I voted! 23 of 303 ( Read more... )

The Senate has resumed consideration of S.2248, the FISA Amendments Act, as of 2 pm. They are voting on further amendments to it possibly as early as today. This is a bill to make changes to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which governs the procedures for wiretaps and searches for, well, foreign intelligence purposes, and the courts that ( Read more... )

Hey (Massachusetts) kids! Presidential primaries are coming up. Just a friendly reminder, since it came up this weekend:

You must be registered to vote by Wednesday, January 16 to vote in a Massachusetts primary. There are three primaries on Tuesday, February 5: Democratic, Republican, and Green-Rainbow. You can only vote in one of them. A list of ( Read more... )

This is the song that replicates
If you can hear it, it's too late!
Some people weaponized a meme, not knowing it was wrong,
Then it got loose and reproduced and turned into this song,

{repeats}

One of Peter Kuerten's contemporaries, Fritz "Butcher of Hanover" Haarmann,
is featured on the city's Advent calendar.

I have no point in mentioning this, I just thought some 1948 people would be interested to know.

Even if you aren't a registered voter, the Boy Scouts are having a care package drive for the military at all Cambridge polling locations. They are taking a bunch of stuff, including paperback books. A list of other useful items is here (search down to "Troop 45"). Polls are open until 8, so if you want to go look over your bookshelves, stop by ( Read more... )

In case you missed it the last time:

If you live in Cambridge and are registered, go vote for city council and school board tomorrow. There's only 56339 registered voters, of whom almost 30% are inactive, so get cracking. If you don't know your polling place, go hereCandidate information and profiles, with links to some candidates' websites, is ( Read more... )

If you live in Cambridge, city council and school board elections are November 6.
This page has information on all the candidates. Candidates in bold responded to a questionnaire on various issues, which is also included:

http://vote.rwinters.com/

Read and vote.

Nobel laureates in literature. List the ones you've read anything by. If you want to list all of them and do bolding and italicizing and blinky-tags when you propagate this, by all means go ahead.

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I hadn't played Patrol since June (I don't think it's run for the past month), but I really needed that ( Read more... )