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yarf - Yahoo pulls a Fast One
Remember Google's ill-fated attempt to screw with your privacy? Looks like Yahoo's trying to get on the involuntary "social network" bandwagon:
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/06/opt-out-required-prevent-your-yahoo-mail-contacts
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LJ's being a Douchebag Again
With thanks to Kasandaro, who pointed me to caffeinepuppy's post here: http://caffeinepuppy.livejournal.com/214632.html
To quote:
LiveJournal has started snooping on outbound clicks, sliently redirecting outbound links through "outboundlink.net." This is enabled even for paid users, and the opt-out is so hidden/out of the way that what they're doing ( Read more... ) -
86 year old WWII Veteran Speaks Out on Gay Rights
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/10/20/86-year-old-wwii-vet.html
Well worth watching.
"What do you think I fought for on Omaha Beach?" -
Cool!
Remains of a new species of humans found:
Homo floresiensis - And they were around 3 feet tall.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8036396.stm
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For Fans of Mason-Dixon Knitting
http://www.masondixonknitting.com/
Kay Gardiner lost her husband this Saturday. :-(
For those of us who knit, Kay is requesting we send stuff to Afghans for Afghans. -
MicroQuake!
About a minute ago.
2-3 bounces up and down felt on the 21'st floor of our building in the SF Financial District.
(*Wheee!*)
So..did anyone else get a shake?
(nothing's showing up definitively over here: http://quake.usgs.gov/recenteqs/ yet)
*edit* OK. Turns out it was a 4.4, around San Jose. I'm kind of surprised we felt it this far out. -
MicroQuake!
About a minute ago.
2-3 bounces up and down felt on the 21'st floor of our building in the SF Financial District.
(*Wheee!*)
So..did anyone else get a shake?
(nothing's showing up definitively over here: http://quake.usgs.gov/recenteqs/ yet) -
*Laughs*
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090313/ap_on_fe_st/odd_hov_dummy
(BTW - my LJ pages are loading up all sorts of wonky. Is it just me?)
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