Are you going to be finishing all of that mastodon meat?
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Monthly Archives: April 2010
Yes, hate speech kills. Remembering Oklahoma City
Today is the fifteenth anniversary of the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City by Timothy McVeigh with an assist from three others. That bombing was carried out in part as retaliation by McVeigh for a percieved slight at Ruby Ridge in 1992. That bombing is an example of the material outcome of hate speech of the kind we are seeing increasingly today by Republicans, Teabaggers and the like. One hundred and sixty eight people were killed by McVeigh and his right-wing conspirators, including 19 little children (there was a day care center at the facility).
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Conferencia Mundial de los Pueblos sobre el Cambio Climático y los Derechos de la Madre Tierra
Global People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth
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Outbreaks of H5N1 Bird Virus Infection in Wild Birds in time and space: Temperature matters (with cool video)
It has long been thought that there are linkages between certain viruses and the weather. The flu season is winter (in whichever hemisphere it happens to be winter in) for reasons having to do with the seasons. One early theory posited that the practices of East Asian farmers, as they tended their animals, caused waterfowl and swine and humans to share space closely enough that nasty new influenzas would emerge and spread around the world. Although that explanation for the annual seasonal flu has been dropped (if it ever really had wings… or hooves, or whatever) it is still possible that such a pattern could occur. One of the more likely places to look for this sort of thing is with bird flu, because there are large numbers of migratory birds that host the flu, and the interaction of wild and domestic birds is not an incredibly unlikely event.
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YA Knee Update
A follow up on the earlier installment of “As the knee turns…”
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Greg Laden just can’t help himself ..In Broadbrush artistry
Somebody is wrong on the Internet, and apparently, it’s Greg Laden.
“…Greg. Don’t get us wrong, we want to see the Pope (and priests) answer for what they’ve done,…”
We just want it done OUR way, and not your way. So please sit down and shut up.
Signed,
We’ll, we’re not going to say who we are, are we!
How do we know this web site is not sponsored by The Vatican?
The True Meaning of the Unpronounceable Volcano that Ate Europe
Whitney Houston took a car ferry from Britain to Ireland to attend her concert, rather than flying. Barack Obama has canceled his trip to a state funeral in Poland. A very large magical snake protects a canyon in south Africa. These things are connected a lot more closely than you might think.
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Pope, in incredible act of insensitivity, mixes up roles of victim and perp
In his first foreign trip since sex abuse scandals in Europe and the US broke, Pope Benedict has said the Church has been “wounded by its sins”.
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Bachmann, Palin, are the “Gold Standard” for the Republican Party
Weekend Diversions:
Obama pwns little what’s his name for asking dumbest question evah.
Oliver North on How To Be a Good American (OMG!)
Djou: Playing Politics with Our Economic Recovery
And finally, …. A handful of political cartoons
How to live trap a squirrel
It is not recommended that you trap and move squirrels. It may be illegal in your state, and since squirrels have teeth and may carry disease, it could be dangerous. But if you MUST trap a squirrel to move it, say, to a point a few blocks away, I suggest using a Havahart trap. Havahart traps can also be used to trap other animals such as mice, or larger critters, depending on the size of the trap.
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Obama: Checked with NASA on Armageddon.
Technology Rants
Well, maybe more like tidbits than rants. This is all Linux or ani-Windows stuff, so everyone else you get the clam-hand*.
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Linux Fedora 13 Beta
There are many versions of Linux, but the two biggies seem to be Debian (on which Ubuntu and many other distributions are based) and Red Hat. Red Hat uses a commercial support model, so it is an example of a very different approach than Ubuntu. Many of the commercial applications of Linux are Red Hat. I suppose because of the support, but I’m pretty sure most VP’s in charge of things would alway pick the paid over the free version just because, well, they’re morons that way.
Anyhow, a fedora is a kind of hat (like Indiana Jones and Nick Danger, Third Eye wear) and the hat in Red Hat is a fedora. Therefor, Fedora is a version of Red Hat Linux. It’s the version that you don’t get with the paid support … rather, it is, more or less, the NEXT version of Red Hat. The test bed. The bleeding edge.
So, Fedora 13 Beta is tomorrow Linux, at least some times. And, according to the Mysterious JH of Linux in Exile, it rocks, more or less.
Read JH’s Fedora 13beta mini-review, at Linux in Exile.
Meanwhile, I’m going to go check out Shotwell, as per JH’s suggestion.
I and the bird # 123 is up
But you need to go to IDAHO to see it!