A diagram of the history of Unix. It also has versions you can download and print out (it’s 17 pages long). [via Compendium]

I’ve managed my own blogroll for a few years now. But I’ve decided to try a bit of an experiment and see how Bloglines works. It looks kinda cool so far. I’ve got some other ideas for it that I want to try out also. One neat thing is that I can see how many other people on bloglines are subbed to my feed.

If your site isn’t on the left and it used to be I either spaced on adding it or you don’t have an RSS feed, sorry.

Every video game needs a flying pig. Especially one with fart powered jet boots.

Last night I decided to check out Wonderfalls, a new show on Fox. It was quirky and fun and I’m expecting Fox to cancel it in about 3 weeks because I love it. Fox seems to love teasing us with shows like this. Just when we’re happy that something cool is on TV, they pull it.

On the other hand, Fox has done a really nice job promoting this show. The website for it is pretty cool, offering a music video of the theme song (which is by Andy Partridge and quite cool. I already bought it at the iTunes music store) as well as a commentary track for the first episode (that I’m listening to now while rewatching it).

Definitely check it out, it fits very well in the timeslot right after Joan of Arcadia.

Also in the “Best Headline Ever” Category.

Teens Pledging Sex Abstinence Often Fail-Study

Wed Mar 10, 2004 09:38 AM ET By Jon Hurdle

PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) – U.S. adolescents who pledge not to have sex until they are married have about the same rate of sexually transmitted diseases as other teenagers and they often fail to keep their pledge, according to a study released on Tuesday.

The study of a nationally representative sample of about 15,000 youths aged 12 to 18 found that 88 percent of teenagers who pledged to remain virgins until they are married ended up having sex before marriage. [Reuters.com]

Back on March 3rd in 2001 I officially started this blog. Prior to that I’d had a news page that I posted regular updates to, but didn’t ever keep an archive of them or anything. Upon discovering Blogger.com I decided to have that manage things for me and the rest is history.

This week on Slate’s diary is a journal by a double-lung transplant recipient.

On Feb. 2, I awoke two minutes before the alarm went off. I have cystic fibrosis, and in those days, most mornings were characterized by some respiratory distress until I got in a few good coughs, cleared a bit of mucus to make way for air, and adjusted my supplemental oxygen. But for some reason, that morning I didn’t have any panicked breathing and could take a moment to watch the light coming up and my fiance Jeffrey resting beside me. When the alarm sounded at 5:30, Jeffrey and I sat momentarily in each other’s company. Then came the call. “Miss Quigley? Good morning. We have a new set of lungs for you this morning. We would like to start the process.” “Excuse me?” was all I could say in reply.

I feel almost contrite admitting it, but I had been listed for a double-lung transplant for only two weeks. If you know anything about the plight of patients waiting for organs in America, you’ll know that my experience is an aberration. Most transplant recipients wait months, years. I was given a projected wait of at least six months. I always knew I would need a transplant someday, but at that point I had undergone the evaluation as more of a precaution, in case my recent, critically declining health didn’t make its characteristic upward swing. I wouldn’t admit to being an “end-stage” cystic fibrosis patient, and I certainly never thought I would have a transplant so quickly. [Slate.com]

This has been great to read, even if freaked out by it.. There aren’t any surprises as far as what is ahead with this, but seeing it in print seems to drive it home. I still remember the first time I read about lung transplant over on Roger Steven’s New Lungs site. It scared the crap out of me and really drove home just how serious all this lung stuff is. He also has a journal of his time post transplant, which is a pretty amazing read.

Will I blog my transplant and recovery when all this finally happens? I still haven’t decided. I do think I’m going to equip my mom with my camera and have her videotape what she can, or maybe even see if I can be set up to do some kind of video diary. Not necessarily for ever posting, but for myself. One thing I do know is that if I can I will still keep blogging through the whole thing. It really all depends on things like internet access. Tthough I could always just write up the posts and have my parents actually post them later.

From an LJ I read, a link to Christian Porn!

Basically stated, the purveyors of this faith-laced garbage have focused on the oldest gimmick known to film hucksters: Promise the viewers some raw pussy or bare dick, and they’ll pay a lot of money to see it. With that in mind, take a peek at Debbi Does Sodom, a 35-minute VHS opus distributed by Saviour Video, complete with a rendering of the “Christian” fish on the logo.

Debbi, played by Tanya Yorke, is an American tourist in the city of Sodom who goes to a bistro, where she meets several men who invite her to a private party at their clubhouse. Debbi accepts and relocates to a seedy ballroom where techno music is throbbing relentlessly. She takes a tablet of Ecstasy and falls into a drugged trance, dancing seductively to the music, then having wild sex with four men at the same time as the copulating group undulates in rhythm with the music.

Suddenly this exceptionally erotic tableau is shattered by the appearance of a police assault team, which bursts through the doors with guns drawn. Debbi’s paramours are brutally beaten, and she is marched nude from the clubhouse into a waiting van. There she encounters two “Christian” evangelists who do their best to help Debbi regain the road to righteousness, by preaching to her and quoting Scripture as the van speeds away through the night. The film ends with Debbi, who has been saved and is now a born-again “Christian,” wearing a choir robe and plastered with lots of cosmetics, singing the glories of Jesus. [Too Much Coffee Man Magazine]

For those of you with TechTV, I highly recommend Last Exile. It begins airing tonight at 10pm. There is a trailer for the show on the Last Exile web site. I highly recommend giving it a look.

I just had one of those moments that makes you realize how much everything is connected. Tonight after dinner I happened to notice that my mom had just gotten the most recent Wesleyan alumni magazine and happened to mention that one of the blogs I read is by a Wesleyan alum. I then started telling her about John Perry Barlow’s blog and mentioned his posts about when Spalding Gray disappeared back in January.

Just now I pulled up CNN.com and noticed that they’d found his body. Maybe I’ll rent Swimming to Cambodia this weekend in memory of him.