UPDATE: We’ve changed the location. We’re now in Manning 208. I’ve updated the flier to match.
For the impatient: see the PDF flier here or reference the post in Paul’s blog which mentioned this.
This Monday the 6th of August there will be a COSI meeting at 17:30 EDT to plan for Software Freedom Day. Please do [...]
Video for Merlin’s “Inbox Zero” talk | 43 Folders
(tags: productivity email gtd video)
Secret Buildings You May Not Photograph, Part 643 - via BoingBoing
“Reasonable, law-abiding people tend to avoid these types of things when it can be helped,” McCammon wrote. “Thus, my request for a list of locations within Arlington County that are unmarked, but at which photography is either prohibited or discouraged a
(tags: photography freedom policy)
Talking Points Memo | Rogue Presidency
Bush thinks he owns it. He really thinks he can get away with anything. Is he wrong?
(tags: impeachment bush executive privilege)
I just moved pebkac.homelinux.net off of hume, my home desktop. Hopefully this will mean better internetting. Both hume and garp are currently Ubuntu feisty, so the transition wasn’t terribly painful, but I did have to fiddle with ddclient, wordpress, apache2, and mysql. There was some rsync and an ssh key for root involved.
There’s something cathartic [...]
After reading this bit on the Executive order mentioned earlier, I can’t decide if it’s as bad as I thought or not.
By executive order, the Fifth Amendment guarantee of due process is suspended for persons (Including U.S. Citizens in the United States) thought to be “undermining efforts to promote economic reconstruction and political reform in Iraq.”
I’m sitting here listening to Girl Talk’s Night Ripper. I’m also reading the comments in the most recent /. article heralding the death of internet radio (there are a lot of great comments).
I’m having a mix of reactions. The first is that I’m sick of the corrupt process that has brought us to where we [...]
So, I followed up that article by Landsburg (which is the first chapter of a book) by reading a review of the book that was linked to in the same NYTimes piece. It concludes:
This problem plagues [Landsburg and his economist peers]: like the overly chaste singles who are supposedly contributing to the H.I.V. epidemic, they [...]
The Other War: Iraq Vets Bear Witness
“Sure enough, as we started to peel back the layers of all these people sleeping, I mean, it was him, maybe two guys…either his sons or nephews or whatever, and the rest were all women and children,” Sergeant Westphal said. “We didn’t find anything. “I
(tags: Iraq war)
02-102 — LAWRENCE [...]
