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Out of the Microwave
I saw this on a ThinkGeek Customer Fortune: (Disclaimer: I am not responsible for time lost while reading ThinkGeek Customer Fortunes.)Out of the Microwave ( Read more... ) -
Amber Abreu
I just read an article on Boston IMC about a woman named Amber Abreu. She is facing seven years for self-inducing a miscarriage. Her actions resulted in the abortion of a 24-week-old, 11/4 pound fetus that remained alive outside of the womb for four days at Tufts-New England Medical Center. Of course, it died after the four days. The article's ( Read more... ) -
The Super IQ Test: How Smart Are You REALLY?
Wow. I usually don't take these tests seriously, but it does say it's “PhD Certified”. Besides, it's been a long time since I've posted one of these memes to my LiveJournal, so I figured, “Why not?”
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My First Slashdot Submission
I just posted a submission to Slashdot in hopes that it will be accepted as an article and posted on the front page. It's my first try at writing an article, so I hope it doesn't suck too badly. ;)
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Gross Incompetence: Substitute Teacher Faces Jail Time Over Spyware
I recently read an article from the Washington Post about a severe case of incompetence by nearly everybody involved. A substitute teacher was using a computer when some malware on the machine started popping up pornographic advertisements. She made a genuine attempt to get some help to resolve the issue (she hadn't used the computer before that ( Read more... ) -
Happy Boston Tea Party Day!
On this date in 1773, the Sons of Liberty protested against the British Tea Act by dumping 342 crates of tea bricks into Boston Harbor. In total, they dumped about £10,000 ($19,692) worth of tea into the harbor. That's roughly £108,430.26 ($213,520.86) in today's economy!
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Conditional onLoad Queue
I was writing some JavaScript recently and I came across a situation where I needed to perform different functions with the body element's onLoad event handler depending on varying circumstances. It may sometimes be necessary to queue onLoad events from scripts embedded in a document's head element. However, at that point during the creation of a ( Read more... ) -
Soldier Fights Jail Sentence for Refusing to Redeploy to Iraq
This from Veterans for Peace:War Resister Agustin Aguayo UpdateOn Tuesday, November 21st, the appeal of Army Specialist Agustin Aguayo in his civil Federal Court case as plaintiff against the Secretary of the Army will be heard in the District Court in Washington, DC, at 333 Constitution Avenue, NW ( Read more... ) -
Pray for an Amputee
I recently stumbled upon the Web site Why Won't God Heal Amputees?. That Web site explains in plain English how it's impossible for God to exist, using the supposed words of God Himself. Specifically, God promises to answer people's prayers, and that with a little faith, anything can be accomplished. Furthermore, God is omniscient (all-knowing), ( Read more... ) -
Installing MadWifi on Debian Sarge
This is what I did to get MadWifi working on a freshly-installed Debian Sarge system:
Contents of /etc/apt/sources.list:# Sarge ( Read more... )