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Presidential Candidate Compass
Electoral Compass is a handy Flash-based tool that asks you 25 or so questions to determine where you fall on the compass of political positions with relation to the existing presidential candidates. Not knowing much about the politics of individual candidates, it was a handy to use this tool to get an idea of where I [...]
Continue reading...Zeitgeist: Christianity, 911 and The Federal Reserve
Monday, December 31, 2007
NOTE: This post may offend people that are religiously oriented, in the military or otherwise find yourself aligned with the policies of the Bush administration. … a few weeks ago we blogged about the Bilderberg Group and World Domination. To summarize, the Bilderberg group is a private, highly secretive group of 100 or so of the [...]
Continue reading...Election 2008 Candidate Positions on Science & Technology
Sunday, December 23, 2007
Popular Mechanics put together a pretty bad-ass chart of the 2008 presidential candidate’s stances on Science and Technology. You can keep it handy as a reference when voting time comes around along with the 2008 Presidential Quick Reference Guide.
Continue reading...The Bilderberg Group and World Domination
Thursday, December 20, 2007
Buckle-up, this is a long one and it’s juicy! Tin-Foil-Hat Wednesday Presents… The Bilderberg Group and World Domination! I love conspiracies theories, and not just the theory itself, but tracking down pieces to it. Sort of like an Indiana Jones movie… except completely sedentary. So anyone I went on a recent internet adventure and had some fun [...]
Continue reading...HP Printer Ink Class Action Lawsuit
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Ars has the scoop on a Boston man who is sick and tired of walking into a office supply store and paying $30+ dollars for ink for his printer. This was discussed years ago on Slashdot before we had sites like Digg and social networking was all the buzz. At the time the discussion was made [...]
Continue reading...Ubuntu Dev Gets MPAA Univ “Toolkit” Taken Down
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
Ok for those that didn’t know about this, the MPAA released what they were calling the “University Toolkit” a few weeks ago. It was a customized version of Ubuntu, that sits on your network, sniffs all your traffic and reports all the information it finds using a standard Apache install with logs, charts, diagrams, etc. [...]
Continue reading...Austin Cop Tazes Driver, Austin Apologizes
Sunday, December 2, 2007
This is a pretty cool turn of events. In this video, Cpl. Thomas O’Connor (white) stops Eugene Snelling (black) for going 70 in a 65. O’Connor approaches Snelling’s window and asks for a license and registration, when Snelling asks why he was stopped and then 1 other question, O’Connor begins yelling “LICENSE AND REGISTRATION!”. Snelling [...]
Continue reading...White House Ordered to Disclose Tel-Com Ties
Thursday, November 29, 2007
It seems under the Freedom of Information Act, a judge has ordered that the Bush Administration reveal it’s relationship with the tel-com industry and lobbyists. There is also mention that the White House agreed to release the information on December 31st, which is naturally after it would have voted and passed the FISA bill. Who wants to [...]
Continue reading...NASA Scientists Refuse Giving Up Privacy
Thursday, November 29, 2007
Interesting story on Slashdot about how NASA JPL scientists have been “asked” to sign a privacy agreement to relinquish all privacy from their employer and allow investigation into their personal lives “without limit”. Apparently 28 senior level scientists refused to sign the document by the deadline and are blogging about the progress in real time as [...]
Continue reading...Copyright Law Reform
Monday, November 26, 2007
Bruce Schneier linked to a paper written by John Tehranian titled: “Infringement Nation: Copyright Reform and the Law/Norm Gap“. The most interesting part of the paper is more or less captured on Bruce’s blog where John takes copyright law and applies it literally to a very normal scenario for some John Doe author that ends [...]
Continue reading...Google Refuses to Run Impeachment Ad
Sunday, November 18, 2007
Laurence Hartje just sent in news of a story Daily Kos is running on an Ad that Google refused to run in their AdSense network. The ad is as follows: Help Impeach Cheney NOW Nonpartisan, the time is here. House JC 202-225-3951 Demand ACTION YaliesorImpeachment.org Google’s response as to why it wouldn’t run the ad was as follows: “At this time, Google [...]
Continue reading...2/3 of NYU Would Sell Right to Vote for Scholarship
Thursday, November 15, 2007
The full quote is they would give up their right to vote in the next election for a scholarship. I wonder if that stat is that surprising? Two reasons I can think of this not being that surprising is: A lot of people felt the last 2 elections were bullshit with all the shenanigans that ensued [...]
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Humor & Funny
- Britney “Southern Gut” Spears is… Looking Good? New “Womanizer” Music Video
- Creepy Gay Kid Happy Birthday
- 82-year-old Hugh Hefner’s Heart Broken by GF Who’s, Like, “OMG what?? We won’t have kids!?”
- From the Brilliant Parenting Files… File #3
- Bill Maher Proves Non-Existence of God
- AHHHH, The Happiest Place on Earth!
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