This Computerworld blog reports The Linux Foundation's report (portable document format/PDF) on who writes Linux -- "... Linux isn't written by lonely nerds hiding out in their parents' basements. It's written by people working for major companies -- many of them businesses that you probably don't associate with Linux.

No idea what's going on. It was fine yesterday. No interesting links to share either. :(

7/30/2009 10:20 PM PDT: Mousey is looking into it, but has no clues what's up. It is affecting his other site on the same box too. :(

8/1/2009 5:07 PM PDT: The issue has been resolved

Target Women (also on YouTube) shows Current infoManias' Sarah Haskins humourously taking her own look

HongPong's Everything2 idea shares "how geeks are changing a totally illogical grammar rule, the slow reversal of periods and quotation marks. According to 'Elements of Style', periods and commas should be placed inside the quotation marks. But due to the technical need for more clarity driven by programmers (and general sensible folks in general), that may be changing..."

/. shares a five pages Computerworld article (one print page) on Unix/UNIX turning 40 and showing the past, present and future of a revolutionary operating system (OS)

Linux Today shares a The Linux and Unix Menagerie blog on the differences between /dev/null and /dev/zero in Linux and Unix

UserFriendly's link of the day is on a five minute videos LoadingReadyRun video spoof/parody titled "Installation Anxiety" with Linux -- "With today's advances in Open Source software (OSS), you can install Linux anywhere you want. And some places you probably shouldn't."

Blue's News share a seven pages Computerworld article (one print page) that "honors a handful of the most memorable operating systems (OS') and interfaces that have graced our desktops over the years. Some of them lasted for years. Some of them had remarkably short lives but inspired trends that we are benefiting from to this day. And a few of them ... well, they were just cool for school.

Yesterday, Mod DB revealed its "2008 Mod of the Year Awards" and winners: 7th Annual Mod of the Year Awards - the premiere event that celebrates the best creations within the modding and indie gaming scene.

Digg shares an amusing and disturbing photograph. It

UserFriendly's link of the day is BrowserSpy: "has a collection of online tests that shows you just how much personal information can be collected from your browser just by visiting a page.

CNN shares an article about United States/U.S. Presidents' pets: "... Counting Barack Obama, the country has had 44 Presidents, and only two of them

A Digg comment shares a 46 seconds YouTube video showing letters that only Linux/UNIX command line users would use and recognize

VideoSift shares an educational 9.5 minutes Google Video (with foreign subtitles (Russian?))

BBC News report: "Scientists say they have located the parts of the brain that comprehend sarcasm - honestly. By comparing healthy people and those with damage to different parts of the brain, they found the front of the brain was key to understanding sarcasm. Damage to any of three different areas could render individuals unable to understand sarcastic comments..."

Digg shares a funny comic strip showing what happens when a user runs "apt-get install wife"

Neatorama shares a funny Bizzaro cartoon/comic strip to make fun of FOX's Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?