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Tuesday, 31 October 2006

I am following in the footsteps of HairyAlien and Majordojo and committing to NaBloPoMo, which means I'll be posting to this blog every day in November. The idea is kind of an intentional reboot. (And besides, I've always been too chickenshit to try NaNoWriMo.)

Will you join us? Commit in the comments.

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Friday, 20 October 2006

Truly, It Is To Gag

Cory Doctorow hits all the right notes with his scathing critique of the Boy Scouts' latest move — the creation of a merit badge for "respecting copyright." You guessed it, the MPAA is behind this.

(UPDATE: Wow, I didn't know this, but apparently Penn and Teller did a whole episode of their Bullshit! TV program on how the Scouts have effectively been turned into an arm of the Mormon church over the past few decades. I'm gonna have to watch this. The story is well-known to many who have been involved in Scouting during the time period, but it's a story the mainstream media won't touch with a ten foot pole. UPDATE 2: Turns out it's not a merit badge in the original story; it's an activity badge. The distinction is important, but I shan't bore non-Scouters with the details.)

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Monday, 16 October 2006

Stuff I Read On a Crappy Monday Morning

ITEM: "The wave" that sports event crowds do — a Bay Area creation?
ITEM: Supreme Court lets stand California ruling that municipalities may respond to the discriminatory ways of the Boy Scouts of America (covered previously)
ITEM: "Results-Only Work Environment" — corporate speak for compassionate employment? (I need a ROWE job!)
ITEM: Correlation is not causation, yadda yadda, but: Does TV trigger autism?
ITEM: Neat! the_lucky_duck compares Scorsese's The Departed with Infernal Affairs (the Hong Kong flick that inspired it)

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Wednesday, 04 October 2006

Bears in the News (Special Video Edition)

Colorado Division of Wildlife officers were called to a school near Boulder on Tuesday to deal with a drunk and disorderly, bear. The wobbly bear was spotted in a neighborhood in Lyons, near Boulder, and she was having a hard time walking. Officers said the bear was probably drunk from eating fermented apples.

With video (!), so you can see for yourself: This bear was wasted!

[previous editions of Bears in the News]

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Tuesday, 03 October 2006

100 Images From Black Rock City

As happened last year, it has taken me an embarassingly long time to get my Burning Man pictures up. But here they are, at long last.

The word I've been using to describe my third Burn is "transcendent." I am still feeling the playa's effects; I am still discerning the meaning of all I encountered and experienced; I am still in a state of flux. It is mostly a happy, happy feeling.

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