a crank’s progress

I was stunned to read that the Empire State of the South was imposing a de facto poll tax. Glad to see some judges remember the civil rights struggle well enough not to want to go back to those days.
Las Vegas SUN: Court Blocks Ga. Photo ID Requirement:
ATLANTA (AP) -
A federal appeals court Thursday [...]

Surfin’ Safari :
You can download nightly builds of WebKit as well as WebKit+SVG from the following URL.
http://nightly.webkit.org/builds/

Check out these nightlies: I am running the latest WebKit (Safari) and it’s much faster. It’s a month newer than the code in the 10.4.3 update, for reference.

A sample page from
“No Plot? No Problem!: A Low-Stress, High-Velocity Guide to Writing a Novel in 30 Days” (Chris Baty): the author is the chief instigator of NaNoWrimo.

According to the NYTimes OpEd page, it seems the judges most likely to pronounce an act of Congress to be unconstitutional are those generally defined as Conservative. From the birth of the nation until 1858 — 67 years — the Court struck down congressional legislation twice. The next 133 years saw occurrences about every 2 [...]

Blood is thicker than water, and much tastier.
How apropos of the date.

From a letter to the editor I sent last week: they replied with a
query for contact info which usually means they are going to run
it.
The lies didn’t start with I. Lewis Scooter Libby
and his false testimony and it’s plain they won’t end there.
But regardless of your political affiliations or your feelings about
the administration’s [...]

Apple sells a million video downloads in 20 days:
Apple just sent out a press release announcing that they’ve sold more than one million video downloads through the iTunes Music Store (they know as well as we do that sooner or later they’re going to have to change that name).
iTunes Media Store, anyone?

Technorati Tags: apple

Flickr: JPG Magazine: 1 a day, no borders, originals only:
About JPG Magazine

JPG Magazine is a quarterly printed magazine of brave new photgraphy. It’s for people who love imagemaking without attitude - the kind of photography you get when you love the moment more than the camera. It’s for photographers who have found themselves online, sharing [...]

National Novel Writing Month - NaNoWriMo:

Valuing enthusiasm and perseverance over painstaking craft, NaNoWriMo is a novel-writing program for everyone who has thought fleetingly about writing a novel but has been scared away by the time and effort involved.
Because of the limited writing window, the ONLY thing that matters in NaNoWriMo is output. It’s all about [...]

More entropy at work.
My DSL line is being flaky: actually my landline phone service is at fault. I ended up moving the DSL modem/interface into another room and pulling cable back to the Airport. Of course, I have an Airport that dates back to the 20th Century with just one Ethernet jack, so I had [...]