Before you read this, grab a pair of scissors, a mirror and a measuring stick:
An Indian man has set a new record for having the longest ear hair in the world.
Radhakant Bajpai’s ear tufts measure 13.2cm, or 5.19ins, at their longest point.
The previous record was held by another Indian man, Anthony Victor, whose ear hair measured 11.5 centimetres.
Bajpai, a 50-year-old grocer, said he’d been inspired to try for the record by B D Tyagi, an earlier holder of the record.
He told the Hindustan Times: “Making it to the Guinness records is indeed a special occasion for me and my family. God has been very kind to me.”
Damn, that god guy works in mysterious ways! By the way, how do you inspire someone to try and grow the longest ear hair: “Atta boy Jimmy, eat those veggies each and every day and you’ll grow up to be as sexy as I am.” I’m going to have a talk with my old guidance counselor now, I could’ve been famous I tell ya!
I mentioned Caldera (it’s another name for SCO which used to be Santa Cruz Operation) about a week ago. So what has changed? Well, for starters, suspicions regarding Microsoft being a player behind Caldera’s claims seem to be right on the money.
Yes my friends, Microsoft has decided to license to Caldera’s version of Unix. News.com is running a pile of stories regarding the latest action by the dying Caldera.
One I liked in particular was penned by Bruce Perens, who is a well-known GNU/Linux advocate and develops the Debian distribution.
To show you how desperate SCO/Caldera is (sorry for so many different names, it just shows you how skitzoid they are), they compiled a rather small, grasping-at-straws list of quotes by both Richard Stallman (the ‘father‘ of GNU) and Mr. Perens. Here they are in all of their glory:
Richard Stallman
“Linux is a copy of UNIX. There is very little new stuff in Linux.”
Linux kernel forum
“I consider the law prohibiting the sharing of copies with your friend the moral equivalent of Jim Crow. It does not deserve respect.”
Richard Stallman, Free as in Freedom, Richard Stallman’s Crusade for Free Software: O’Reilly (2002) at p. 72
“The whole GNU project is really one big hack. It’s one big act of subversive playful cleverness…”
Richard Stallman, Revolution OS (DVD)
Bruce Perens
“This is becoming a tradition. I go there and break the law every year in the name of free speech.”
Bruce Perens, explaining his plan to demonstrate how to modify DVD technology to attendees of an Open Source convention.
“We have to remember that Linux is a follow-on to UNIX. It’s not just a UNIX clone. It’s actually a UNIX successor.”
Bruce Perens, mpulse magazine, December 2001.
I’ll probably be sued now for republishing these out-of-context quotes (SCO didn’t bother to hyperlink them anywhere and they used ellipses: they would receive an F in my history classes…). So, erase all of this from your memory, because you might be prosecuted as a material witness. Don’t kiss-and-tell.
Addendum: Eric Raymond kicks so much [insert favorite word for rump].
