Shifting paradigms and mutual human capital re-alignment
The greatest Ubuntu advertisement you've most likely never seen
I was pointed to this earlier today by someone on one of the many Linux lists I hover around. It's a great video, and an awesome presentation built to showcase Ubuntu Netbook Remix (9.10) on Dell systems. It speaks for itself, but it's incredibly well done.
Ubuntu from Keith Kenniff on Vimeo.
SCOTUS celebrates Independence Day and our Constitution by incorporating the 2nd Amendment
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It's amazing to me that it was two years ago that I was sitting on the edge of my seat following real-time updates from the Supreme Court Of The United States waiting for the ruling in Heller V District of Columbia. That was a pretty good day. The Constitution won and the court struck down the D.C. law banning hand guns as being unconstitutional. And that should have been the end of it, but it wasn't. You see, since the Supreme Court had never actually ruled on the 2nd Amendment before, and Heller was the first direct 2nd Amendment ruling, the anti-gun crowd took a new tactic. read more »
Software Updated... Finally
It's 0430 and I finally got the kinks worked out of the site. All modules and core pieces have been upgraded to the latest versions, two modules removed because they no longer functioned, and fixed the issue that was causing my script tags to be converted to strings...
[EDIT: I suck at grammar, apparently...]
Turns out that the BBCode filter for Drupal refuses to allow script tags. So, guess no BBCode for me... never used it anyway. I just add pure HTML when necessary.
I also got danalane.org back in business, just needs Dana to come home and start working on it. It's been a busy night. Now it's off to bed for me... finally. read more »
Donate to a Liberal Cause and Your Contact Information Is For Sale
I got an e-mail from a gun dealer poking some fun at the Brady Campaign (who in recent years has gone farther and farther off the scale in wackiness). The point of the blog post I was reading was just poking fun at the Brady Campaign having only about 50K members nationwide, with only about half that being active in the last 12 months. The numbers speak for themselves:
- 50,581 DONORS/MEMBERS (TOTAL FILE)
- 40,765 DONORS/MEMBERS (24 MOS)
- 28,417 DONORS/MEMBERS (12 MOS)
"But where did those numbers come from," you may be asking yourself. Well, oddly enough, they come from a website called NextMark.com where you can buy other people's membership and mailing lists.
"WHAT'S THAT," You ask? Let me spell it out for you in simple terms: When you donate money and join the Brady Campaign to End Gun Violence, your address and other such information goes onto a list. That list is then sold via NextMark to whomever buys it. Just the same way your name ends up on any other targeted spam or junk-mail marketing list. So the Brady Campaign to End Gun Violence is selling your PERSONAL information. But they're not the only ones... read more »
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