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It's not over yet. - 30 March 2007
Mar. 31st, 2007 02:45 amToday was halfway productive. More done on the things that need to get done, I think. Finished and froze the second code release. If I remember to do it tomorrow, I’ll go abuse the university’s computers to print, not my own. For the most part, it’s pretty done. It could probably stand to be tightened up somewhat, and the color scheme I have for the CSS is probably patently ugly, but that’s how it is. I’ll submit it before Wednesday specifically asking for comments on where to debug and where there can still be improvements made. After the debugging and such, I’ll set it up for the final code run, where everything hums along nicely, and that’ll be the end of the matter. I’m in pretty good shape for the end of this semester, finally. Just so long as things don’t flake out or bomb out on the group presentations.
Having finally managed to trace it back to a source, I find that a random comment left in my blog that looked spam-like actually does have an existence and originate from the source is says it does. This is because someone else linked to the clearinghouse on it, and from there, the source was readily apparent. All in all, this exercise has two components to it - one, if you’re going to promote something, don’t sound like you’re a spam-bot. Put some thought into your material and sound like a human being. Second, if you want people to actually have a look at what you’re promoting, provide a place for them to look around without trying to infect their computers or throw up their paranoia flags.
Anyway, the object in question is called Blog Against Theocracy, and appears to be a summons for bloggers over the weekend of the Christian Easter holiday to post about why they support the separation of church and state and/or some of the issues that derive from that premise.
Anyway, onward to links. A look inside at the Sith Lord’s more personal writings, Lunch Break: Darth Vader's Diary takes a look at how much the emo continued even after the encasement. Additionally in Star Wars stuff, first, postal boxes, now, stamps. To help commemorate thirty years of Star Wars, the post office is issuing themed stamps. The issuance starts on the 30th anniversary.
Naked chocolate Jesus draws ire from Catholic League. Apparently “My Sweet Lord” is leaving a sour taste in the mouths of those who complain about it. To wash some of that down... actually, no, that joke doesn’t work, considering this is talking about coffee. And it’s not even coffee with a Peep inside. A Starbucks barista gives both barrels to some of the hated customers. What’s interesting are the comments that come back and say “but we like working there! This one’s just burnt out, I think.” I think (hope?) the original poster is exaggerating some based on experience. Circuit City employees are going to have something to complain about, though, as 3,400 of their highest-paid clerks are getting the boot, to be replaced with those who will work for less. That may be a small effort compared to Wal-mart's aggressive investigation and enforcement of its moral code on all its employees. That kind of problem could develop into the poetry of salarymen who feel unloved and unappreciated. For the last part in job materials, though, something positive - what happens when the boss likes the well-being of his employees more than a rude customer's business. Priceless.
If you’re feeling a bit lost, or some map meme is taking over, Have a look at a digitized copy of Matteo Ricci's 1602 map of the world.
Regardless of its truth value, the following is an entertaining story. The Metro in the United Kingdom spins a tale of a student claiming religious protection for his choice of dress - namely, a pirate outfit, because he’s a Pastafarian. In more seriously religious matters, members of Congress urged their fellow Americans to pray for the country and its leaders. They encouraged all faiths to pray, and left the task to G-d to sort out who prayed correctly, if anyone. It would, of course, be rather funny if the people who had caught G-d’s attention best were the people who had no religion at all, since they glorified him by doing the work that he requested.
More genetic tinkering, this time with mosquitoes. Injecting a selfish gene (one that selects for itself) may be a possible vector for making disease-resistant insects. So mosquitoes without malaria is possible. Of course, have to be careful that some new pathogen doesn’t take that vector itself. Anyway, species diversity has also hit the news, when a billion-dollar mine construction project was halted because troglobites were discovered, and it was feared they would be extincted by the project. There is an appeal under way, and also a plan B in place, so things don’t look too grim for company or for troglobites.
So there’s this astronaut, and she’s like, qualified for the Boston Marathon, but she’s up in space and all that. The organizers of the marathon, however, have said she can run the race virtually, using a treadmill up in space. Which is a bit of a logistical problem, but things appear to be working out well.
The President and one of his advisers were loose and joking at the Radio and Television Correspondents’ Association dinner. "MC Rove" helped out a Who's Line rap and Bush delivered some standup. According to The Hour, Bush had a better chance for a career in standup than in politics. I think I agree. In the international political realm, there’s some fairly weird and WTF stuff appearing. A second "confession" letter from a British soldier being held by Iran apologized for entering Iranian waters and asked the United Kingdom Government to withdraw from Iraq. That’s definitely the weird. My guess would be duress, since the official line from the United Kingdom is that there was no deliberate incursion, and this was likely an accident, if there was an actual intrusion. Then, one of the servicepeople appeared on television and apologized, along with a third letter being released. Which sort of confirms that there’s something beneath the surface here, even with the claims of being treated well and the continued apparent flying in the face of the Government’s position. This latest incident has reduced the UK's willingness to negotiate with Iran. I’d say the situations has gone very pear-shaped, but that I’m also lacking the bit as to why these letters keep coming out. It is something akin to the hostage appearing on tape saying that he’s being treated well and being a mouthpiece for the kidnappers, even if the gun being held to his/her head is off camera?
Mixing politics and food, Crocheted Hats and Historiblogography have a couple of short responses to other pieces sent about on the Internets. Crocheted Hats steps up to the plate with the sixteen-ounce porterhouse of freedom, a response to Michelle Malkin's John Doe Manifesto, where she lays out her response to the apparent scores of Muslim terrorists and those who enable, support, and permit them to exist, namely, liberals. Historiblogography knocks one out of the park by pointing out a hidden majority, that watches from the shadows and doesn’t step out and do something, does not an effective force make. So if you want to go out and save the world, whether you’ve got the funny red sheet or the spandex or nothing at all, you have to actually do something.
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erinmuse calculates the fuel efficiency of the average American.
Having finally managed to trace it back to a source, I find that a random comment left in my blog that looked spam-like actually does have an existence and originate from the source is says it does. This is because someone else linked to the clearinghouse on it, and from there, the source was readily apparent. All in all, this exercise has two components to it - one, if you’re going to promote something, don’t sound like you’re a spam-bot. Put some thought into your material and sound like a human being. Second, if you want people to actually have a look at what you’re promoting, provide a place for them to look around without trying to infect their computers or throw up their paranoia flags.
Anyway, the object in question is called Blog Against Theocracy, and appears to be a summons for bloggers over the weekend of the Christian Easter holiday to post about why they support the separation of church and state and/or some of the issues that derive from that premise.
Anyway, onward to links. A look inside at the Sith Lord’s more personal writings, Lunch Break: Darth Vader's Diary takes a look at how much the emo continued even after the encasement. Additionally in Star Wars stuff, first, postal boxes, now, stamps. To help commemorate thirty years of Star Wars, the post office is issuing themed stamps. The issuance starts on the 30th anniversary.
Naked chocolate Jesus draws ire from Catholic League. Apparently “My Sweet Lord” is leaving a sour taste in the mouths of those who complain about it. To wash some of that down... actually, no, that joke doesn’t work, considering this is talking about coffee. And it’s not even coffee with a Peep inside. A Starbucks barista gives both barrels to some of the hated customers. What’s interesting are the comments that come back and say “but we like working there! This one’s just burnt out, I think.” I think (hope?) the original poster is exaggerating some based on experience. Circuit City employees are going to have something to complain about, though, as 3,400 of their highest-paid clerks are getting the boot, to be replaced with those who will work for less. That may be a small effort compared to Wal-mart's aggressive investigation and enforcement of its moral code on all its employees. That kind of problem could develop into the poetry of salarymen who feel unloved and unappreciated. For the last part in job materials, though, something positive - what happens when the boss likes the well-being of his employees more than a rude customer's business. Priceless.
If you’re feeling a bit lost, or some map meme is taking over, Have a look at a digitized copy of Matteo Ricci's 1602 map of the world.
Regardless of its truth value, the following is an entertaining story. The Metro in the United Kingdom spins a tale of a student claiming religious protection for his choice of dress - namely, a pirate outfit, because he’s a Pastafarian. In more seriously religious matters, members of Congress urged their fellow Americans to pray for the country and its leaders. They encouraged all faiths to pray, and left the task to G-d to sort out who prayed correctly, if anyone. It would, of course, be rather funny if the people who had caught G-d’s attention best were the people who had no religion at all, since they glorified him by doing the work that he requested.
More genetic tinkering, this time with mosquitoes. Injecting a selfish gene (one that selects for itself) may be a possible vector for making disease-resistant insects. So mosquitoes without malaria is possible. Of course, have to be careful that some new pathogen doesn’t take that vector itself. Anyway, species diversity has also hit the news, when a billion-dollar mine construction project was halted because troglobites were discovered, and it was feared they would be extincted by the project. There is an appeal under way, and also a plan B in place, so things don’t look too grim for company or for troglobites.
So there’s this astronaut, and she’s like, qualified for the Boston Marathon, but she’s up in space and all that. The organizers of the marathon, however, have said she can run the race virtually, using a treadmill up in space. Which is a bit of a logistical problem, but things appear to be working out well.
The President and one of his advisers were loose and joking at the Radio and Television Correspondents’ Association dinner. "MC Rove" helped out a Who's Line rap and Bush delivered some standup. According to The Hour, Bush had a better chance for a career in standup than in politics. I think I agree. In the international political realm, there’s some fairly weird and WTF stuff appearing. A second "confession" letter from a British soldier being held by Iran apologized for entering Iranian waters and asked the United Kingdom Government to withdraw from Iraq. That’s definitely the weird. My guess would be duress, since the official line from the United Kingdom is that there was no deliberate incursion, and this was likely an accident, if there was an actual intrusion. Then, one of the servicepeople appeared on television and apologized, along with a third letter being released. Which sort of confirms that there’s something beneath the surface here, even with the claims of being treated well and the continued apparent flying in the face of the Government’s position. This latest incident has reduced the UK's willingness to negotiate with Iran. I’d say the situations has gone very pear-shaped, but that I’m also lacking the bit as to why these letters keep coming out. It is something akin to the hostage appearing on tape saying that he’s being treated well and being a mouthpiece for the kidnappers, even if the gun being held to his/her head is off camera?
Mixing politics and food, Crocheted Hats and Historiblogography have a couple of short responses to other pieces sent about on the Internets. Crocheted Hats steps up to the plate with the sixteen-ounce porterhouse of freedom, a response to Michelle Malkin's John Doe Manifesto, where she lays out her response to the apparent scores of Muslim terrorists and those who enable, support, and permit them to exist, namely, liberals. Historiblogography knocks one out of the park by pointing out a hidden majority, that watches from the shadows and doesn’t step out and do something, does not an effective force make. So if you want to go out and save the world, whether you’ve got the funny red sheet or the spandex or nothing at all, you have to actually do something.
Last for tonight, and appropriate because there was a progressive tonight,
erinmuse calculates the fuel efficiency of the average American.
