Just a quick update on the War Against Spam: The new “blocking software”:http://www.jayallen.org/projects/mt-blacklist/ seems to be doing a good job. Only one spam comment got through, and it was quickly eradicated once I updated the list of messages to block. The logs show a few others that were blocked without requiring any intervention from me. Yay!
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Just… so… blatant…
Today’s “Daily Mislead”:http://www.misleader.org/daily_mislead/Read.asp?fn=df05182004.html is a beautiful example of irony. A factory in Canton, Ohio touted in 2003 by Our Fair President as an example of how tax cuts for the rich will affect “the future of employment”:http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/04/20030424-3.html has been “shut down”:http://pittsburgh.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/stories/2004/05/17/daily1.html by its owner, putting 1,300 people out of work. I’m sure it’s a comfort to the people of Canton that their former employer will receive more in tax cuts than all of them combined.
The true story behind The Terminal
The new Stephen Spielberg / Tom Hanks film “The Terminal”:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0362227/, as strange as it may seem, is based on “an actual person”:http://www.snopes.com/travel/airline/airport.htm living at Charles De Gaulle Airport in Paris.
“Useable” nukes are no such thing
From TrueMajority:
Last year, TrueMajority and a whole group of other organizations urged Congress to stop funding the nuclear “bunker buster” bomb. The budget was cut in half. Now the Bush administration is trying to get it funded again.
“Tell Congress the answer is still NO”:http://action.truemajority.org/ctt.asp?u=176780&l=608.
The chairman of our Military Advisory Committee, Vice Admiral Jack Shanahan (USN, ret.) literally had his finger on the button. Here’s what he’s got to say:
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Gimme some skin
I was wondering how long it would take to get realistic skin textures for digital characters. As it turns out, the breakthrough came from our very own UCSD! Now we know why Gollum was so spookily real.