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”When a species’ sole responsibility is to “get busy” and it still doesn’t bother, then we, as people who have to [go to work] every day, lose sympathy.
6 Endangered Species That Aren’t Endangered Enough - Page 2 | Cracked.com
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Google’s Chrome ToS allow company to own everything you post
From TapTheHive’s perusal of Google Chrome’s ToS:
11.1 You retain copyright and any other rights you already hold in Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services. By submitting, posting or displaying the content you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services. This license is for the sole purpose of enabling Google to display, distribute and promote the Services and may be revoked for certain Services as defined in the Additional Terms of those Services.
Lots of folks are reading this as “we get to own and do whatever we want with anything you submit through our shiny new browser.” I’m not a lawyer, but I don’t see many other ways to interpret this.
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Following an eighteen-month campaign by the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood (CCFC), Scholastic, Inc. will no longer be promoting the controversial and highly sexualized Bratz brand in schools.
“We applaud Scholastic’s decision to pull the plug on the Bratz,” said CCFC’s Director Dr. Susan Linn. “The commercially-driven, sexualized stereotypes typified by the Bratz brand have no place in schools.”
Via press release. I applaud the move too. A line on this kind of garbage needs to get drawn somewhere.
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”To Republicans who tell me they’re tired of me writing about politics. I say let’s call it even, I’m tired of you [screwing] up the country.
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”Popular hacker software includes “Comet Cursor”, “Bonzi Buddy” and “Flash”.
Is Your Son a Computer Hacker?
No joke: it’s a list of 10 questions written in 2001 that are a sure-fire way to find out whether your child is a dirty computer hacker. My favorites include calling AMD a “third-world based company who makes inferior, ‘knock-off’ copies of American processor chips,” and Quake being cited as “an online virtual reality used by hackers… where they discuss hacking and train in the use of various firearms.” Advice to petition local booksellers into banning such books as Programming with Perl and Douglas Coupland’s fictional Microserfs is equally hilarious.
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Let me make it clear: I’m pretty conservative. I grew up in the suburbs. I voted for George H.W. Bush twice, and his son once. I was disappointed when Bill Clinton won, and disappointed he couldn’t run again. […]
So you can imagine my surprise when my wife suggested we spend a Saturday morning canvassing for Obama. I have never canvassed for any candidate. But I did, of course, what most middle-aged married men do: what I was told.
My wife made me canvas for Obama; here’s what I learned | csmonitor.com
via Daniel Jalkut
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”The state of California has decided that our food has inalienable rights, but our fellow human beings do not. That is sad and shameful.
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This is a good example of what bothers me about McCain’s approach to technology. His website is now nothing but a text copy of his concession speech. There’s no video or anything, but more importantly: he isn’t continuing to use his site to talk about the rest of his work, where he’s going to go from here, or how he might try to work with Obama and his new cabinet to help bring the change that we all want to see, regardless of party affiliation, color, or economic circumstances. Technology can be a powerful tool, and I’m sure McCain’s site had no shortage of visitors. And yet, McCain’s camp has seemingly packed up shop and thrown out a perfectly useful website.
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”The Obama Administration will call on Americans to serve in order to meet the nation’s challenges. President-Elect Obama will expand national service programs like AmeriCorps and Peace Corps and will create a new Classroom Corps to help teachers in underserved schools, as well as a new Health Corps, Clean Energy Corps, and Veterans Corps. Obama will call on citizens of all ages to serve America, by developing a plan to require 50 hours of community service in middle school and high school and 100 hours of community service in college every year. Obama will encourage retiring Americans to serve by improving programs available for individuals over age 55, while at the same time promoting youth programs such as Youth Build and Head Start.
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Facebook Faced of the Day: Clever boy.
[lamebook.]
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