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Converting Text From Unicode To Ascii
Just had to convert some text files from Unicode to ASCII and used Vim to do it: Open each file and notice that vim says [converted] at the bottom, indicating that it has transparently opened the …
A Fallacy By Any Other Name
But this here herring is so obviously red at Pandagon I love the way they cut through the bullshit in this argument and reveal the naked fallacy underpinning it. It is a shame when proponents use the …
Bizarre Notepad Bug
27B Stroke 6 Bizarre notepad bug that really exists. If you type a phrase consisting of a 4 letter word, then two three letter words, then a 5 letter word, save it, then reopen it, the text will be …
US Senate Bigot Roll Call
U.S. Senate: Legislation & Records Home > Votes > Roll Call Vote From the results of the Gay Marriage Ban cloture vote (read: write discrimination into the constitution), we get a nice list …
Death Tax Dead
U.S. Senate blocks permanent estate tax repeal|Reuters.com This was a stunning setback: 57-41 against. Awesome. I’m not happy about the additional tax cuts but at least our federal coffers …
Olbermann Rips Coulter A New One
Olbermann slams Coulter: Shameless Coulter’s hate and hypocrisy are f*ing sickening. Olbermann uses her own words and positions to destroy her and adds some choice ones of his own.
Ceos Have All The Luck
The Big Picture: CEO Options: Luck – or something else? Great summary of a WSJ article showing surprising “coincidences” in CEO stock options being set at a very low point in the …
Worst President EVER -- more proof
Daily Kos: 29 Percent A new low for Bush, and this country.
Call Your Phone Company
Daily Kos: ACTION ALERT: Tell ATT, Verizon, Cingular, SBC NO NSA SPYING! I called Verizon Wireless and they said that it was not them, but the parent Verizon, which is the subject and that VZW does …
Telco liability could be staggering
Think Progress: Telcos Could Be Liable For Tens of Billions of Dollars For Illegally Turning Over Phone Records