Proposed SAT Question
Liberal is to Linux as Conservative is to _________.

Only in America would we politicize operating systems, but I’ve seen analogies like the one above before. Of course, in reality it doesn’t hold water. Most (sane) people don’t pick their operating system based on ideology.

Douglas Karr has done some analysis and found that a majority of the Democratic candidates’ sites are running on Linux, while a majority of the Republican candidates’ sites are running on Windows. Interestingly, though, Hillary Clinton is running Windows/IIS and Rudy Guiliani is running Linux/Apache. So if they remain the front-runners, the general election could be a Democratic-Windows ticket vs. a Republican-Linux ticket. Who would have thought that?

(I’m going to hold off predicting Bill Gates* and Richard Stallman as their respective VP nominees, though.)

Glad This Guy Didn’t Use FlowBreeze

A man was arrested in Minneapolis for planned kidnapping and attempted harassment/stalking. The odd thing is he mapped on his plans to “club her hard” in a flowchart. Sick, wrong, and just plain weird. The dude’s giving flowcharts a bad name. (Story)

Haris Just Gets It

Haris.tv lists 5 reasons Excel is his favourite flowchart software. I couldn’t agree more. Plus, it reinforces a few articles I wrote last year:
- Top 7 Reasons to Flowchart in Excel
- How to Make Flowcharts in Excel

Is Shakespeare the New Nostradamus?

The inimitable Leon Bambrick sums up my week in a single line from Shakespeare: “Striving to better oft we mar what’s well” — King Lear. I hope I can drum up a better quote to sum up next week.

*The Digg Nazi: “No Diggs for You!”

According to Ade Olonoh’s top secret Digg prediction algorithm, this post won’t get Dugg because I failed to put “sucks” after Bill Gates name. Oh well…