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I just have to say that I really hate people who go so far into rainbows and bunny rabbits in a technical specification.
Walter Cronkite's voice is comforting, to people above a certain age, amidst the world falling apart. He also has interesting things to talk about that are more topical than they may seem at first.
Science Fiction Citations is a page of citations of neologisms used in science fiction being collected for the Oxford English Dictionary.
Hrm, I don't think the rainbows and bunnies were part of the specification, but more rationale; explaining why they chose to write that particular specification and not some other. Seems like people should be allowed the full range of normal human motivations in deciding which specifications to write. (But in the actual technical spec itself, that is, not rationale, I agree that rainbows and bunnies should be excluded.)
And around here at UCI, the place is lousy with bunnies. I think of them rather as vermin for the gorgeous pair of red-shouldered hawks that live on campus.
