with totally unbelievable (as in, I don't believe a word they say) official quotes from the company, on deleting Facebook accounts.
• Louisiana is considering a law that would make it a misdemeanor to put anything on the net to embarrass minors. You might say that almost everything teenagers post embarrasses themselves, but fortunately the law was written in such a way that malicious intent is necessary. Or something.

Getting from here to there:

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The WTF list:

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  I lived in Sioux City a couple years when I was growing up. I must say, they had the most excellent sledding in the winter. But seriously, they couldn't get a band together to play the song's music instead of (badly) overdubbing the lyrics on top of the actual song? That song which still evokes memories of the worst of 80s music and music videos in my brain?
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  Vengeance is a dish best served... icky.
• A psychological study says that listening to people on their cell phone is annoying because our brains have to work overtime to fill in the unheard half of the conversation. Yeah, because I'm sure I really would have enjoyed listening to that teenage girl on the bus whining to her mother if I had been hearing both sides of the conversation. "But, Mooooooom, why couldn't you pick us uuuuuuuup so we wouldn't have to take the buuuuuuuuus?" Mom: "Because the chicken crossed the road to get to the other side!"
• Just... WTF polling results.
• Cracked.com does the RIAA's math and finds that your 8Gb music player, fully loaded, is worth over $764 million dollars! Whoa!
• A condominium is proposing taking DNA-fingerprints of all resident dogs to use in finding out which residents aren't scooping their dog's pooping.

And last, but not least, Kristin Hersh's upcoming studio album Crooked is finally winging its way to Strange Angels like me. (What's a Strange Angel? As an artist with no major label backing her financially, Hersh and her manager/husband put together a new business model to fund new music. You can read about it at CASH Music.)