2010 archive
Managing the Size of Video Embeds 0
Do you embed videos on your blog and find that they are just too damned big?
Fixing that is absurdly easy, but it’s only easy when you know how.
Find out how at Geekazine.
Apparently, It’s Only All Right If You’re White (Updated) 0
John Cole has the video.
It appalls, but it does not surprise.
When you unleash bigotry, you get bigotry.
Addendum:
An update at Balloon Juice.
Afterthought: If this sort of stuff doesn’t make you really really ashamed of America and Americans, I grieve for you, for you Just Don’t Get It.
Constancy 0
They will do it again, if you let them.
Voting is not a right. It is a duty.
Pass it on.
Via Steven D.
The President’s Weekly Address 0
Excerpt from the transcript:
You would think that making these reforms would be a matter of common sense. You’d think that reducing corporate and even foreign influence over our elections wouldn’t be a partisan issue.
But the Republican leaders in Congress said no. In fact, they used their power to block the issue from even coming up for a vote.
This can only mean that the leaders of the other party want to keep the public in the dark. They don’t want you to know which interests are paying for the ads. The only people who don’t want to disclose the truth are people with something to hide.
Spill Here, Spill Now, Cost Benefit Analysis Dept. 0
Facing South rounds up some interesting statistics.
In Which I Lose My Temper 0
Look for the fourth comment down, from The Farmer.
Cuccinelli Witchhunt Updates (Updated) 0
Virginia Attorney-General Cuccinelli continues his attempt to entangle a scientist in court proceedings because the AG does not like the science.
I didn’t like 10th grade biology teacher.
Why didn’t I think of suing Mr. Turner?
Addendum:
The Shockoe Literary Messenger has news of the next Koo-Koo-Koo-Croosade.
Truism 0
By definition, a truism is a statement that is so obvious it doesn’t have to be mentioned.
Except, I guess, when it does.
True Blue Texan: A prejudice held by the majority is still prejudice.
iThought 0
Another reason not to get an iPad.
Dustbiters 0
I was busy watching the Phillies beat Washington last night and missed the FDIC’s rampage through banks. Highest body count in weeks:
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Sonoma Valley Bank, Sonoma, California
Los Padres Bank, Solvang, California
Butte Community Bank, Chico, California
Pacific State Bank, Stockton, California
Imperial Savings & Loan Association, Martinsville, Virginia
QOTD 0
Hubert Humphrey, the Happy Warrior, from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):
In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.
Six Degrees . . . 0
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Via TPM.
Spill Here, Spill Now, There Ain’t No Filter Big Enough Dept. 0
Out of sight, out of mind:
The finding confirms that plumes of oil from the failed well have existed deep beneath the surface, and that the oil is not seeping from natural fissures on the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, according to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute scientists who authored the peer-reviewed article published Thursday in the online research magazine ScienceXpress.
The Internet Is a Public Place 0
Listen up This is essential reading for anyone who has ever visited a website. I just double-checked my Opera browser settings–yup, I turned off third-party cookies a long time ago:
“Most people that we have heard from since writing these stories did not know what was going on,” Angwin explains. “So when you go to a website, you’re not thinking about the fact that they might have relationships with all different types of monitoring firms, and those firms are installing things that are invisible to you on your computer.”
Follow the link to listen to the show or read the transcript.