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I would be glad to know which is worst: to be ravished a hundred time by pirates, to have one buttock cut off, to run the gauntlet among the Bulgarians, to be whipped and hanged at an auto-da-fe, to be dissected, to be chained to an oar in a galley; and, in short, to experience all the miseries through which every one of us hath passed, or to remain here doing nothing?

-- Voltaire, Candide

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Confessions of a code monkey
WebCollageX for MacOS X released

I don't get to code very often, but the other day I saw Jamie Zawinski had updated his brilliant webcollage screen saver.

webcollage is a screen saver that uses randomly chosen words to prime search engines. It composites the images it finds into a 'non-stop pop-culture brainbath' -- a cross-section of the entire web. In test runs I've seen doctored billboard ads, Marilyn Monroe, flooded midwestern towns, smiling and floodflash-lit second-place swim teams, people's diapered kids on tricycles, on and on.

So I hacked together a version wrapped around the webcollage engine. The result is available for download: WebCollage X v0.9.

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