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update 20061206: Well it lasted four days. Longer than I thought really.

UnSuggester

LibraryThing UnSuggester | Don't read THIS

The opposite of the normal "If you like, try this." site. Plug in a book you like, and it will tell you books that you will not like.

I plugged in "Master and Commander" and it spit out:

1. Awakening the Buddha within : eight steps to enlightenment : Tibetan wisdom for the Western world by Lama Surya Das (expected 11.6, found 0; unsuggestions)
   
2. Tori Amos, piece by piece : a portrait of the artist : her thoughts, her conversations by Tori Amos (expected 11.6, found 0; unsuggestions)
   
3. ANSI Common Lisp by Paul Graham (expected 11.3, found 0; unsuggestions)
   
4. You slay me by Katie MacAlister (expected 11.2, found 0; unsuggestions)
   
5. Fire me up : an Aisling Grey, guardian, novel by Katie MacAlister (expected 10.7, found 0; unsuggestions)
   
6. The emerging church : vintage Christianity for new generations by Dan Kimball (expected 10.3, found 0; unsuggestions)
   
7. Boy meets girl : say hello to courtship by Joshua Harris (expected 15, found 1; unsuggestions)
   
8. Everybody's normal till you get to know them by John Ortberg (expected 9.8, found 0; unsuggestions)
   
9. Succulent wild woman : dancing with your wonder-full self! by Sark (expected 9.8, found 0; unsuggestions)
   
10. Messenger by Lois Lowry (expected 9.6, found 0; unsuggestions)

Now with the exception of #3, I can't imagine wanting to read any of those. And seeing as how I will probably never learn to program in LISP I doubt I'd ever need to read that book either.

You the man now dawg

Seriously, I will have Keith Olbermann's man babies. His "Special Comment" speeches, done in classic Murrowese, are simply the best non-satirical comments on American politics and politicians. To wit, here's November 30th's skewering of the pest Newt Gingrich

Your 'Do You Want the Terrorists to Win' Score: 89%

 

You are a terrorist-loving, Bush-bashing, "blame America first"-crowd traitor. You are in league with evil-doers who hate our freedoms. By all counts you are a liberal, and as such cleary desire the terrorists to succeed and impose their harsh theocratic restrictions on us all. You are fit to be hung for treason! Luckily George Bush is tapping your internet connection and is now aware of your thought-crime. Have a nice day.... in Guantanamo!

Do You Want the Terrorists to Win?
Quiz Created on GoToQuiz

I'm in ur base belonging ur votes to us

Florida.

Ah jeez not this shit again.

/Diebold just switched to the Cell processor to enable real-time vote changing.

In other words, thanks for handing Iraq to Iran, George.

Iraq, Iran reach agreement on security - Yahoo! News

It's a sad state of affairs when the President of Iran makes more sense than the President of the United States of America.

Feck off George.

Sully's Underwear Flap

Andrew Sullivan | The Daily Dish: Underwear, Again:

"But I am not sorry for publishing a visual of them. My response is the same to Mormons as it was to Muslims who were offended by my publishing images of Muhammad. This is your taboo, not mine. And this is a free country. If you cannot handle some inspection of your religious practices, then you need to find some other place to live."

Sully's right as usual. In case you wonder what's got some Mormon panties in a wad, it's this.



A picture of LDS "temple garment" that many Mormons wear at all times.

Playing with GarageBand3

Nice start Jim Webb

In Following His Own Script, Webb May Test Senate's Limits - washingtonpost.com:

"At a recent White House reception for freshman members of Congress, Virginia's newest senator tried to avoid President Bush. Democrat James Webb declined to stand in a presidential receiving line or to have his picture taken with the man he had often criticized on the stump this fall. But it wasn't long before Bush found him.

'How's your boy?' Bush asked, referring to Webb's son, a Marine serving in Iraq.

'I'd like to get them out of Iraq, Mr. President,' Webb responded, echoing a campaign theme.

'That's not what I asked you,' Bush said. 'How's your boy?'

'That's between me and my boy, Mr. President,' Webb said coldly, ending the conversation on the State Floor of the East Wing of the White House."

Webb is a Bush Democrat. In other words a Republican who got fed up with the GOP for following Bush and the neocons' radical agendas. Webb has a strong libertarian streak that appeals to me. He got a perfect score on the NRA's candidate questionnaire. He supports civil unions for same sex couple and is pro choice. He's also anti-Iraq-war without being antiwar. He fought in Vietnam as Marine and served as Reagan's Sec. of the Navy. He is, hopefully, gonna raise hell on bringing our troops home. He's off to a good start.



Thank you Macaca.

I find it deliciously ironic that the end of the "War on Terror Made by Brown People in Iraq (TM)" might have started with a racial slur.

Ok so I get told to be the porno police by my boss. That's cool. It's all ready my job, and I all ready have a system that I understand to check for it. Basically I've got a content filter that emails me when a blocked site is attempted to be accessed. One block I ignore, but if I get 10 in a row from the same IP address, I check out what they're trying to get to and then take appropriate action.

Now, to find out who is actually trying to get to the "banned" material, I have to match up the IP to the machine that had that IP at the time of the block. That's in one log. After that I have to match up who was logged into that machine at the time of the block. That's in another log. It's a bit of a bear, but considering I've had to investigate this type of thing maybe ten times in 3 years, it's no biggie.

Now my boss had the bright idea to order me to make user level blockage reports for all staff on a monthly basis. I tell him I think that I can do that, but it will probably cost him some money. I get to fiddling around inside the Sonic Wall Pro 300 content filter and see that while it won't take LDAP authentication directly from my LDAP server, it does have the capability of doing RADIUS lookups.

"AHA!" says I, and couple of hours later I have a working RADIUS test server that passes the auth request off to my LDAP server and returns to my content filter a yes/no on the user/pass entered. I know this because my content filter has a RADIUS test thingee in its RADIUS config. Just plug a u/p in and it tests it and says it works. I can also see my RADIUS and LDAP logs that show a successful transaction in both services. "Hunky dorry gee whiz," I think, "I can do this thing for free." All it requires is one entry of the u/p when a user fires up his/her browser. This tells the Sonic Wall who's browsing and what username to log it under. Basically I've got usernames and IPs in my logs now.

So far so good. Now it's time to set the reporting end up. Sonic Wall makes reporting software called Viewpoint. It just so happens that buying the Pro 300 gave us free access to Viewpoint. Viewpoint is basically a glorified front-end to a syslogd service. It parses logs and generates reports on things like "Web Usage" and "Blocks Per User". Blammo! Exactly what I'm looking for. I d/l the latest version of the (Windows only) program, install it, and follow the directions for configuring my Sonic Wall to talk to the Viewpoint server. (Basically this is just setting up one syslogd to talk to another).

I triple check everything to make sure all is good, backup my Sonic Walls config, and turn that shit on. BOOM GOES THE DYNAMITE! All hell breaks loose and the network slows to a crawl. No problem, I think to myself, login to the Sonic Wall and turn that shit off. So I pop in the content filter's IP to login... timeout. I try to get on the web, no problem. I try to get to a blocked site, blocked. I check the Viewpoint server. It was connected to the Sonic Wall at first, but now its not. I portscan the firewall. 443 is open but I can't get a connection via https. 80 is open but I can't get a connection via http.

Finally, I physically walk down to the content filter, and its activity meter is pegged. I hook up a laptop and fire up Ethereal. The thing is spewing syslogd data so fast that its poor processor can't keep up and other services aren't fielding requests. I go check my system requirements for my userload to insure that I read what I thought I read. I read what I thought read and this box should be able to handle a network about 10 times the size of mine with reporting on.

Ok says, I, I can't get in via the web but there has to be a command line interface or at the very least some sort of emergency serial interface that I can login with on a Mac. No nada nunca. Sonic Wall's official "fix" of this problem is to do a firmware reset, !but! not only does this screw my configuration back to zero, but also it uses a "dual-bios" trick to rewrite my firmware back to what shipped from the factory so that my "backup" is basically useless. In the time it takes to get all the settings needed to get the firmware back to where it needs to be, I can just reconfigure the box from scratch...* of course intarwebs access is down the whole time I'm doing this without that I reconfigure my whole network to ignore the content filter (which all other machines see as their gateway router).

So to sum up -- Fuck You Sonic Wall. I'm buying another Barracuda filter.

/and don't get me started about having to pay for security firmware updates. Features I can see, but when you have a bug in your product that allows me to be attacked, that update should be free./

*Not true, you just have to have a Windows machine to restore the mofo. Still getting another cuda.

A one sentence solution to the war in Iraq

An Attytood commenter named No W NOW wrote:

"The best solution politically might be for us to impeach Bush and put the entire administration up before world court for war crimes, apologize as a nation to the Iraqis and leave."

Works for me.

Chris Rock predicts the future

From the Chris Rock Show circa 1997

Soon

The software is here. The machine is not.

Warning Label Generator

Warning Label Generator

Pay Drew!!!

Unclaimed Property Search - Property Details

Ok, so I'm joking, Drew has $83 coming to her when she decides to pick it up. I'm sure she'll get right on that.

Daily Drew

Wow

This guy can't play drums or piano, but he can sure edit the hell out of video

The Phone Guy

Link via Boingboing

Let's Play Eschaton's Game

You know "Simple Answers for Simple Questions"

Boing Boing: Advice for a torn and lovelorn BoingBoing reader: "

Mike asks, 'If you meet a cute girl at a Democratic Victory party, but she QAs DRM for Microsoft, is asking for her email address evil?'"

Yes.

Both parties have no clue on DRM.

Great day.

House Democrats eager to clash with Bush

All this morning when people have said "Good morning" to me I've responded, "Yes, it is!"

Dashboard widget test?

I dunno... that's funny

nice

Build a solar iPod charger

Don't let them bite. Seriously.

A Socialite's Life:

"Maya Rudolph and her family moved into their new apartment happy and excited to be home. A $13,500-a-month dream home turned into a disgusting nightmare as the place was infested with bed bugs. Furious, they have filed suit for $450,000. Court paper stated:"

Been there done that, it really sucks. It's not a cliche. Well it is, but actual bed bugs suck.

Go read Pearl Fang

Pearl Fang has your number. Its 4 - by Pearl

This post is NOT about the Rod Bryan campaign, HOWEVER, I do think he's
awesome, I know him personally, and I have stood many a nights just
picking his brain about what he would really do if he were governor,
and I believe in him.

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Say what?

The Complete Bushisms - Compiled By Jacob Weisberg - Slate Magazine

"You know, when I campaigned here in 2000, I said, I want to be a war President. No President wants to be a war President, but I am one."—Des Moines, Iowa, Oct. 26, 2006

Scott Adams on Electronic Voting

The Dilbert Blog: Electronic Voting Machines:

"Years ago when I worked at a big bank, one of the hot issues was that many customers didn%u2019t trust our new-fangled ATM machines. Amazingly, this fear had almost nothing to do with the fact that I worked in the ATM department. Indeed, my suggestion to include a paper shredder hole right next to the deposit hole was barely even considered. In the end, ATMs rarely stole anyone%u2019s money and kept it for long. Now most people trust ATMs.

I think about the history of ATMs when I hear all the nervous Nellies wetting their pants over electronic voting machines. I believe those worries are totally misplaced. Now don%u2019t get me wrong %u2013 there%u2019s a 100% chance that the voting machines will get hacked and all future elections will be rigged.? But that doesn%u2019t mean we%u2019ll get a worse government. It probably means that the choice of the next American president will be taken out of the hands of deep-pocket, autofellating, corporate shitbags and put it into the hands of some teenager in Finland. How is that not an improvement?

Statistically speaking, any hacker who is skilled enough to rig the elections will also be smart enough to select politicians that believe in . . . oh, let's say for example, science. Compare that to the current method where big money interests buy political ads that confuse snake-dancing simpletons until they vote for the guy who scares them the least. Then during the period between the election and the impending Rapture, that traditionally elected President will get busy protecting the lives of stem cells while finding creative ways to blow the living crap out of anything that has the audacity to grow up and turn brownish.

The important thing with democracy-- and this has always been the case -- is that the citizens a) Believe the election result is based on the common sense and voting rights of the citizens, and b) Have enough handguns to wax any politicians who gets too seriously out of line (also known as a "check and balance").

And here the definition of "seriously out of line" would not include humping interns and stealing from taxpayers. Those things should be allowed, even encouraged, so we can attract the most capable candidates from private industry.?

Call me an optimist, but electronic voting machines make me feel good about my country.

Is it too late to start selling bumper stickers that say "I think I voted"

NYT hires Ric Romero*

A New Campaign Tactic: Manipulating Google Data - New York Times

To report on Google bombing.

*If this means nothing to you, try here.

Daily Drew

Now with videoy goodness. Straight up stolen from Drew-Barrymore.org

Daily Drew

Haven't done this (or much of anything else) in a while...
Drew at the Borat premiere

So that makes them STFU

Guide to the Southern Tenant Farmers Union. The Green Rising, 1910-1977

Laugh, it's funny. Kind of reminds me of the little Christian school down the road... the Fulton Unity Christian Knights

E agora para algo completamente diferente

Walleyball: "Yeah Yeah We Speak Perfect English, Just Serve."

Wholphin DVD

Walleyball. Volleyball played over the two story fence that separates a section of the US-Mexican border.

You might be a Republican if...

NO QUARTER: Are you a Republican?

If you start a war in Iraq while lying to the American people that Saddam was tied to Osama Bin Laden, you might be a Republican.

If you follow policies that squander a budget surplus and create an $8.5 trillion dollar budget deficit, you might be a Republican.

If you expose the identity of an undercover CIA officer in charge of tracking down Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, you might be a Republican.

Political Cortex: The Constitution of the United States 2.0

We the Republicans of the United States, in Order to prevent any challenge to our continued Supremacy, free ourselves from the Confines of Justice, placate the Tranquil masses, degrade the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of War Profiteering for ourselves and our Friends, do ordain and establish Constitution 2.0 for the United States of America.


In the word of the Putzy one... Indeed.

What I wish Obama had said...

Barack Obama, my Senator, voted against the Torture Bill, here's what I wish he would say about this...

"Torture bill, I can't think of a bill less American than this. And it is a torture bill. This bill allows an man innocent like Maher Ahar to be waterboarded at the whim of one individual. Waterboarding has been used for centuries. The Romans used it as torture. The medieval Dutch used it as torture, but even they knew something this bill denies. Waterboarding and torture do not work. Even the medieval Dutch legal system would not accept a confession or evidence obtained during torture. Something this bill specifically legalizes, this Torture Bill.

This Torture Bill suspends habeas corpus. A natural right to both confront one accuser and know the reason for ones detention that is specifically denied to those seized under this Torture bill. A right so basic that in 1789 Thomas Jefferson during one of the first periods of civil unrest in American history said, ""The Habeas Corpus secures every man here, alien or citizen, against everything which is not law, whatever shape it may assume." A right so basic that during the greatest ever threat to our nation, during the War Between the States, the Supreme Court, with nation torn asunder, told the great Abraham Lincoln he possessed not the wisdom to be the sole decider of detainment. This Torture bill provides that unchecked power, denied to the Great Emancipator, to our current President. We the Congress have a solemn duty to guard this sacred right.

This Torture bill gives those and so many more unchecked powers to the Executive Branch, and it is done. I voted against it of course, but in this democracy, in this hallowed Senate the most votes usually wins, and 5x Senators believed it was necessary to divest ourselves of these responsibilities and to divest our people of these rights. The right not to be tortured, the right to know why you are being detained -- these basic rights. We have divested ourselves of these responsibilities and placed this burden on one man's shoulders -- this President. This and future presidents bear a great responsibility, and I pray for them. I pray that they have the wisdom to see what the 15th century Dutch did. Torture does not work. I pray that they have the wisdom to see that torture is a terror tactic. The Romans publicly tortured dissenters not just punish those for their thoughts and expressions but to terrorize those that might agree with them. I pray to the Lord that the great United States of America will not use the tactics of terror. I pray that the great United States will not give up its precious liberties and basic freedoms. I pray we will not torture not just innocents like Maher Ahar, but that we will live up to the Christian ideals that so many of us share. Who would Jesus torture?"

Winning: The Joke's on Osama

I agree with this guy, but its what I've been saying for a while. Al-Qaida is not as a big a threat to us as we are our to ourselves.

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Call today or they will ban online poker

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist is attaching the Internet Gambling Prohibition Act to a bill that is expected to be approved by the Congress early this evening. PLEASE call your Senators today and tell them that they should oppose the Internet gambling bill being part of Port Security legislation.

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This is what you voted into office

Olbermann

Moron

Troy Gentry Accused of Killing Tame Bear - Forbes.com

Something I'm for killing

Wired News: Death to Caps Lock

Ana Marie Cox continues to use her anus to reach the top

Eat The Press | Ana Marie Cox Named Washington Editor For Time.com | The Huffington Post

Good for her. Redhead + history of ass fucking jokes = teh win.

One Web Day 9/22/06

Piling on.

Whiskey Bar: Useless Idiots

Billmon takes on Sully and the former Bush Only Party (BOP) faithful for bitching about getting bitched at.

mcsey on WWdN: In Exile

WWdN: In Exile:

I'm a long time reader, and your pokerstars blog entries are off the hook. This year's WSOP is inspiring some great blogging all around. The 'no live coverage' rule has done wonders for what I as a small rolling wannabe wants to read. Color coverage. I don't need to know every hand. Just tell me the stories.

Great job. There's a book here for you to write.
--mcsey

I wrote that ish. I'm a Wheaton fanboy, what about it? Really though, go follow that link then read him on pokerstarsblog.com and check out Tubes Wheaton at his best.

For Peyton

For Peyton

Online charity auction for the infant of a cancer victim. Bid on some nice poker swag for a great cause. Plus you can buy, and then burn, a Duke hat signed by Coach K.

It's OK

YouTube - It's OK



Cheap but effective.

The Greatest Super Tecmo Bowl Play of All-Time

Pauly at Bonnaroo Part I

Pauly at Bonnaroo. Just plain hawesome.

Pauly at Bonnaroo Part II

Push

Clones' Debut Is a Test of Genetics, and Bettors' Wits - New York Times

John Kricfalusi's Blog

all kinds of stuff

John Kricfalusi's Blog

all kinds of stuff


It's good. Nuff said.

(Is this a duplicate?)

John Kricfalusi's Blog

all kinds of stuff


It's good. Nuff said.

(Is this a duplicate?)

Pokerstars Freeroll for Bloggers Only!

I have registered to play in the PokerStars World Blogger Championship of Online Poker!

This Online Poker Tournament is a No Limit Texas Holdem event exclusive to Bloggers.

Registration code: 7330476

Articles of Impeachment -- Nixon

Articles of Impeachment

making false or misleading statements to lawfully authorized investigative officers and employees of the United States;

withholding relevant and material evidence or information from lawfully authorized investigative officers and employees of the United States;

approving, condoning, acquiescing in, and counselling witnesses with respect to the giving of false or misleading statements to lawfully authorized investigative officers and employees of the United States and false or misleading testimony in duly instituted judicial and congressional proceedings;

interfering or endeavouring to interfere with the conduct of investigations by the Department of Justice of the United States, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the office of Watergate Special Prosecution Force, and Congressional Committees;

approving, condoning, and acquiescing in, the surreptitious payment of substantial sums of money for the purpose of obtaining the silence or influencing the testimony of witnesses, potential witnesses or individuals who participated in such unlawful entry and other illegal activities;

endeavouring to misuse the Central Intelligence Agency, an agency of the United States;

disseminating information received from officers of the Department of Justice of the United States to subjects of investigations conducted by lawfully authorized investigative officers and employees of the United States, for the purpose of aiding and assisting such subjects in their attempts to avoid criminal liability;

making or causing to be made false or misleading public statements for the purpose of deceiving the people of the United States into believing that a thorough and complete investigation had been conducted with respect to allegations of misconduct on the part of personnel of the executive branch of the United States and personnel of the Committee for the Re-election of the President, and that there was no involvement of such personnel in such misconduct: or

endeavouring to cause prospective defendants, and individuals duly tried and convicted, to expect favoured treatment and consideration in return for their silence or false testimony, or rewarding individuals for their silence or false testimony.

Pretty tame stuff compared to what Bush is doing.

When Instapundit and Atrios agree

Save the Internet

They are right. Support net neutrality. If you don't know what that is or why it's necessary to save the Internet. Click the link above. Then call your congresscritters.

Free Adult Swim

[adult swim] | Adult Swim Fix

Seem to be Windows only so it's pretty worthless to me, but idea if not the execution is good.

Misunderstanding the phrase "political whoring"

Think Progress ? %u2018As Many as a Half a Dozen%u2019 Members of Congress May Be Involved in Prostitution Scandal

Actually proud of my representatives for once

Bush Impeachment - The Illinois State Legislature is Preparing to Drop a Bombshell

Now he gets a set of stones?

The Democratic Daily Blog ? Blog Archive ? John Kerry’s Speech at Boston’s Faneuil Hall: “A Right and Responsibility to Speak Out”:

"The true defeatists today are not those who call for recognizing the facts on the ground in Iraq. The true defeatists are those who believe America is so weak that it must sacrifice its principles to the pursuit of illusory power.

The true pessimists today are not those who know that America can handle the truth about the Administration’s boastful claim of “Mission Accomplished” in Iraq. The true pessimists are those who cannot accept that America’s power and prestige depend on our credibility at home and around the world. The true pessimists are those who do not understand that fidelity to our principles is as critical to national security as our military power itself.

And the most dangerous defeatists, the most dispiriting pessimists, are those who invoke September 11th to argue that our traditional values are a luxury we can no longer afford."

Great if you would've figured that out two years ago, you'd be President.

Adrift American in the North Sea?

ABC News: Mystery at Sea: Man Found Drifting on Raft

Music thing

Music thing

Mostly early synth stuff, but go read. Lots of good music history.

'Unlikeliest hero' gets 21-gun salute - U.S. Life - MSNBC.com

'Unlikeliest hero' gets 21-gun salute - U.S. Life - MSNBC.com

While under enemy fire on the island of Okinawa, Doss carried 75 wounded soldiers to the edge of a 400-foot cliff and lowered them to safety, according to his citation.

During a later attack, he was seriously wounded in the legs by a grenade. According to the citation, as he was being carried to safety, he saw a more critically injured man and crawled off his stretcher, directing the medics to help the other wounded man.

The Sound of Young America: Unearthed Monty Python Footage From 1975

The Sound of Young America: Unearthed Monty Python Footage From 1975

Need I say more?

Be a bad chemistry experiment

BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Huge blast rocks French college

Outlived the Empire

United Press International - NewsTrack - Clive's tortoise dies at age 255

That tortoise outlived the British Empire. He was around basically before it began and died long after it ended.

tomatoes are evil

tomatoes are evil

I pretty much agree.

Point

The Blog | Cenk Uygur: Three Crazy Things Democratic Politicians Believe | The Huffington Post:

"The Republican base believes they are going to get sucked up into the air by the Jesus Hoover vacuum during the Rapture. That they are literally going to be sucked up into the sky! And the liberals are the crazy ones?"

MC Hammer Blog

MC Hammer Blog

It's uh... pretty good for a "celeblog"

Maybe not.

Jack Daws | Seattle -- Charging a lot for art;)

Brian G. points out that the fries and ketchup statue may not have anything to do with the Twin Towers.

And then they were knocked down by a Rose of Mohhamed Pastry

Boing Boing: Twin Towers model made from McDonalds fries and ketchup

Artist Jack Daws recreated the World Trade Center towers out of a bunch of McDonalds freedom fries glued together with ketchup.

Still v-stalking Drew with Gawker Stalker

Gawker Stalker: Breaking! Liev Schreiber Caught Canoodling with Old Man at Noho Star - Gawker:

"Saw Lucy Liu, Fab, and Drew Barrymore downstairs at Bond Street Saturday night. Fab crashed into me, then I crashed into the cheap dividers and he proceeded to apologize profusely. Lucy looked adorable—clear skin and great hair. Drew had on a wrap dress of sorts matched with a French twist sorta thing. Surprisingly conservative."

Since I posted this from an Apple machine perhaps it should be iStalking.

I wanna be in pictures!

Hollywood By The Numbers - February 28, 2006

Movietime

CNN.com - Dad 'drugged children's tennis rivals' - Mar 1, 2006

Support Strong Juries

American Jury Institute/Fully Informed Jury Association: Home


You did know that when serving on a jury you can find someone not guilty if you conscientiously object with the law that they are charged with breaking right?

Yes you can. It's called jury nullification, and it's roots go all the way back to the Magna Carta.

Nick Denton buys fark.com

/that is all

That's human

LUCYlibrary: J. Edgar Hoover's Fan Letter to Lucille Ball

J. Edgar Hoover writing a fanboy letter to Lucille Ball about "last Mondays" I Love Lucy. (I do love Lucy BTW. I think she's the most beautiful woman "Hollywood" has ever produced.)

Link via Boing Boing

Pauly is live blogging the LA Poker Classic

Tao of Poker: Pauly's Poker Blog

Everyone else in poker blogdom is mentioning it. So have a redundant link.

Funk for the funkless

Stanford tree mascot fired for alleged basketball game drunkenness:

"A rowdy Stanford University mascot was fired after being discovered drunk during a basketball game, university officials said.
Fifth-year senior Erin Lashnits, who dresses as a tree for the university's irreverent band, was stripped of her duties last week after her blood-alcohol level was measured at 0.157 during a men's basketball game at the University of California, Berkeley. For the purposes of driving a vehicle in California, legally drunk is .08.
Stanford went on to lose the Feb. 9 game 65-62.
The university had previously placed the band on 'alcohol suspension,' which requires a zero-tolerance policy toward drunkenness, said band spokesman Sam Urmy. Lashnits was fired to avoid disciplinary penalties from the athletic department, Urmy said.
'We don't want to risk our core mission of rocking out and bringing funk to the funkless,' Urmy said."

And later Disco Stu was seeing seen attempting to hang himself.

The Volokh Conspiracy

Illinois Student Newspaper Editors Suspended for Running the Danish Cartoons

That's not cool.

Good idea

The Paparazzi Have Taught Us So Much | A Socialite's Life:

"Madonna takes the cake for most clever. She often rides her bike in the exact same clothing, minimizing the number of photos the paparazzi can sell."

CIA officer looks at the USA vs. USSR

NO QUARTER: National Security: The Attack on the Constitution

Which country is he describing?

"The government was always right and never apologized;

Any dissent was suppressed, ridiculed, banned or worse;

Secret prisons were denied and never acknowledged or spoken about;

The torture of captives (in Lubyanka) was condoned;

State incarceration was not subject to the checks and balances of a legal system;

Economic plans, like for oil, were established/determined in closed sessions between politicos, commissars and production managers, far outside public view, and where government claimed privilege in so doing;

Wages were set at the lowest common denominator, no matter what Bloc country you were in;

Government agents had access to your medical records, your library records, your telephone, and your e-mail.

A place where judicial power and judicial review were proclaimed concepts, but simply ignored in application;

Where criminal records of young adults were closed to all but the military;

Where a Constitution was a mere facade and ignored by state actors.

Any dissent, debate and protest were deemed unpatriotic;

The public media was bought, paid for, and provided by the state;

The military clandestinely and shamelessly influenced the national media and public opinion;

A place where wrong was declared right;

Where tapping a phone was like tapping a pencil;

Where lying was considered a patriotic skill;

The extraction of natural resources was paramount to any concern for the environment and the impact on the health of its people;

Where the use of “state secrets,” (those things embarrassing to the government) were confused with legitimate issues of “national security”;

A place where 'secrecy' and 'national security' were used to control debate;

Where legitimate secrecy, was subject to political use and abuse;

Where 'legislators' were mere mouthpieces for and rubberstamps of whoever was in power;

Where you lived and died with the permission of the government;

A place where foreign policy was more important than domestic concerns;

Where fear was used as a political weapon and an acceptable means of control;

Where the best medical care was reserved for the influential;

Where wealth was concentrated in the top 5%;

A place where there was no middle class - just a small economic and political elite, and the working poor."

You scored as Moya (Farscape). You are surrounded by muppets. But that is okay because they are your friends and have shown many times that they can be trusted. Now if only you could stop being bothered about wormholes.Your Ultimate Sci-Fi Profile II: which sci-fi crew would you best fit in? (pics)
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Hunting illegally and badly

KRT Wire | 02/13/2006 | Cheney and shooting victim were hunting illegally, officials say:

"DALLAS - Vice President Dick Cheney was hunting illegally - without the required $7 stamp on his license for quail - when he accidentally shot one of his hunting partners, Texas Parks and Wildlife officials said Monday.

And so was Harry Whittington, 78, who was recovering Monday from a shotgun blast to the face, neck and chest."

Prince shredding your face off

Never been much of Prince fan, but props is due.

Breathtakingly Stupid

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Digital film: Industry answers:

"No, it is not correct to assume that one clever hack dooms all use of DRM. Content owners use DRMs because it provides casual, honest users with guidelines for using and consuming content based on the usage rights that were acquired. Without the use of DRMs, honest consumers would have no guidelines and might eventually come to totally disregard copyright and therefore become a pirate, resulting in great harm to content creators."
--Dan Glickman MPAA president

In one fell swoop Dan Glickman shows that all DRM is simply meant to annoy honest customers.

Informed Comment

Cheney Authorized Libby to Disclose Classified Documents

Ya the header is old (obvious) news now, but check out the way Juan Cole lays out the story visually. He connects the dots in a way that even a reporter (for example) could understand.

Sort of a Boing Boing for the ages

Proceedings of the Athanasius Kircher Society

Looks at "Wonderful Things" from the past.

esr on telco deregulation

Armed and Dangerous -- Blog Archive -- Un-ending the Internet

Deregulate and let the telcos have their tiered pricing — as long as we also deregulate enough radio spectrum that the telcos (evil monopolist scum that they are) will promptly be hammered flat by wireless mesh networks.

Right

Chatology: Digesting the Sunday Spew - Wonkette:

"The “cartoon controversy,” which always sounds like it should be about Bill O’Reilly but it’s not. --Ana Marie Cox"

He could be President

Pellicano Wiretap Indictment - February 6, 2006

Unclaimed Territory - by Glenn Greenwald

Unclaimed Territory - by Glenn Greenwald: "

Of course Gonzales begins his Opening Statement by quoting Osama bin Laden and Zawahri. We used to quote Madison, Jefferson and Lincoln to decide what the principles of our Government are going to be. Now we quote Al Qaeda. The Administration wants Al Qaeda and its speeches to dictate the type of Government we have. It is the centerpiece of everything they do and say."

Yep

Eschaton:

Iranistan
The other night during the SOTU when I was at CAP Action Fund with Sam Seder I was on for a bit with Amy Sullivan from the Washington Monthly. Seder asked us both to name the biggest threat to the Republic, aside from George Bush and Dickey Cheney. Sullivan responded, with all seriousness, Iran.

Look, I just don't get this stuff. I don't want Iran to have nukes. I don't think that's a good thing for the world. I certainly didn't want Pakistan or India to have nukes. But is a nuclear Iran really a threat to us? Certainly an Iran-with-nukes could blow the hell out of a city or two, but an Iran that did such a thing would pretty much cease to exist. It isn't mutually assured destruction, it's you fuck with us a little bit and YOU NO LONGER LIVE BITCHES!"

Hmm... funny

tekjansen.com - Chapter 1 - Once Again, Brave Warrior, Forth Into the Breach

President Creates Cabinet-Level Position To Coordinate Scandals | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

President Creates Cabinet-Level Position To Coordinate Scandals | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

Bribe Your Senator With An iPod! - Consumerist

Bribe Your Senator With An iPod! - Consumerist

How "Christ, What an Asshole!" is the Answer to the New Yorker Magazine Caption Contest

How "Christ, What an Asshole!" is the Answer to the New Yorker Magazine Caption Contest

Alito Breaks w/ Conservative Block... not really.

Alito parts with conservatives on execution

False alarm. Here's why:

Last month, the court said it would use the case of a Florida death-row inmate to decide whether last-minute challenges can be brought under the federal civil rights law to the drugs used in lethal injection.

The court appears to be holding cases that raise the same issue until it hears arguments and rules on the issue, which is expected by the end of June.

The three justices that voted to allow the execution need to get their heads out of there asses.