Archive for February 2007
Violent lesbian gangs on the prowl
Earlier tonight I watched a bit of a news report from Memphis about a lesbian gang called “Gays Taking Over” or “GTO”s. The GTO modus operandi is to find a girl, attack her and rape her.
Two older GTO’s interviewed for the piece said that originally the group wasn’t a gang and wasn’t violent. It was more a support group that only later turned violent because of the new, younger members.
Either way, it can’t do much for tolerance and acceptance of lesbians and gay men in the area when the local news gets to run teasers proclaiming that “violent homosexual gangs so tough the other gangs don’t mess with them” (paraphrased).
links for 2007-02-28
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Financial prosperity trumps ethics, morality, justice, and human rights violations.
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“One of the nation’s biggest home builders will install solar panel power systems in all of its new homes in the San Francisco Bay Area.”
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“The picture tells a story of a laptop that in the course of a mugging, got shot. It looks to still be functioning fine (save for the distortion in the optical drive).”
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“Dell decides to sell notebooks without operating systems by customer request”
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“Three years after California passed a $3 billion stem cell initiative, a state appeals court has upheld the creation of the agency that will distribute the money, rebuffing legal challenges from abortion opponents and anti-tax activists.”
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“The quality of congressional Web sites, in general, is ‘disappointing.’”
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“They’re stackable stools that look like keyboard keys, and they say “sit” on them, just in case you thought they were for anything else (leapfrog, maybe?)”
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“The US Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal by a high school teacher from Arizona sentenced to 200 years in jail for possessing child pornography.”
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“Prosecutors for the International Criminal Court on Tuesday named a former Sudan state interior minister and a militia commander as the first suspects it wants tried for war crimes in Darfur.”
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“When developing web sites, we naturally want to offer our end users the option to freely resize the text size in their web browser of choice to their liking. What I would like to do here is present what I’ve found to be most consistent way to achieve t
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“When Woodruff awoke from a 36-day coma, he couldn’t remember his brothers’ names, couldn’t even remember that he had twin 6-year-old daughters.”
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“A tipster sends word that The Porn Talk, a site backed by a secretive faith-based ministry in California, is prepping to attack Nintendo’s Wii and other gaming devices, calling them “portals to porno” in a press release.”
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“The 2006 recipient, Frances E. Allen, has been presented with the award for her pioneering contributions to the theory and practice of optimizing compiler techniques that laid the foundation for modern optimizing compilers and automatic parallel executio
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Ideology trumps health and safety where Bush is concerned.
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“There are several ways to completely bypass AppleScript without loss of functionality. Matt Neuburg at O’Reilly’s Mac DevCenter has written a superb introduction to eschewing AppleScript and using Ruby to do your application-related heavy lifting.”
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“Two new AIDS drugs, each of which works in a novel way, have proved safe and highly successful in large studies.”
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“Tomorrow afternoon, Rep. Marty Meehan (D-MA) will re-introduce The Military Readiness Enhancement Act, his bill to repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” and allow gays to serve openly.”
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“We’ve seen the light, and it’s crushable. The US military will use a flexible, lightweight and yes, crushable, light panel made from an electroactive polymer based material to light up tents and other “softwall” shelters.”
links for 2007-02-27
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Reuters AlertNet – Indian woman killed by in-laws over AIDS suspicion
The world’s largest caseload and perhaps the world’s least amount of understanding.
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Infinite Loop: Fire for Mac hits the “end of an era”
I used it over a year ago for about three weeks before giving it up as not pretty enough.
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Apple Matters | Replace Your Menubar Clock. Plus Get More Control of Screen Brightness.
“[MagiCal] is the first decent and reasonably priced replacement for the OS X clock in the menubar that I’ve seen.”
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A tech conversation… – Robert’s talk
“When you’re a consultant, you once in a while get to overhear (alright, I’m constantly eavesdropping) some interesting converstions that amuses you.”
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Funeral Set for Slain Gay Detroit Senior Andrew Anthos — Towleroad
“The other tragedy? A senior citizen who campaigned for 20 years is beaten to death with a pipe in an anti-gay attack and not one item from CNN, or the other major outlets. Pathetic.”
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lgf: Tourists murdered after entering Muslim-only area in Saudi Arabia
“It turns out that the three French tourists murdered today in Saudi Arabia were probably killed for a reason that made perfect sense to the shooters: they had gone where infidels are not allowed to go, and transgressed against the religious apartheid law
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Macworld: News: Vista’s interface a ’step back,’ analyst says
“Vista’s user interface suffers from more “friction” than its predecessor XP, a French analyst said Monday, and is actually a step back for Microsoft in its pursuit of Apple’s Mac OS X.”
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INTERVIEW: Queen Latifah Addresses Serious Issues with Life Support
“In the HBO original movie, Life Support, Queen Latifah plays Ana Wallace, a woman who has been living with HIV for years. The film focuses on living with the disease and Latifah is adamant that everyone gets tested for the virus. She says the more peopl
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A series of screenshots detailing changes and/or additions to OS X in 10.5 “Leopard”.
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ABC News: Al Gore’s ‘Inconvenient Truth’? — A $30,000 Utility bill
“[A] local free-market think tank is trying to make that very home emblematic of what it deems Gore’s environmental hypocrisy.”
links for 2007-02-26
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Virginia has become the first Southern state to apologize for its role in African slavery. It also apologized for years of discrimination and segregation that followed the abolition of Slavery.
Most interesting thing from the Oscars in ages
It’s the Hollywood Sound Effects Chorale and their recreation of sounds from movie scenes using nothing but their voices. No computers, no machines, no instruments. Just them. How accurate they were was really fascinating.
Hilariously accurate
What’s out of control about a shaved head?
Okay so Britney has gone and shaved her head but what’s out of control about that? I mean, if the bitch wasn’t out of control before, why does cutting off all of her hair suddenly thrust her outside the norm?
If she’d shown up with a jagged, half-shaven head that looked like she’d done it herself in the car then I’d be more understanding, but her head is, from all indications, perfectly shaved. Why does this suddenly make her crazy if nothing she’s done prior did?
Oh yeah, Miss Thang needs to check her own hair “style” before criticizing others’.
abc7.com: Southern California news leader – Britney’s New Look Is Bald
Stupid Quote of the Day
Rep. Howard Coble, R-NC
“The Iraqi people were given a choice between freedom and civil war. Unfortunately, they chose the latter.”
Is that what they were voting on when all the women were posing for the cameras with ink-stained fingers?
Heap is the new Björk
Sure there’s no animal in her dress, but Imogen Heap showed up at the Grammys Sunday night in a dress weird enough to justify the comparison.
What’s upscale about SOLO cups?
This has been swimming around in my head for a few hours now so I figured I’d inflict it up on anyone who happened to pause long enough for a listen.
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