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The wheel turns full circle
Feminists arguing that adult women shouldn’t be allowed to make decisions on what to do with their bodies. In this case raising the age of consent to appear on Girls Gone Wild videos from 18 to 21. Oddly, the author supports her argument by pointing out the many lawsuits filed against GGW producers by people who did not consent to be photographed/videotaped. It’s a bit like saying Iraq is a horrible disaster, therefore we need to invade Iran.
I suppose the right of women to control their bodies only applies below the waist.
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Thursday link roundup
- Hitchens has a sharp pen – Jimmy Carter is his particular target today.
- The economics of The Wire – I suppose I need to write one about the economics of the Shield to fully flesh out the crime show econ world.
- Top 100 website run by one guy – hopefully someone will be writing that about me.
- How to photography silhouettes
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Local music legends mentioned in the mainstream media
Atlanta based garage rock duo The A-Sides are briefly mentioned in today’s Atlanta Journal Constitution.
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Random Thursday links
- How to fix the Microsoft Home Page
- Robert Conquest’s 3 Laws of Politics
1. Everyone is conservative about what he knows best.
2. Any organization not explicitly right-wing sooner or later becomes left-wing.
3. The simplest way to explain the behavior of any bureaucratic organization is to assume that it is controlled by a cabal of its enemies. - More Stirling Engines how to guides – this one looks a bit better than the last one I posted. Here is another one.
- The top 100 web apps for freelancers – mine is not on it, yet.
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A needed innovation
Last night I spent about seven hours trying to get a particular Microsoft web product to work, only to discover at the end of a long search that you simply couldn’t make it work that way. I was trying to update the error message dynamically and have it appear in the VCE
It would be quite handy to have a list of things that a product CAN’T do, it would save so much time trying to prove negatives. Perhaps that should be a new site idea.
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Quote of the morning
From Marginal Revolution
If they were more like me, they wouldn’t be them in the first place.
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The oldest living tree
The oldest known tree is “Methuselah”, which is 4,789 years old. To keep Methuselah from harm, this tree isn’t labeled, as the other trees are. An older tree called Prometheus was killed shortly after it was discovered in 1964.
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Recommended reading for Tuesday
- Londonistan Calling – Hitchens goes back to London. Choice quote:
He was a conspicuous figure because, having lost the use of an eye and both hands in an exchange of views in Afghanistan, he sported an opaque eye plus a hook to theatrical effect. Not as nice as he looked..
- The Crime Against Kansas – Why isn’t this sort of thing in more history classes? You might hear about John Brown’s raid, but never about any clashes
- Londonistan Calling – Hitchens goes back to London. Choice quote:
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Monday link roundup
- A useful post from CodingHorror.com on interface friction
- Al Gore, like Ann Coulter, seems to be a mac person
- A blog for women! And one of the editors might be someone I went to high school with.
- Kuler! The Adobe web color harmony tool – via this site
- Co-Mapping (mind mapping software) looks cool
- Properly bashing ethanol
- HiddenUnities and PurposeSlog have posts on the Wire and 24. I helpfully added the Shield in the comments. All excellent programs, though 24 is basically a commercial for the cell phone industry, not torture.
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Firefox tip
(via CodePoet) To speed up Firefox
Open Firefox, type about:config into the adress bar, filter on “v6” (this should easily find the ipv6 setting)
Right click it and choose “toggle” and the FOX is back in business.It works quite well.