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Judge tosses suit leaving Koster with egg over face
Photo courtesy dfinnecy licensed cc by sa 2.0Judge Kimberly J. Mueller tossed the multi-state lawsuit instigated by Missouri's own AG, Chris Koster, against California's new egg laws. As the decision...
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Posse
1890 photo of posse taken by Barbara Harris, uploaded by Chuck Coker. Uploaded photo cc by-nd 2.0I was disappointed to see Kathy Sierra leave Twitter, but respect her decision to do so. I read her...
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Not Voting is Not an Option
It's going to rain on Tuesday. It's going to rain all day long. This means water backing up because of all the leaves not collected and blocking storm sewer intakes, wet kids waiting for the bus, a run...
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Ferguson: A Benefit of the Doubt
My father was a cop. A Washington state patrolman. I like to think he was a good cop, and have never received any indication otherwise. When Mike Brown was shot in Ferguson, less than 25 minutes from...
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Before you Sign that Petition
The USDA has been busy approving genetically modified crops for cultivation, including a potato and alfalfa. I'll have much more to say on GMO later, but I wanted to focus on one aspect of the approval...
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Healthcare Sign Up: New and Improved
I signed up for healthcare coverage for 2015 at Healthcare.gov. Unlike last year, absolutely no problems with the system. The only hiccup occurred with United Healthcare when I tried to review its...
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Ferguson: STFU
Our Governor Jay Nixon has decided to roll out the troops by declaring a state of emergency before the Ferguson Grand Jury decision. As LOLGOP tweeted:Nothing says you trust your institutions and...
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Ferguson: Media, You Are Hurting Us
The story read that the FBI had arrested two New Black Panther members for buying explosives to bomb Ferguson protests. Not long after, though, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch posted a story that what...
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Torture and Learned Helplessness
I have degrees in computer science and psychology. My senior psychology research project was about "learned helplessness", based on the work by Martin E. P. Seligman. He saw it as the underlying basis...
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Rethinking our Twitter Twitchy Actions
Very interesting piece by Sam Bibble at Gawker on Justine Sacco. Sacco was the PR person who tweeted a bit of satire that blew up in her face, and almost destroyed her career. The problem with Twitter...
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JavaScript Cookbook 2nd Edition: Live and Personal
updateUse BWORM code to get a discount on my JavaScript Cookbook 2nd edition. A very nice discount, too.The second edition of the JavaScript Cookbook just went live at O'Reilly. If you're wondering why...
View Article30 Years Ago: Mount St. Helens
Published five years ago...Thirty years ago I was living at my Dad's in Yakima, going to college. That Sunday was a beautiful day, and Dad was outside in the garden as I was getting ready to go to...
View ArticleFacebook's Astonishing Fail
updateI did find a reference to this type of behavior...from 2010. What I suspect happened is some very old security code accidentally got compiled into the Facebook server app, in relation to the...
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Mind the Scaffolding
I have attempted to upgrade to Ubuntu 14.04 from 12.04.5 three times, failing each time. The points of failure are complex and seemingly many. I can ignore the necessary upgrade until 12.04.5 hits end...
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Corporate food Production interests yank the chains of Congress in quaking...
Second updateHouse just can't wait to pass this bill. It goes to the Floor on Thursday. Note: there is no comparable bill in the Senate. UpdateIn the ultimate of ironies, the Senate passed an amendment...
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