FireFox 3
都说FireFox 3好用,我都用了三四天了还没习惯过来,有点想换回FireFox 2了,不知道为啥现在这么排斥新鲜事物,莫非老了?FireFox 3有几点让我不爽:首先是插件自动更新都失败了,害我得一个个重新手动下载新版本,有些插件居然不更新了,像Google Browser Sync,真是活见鬼。还有就是界面,地址栏跟搜索栏居然是立体的,看了有点不自在。另外一个就是不知为何,页面在出来之前总会闪一下,ff2不会这样的。最后,我做的几个自定义搜索引擎都不见了。
不过ff3也有好处,感觉网页出来的速度明显快许多,启动也快了不少,这点是让我最满意的,嗯。
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苏联政治笑话
Hammer & Tickle: A History of Communism Told Through Communist Jokes
By Ben Lewis

刚刚翻译了一篇书评,又收集了一些新的苏联政治笑话:
“How do you deal with mice in the Kremlin?” “Put up a sign saying ‘collective farm’. Then half the mice will starve and the others will run away.”
“如何赶跑克里姆林宫里的老鼠?”“在里面放个标牌,写上‘集体农场’四字,不多久大半老鼠会饿死,剩下的都逃之夭夭了。”
“Who built the White Sea canal [Stalin’s single most murderous slave-labour project]?” “The left bank was built by those who told the jokes, and the right bank by those who listened.”
“是谁建了白海运河(草菅人命的斯大林下令劳改犯修建的一项工事)?”“说笑话的人建了左岸,听笑话的人建了右岸。”
A flock of sheep approaches the Finnish border in a panic, pleading to be allowed entry. “Beria [Stalin’s secret police chief] has ordered the arrest of all elephants,” they explain. “But you’re not elephants,” reply the Finnish border guards in puzzlement. “Yes, but try explaining that to Beria.”
一群惊慌的羊来到芬兰边界,请求进入对方国境,说:“贝利亚(斯大林的秘密警察头子)下令逮捕所有的大象。”芬兰边防士兵惊道:“可你们不是大象呀!”“没错,不过你得跟贝利亚解释。”
政客对政治笑话的态度:
“Jokes against the Party constitute agitation against the Party,” raged Matvei Shkiriatov, a zealous Stalinist, at a Central Committee Meeting in January 1933. That was echoed by Hitler’s propaganda chief, Josef Goebbels, in 1939, when he wrote: “We will eradicate the political joke.”
狂热的斯大林主义者Matvei Shkiriatov在1993年一月召开的一次中央委员会会议上盛怒咆哮:“取笑党就是反党!”1939年,这咆哮在希特勒宣传部长约瑟夫•戈培尔那儿激起回声,他写道:“要奋力消灭政治笑话。”
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