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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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Shrewsbury: Landlord Retaliation in the Land of Ferguson
Received this letter yesterday:Georgetown Apartments will not be renewing your lease, which expires on February 28, 2015. You are still responsible for rent and utilities through the end of your lease...
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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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Missouri's New Debtor Prison
oops!I discovered these were 2014 bills, not 2015 bills. Sigh. My bad. However, the issue of bias based on economic status stands. earlierI accidentally stumbled on to a new landlord/tenant bill...
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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...
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Koster's Right to...collect large campaign contributions from big...
Photo of Chris Koster, left, and Jay Nixon by Missouri News Horizon, used without edit, shared under CC by 2.0 I was not surprised to read that Missouri's Attorney General, Chris Koster, has come out...
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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