Yep, "one nation UNDER GOD" has been struck down. Here's the radical right side, and here's the computer-geek/pagan side.

Notice how stupid our congress-slugs are: Robert Byrd seems to think that only one judge made the ruling, as he uses the singular exclusively. Trent Lott claims that if the ruling isn't overturned, Congress will overturn it. ( Read more... )

Some of you have already heard this story, so you can skip to the end ( Read more... )

Magic (as defined by programmers) A feature of a system which works differently (and usually does more) than other features accessed with the same semantics. Used when the speaker doesn't want to go into exactly how the special feature works.
For example:

• in Perl looks exactly like any other file handle ( or ), but instead of simply reading a ( Read more... )