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Exactly 2 years ago today the Columbine
tragedy occured. Which of course means that for years afterward, kids who are "scared" can use that
excuse to get out of school. As commentary, I bring these two links. The first is an Onion article on how Columbine
jocks are now able to resume bullying with a tighter security force at the school. While it may be
written by the best satire newspaper in the world, there's an awful lot of truth in it. The second
is Jon Katz's excellent series of articles on the aftermath of Columbine on the "different"
people in school; the dorks, the nerds, the goths, etc etc etc. He talks about, and quotes email
that he recieved, from people persecuted as being possible killers just because they were different
or didn't go with the flow. The witchhunt that followed Columbine is the most tragic part of all in
my opinion, maybe because I can relate to it somewhat. The original article (which I
HIGHLY suggest reading), Voices from the Hellmouth gives the
best overview of what kind of treatment that the non-conformists at schools across the country
recieved, and is the one that I think everyone should read, so as to understand. However if you have
the time, Katz wrote a series of 10 articles revisiting the stories that he recieved. Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, and Part 10. Again, they are
very very good, and show a part of the effect of Columbine that most people do not think of, nor
really care to think of. To quote the original article:
The big story out of
Littleton isn't about violence on the Internet, or whether or not video games are turning out kids
into killers. It's about the fact that for some of the best, brightest and most interesting kids,
high school is a nightmare of exclusion, cruelty, warped values and anger.
Linux-Mandrake 8.0 was released
Thursday, marking the next major release of that awesome linux distrobution (which I use of course
:). It includes the 2.4.3 kernel, X 4.0.3, Gnome 1.4, KDE 2.1.1, and a whole bunch of other
improvements. Mandrake is the easiest distrobution to use and install, so if you ever wanted to get
started in Linux, I'd definitly suggest you go download a copy (assuming you have a fast
connection). Mandrake 8.0 should hit stores sometime next month probaly.
IBM is getting in trouble over their Peace. Love.
Linux ads on the sidewalks of San Francisco. The city looks upon it as graffiti, and want to
fine IBM. This is part of IBM's multi-million dollar Linux marketing plan as I wrote about a while
back.
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