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"I think on a national level your department of law there in the White House would look at some of the things that we've been charged with and automatically throw them out." -- Sarah Palin, on how she would handle ethics complaints if she were in the White House I haven't seen the article yet, but I heard there is a Slate article saying that the real reason she quit is that she can make buckets of...

I've been downloading programming classes from Stanford for free off of iTunes, and came across this link of 30 tunes that you can download for the same price. I haven't listened to them all yet, but what I have listened to are a mixed bag: some good, some I'll be deleting. Anyway, maybe you'll find some that you like. http://itunes.stanford.edu/summermusicmix/

This is a rather interesting web site showing some unusual solutions to problems that might have been better left to being fixed by professionals. Very clever photo site. http://thereifixedit.com/

Three parts, published in Wired. I like him as an author, but I think I prefer his short stories to his novels. Part 1: http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2009/07/alandeanfosterparti/ Part 2: http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2009/07/alandeanfosterpartii/ Part 3: http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2009/07/alandeanfosterpartiii/

The social engineers are now targeting them. If they can get a kid to download malware and compromise mommy & daddy's machine with nastiness... http://blog.spywareguide.com/2009/06/hackers-target-neopets-users.html

Most of you could probably care less about networking gear, but this is a little weird. A month or so ago I had to replace my cable modem, and it was Linksys. I replaced it with a Motorola, there really wasn't much of a selection here. Now it looks like my wireless router is flaking out, it also is Linksys. Here's the bit that I don't get: they're both designs that have come out since Cisco bought...

"What Fox did is not just create a venue for alternative opinion. It created an alternate reality." -- Fox news analyst Charles Krauthammer Heh. Sing this to Morris Albert's Feelings if you're a glutton for punishment: Ratings, looking for more ratings, try to find more adver-tisers for our shows! Teardrops, rolling down on my face, as Republican voting base moves over to the blue! (sorry, gotta...

It added 4800 votes to an election where only 5600 people voted. *sigh* This is not a case of evote machines glitching, apparently this is scanned paper ballots. No one kept a manual tally of the votes and things got a little screwed up. What was it Reagan said? Trust but verify? http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2009/06/04/news/local/doc4a26be929b134639509302.txt

"Destroying the best health care system the world has ever known." -- Sen. Richard Shelby, on Obama Yeah, in what version of reality? I know people who can't get insurance, who pay $600-1000 a month for coverage that has a $10,000 annual deductible, I know someone who flew to Thailand to have her gall bladder removed because it was less expensive than having it done in Phoenix, AND she took a friend...