• Henry Rollins is smart and pissed off: which statement is redundant, these days. "To question authority is somehow unpatriotic, […] un-American? Fuck you!"
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• Rands In Repose: The Nerd Handbook»

• reCAPTCHA: Stop Spam, Read Books: I gave in. Comments on all old entires are now open again, but you have to prove you’re human. The spammers haven’t yet won, but we’ve all lost a little bit.
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• Paul / Kucinich ‘08: Ron Paul acknowledges the similarity of his and Dennis Kucinich’s positions in an appearance on C-Span, when a caller asks if he would consider Kucinich as a running mate [@6:40 mark]. Now *that* would put a bullet in this two-party bullshit.
  » election08 hope politics
• Dumbledore Pride! Get your t-shirts here: Oh yes.
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• BBC NEWS | JK Rowling outs Dumbledore as gay: "The audience gasped, then applauded. ‘I would have told you earlier if I knew it would make you so happy,’ she said. ‘Oh, my god,’ [she] concluded with a laugh, ‘the fan fiction.’" Um, duh? I am genuinely shocked that this wasn’t more widely known, or at
  » books harrypotter news thegay

• This isn’t "cute," it’s deeply annoying: The Hype Machine has disabled their service until 10,000 concurrent viewers load hypem.com in their browsers, at which point they will launch their new version. How the fuck did anybody ever think that was a good idea? It’s just… dumb.
  » dumb hypem music tools

• KQED | Cooking: What’s In Season?» cooking food reference

I’m afraid I lack the rhetorical skill to explain this well enough not to sound like a crazy person, but here goes. Please know that I am merely stating facts here.

You may have noticed that lately I changed my ‘political preference’ to ‘other.’ That is because facebook doesn’t have an option for ‘revolutionary.’ Our founding fathers sought to create a system that would obviate the need for periodic bloody revolutions to keep the system running smoothly, and as much as I revere what those fellows accomplished, it is obvious now that they failed.

Fact: Our country has imprisoned and tortured people, without charges or legal representation, in direct violation of the US Constitution. These acts also are crimes of war, though I somehow do not anticipate a tribunal in the Hague. Fact: Our country has prosecuted wars against two sovereign nations without any justification whatsoever, beyond oil and heroin — this has been proven beyond a reasonable doubt at this point, in case you get all your news from Fox. Fact: The last two presidential elections in this country were not conducted honestly, and the will of the majority of the American people had nothing to do with their result. Fact: The US intelligence apparatus has been turned against her own people, again, a fairly serious violation of the US Constitution.

Fact: the rule of law in this country has been subjugated for almost eight years. Fact: it needs to be restored. NOW. I do not want my nieces and nephews to grow up in a fascist state.

Fact: There already exist bills in congress which could take a huge first step to making this right — yet most representatives are too paralyzed by party loyalty to do what needs to be done. What you can do, personally, right now, is to write a short calm note to your congressperson telling them that you support the impeachment of the current administration for crimes against the citizens of the Unites States and her constitution. Their crimes have been proven beyond a doubt, remember. All that remains is to remove them from power and from behind the executive privilege so that they can be tried in a court of law. Please encourage your representatives to do the right thing. Don’t let over two hundred years of the grand experiment of Democracy come to this ignominious end. I, for one, love America and all that she stands for too much to watch her die.

• Men’s flight bag - Bags - Paul Smith: [whimper of infantile lust]
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• U.S. Senate Roll Call for the "restore habeas corpus" amendment to the military spending bill: I just wrote both of my Senators to inform them that in my eyes, they are guilty of treason. I’m probably on a list somewhere now, if I wasn’t already, but I’m pretty pissed off right now.
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• HRC | Buying for Equality: The Human Rights Campaign has released the 2008 edition of its guide for those who want to "vote with their dollars" regarding GLBT issues. My employer is, unsurprisingly, in the yellow zone.
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• lolsecretz: LOLcats + Postsecret. Arrr, that be a natural progression.
  » comedy lolcats memes

• 20×200 : ny.07.#20: pretty!
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• Spoken Word Not Enough for Dictionary: I never thought about it, but I suppose it must be someone’s job to read a bunch of crap and spot neologisms. This may just be me, but: Best. Job. Ever.
  » ap dictionary language news

We use a fairly complicated spreadsheet full of formulas and pretty colors in my house to keep track of bills. This is shared on the network, but as it lives on my computer it is not available when my pc is off (alas, I have not got around to creating a fileserver yet). It occurred to me to me tonight, as I was filling in this month’s values, to try Google Docs & Spreadsheets and see if it might work for what I do. Incidentally, at first I couldn’t remember what it was called, so I googled “Google Office.” Any guesses what the first result for that query was? Anyway, so I click “upload,” upload my spreadsheet, click “share,” start typing the addresses of my housemates and they are completed from my gmail address book.

In short: yeah, so it’s over, and Google won. The end. Productivity applications are now commodity software, and Microsoft is so fucked.

• indexed: Albus Severus, I hope you turn to the dark side.: Yes.
  » harrypotter humor

Two weeks, 5000 items in the feed reader, 9 calls to comcast tech support. North Charleston, SC does not have internet cafes. I feel almost like I’ve been on vacation in a foreign country where no one speaks the same language as me and all of the TV news is about crazy stuff you can’t imagine anyone caring about.

Actually, it was exactly like that.

It’s good to be home.