July 2008
28 posts
Lawmen Arpaio, Gascón a study in contrasts →
Top 10 Strangest Anti-Terrorism Patents →
June 2008
46 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-6-29) →
Dave Matthews Band
Frank Sinatra
The Beatles
Cake
Moxy Früvous
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Sens. Craig and Vitter team up to co-sponsor... →
Could this be any funnier?
Schneier on Security: CCTV Cameras →
“The funds spent on CCTV cameras would be far better spent on hiring experienced police officers.”
Agreed
$285,000 missing from Oneida firm →
That is a lot of money missing from a small business like Gary’s Auto Parts. Just goes to show it is very important to have good financial controls in place even if it is just a family company.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-6-22) →
The Fratellis
Original Cast
Dave Matthews Band
Capitol Steps
Pink Floyd
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MPAA Says No Proof Needed in P2P Copyright... →
cubicle17:
This quote is from Marie L. van Uitert, an attorney for the MPAA. Please consider this the most jaw-dropping statement I’ve heard in a long time:
Mandating [proof of copyright infringement] could thus have the pernicious effect of depriving copyright owners of a practical remedy against massive copyright infringement in many instances
Translation: proving that the people we sue...
Cops pay 3 a.m. visit to tell man his door is... →
Unfortunately, somebody will spin this to indicate the police are out of control and violated this man’s right to be secure in his house. What they will forget to mention is this:
“The officers told Molde his garage door was open, the TV was on, the keys to his truck were left in the ignition and the door to his house was ajar.”
I certainly would want the police to check up...
“The pipeline has now become a meeting ground and “coffee klatch” for the caribou”
– The Big Question
SensibleUnits.com →
Convert boring units to real objects as you type
200 lbs = 18 average domestic cats
LEGO Collector: A Catalog of Every LEGO Set... →
This I must get. It is a need not a desire.
Behind the scenes of `The Colbert Report' →
“The Colbert Report” has been working this way, more or less, since it debuted on Oct. 17, 2005. The show began with what might still be its biggest success—the coining of the term “truthiness.” The term, which means a truth one feels in the gut rather than learns in books, was a home run in the first at bat that Colbert calls the “thesis statement” to...
lonelysandwich - Why Me? →
Signs do, however, point clearly to Apple steering away from consumer as creator of data and toward consumer as data itself. I no longer create the data I sync, the data isme and it syncs on its own.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-6-15) →
The Beatles
Silversun Pickups
Original Cast
Rhythm Heritage
Mel Tormé
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DesMoinesRegister.com | Parkersburg Tornado: the... →
Awesome Google Maps mashup of video and pictures of devastation after tornados. The before and after pictures just took my breath away.
Why gas in the U.S. is so cheap →
Excellent and interesting article. Worthy of a read.
Blackwater's Private Spies →
An ever increasing concern over the activities of Blackwater. At what point is too much privatization too much? I would saw we have reached that point. The employees for Blackwater and similar companies like DynCorp are by extension, Federal employees in all but official title. They have no accountability to anyone - much less the taxpayers.
The Inexact Science Behind D.M.C.A. Takedown... →
“The paper finds that there is a serious flaw in how these trade groups finger reported file-sharers. It also suggests that some people might be getting improperly accused of sharing copyrighted content, and could even be purposely framed by other users.”
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-6-8) →
Dave Matthews Band
KT Tunstall
Acappella
Moxy Früvous
Kaiser Chiefs
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WatchFrom another angle.
WatchBad day at the office
Schneier on Security: The War on Photography →
“Given that real terrorists, and even wannabe terrorists, don’t seem to photograph anything, why is it such pervasive conventional wisdom that terrorists photograph their targets? Why are our fears so great that we have no choice but to be suspicious of any photographer?
Because it’s a movie-plot threat”
Liberty City Police Face Allegations Of... →
“Since the surge in crime, which began on April 28 at midnight, more than 830,000 civilians have been murdered—nearly one-tenth of Liberty City’s total population.”
tuneage: Bo Diddley - “Before You Accuse Me...
Man banned from jet for Transformers T-shirt | The... →
tuneage: The Ting Tings - “That’s Not My Name” ...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-6-1) →
Vanguard
cnet.com
Les Miserables: 10th Anniversary Cast
The King’s Singers
Acappella
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