* Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) has proposed a bill that would make a tiered internet illegal. That is to say, companies which own the routers and pipes can't charge additional fees to prioritize packets. It amounts to a protection racket, where both the customer and the content provider would have to "pay up" or else their data would be delivered a ( Read more... )

Last night Jenny got us free passes to see Night Watch. It's in Russian with subtitles (best subtitles ever!) and reminded me a lot of The Matrix and Underworld while being better than both. Unlike either of those, they don't have to spend much time in Rupert Giles' Library of Interminable Exposition1. A few plot points were unclear, but the ( Read more... )

As predicted, the Air Force is letting me out. I will be completely separated from the military on 31 March 06. No word on when I start my new totally awesome job just yet. Sources close to Jurph tell us this will be soonest.

These are stuck in my head. Now you can have them. The first is by Ben Lee, the second by They Might Be Giants. Google will locate song titles if you're curious.

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BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - A major Sunni Arab bloc Thursday suspended talks with Shiite and Kurdish parties on a new government after scores of Sunni mosques were attacked and dozens of bodies found in a wave of reprisal violence following the bombing of a revered Shiite shrine.
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PWOT has posted a 20-bullet list of the things they want in the Ultimate War Game. As Robert E. Lee once said, "it is well that war is so terrible, lest we should grow too fond of it."

This should pique your curiosity:


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They want their chrono-telephone back.

A Demonym is a name for the people from a place. If you're from Glasgow, you're Glaswegian. If you're from Delaware, you're Delawarean. If you're from Massachussetts, you're a Bay Stater. Being from Indiana makes you a Hoosier, and so on.

So if you're from Baltimore, are you a:

• Baltimorean?
  
• Baltimoron?
  
• Hon?
  
• Charm Citizen?
  
• B'liever?
  
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For those of you who have recently had difficulty finding a topic on which you and the President agree, I present a quotation you can carry with you to any occasion where disagreeing with the President might be awkward or impolite:
"We reject violence as a way to express discontent with what may be printed in a free press."

--George W. Bush,
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The creation of images of Muhammad (pbuh) is against a subset of Islamic teachings from the Hadith, but is not a general prohibition. Sunnis, particularly fundamentalist Sunnis, believe that it is improper to create a physical representation of the prophet. You might compare this to fundamentalist evangelicals in the American South, who believe ( Read more... )