Musings of a Chicagoan

• xkcd » Blog Archive » Washington’s Farewell Address Translated into Everyday Speech
  “It also opens the door to other countries getting a hand in our system, since they can reach in through the party structure, and then we just become their puppets.”
  (tags: interesting government food4thought insightful)
• “Free speech zones” on campuses — the government’s now-routine censorship is adopted by corporate and state agencies. Just what I feared.
  (tags: censorship whaddafuck dumbfuck fascist)
• InformationWeek: Shrinkwrap Licenses: An Epidemic Of Lawsuits Waiting To Happen
  “We seem to have sunk to a kind of playground system of forming contracts. Tag, you agree!”
  (tags: copyleft insightful food4thought corporatism)
• Apple and the Beatles to Stop Bitching at Each Other
  “Apple® Inc. and The Beatles’ company Apple Corps Ltd. are pleased to announce the parties have entered into a new agreement concerning the use of the name “Apple” and apple logos which replaces their 1991 Agreement.”
  (tags: music apple food4thought cool goodideas)
• A cool thing about the “miracle fruit,” a berry forbidden to Americans by the FDA that transforms the taste of bitter fruit.
  (tags: interesting weird cool)
• Orlando Sentinel: Space shuttle astronaut arrested on attempted kidnapping, battery charges
  “Her arrest may be the first-ever felony charges filed on an active-duty astronaut, according to the space agency.”
  (tags: whaddafuck holy_shit oh_shit hysterical weird space)

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