Comments on: Dead Parrot

By: katoey

katoey — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 03:40:25 +0000

I like the lumberjack sketch – I wear high heels supsendee’s and a bra – just like me dear mama – haha the ladyboy

By: cliff

cliff — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 01:19:01 +0000

Thanks, Jim… that was a good one.

By: Jim Thompson

Jim Thompson — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 13:30:29 +0000

And now for something completely different

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 13:08:08 +0000

Why is it all the _good_ webcomics are the lazily updated ones?

By: Jim Thompson

Jim Thompson — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 10:57:47 +0000

Suggested title, "Obi Wanken Obi" Darl Vader

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 08 Apr 2006 04:41:09 +0000

Why not a strip building off of ESR’s occasional desire to equate himself to Obi-Wan Kenobi? ESR is “war-leader of the Open Source army” (doesn’t have any members), and goes off the fight the good fight….but ends up getting deployed to Afghanistan or something.

By: swag

swag — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 15:19:44 +0000

for those interested…

http://orangecow.org/pythonet/sketches/petshop1.htm

The Dead parrot sketch in full

By: Whistler

Whistler — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 02:50:05 +0000

> No covered work constitutes part of an effective technological
> protection measure: that is to say, distribution of a covered work as
> part of a system to [b]generate or access certain data[/b] constitutes
> general permission at least for [b]development[/b], distribution and
> use, under this License, of [b]other software capable of accessing the
> same data.[/b]

This only means that you can’t use fscking laws like DMCA on who cracks the DRM. You don’t have to “provide all anyone would need to write a program that strips that DRM away”, you just can’t prevent others doing so.

By: Jim Thompson

Jim Thompson — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 01:32:20 +0000

Oy, thats rich. ESR asking for Fedora to add proprietary software to a future release.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 00:33:42 +0000

This monster thread in fedora’s development list might provide a bit of fodder:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.devel/36702

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 18:21:59 +0000

“Philly Pink” — that’s excellent!

By: Nigel Oulton

Nigel Oulton — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 19:27:09 +0000

Great ELER that had me in stitches.

Jonas… ‘I got a slug’ is the exact wording from the original Monty Python script so all that Leach and Parry are doing is taking advantage of what Mr. Praline (John Cleese) and The Shop Owner (Michael Palin) originally said… it begs the question how could those Monty Python chaps have known that some free software hippies would happen along and knick the meaning of the word slug right out of their scripts.

By: muZze

muZze — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 07:22:12 +0000

Beautiful Monty Python reference, love this one! keep up the good work.

(by the way, what’s wrong with Linus’ eyebrows? they seem to be uncomfortable in their intended position and sail away towards the hairline in the last two frames O_o)

By: Jim Thompson

Jim Thompson — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 04:02:14 +0000

Here’s a picture of Theo saying “I am not a pirate, that is not a bird, (on my shoulder)”

http://zeus.theos.com/deraadt/pirate.jpg
http://zeus.theos.com/deraadt/

Theo looks a lot like Bill Gates:
http://www.nndb.com/people/937/000023868/theo-sized.jpg
http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/images/gates3.jpg

I always loved this bit from a /. post:

If a tree fell on ESR in a forest filled with Linux users, would anyone notice? The guy is, and always has been, all talk. Say what you will about RMS (a communist), Larry Wall (a pseudo-scientist babbler), or Theo deRaadt (a sociopathic cult leader), but they produce working code. Until ESR does more than a simple mail downloader (is he capable of it?), he is simply not needed.

By: Nick

Nick — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 01:12:14 +0000

This comic needs an appearance from Theo de Raadt as pirate, with his parrot. Talk about being free and stuff, and say Arr, Slacker and Whiner a few times and it’ll be like Theo himself wrote it.