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Book Meme

written by Armin Ronacher, on Wednesday, November 12, 2008 19:11.

Ich persönlich habe während der 22 Jahre als Korrespondent nie einen Bestechungsversuch erlebt.

Which means

I personally have never encountered an attempt at bribery in my 22 years as correspondent.

by Paul Lendvai, “Mein Österreich”

  • Grab the nearest book.
  • Open it to page 56.
  • Find the fifth sentence.
  • Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
  • Don’t dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the closest.

Tagged as: django, meme, planetubuntu

Comments

  1. That does it! I'm unsubscribing from planet ubuntu. I didn't realise it was the new myspace...

    —  Tim on Wednesday, November 12, 2008 20:02 #

  2. Nearest book was a physics textbook with no page 56, does that mean I fail this meme?

    —  Alex Gaynor on Wednesday, November 12, 2008 20:18 #

  3. "Und das beweist, daß bei mir immer noch Flut ist!" -- Donald Duck :-)

    —  phxx on Wednesday, November 12, 2008 22:48 #

  4. I don't have a journal. But:

    "As shown in example 2-20, database updates are as simple as before, but dictionary keys become object attributes and updates are implemented by method calls, not by hardcoded logic."

    • Programming Python - Mark Lutz

    Glad the closest book wasn't porno. ;-)

    —  Steve Bergman on Thursday, November 13, 2008 7:34 #

  5. what does this have to do with django? it shouldn't be tagged as such because this entry now shows up in feeds filtering on tag

    —  dhmorgan on Saturday, November 15, 2008 13:00 #

  6. "Ich habe ein vorschnelles Urteil gefällt, und dafür möchte ich mich entschuldigen."

    —  Bob on Tuesday, November 18, 2008 16:18 #

  7. How many are these can measure up to this requirement?

    <i>from Success: The Best of Napoleon Hill</i>

    —  demigod on Wednesday, December 3, 2008 9:21 #

  8. "Bereits seit mehreren Jahren verteilt Microsoft über das automatische Update das kostenlose Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT), das in seiner Erkennungsleistung aufgrund der kleinen Signaturdatenbank aber eingeschränkt ist."

    From the german computer magazine c't #26 (2008).

    —  derdon on Friday, December 12, 2008 14:40 #

  9. "Weil diese Aufhellung nur auf diesen beiden Seiten erscheint, reicht uns ein einzelnes Bild als Hintergrund, wenn wir es groß genug machen, damit es für Text mit großer Schrift passt."

    -- from the german translation of "Bulletproof Webdesign", Dan Cederholm

    —  Markus Majer on Friday, December 26, 2008 19:39 #

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