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2003-05-03 - 2:24 p.m. Windows (WIHN-doze)n. - A 32-bit extension and graphical shell to a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit process built by a 2-bit company that couldn't stand 1-bit of competition. From Wired: "Olive baboons in eastern Africa have something extra to worry about: a nasty new venereal disease that attacks the primates' reproductive organs. The mysterious disease is especially unkind to male baboons, said Elibariki Mtui, of Tanzania's African Wildlife Foundation. "The genitals kind of rot away, then they just drop off," he said. Officials fear an epidemic could be in the offing, since male baboons tend to be promiscuous, sleeping around with various troops, or extended families, of the simians." Uh, then what happens? � |