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I’ve been playing with The Daily Mail Headline Generator at qwghlm.co.uk

Today is the 200th anniversary of William Wordsworth’s poem The Daffodils, and to mark the occasion it was recited by a quarter of a million British school children this morning. The event also raised funds for the Marie Curie Cancer Care charity, which uses a daffodil as it’s emblem.

The Daffodils by William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed - and gazed - but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:

For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.

My favourite Firefox extension is “Flash Click To View“, which replaces Flash objects in web pages with a soothing grey button which you can click to play the animation.

If you ever find the perfect church don’t join it- you will ruin it! — Adrian Warnock’s UK Evangelical Blog

Words from a wise man’s mouth are gracious, but a fool is consumed by his own lips. At the beginning his words are folly; at the end they are wicked madness- and the fool multiplies words.
Do not revile the king even in your thoughts, or curse the rich in your bedroom, because a bird of the air may carry your words, and a bird on the wing may report what you say.
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The authors of the original article on Tracking Information Epidemics in Blogspace have traced references to it, from Wired’s Warning: Blogs Can Be Infectious, through Slashdot’s Bloggers’ Plagiarism Scientifically Proven to Metafilter’s A good amount of bloggers are outright thieves, to predict the imminent Bloggers kill kittens!

PFIR Conference Announcement: “Preventing the Internet Meltdown”

A continuing and rapidly escalating series of alarming events suggest that immediate cooperative, specific planning is necessary if we are to have any chance of avoiding the meltdown. “Red flag” warning signs are many. A merely partial list includes attempts to manipulate key network infrastructures such as the domain name system; lawsuits over Internet regulatory issues (e.g. VeriSign and domain registrars vs. ICANN); serious issues of privacy and security; and ever-increasing spam, virus, and related problems, along with largely ad hoc or non-coordinated “anti-spam” systems that may do more harm than good and may cause serious collateral damage.

Greed: the real reason for Sobig and MyDoom’s “success”

If the Internet’s e-mail standards had been fixed by now (which they could easily have been) to make sure that when you receive an e-mail, it actually came from who it says it came from (a form of authentication), then your system, or one of the ones through which that e-mail passed on its way to you, would have ultimately prevented you from receiving and opening that e-mail and infecting your system. Had such a credential and authentication system been in place, Sobig and MyDoom would have been stopped dead in their tracks.

Wired waxes biblical over the latest Hubble images