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Wednesday, Pre-Necronomicon Miscellany!
Happy hump day everyone! Liv and I are flying to Providence, and I'm using the plane's wifi since I can't sleep. Meanwhile, here's some miscellany for you:
- In case you wonder what Liv is up to.
- John Kasich and the promise of Empire for cheap.
- The Ashley Madison Hack data have been leaked, in CSV and MySQL export formats. Check out a sample set here. ( Read more... )
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Heads up/Some housekeeping
By now most of you have figured out that skeletoncrew is the woodcut artist Liv Rainey-Smith, and I have comfortably taken on the role of her "plus-one." She and I will be at Necronomicon in Providence, Rhode Island this week, and I intend to blog about our trip here over the next many days. So stay tuned, kids! -
Free shipping for a limited time
In case you're wondering what SC is doing:
Originally posted by xylograph_rss at Free shipping for a limited time
http://xylographilia.com/2015/08/13/free-shipping-for-a-limited-time/
http://xylographilia.com/?p=3255
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Late Tuesday/Early Wednesday Miscellany!
- Deconstructing Chuck Schumer on Iran
- Sanders beats Clinton in New Hampshire, but there's a catch. The poll assumes Joe Biden runs. Not only is he not running (which IMO makes this poll invalid) but I think he'll stay out unless Clinton crashes and burns (which still could happen if this email server thing leads to an indictment).
- Justin Raimondo on ( Read more... )
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Public Policy Polling in Iowa: Wheat from Chaff
PPP released their poll (PDF) of Iowa's likely caucus participants yesterday. Among Republicans and Republican-leaning Independents:
Trump 19
Carson 12
Walker 12
Bush 11
Fiorina 10
Cruz 9
Huckabee 6
Rubio 6
The rest <= 3 ( Read more... ) -
Reuters/Ipsos poll: Trump didn't lose the debate, but Bush lost the GOP base.
We have the first scientific poll results after the Republican debate. And they're unsettling.
Reuters/Ipsos Poll (PDF) conducted August 6 (post-debate)-10, 2015. (For comparison, use these Ipsos numbers (PDF) sampled Aug 1-5 ( Read more... ) -
Thursday Miscellany!
Thursday, Thursday, gotta get down on Thursday....
- Today is the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. It's a good time to take note that it will cost us nearly a trillion dollars to upgrade our nuclear arsenal. For that kind of money, we could build a high-speed rail system and still have enough to build enough wind power for 100 ( Read more... )
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Today in mash-ups
https://youtu.be/UPJpLfDlMhc?t=4m3s
https://youtu.be/8L6KGuTr9TI?t=24s
Cue them both up. Start playing them at once. Enjoy. -
Thursday Miscellany!
Because it's Thursday Thursday Thursday....
- Last week Turkey agreed to let us use their air bases to bomb ISIS. This week Turkey has started bombing the Kurdish faction PKK. (This is almost certainly not a coincidence, and it tells us what Washington traded for those air bases.) By bombing the PKK, Turkey unilaterally ended a two year cease fire ( Read more... )
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Bizarre High-Tech Kidnapping
If you all don't read Bruce Schneier's blog, you should.
Originally posted by bruce_schneier at Bizarre High-Tech Kidnapping
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/07/bizarre_high-te.html
This is a story of a very high-tech kidnapping:
FBI court filings unsealed last week showed how Denise Huskins' kidnappers used anonymous remailers, image sharing sites, ( Read more... )