The Bush administration’s dumbest legal arguments of the year. - By Dahlia Lithwick - Slate Magazine
(tags: bush badgov law lies)
Britain Drops ‘War on Terror’ Label
The words “war on terror” will no longer be used by the British government to describe attacks on the public, the country’s chief prosecutor said Dec. 27.
The Third World Squat | MetaFilter
surprisingly informative
(tags: fitness culture)
Demarcation problem - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The demarcation problem in the philosophy of science is about how and where to draw the lines around science.
(tags: philosophy science)
Apparently I’m behind the times. I’d never heard of a duo called Flight of the Conchords. Here they are (NSFW language):
Daily Kos: Delete My Bleeping Account, Facebook!
still hard to leave facebook, I see
(tags: Facebook)
A Green Light for Common Sense - washingtonpost.com
(tags: traffic politics)
Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Obama’s Closing Argument: Stand With Me, And We Will Change Course Of History
yep. still an Obama supporter.
(tags: tpm obama)
Radio Iowa: John Edwards talked to Musharraf regarding [...]
Perhaps my google-fu is failing. I can’t seem to find an equivalent to debian’s apticron in Fedora. My specific requirements are for a tool that:
shows what packages have updates available
shows what kind (eg. critical security, moderate security, bugfix) of update each package is
checks at user-configurable intervals
sends mail at user-configurable intervals
includes changelog or similar info in [...]
Bad picture taken with my phone:
Stylish! Shape!
The box that hosts this blog, garp, is now running Ubuntu 7.10 “gutsy gibbon” for great most-recent-release justice. It had been happily running 7.04 for some time. The intersession break gave me the breathing room to push through the upgrade.
Garp had been mirroring gutsy since Thursday, so the upgrade was a convenient matter of pointing [...]
YouTube - Authors@Google: Randall Munroe
maybe should bring him to Chapel Hill for ibiblio Speakers Series? Wonder if he can make it down…?
(tags: xkcd google video)
Lakota Natives Withdraw Treaties with U.S. - Boing Boing
The Lakota Indians, who gave the world legendary warriors Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, have withdrawn from treaties with the United States, leaders [...]
Nifty!
I wonder when zotero started putting that there? Has it been a long time and I just failed to notice it? I might have to cite a youtube video in a paper next semester. Y’know… just because.
Google Search Operators - Google Guide
(tags: google search reference)
