August 2008
Dozens Detained Ahead of Convention - NYTimes.com →
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I guess we shouldn’t be surprised.
On the weekend before the Republican National Convention, law enforcement agencies detained dozens of people and issued a series of search…
http://twitpic.com/9iaw - Live from the *historic* Stonewall Inn Bar. 1st time here & history happened here.
It’d be fun to see Tina Fey pop up on SNL playing AK Gov. Palin.
laceandflora: All for you. →
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[Sad] Doubleplusgood. Bush quietly seeks to keep... →
The Raw Story
Sarah Palin's Wikipedia page scrubbed [Journalist... →
NPR reports that someone edited Sarah Palin’s Wikipedia page Friday just before the word got out that she was John McCain’s pick for a running mate. The edits were obviously made to make Palin…
ONE THING THAT IS TRUE ABOUT MCCAIN'S VP... →
ONE THING THAT IS TRUE ABOUT MCCAIN’S VP SELECTION of Sarah Palin, AND SOMETHING Democrats are perhaps unused to, IT REVEALS just how much Obama/Biden are in charge of this conversation. That is…
Matt Haughey on Weblog Comments →
Matt Haughey: I have a feeling that if you’ve only seen blogs in the past five years (which is probably 95+ percent of people reading blogs today) you consider comments to be de rigueur and they…
http://twitpic.com/9i4t - Ping Pong, chess @ Fat Cat Jazz Bar
http://twitpic.com/9hkg - At 1849. Cheap, tasty wings + beer.
Retweeting @marlaerwin “If we do not elect Barack Obama, then we do not deserve him.” (thx @veektor)
Also this music (at least on PBS) belongs in a commercial for WoW or somesuch thing. WTF is this?
okay, I’m off to bed…meeting tomorrow where I have to be able to function and present some ideas for getting sales up on our site. ‘night.
I LOL’d and agree…Retweeting @jonndailey: Fucking epic. Unbelievably epic.
Was trying to hit Shift-S to share and item and accidentally hit Shift-A + declared RSS bancruptcy. It’s kinda nice, though.
I hope the world is watching Obama right now. We can be better than the last eight years. We can be a positive influence again. Obama = hope
Comcast To Roll out Monthly Usage Cap →
Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA), the country’s largest broadband provider, is rolling out restrictions on its service usage, and subscribers whose use of the Internet exceeds 250 GB of data a month will…
Lindsay Lohan lashes out at father on blog →
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lol
Lindsay Lohan had words for her father on her blog.
pearlsandtea: Some lovely and adorable photos for... →
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syntheticpubes - (via jacobd) →
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work hard + be nice to people →
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Text of Obama's Acceptance Speech →
America, we cannot turn back. Not with so much work to be done. Not with so many children to educate, and so many veterans to care for. Not with an economy to fix and cities to rebuild and farms…
here we go! #obama #dnc
Will Obama’s speach be streaming live in FLASH anywhere? Don’t want to install *another* plugin. #dnc #obama
Enough! —Barack Obama
"‘Namaste’…is a lovely way, in my humble opinion,... →
“‘Namaste’…is a lovely way, in my humble opinion, to acknowledge that we’re all doing the very best we can at this moment.” - Jaimie Epstein in Sunday’s “On Language.”
Wendy made steak, chicken, salad, and pasta for lunch! She’s a good cook. Also, I love my job.
Judges Question Whether National Security Letters... →
The Patriot Act allows the FBI to issue “National Security Letters” to ISPs and other organizations, seeking information on users of those service providers — with an automatic gag order forbidding…
No "Preacher" for you. →
No “Preacher” for you. Many of you did not think a “Preacher” miniseries would end well. Would fans prefer to be disappointed by the aborted attempt at an adaptation than disappointed at its not…
The Internet's Biggest Security Hole Revealed →
At DEFCON, Tony Kapela and Alex Pilosov demonstrated a drastic weakness in the Internet’s infrastructure that had long been rumored, but wasn’t believed practical. They showed how to hijack BGP (the…
#13286 - Crate and Barrel's Taka Trunk ~ aka... →
Crate and Barrel’s Taka Trunk ~ aka Pirate Coffee Table Bar? (Want more? See NOTCOT.org and NOTCOT.com)
California's Wireless Road Tolls Easily... →
An anonymous reader writes “Nate Lawson, a researcher at RootLabs, has found a way to clone the wireless transponders used by the Bay Area FasTrak road toll system. This means you can copy the ID of…
WHITE TRASH CUISINE: Kraft Dinner and Tuna Sauce →
this dish is so good I will never renounce it. t must have been a back-of-the-box recipe at some point, but I’ve never heard of it outside my family. My mom made it all the time when my brothers and…
Cleaning slippers →
As someone who’s lived in no-shoes-allowed-in-the-house Asian environments, I love the idea of the bottom of your shoes being a cleaning element rather than a filth-attracting dirt magnet; at…
California's Wireless Road Tolls Easily... →
An anonymous reader writes “Nate Lawson, a researcher at RootLabs, has found a way to clone the wireless transponders used by the Bay Area FasTrak road toll system. This means you can copy the ID of…
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LHC Fully Documented Online →
Physicser writes “Want to read every single technical detail of the design and construction of the Large Hadron Collider and its six detectors? The whole shebang — seven reports totaling 1600 pages,…
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okay…off to bed
Fake following →
This is a little bit genius. One of the new features of FriendFeed (a Twitter-like thingie) is “fake following”. That means you can friend someone but you don’t see their updates. That way, it…
[Asinine] Yesterday on Meet the Press, Tom Brokaw... →
MSNBC
Ban on gay adoption cleared for Arkansas ballot. →
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@Arkansas: really?!
A ballot initiative “aimed at effectively banning gays and lesbians from becoming foster or adoptive parents” was cleared to appear on this fall’s ballot in…
I think Nancy Pelosi is brave to take Qs on Digg Dialogg http://is.gd/1TQc There are some hostile questions there. It’s a Digg + CNN project
Introducing Digg Dialogg with House Speaker Nancy... →
Digg is introducing Digg Dialogg, where we take your questions and present them in front of notable people, newsmakers & the like. We’re kicking this off by interviewing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on…
[Asinine] CNN asks why TV stars don't watch TV.... →
CNN
Crowd Chants "F*ck FOX News!" live on FOX News! →
Dumb reporter walks into protesters, and unsuccessfully tries to get them to talk to him. Too bad he was from FAUX News.
Watching “2009: A True Story” Any of you ever seen it?
[Interesting] Yale Professor discovers that... →
(Colfax Record)
Diebold comes clean, admits its e-voting machines... →
For years, Diebold has embarrassed itself by claiming that obvious faults were actually not faults at all, and during the past decade or so, it mastered the act of pointing the finger. Now that it…
Help me cut costs without feeling the pinch. | Ask... →
From AskMe: “Obvious or creative—shameless or shady, even!—ways to cut costs and live cheap?” Good tips on saving money in NYC. Some good stuff in there…