Musings of a Chicagoan

• “Last fall, Cheuvront granted a motion by defense attorneys barring the use of the words rape, sexual assault, victim, assailant, and sexual assault kit from the trial of Pamir Safi—accused of raping Tory Bowen in October 2004.”
  WTF?!?!?!
  (tags: dumbfuck)
• “His office is quoted as saying that because he is a member of the both executive and the legislative branches, he is therefore not required to reply to a request by the National Archives for it comply with record keeping laws regarding the executive bran
  Good flippin’ grief.
  (tags: horrifying fascist censorship neocon dumbfuck evil)
• “Dangerous Ideas”
  An interesting list of questions to think about and debate.
  (tags: interesting food4thought powerful)
• Tribune: “Schools may prohibit student expression that can be interpreted as advocating drug use, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote for the court in a 5-4 ruling.”
  Oh, for fuck’s sake. I swear to God, I’m just gonna move out of the country. This is getting fucking ridiculous.
  (tags: censorship whaddafuck fascist jesus-h-christ)
• Global Nerdy » Blog Archive » The World Needs More Dialog Boxes Like This
  “You have chosen to use the ‘Comic Sans’ font. As a programmer and a typesetter, I must urge you to reconsider. Comic Sans is the most abused font in the history of computing, so please avoid using it unless it’s REALLY suitable. Thanks.”
  (tags: funny hysterical geekery)
• Channel 4 - News - Diplomatic C-charge bill tops £4.5m
  “It has led to stinging criticism from London mayor Ken Livingstone, who branded US ambassador Robert Tuttle a ‘venal little crook’ for his refusal to pay.” I actually side with my country on this one … a “congestion charge” IS a tax, and not proper.
  (tags: food4thought interesting politics)
• Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories - Quick hack: The $1 C-to-D adapter
  Interesting. I can’t shake the feeling that it’d cause the thing to melt down, but …
  (tags: geekery interesting)
• A Long Line for a Shorter Wait at the Supermarket - New York Times
  “[A] line at Whole Foods checked out a person every 4.5 seconds, compared with 19.6 seconds for a line at Trader Joe’s.”
  (tags: interesting cool)
• Floater | Uncrate
  Beautiful, and if I was a very rich Mac owner, I’d probably buy it. But $300 for a frakkin’ LAPTOP STAND?!
  (tags: apple geekery)
• A $40 version of that idiotic $300 laptop stand.
  (tags: reference apple useful)
• djmrswhite: The 44DD Disaster, Averted, Plus Employee of The Year
  Very touching.
  (tags: sweet)

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