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Falwell Controversy Timeline
Ahh. Wonder who will take his place to continue the divisive self-righteous condemnations? What will we all do… There is a short timeline of many of the controversial public incidents with …
Seattle City Light Billing Scam Warning
This kind of thing was going on long before “phishing” was coined. It’s the same thing in a different technology medium. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Scott Thomsen April 25, 2007 …
Hitchens And Hannity On The Hot Seat
This is pretty funny, to Hannity: “You seem to have never read any of the arguments against your viewpoint”. Hannity’s immediate response was, “Yes I have. I’ve read them …
The ACLU defends YOUR rights too
This is also one that puzzles me. I think it is primarily that some people dislike some of the causes that the ACLU has taken up (e.g. against ridiculous religious wackos trying to instill their brand …
Another Nail In Quot Abstinence Only Education Quot Coffin
Abstinence Education Does Not Impact Sexual Beahvior A recent study of four abstinence education programs finds that the programs had no effect on the sexual abstinence of youth. But it also finds …
Craigslist Hoax Lures People To Destroy Woman'S House
Boing Boing: Craigslist hoax ad leads to destroyed home This happened in Washington. I couldn’t believe it when I heard about it and now it’s made it to Boing Boing. Scary.
The Pagan Origins of Easter
The next time some religious person tries to say that there is some secular conspiracy around religious holidays and that the common secular symbols, such as the Easter bunny, Santa Claus, etc. are …
Phrases Sayings And Idioms
1200 phrases and sayings and their origins! They also have fun categories, like fallacies (misattributed quotes, etc.) Sayings and Phrases - meanings and origins Of course, I have 3 books on the …
In Other Sysadmin News
-news I also finally started using the excellent PromoteThis plugin to create the nice links to digg. Also, I had to install the MTStripControlChars plugin, but an updated one from an entry at the …
New Wider Stylesheet For Juxtaposition
I just finally fixed my modified Vixburg style for Movable Type so that it makes use of wider browsers. Many times, quotes or pictures or preformatted text get chopped by the small center column. I …