The White House is doing some renovating of its own (NYT, free registration required), in order to refurbish a section of the lawn that is used by television reporters so they can stand there with a nice picture of the White House behind them. But that’s not why I found this story interesting. Go about halfway down the article: “The light and heat from the television lights, sometimes 14 hours a day, were confusing the trees”, causing them to sprout leaves in winter and flower out of season. Even the trees are falling for the media’s lies.
September 1st, 2003
Even the trees are falling for the media's lies
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Raymond has been involved in the evolution of Windows for more than 30 years. In 2003, he began a Web site known as The Old New Thing which has grown in popularity far beyond his wildest imagination, a development which still gives him the heebie-jeebies. The Web site spawned a book, coincidentally also titled The Old New Thing (Addison Wesley 2007). He occasionally appears on the Windows Dev Docs Twitter account to tell stories which convey no useful information.
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