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Outlawed by Amazon DRM - A couple of days a go, my friend Linn sent me an e-mail, being very frustrated: Amazon just closed her account and wiped her Kindle. Without notice. Without explanation. This is DRM at it’s worst. If you think Amazon is your friend, you are sadly mistaken. A lesson I learned the hard way a couple of years ago myself. (Via goulo.)
Hobbes and Bacon - Hahahah. (Via Janelle Lohr.)
Daily Idioms - More like weekly, given the posting frequency, but ZOMG are these some amazingly cool links. (Via Lisa Costello.)
Big Trouble in Little China + Gangnam Style. John Carpenter approves. - The bog mindless… (Via Lisa Costello.)
Soldiers Lost and Found: Students Rediscover the Fallen - History, one war casualty at a time. (Via danjite.)
Elephants - Not to mention incendiary pigs and howdah pistols. And Special Forces field manuals. And, um, yeah. Because reasons, that's why! (Snurched from Daily Idioms.)
The Urine Wheel - Mmm. Pee-a-licious. (Via Lisa Costello.)
Dissolving electronics - medical sensors that disintegrate after a fixed time - This is some serious cool.
Mammatus Clouds Over Saskatchewan - I've seen these in Texas.
Coal-Eating Microbes Might Create Vast Amounts of Natural Gas - Companies are demonstrating a novel way to turn inaccessible coal into usable fuel.
L'Aquila quake: Italy scientists guilty of manslaughter - This is kind of freaky. Has the American conservative "science is lies from the pit of hell" attitude infected Italian politics as well? Or let me put this more succinctly: this is fucking insane. More here.
Carbon dating to 50,000 years - An article in Friday’s Science magazine details how a team of scientists provided a calibration for carbon dating accurately to 50,000 years, or about 10 times the age of the earth according to many creationists. Amazing how accurate and detailed those lies from the pit of hell can be. Warning: Facts not valid for conservatives. (Via threeoutside.)
Costumed Pa. girl mistaken for skunk, shot - Police say a costumed 9-year-old girl was accidentally shot outside a western Pennsylvania home during a Halloween party by a relative who thought she was a skunk. If you're one of America's gun owners, how's that whole defense of essential liberties thing working out for you? Sure worked out well for this kid, didn't it? I'll bet she's grateful as hell for the NRA and the GOP vigorously standing up for her right to be shot at a party.
CNN anchor to hate group: “I am a proud, card-carrying member” of the gay gestapo - Republicans think truth has a liberal bias, so they lie routinely as a matter of strategy.
International monitors at US polling spots draw criticism from voter fraud groups - Now Kazakhstan is monitoring our elections. Guess who objects? Conservatives: the very same people committing wholesale voter suppression and fraud. (Via David Goldman.)
Steve King: Comparing Immigrants To Dogs Was 'A Compliment' - Stay classy, conservative America. It's what you do best. (Via my Aunt M.)
Akin: McCaskill fetches expansive government “like a dog” - Mr. Legitimate Rape is at it again. Stay classy, conservative America. It's what you do best.
Can a businessman help the economy? For presidents, the answer has been no. - The startling bottom line is that the nation’s GDP has grown more than 45 times faster under presidents with little or no business experience than it has under presidents with successful business careers. And on average, when there has been a successful businessman in the Oval Office (so, Truman is excluded), GDP growth has been negligible. I've never understood why business experience is a selling point for political office. Governments are not for profit entities, nor are they non-profit entities in the 501©3 sense. (Via David Goldman.)
A ‘greatest hits’ of misleading Romney claims - Once again, we see the guiding principle of contemporary conservatism: When you can't win on your ideas, lie.
Romney’s Major Flip-Flops in the Third Debate - Remember when Republicans despised John Kerry for a flip-flopper? Yeah, neither do they.
Verdict on the Foreign Policy Debate - Conservative commentator Daniel Larison on last night's debate. A review of the transcript will show that Romney delivered a lot of incoherent answers, but that probably won’t hurt him with most viewers. Likely Republican voters in a nutshell, right there.
The Undisclosed Mitt Romney - With the presidential election just two weeks away, Romney’s gamble may be paying off. He has failed to specify where he would wield the budget knife, and he has defied, with a striking degree of success, the relatively quiet group of people who have called for him to honor a host of traditional disclosure and campaign practices. Post-truth campaigning is succeeding admirably for Romney and the GOP so far. Which may be a death knell for honest politics in America, insofar as they've been honest before this point.
?otD: What does a beaver do when she's lost and cold?
10/23/2012
Writing time yesterday: 2.5 hours (revisions on "A Stranger Comes to Kalimpura")
Body movement: 0.5 hour stationary bike ride
Hours slept: 8.0 hours
Weight: 230.0
Currently reading: n/a
Outlawed by Amazon DRM - A couple of days a go, my friend Linn sent me an e-mail, being very frustrated: Amazon just closed her account and wiped her Kindle. Without notice. Without explanation. This is DRM at it’s worst. If you think Amazon is your friend, you are sadly mistaken. A lesson I learned the hard way a couple of years ago myself. (Via goulo.)
Hobbes and Bacon - Hahahah. (Via Janelle Lohr.)
Daily Idioms - More like weekly, given the posting frequency, but ZOMG are these some amazingly cool links. (Via Lisa Costello.)
Big Trouble in Little China + Gangnam Style. John Carpenter approves. - The bog mindless… (Via Lisa Costello.)
Soldiers Lost and Found: Students Rediscover the Fallen - History, one war casualty at a time. (Via danjite.)
Elephants - Not to mention incendiary pigs and howdah pistols. And Special Forces field manuals. And, um, yeah. Because reasons, that's why! (Snurched from Daily Idioms.)
The Urine Wheel - Mmm. Pee-a-licious. (Via Lisa Costello.)
Dissolving electronics - medical sensors that disintegrate after a fixed time - This is some serious cool.
Mammatus Clouds Over Saskatchewan - I've seen these in Texas.
Coal-Eating Microbes Might Create Vast Amounts of Natural Gas - Companies are demonstrating a novel way to turn inaccessible coal into usable fuel.
L'Aquila quake: Italy scientists guilty of manslaughter - This is kind of freaky. Has the American conservative "science is lies from the pit of hell" attitude infected Italian politics as well? Or let me put this more succinctly: this is fucking insane. More here.
Carbon dating to 50,000 years - An article in Friday’s Science magazine details how a team of scientists provided a calibration for carbon dating accurately to 50,000 years, or about 10 times the age of the earth according to many creationists. Amazing how accurate and detailed those lies from the pit of hell can be. Warning: Facts not valid for conservatives. (Via threeoutside.)
Costumed Pa. girl mistaken for skunk, shot - Police say a costumed 9-year-old girl was accidentally shot outside a western Pennsylvania home during a Halloween party by a relative who thought she was a skunk. If you're one of America's gun owners, how's that whole defense of essential liberties thing working out for you? Sure worked out well for this kid, didn't it? I'll bet she's grateful as hell for the NRA and the GOP vigorously standing up for her right to be shot at a party.
CNN anchor to hate group: “I am a proud, card-carrying member” of the gay gestapo - Republicans think truth has a liberal bias, so they lie routinely as a matter of strategy.
International monitors at US polling spots draw criticism from voter fraud groups - Now Kazakhstan is monitoring our elections. Guess who objects? Conservatives: the very same people committing wholesale voter suppression and fraud. (Via David Goldman.)
Steve King: Comparing Immigrants To Dogs Was 'A Compliment' - Stay classy, conservative America. It's what you do best. (Via my Aunt M.)
Akin: McCaskill fetches expansive government “like a dog” - Mr. Legitimate Rape is at it again. Stay classy, conservative America. It's what you do best.
Can a businessman help the economy? For presidents, the answer has been no. - The startling bottom line is that the nation’s GDP has grown more than 45 times faster under presidents with little or no business experience than it has under presidents with successful business careers. And on average, when there has been a successful businessman in the Oval Office (so, Truman is excluded), GDP growth has been negligible. I've never understood why business experience is a selling point for political office. Governments are not for profit entities, nor are they non-profit entities in the 501©3 sense. (Via David Goldman.)
A ‘greatest hits’ of misleading Romney claims - Once again, we see the guiding principle of contemporary conservatism: When you can't win on your ideas, lie.
Romney’s Major Flip-Flops in the Third Debate - Remember when Republicans despised John Kerry for a flip-flopper? Yeah, neither do they.
Verdict on the Foreign Policy Debate - Conservative commentator Daniel Larison on last night's debate. A review of the transcript will show that Romney delivered a lot of incoherent answers, but that probably won’t hurt him with most viewers. Likely Republican voters in a nutshell, right there.
The Undisclosed Mitt Romney - With the presidential election just two weeks away, Romney’s gamble may be paying off. He has failed to specify where he would wield the budget knife, and he has defied, with a striking degree of success, the relatively quiet group of people who have called for him to honor a host of traditional disclosure and campaign practices. Post-truth campaigning is succeeding admirably for Romney and the GOP so far. Which may be a death knell for honest politics in America, insofar as they've been honest before this point.
?otD: What does a beaver do when she's lost and cold?
10/23/2012
Writing time yesterday: 2.5 hours (revisions on "A Stranger Comes to Kalimpura")
Body movement: 0.5 hour stationary bike ride
Hours slept: 8.0 hours
Weight: 230.0
Currently reading: n/a