Oooh... time to re-start the wtf? of the [insert time period here].  As usual, our wtf? comes from Reuters, who inform us that a prisoner in Pakistan has encountered an illuminating situation:

MULTAN, Pakistan (Reuters) - Fateh Mohammad, a prison inmate in Pakistan, says he woke up last weekend with a glass light bulb in his anus.

On Wednesday night, doctors brought Mohammad's misery to an end after a one-and-a-half hour operation to remove the object.

"Thanks Allah, now I feel comfort. Today, I had my breakfast. I was just drinking water, nothing else," Mohammad, a grey-beared man in his mid-40s, told Reuters from a hospital bed in the southern central city of Multan.

"We had to take it out intact," said Dr. Farrukh Aftab at Nishtar Hospital. "Had it been broken inside, it would be a very very complicated situation."

Mohammad, who is serving a four-year sentence for making liquor, prohibited for Muslims, said he was shocked when he was first told the cause of his discomfort. He swears he didn't know the bulb was there.

"When I woke up I felt a pain in my lower abdomen, but later in hospital, they told me this," Mohammad said.

"I don't know who did this to me. Police or other prisoners."

The doctor treating Mohammad said he'd never encountered anything like it before, and doubted the felon's story that someone had drugged him and inserted the bulb while he was comatose.

You don't read these very often do you?

Get your free music - Weird Al's released a new single on his website - so download it!

This photo, with caption comes from Wikipedia.
Take a look:

This Dutch protester wants to reset government policies using Control-Alt-Delete.

Oh dear.

The Egg came first. 

It has been proven, apparrently...

From /.:

'Put simply, the reason is down to the fact that genetic material does not change during an animal's life. Therefore the first bird that evolved into what we would call a chicken, probably in prehistoric times, must have first existed as an embryo inside an egg. Professor John Brookfield, a specialist in evolutionary genetics at the University of Nottingham, told the UK Press Association the pecking order was clear.'

So, let's all celebrate then!

Well... To compound to what I said yesterday, I think that OS X has just lost another thing that it had going for itself.  The fact that the System (was) Open Source.

Well, according to Slashdot, it's no longer:

littleghoti writes "Macworld is reporting that "Thanks to pirates, or rather the fear of them, the Intel edition of Apple's OS X is now a proprietary operating system." Mac developers and power users no longer have the freedom to alter, rebuild, and replace the OS X kernel from source code."

A step in the wrong direction? I think so.

So there's been a bit of a debate on tba and the Web in general on what people think about the Mac Platform. I think it's time I had a bit of a weigh-in, since I consider myself to be neither a normal computer user, nor a partial member of either side of the Mac vs. PC debate. My two cents worth is as follows: I will probably never buy a Mac. Nor will I ever buy a copy of Windows (but that's an entirely different matter). I think it's worth hearing my side of the story, because I, as a UNIX user, have an entirely different side to the story.

(tba and RSS feed readers will have to click the link to follow on (sorry!))

Oh happy happy joy joy-ishness.  Soon,  I will be able to use the full Sun SDK on my Debian System (sorry GNU people... sometimes GIJ just don't cut it :P)

From Slashdot:

"After resisting for years, Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz at JavaOne this morning said that he will release the source code for Java. The company is asking developers to provide feedback on how to best get there and prevent forking and fragmentation."

Here's hoping I'm not the only one who's happy about this!

Found at Revolution-Europe

I entirely agree.  I actually like the name now - and I feel comfortable saying it in public.

Last time we met, I made an interesting little post about how I thought the console wars are going to play out this coming generation, now that we've seen E3, and I do recall making a point that Sony isn't currently looking like they're going to be dominant in the next market.

Well, a post on /. today tend to agree with those thoughts.  "The PS3 Is Doomed" passes comment on how Sony's attitude at E3 is troubling.  From the article:

Sony has this "we are undefeatable" attitude, and with 60 percent market share, who can blame them? But do they not understand market trends and how quickly they change? Microsoft was a newcomer in the gaming arena with its original Xbox, Nintendo was ridiculous with GameCube and limited titles, therefore, Sony had the perfect opportunity to enjoy its dominating position on the market. However, the tides have changed.

Well, after all of the mounting fines that would inevitably have piled up in my house if the copyright agency saw my computer, I am now happy to declare that I will soon no longer be a criminal in the eyes of Australian Law.

Yes, for the past 40 years, Australia has not had a fair-use copying clause in our laws - the type of law that allows US Citizens to format-shift their music (CD-MP3), or backup their software.  Well, they're finally amending the laws, and now, I can breathe easily when it comes to listening to my music.

Here's the portion that the Slashdot article has lifted:

"Once the new laws are passed, 'format shifting' of music, newspapers and books from personal collections onto MP3 players will become legal. The new laws will also make it legal for people to tape television and radio programs for playback later, a practice currently prohibited although millions of people regularly do it. Under the current regime, millions of households a day are breaking the law when they tape a show and watch it at another time."

Yay! w00t! etc!