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A Dead Zone in the Gulf of Mexico

The "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico, an area on the seabed with too little oxygen to support fish, shrimp, crabs and other forms of marine life, is nearly the largest on record this year, about 8,000 square miles, researchers said this week.

Easy, somebody just needs to bash the Gulf of Mexico in the back of the head. Then it'll be able to predict the future. Of course, it may start Armageddon. And have an ex girlfriend who can't really act.

I already hate Cuil. Why? Well other than the retardiculous name, they're using images for their controls, and I browse with images off, so I get a solid black page. Why do you need a custom textbox control? Is that going to somehow swipe Google's trizillion dollar business away?

Bored, Stumble-in, saw this list. Not that I disagree, but I thought this line was hilarious:

Your face turns purple when you hear of the "atrocities" attributed to Allah, but you don't even flinch when hearing about how God/Jehovah slaughtered all the babies of Egypt in "Exodus" and ordered the elimination of entire ethnic groups in "Joshua" including women, children, and trees!

I didn't even know trees were an ethnic group. Shows what I know. Maybe I should take a class in religious study.

Despite my misgivings, I'm going to attempt to learn Python. I bought Learning Python. I'm already tired of the pointless Monty Python refs.

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

It's going to be a great day when it's 8:05 and I already want to kill someone.

The following query will emulate a

SELECT emp_id,lname,fname FROM employee LIMIT 20,10

That says, give me 10 records starting at record 21. So what will be returned are rows 21-30. This is used heavily in web-based apps so you can do recordset paging.

No no no no no no no NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO!!!

This is NOT HOW RELATIONAL DATABASES WORK. There is NO guarantee AT ALL that you will get the rows back that you're expecting. Unless stupid ass MySQL actually does this, in which case it's even a worse, shittier database system than I realized. (and honestly, any db that doesn't support stored procs is already pretty low in my book.)

Things not looking quite right?

We noticed you are using a rare browser. While you are welcome to use any browser to enjoy Yahoo!, you will have the most consistent, powerful and usable experience using a recommended browser.

YEAH THANKS YAHOO. I'M USING YOUR RECOMMENDED FUCKING BROWSER, FUCK WITS. FIX YOUR STUPID ASS PIECE OF SHIT FUCKING USER AGENT DETECTION. FUCKHEADS. IT'S NOT LIKE YOU DO ANYTHING ELSE WITH YOUR TIME.

You're supposedly one of the biggest companies on the internet. Why are you telling me what browser to use like you're on geocities circa 1997. JUST BECAUSE YOU OWN GEOCITIES DOESN'T MEAN YOU NEED TO ACT LIKE IT.

So in summary, fuck you.