Month: January 2004

AOL Presidential Match Guide:

According to this fine guide, Kucinich is my man.

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Hmm, I just re-enabled the Technorati plugin to automagically insert the names and URLs of sites that link here, and sadly I note there are but four. This is a byproduct of acquiring a domain instead of sailing under the no-ip.org flag of convenience . . . .

The Technorati Link Cosmos to the old URL is a little healthier: 23 Inbound Blogs, 29 Inbound Links.

Ah, well. If you are linking to my old URL, I’d appreciate it if you could re-point the link. I can use all the street cred I can get.

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Anti-Monopoly:
Apparently, that’s how it originated . . . but as things played out, that’s not how most of us learned about it.

“To begin with, the Monopoly game, in its original form, was called “The Landlord’s Game.” It was invented and patented in 1903 by Lizzie J. Magie, a follower of Henry George and his single-tax theory, as a means of teaching the evils of exploitation by landlords and the capitalist business system prevalent in America.
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One evening in 1932 an unemployed salesman, Clarence B. Darrow, joined the Atlantic City Quakers for a Monopoly game session. Recognizing the commerical potential of the game, and unsympathetic to the Quakers’ view that it was not meant to be used for profit-making, Darrow copied the board and presented it to the president of Parker Brothers, Robert Barton, as his (Darrow’s) own invention.”

via Rogue Semiotics

There seems to be some evidence in support of that argument.

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joar.com > Using encryption and digital signatures in Mail:

“Q: The keychain will not import a certificate because “The specified item already exists in the keychain”.
A: This is most likely because the certificate about to be added has the same email address as a certificate already in the Keychain. Inspect the imported certificates in the Keychain Access application to verify if this is the case or not.
If you have certificates for more than one email address, you possibly requested and, or downloaded the same certificate more than once.
Also, you might be exporting a certificate file from Mozilla with more than one certificate, where the Keychain already contains an identical certificate. “

Now, I had a couple of problems with this since all my keys are currently labelled as “Thawte Freemail Member.” But as you can see in the bottom pane, it’s possible to see what email address you’ve associated with a given key.

Toggle the “trust settings” widget . . . .

The step-by-step tutorial offered here is well worth reading. I think his idea of linking .Mac accounts with a certificate is a great idea and a good way to get this idea into more widespread, ie, not just for geeks, use.

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