a commenter @ Firedoglake on how the authoritarian right doesn’t get the internets:
The top down thing is becoming a bit of a handicap now that the head has rotted clean off.
Month: May 2007
links for 2007-05-22
a cheerful sight
cameraphone grab from the car window.
Maybe Jan 20 2009 is just another day
Looks like W reserves the right to occupy the White House as long as he feels it to be necessary.
Bush To Be Dictator In A Catastrophic Emergency:
The Bush administration has released a directive called the National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive. […] In this directive, Bush declares that in the event of a “Catastrophic Emergency” the President will be entrusted with leading the activities to ensure constitutional government. The language in this directive would in effect make the President a dictator in the case of such an emergency.
He’s willing to burn the Constitution in order to save it.
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links for 2007-05-21
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A friend has a bumpersticker that reads “Never thought I’d miss Nixon.” Who ever dreamed we’d regret Ashcroft leaving government?
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The American Taliban bemoans its victimhood: this world of anti-religious bigotry is one I am not familiar with, but Newt Gingrich says its impossible to miss.
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“Any author who wants infinite copyright must first make a royalty payment to this fund, based on the number of ideas from the general culture that are going into the author’s work, with fixed fees like the mechanical license system musicians use for co
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The TSA confiscates a congressman’s food supply: “It’s not like I can just go to Safeway and grab another jar. I have .33 cents and a bag of cornmeal to last today and tomorrow.”
links for 2007-05-20
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Yuck. Are there any ethically sound products from China? Melamine-laced pet food, poisoned toothpaste, and unsustainable harvesting.
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Now remind me again how to distinguish National Review from the Onion?
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or buying in? I don’t know what makes someone like Costello become a car pitchman — does he need the money? Since I’ll never see the ad, does it ruin his music for me? I don’t think so.
Mozy update
So far, a couple of folks have signed up and are using Mozy for their backups (thanks for using me as a referral).
How does it work for you? My impressions are pretty good: it seems to be a lot faster at restores than it was a couple of weeks back. I am currently doing a couple of tests of selective restores to see how it works with that, before I pony up for the unlimited plan and back up other systems here. At $4.95 per system, I need to make sure it’s really necessary. It adds up. I could back up locally to a central system (as I do now) then back that up, so I get all my backups done as one system. But I suspect I’ll do at least two.
Comments welcome, especially if you’re not finding it to meet your requirements. I’d like to know if I have missed something important 😉
links for 2007-05-19
links for 2007-05-18
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Maples falling victim to backwoods thieves
gas prices to spike? Like a buck a gallon?
from a mailing list I get:
Daughter does market analysis, she called long
distance to warn me that oil just jumped $3.00 a
barrel, Gas prices are expected to pass $4.60 by
Friday morning. If you have a gas can, I suggest you
fill it. Oil Stocks will go crazy. She fears it may
jmp more then a dollar, as something huge is going on
in the middle east.
Interesting. Wonder what has happened/is happening?