i tell everyone the EFF is “like the ACLU for the Internet.”
mike had a great quip. he called it “amnesty international for nerds.”
the seattle freeze
matt pointed me at a really interesting article in The Seattle Times: Pacific Northwest Magazine.
I don’t think the behaviour they describe is unique to Seattle.
But the dichotomy most fundamental to our collective civic character is this: Polite but distant. Have a nice day. Somewhere else.
“People here don’t ever just hang out — there’s no time for that — but those are the times you really get to know people.”
Any attempt to socialize begins to feel like too much effort, he says. “You have to try to get together 10 times before someone doesn’t cancel.”
People here . . . they totally blow you off. And these are good friends, right? They just don’t call you. It’s unbelievable.â€
California has its share of flakes, too.
microformats
new site explaining microformats. rah.
idiot TSA agent confiscates car key
SCOTUS blows eminent domain decision
The US supreme court said your city can give your land to developers. In her scathing dissent, O’Connor wrote:
Any property may now be taken for the benefit of another private party, but the fallout from this decision will not be random. The beneficiaries are likely to be those citizens with disproportionate influence and power in the political process, including large corporations and development firms.
AP: “She was joined in her opinion by Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, as well as Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas.”
hilary’s gender identity crisis?
not getting the job
ami says this is hella funny.
sophie vs roomba
sudanese currency
Sudanese currency is printed on plain paper with very inconsistent color and image quality, and has no security features — not even serial numbers. How does that work? Because anyone who counterfeits will be put in front of a firing squad and shot.
phantom menace reviewed
ouch:
Rather to my surprise, The Phantom Menace was every bit as bad as I remembered. I thought that perhaps it had gotten worse in my memory, but, nope: it’s full-on travesty. The saddest thing is that the first 10 minutes of the film are very promising, making minutes 11-138 all the more tragic, like spotting a $100 bill on the sidewalk, bending over to pick it up, and having a piano dropped on you.