Looking for a rally to attend? How about these? The Rally to Restore Sanity and The March to Keep Fear Alive will both be held in D.C. on October 30, presumably very nearby one another. Real or fakey? The idea alone is enough to restore your faith in humanity just a little. From the Stewart […]
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What He Said
Charles P. Pierce advising calm in the face of in this whole Christine O’Donnell thing: O’Donnell is a creature of an age in which politics have no meaning beyond performance art. She is the Creature From The Green Room, with no apparent public career beyond being available whenever some teenage booker from the cable shows […]
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Some People Have All the Luck
And some people are just idiots who deserve to get hit by trains. The video below has both kinds of people. It’s too long and the music is annoying, but that’s the Internet for ya. TL;MA. Don’t miss 5:20 and 7:55.
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Someone Elect This Man, Or There’s Going To Be Trouble
The hard-fought nomination for the Stark County, Ohio GOP’s nomination for treasurer is over now (Alex Zumbar won!), but Phil Davison wasn’t going down without a fight. Or without an insane tirade, at least. via
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EFF on Verizon/Google Net Neutrality Proposal
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has posted a nice level-headed analysis of the Google/Verizon Net Neutrality proposal. Their conclusion is that while the companies’ proposal has a few good points and points worth considering, it has some serious, troubling flaws that could be real threats to the way the Internet works in the future. Most importantly, […]
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iPhone 4: Reception is Perception
Yesterday Apple released an update to the latest version of their iOS operating system to address concerns (have you heard?!?) about the iPhone 4’s infamous “death grip” reception problems. Their fix was to change the way all versions of the iPhone calculate and display signal strength, claiming that the issue arose from the phone displaying […]
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BP Says No New Oil is Flowing into Gulf
CBS News: BP says oil from its broken well has stopped gushing into the Gulf of Mexico for the first time since April. The announcement Thursday came after company officials said all valves had been shut on a new cap over the busted well in an experiment to stop the spill. Kent Wells, a BP […]
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Palin: Government Not Solving Your Oil Spill Problems? Try God!
Reinforcing her up-by-the-bootstraps, take-care-of-yourself, all-American, can-do, don’t-count-on-others-to-bail-you-out position on life, Sarah Palin says we’ve exhausted our options to fix the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, there’s nothing to do now but pray to the invisible sky government to help us. The Louisiana legislature has also done their part to end this crisis, passing a resolution calling […]
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Apple Announces iPhone 4
Apple revealed the we-already-knew-about-it iPhone4 at their annual developer conference in California this morning. It has basically everything we had already heard about the phone that Gizmodo famously (and allegedly feloniously) revealed: • A4 chip (that means it fast as balls)• Front-facing camera• Flash (no, not that one, the kind for lighting up photos.)• 5 […]
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Google Chrome Is Fast
Yesterday Google released the latest beta of its Chrome browser. It’s wicked fast. Much cooler, though, are these awesome speed tests they put together. They show that Chrome is nearly as fast or faster than lightning, pink paint accelerated via sound waves, and potatoes.* Here’s the also-interesting making of video. To quote @gruber: “You can […]
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Arizona: The Hits Just Keep On Coming
The Arizona legislature continues its important work. The Arizona state Senate on Thursday passed a bill making it illegal for a person to “intentionally or knowingly creating a human-animal hybrid.” The bill, which passed 16 to 12, would prohibit anyone in the state from “creating or attempting to create an in vitro human embryo by […]
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Keep Digging, Arizona
Wow. After making national headlines for a new law on illegal immigrants, the Arizona Legislature passed a bill Thursday that would ban ethnic studies programs in the state that critics say currently advocate separatism and racial preferences. The bill, which passed 32-26 in the state House, had been approved by the Senate a day earlier. […]