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22
Jul

from the aether

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Nothing to see here. Just a test of the new Wordpress iPhone app.
And now testing an edit.

23
May

give again

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Having received my stimulus check, it’s time to do this again. Between now and the end of June, make a donation to either the Atlanta Community Food Bank or your own local food bank and I will match the donation. If you can’t donate money, but can donate food, I’ll match that as [...]

14
Apr

forget the orphans

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Ok people, when even super-sharer Cory Doctorow says the “orphan works” brouhaha is bs, it’s time to stop spreading it around. (Go download and read his books instead.)

4
Apr

bush did something right

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Figured that title would get more attention than pointing out that Sunday is National Tartan Day a.k.a. Forget Those Drunken Catholics, Let’s Celebrate an Ethnic Group to be Proud Off Day (I kid, I kid) (mostly). See back in 1998 the Senate declared April 6th to be National Tartan Day. The House followed [...]

17
Mar

i for one welcome him

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NASA has now assembled our first space robot overlord:
Two spacewalking astronauts attached 11-foot arms to the international space station’s huge new robot Sunday, preparing the giant machine for its handyman job on the orbital outpost.

Dextre — short for dexterous and pronounced like Dexter — has seven joints per arm and can pivot at the waist. [...]