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Why is this category, which used to contain 50 sites, now missing from Google? Spooky.
Update: It looks like the category has been moved here, but if you didn’t know to look for it, you’d never know it was there.

For now anyway, I’m calling this blog “Share Alike”. What’s that supposed to mean? Well, it comes from the common bit of advice, “Share and share alike”. When people say this, they mean two things. The first part of that phrase is an imperative. It, like your kindergarten teacher, is saying: Share. The second [...]

A link in the prior entry reminded me of the great quotations Senator Robert Byrd chose when arguing that the Congress was wrong to give up the authority to declare war and to hand over their constitutional duty to the executive branch.
Representative Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to William H. Herndon, stated: “Allow the President [...]

To anyone who reads this message:
Please send help! The U.S. has been overrun by a treacherous dictator. This un-elected “leader” is now waging an undeclared war against another country. The formerly democratic United States of America has been toppled! This tyrant rules with an iron fist. He has imprisoned United States citizens indefinitely without charging [...]

The Chronicle of Higher Education has an article describing the efforts of educators to resolve whether provisions of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) conflict with the recently passed Technology Education and Copyright Harmonization Act (TEACH).
TEACH became law in November 2002 and was intended to “allow college instructors to use nondramatic works, such as news [...]

Well, what we all knew was coming now has a definitive time-table. Here’s the kicker: America is no longer a Republic. I don’t know of a time in history when this country has had stronger opposition to something their president was doing and were still powerless to do anything about it. One might argue: “But [...]

I just read Cory Doctorow’s book Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom for free online. I have not read a Sci-Fi novel in years, but I burned through this one in two sittings. Now that I’m done I suppose the main reason I would recommend the book is because the world it is premised [...]

Check out these images of the leaflets the U.S. is dropping on Iraq right now. They are on a .mil site, so I believe they are authentic.
The ones that catch my eye are the numerous ones urging Iraqis not to blow up oil wells. Generally, I’ve been skeptical of the argument that this is [...]

I’ve been happily using SuSE 8.0 on both my desktop and laptop for about a year now. I think I will upgrade to 8.2 merely to support SuSE.
Sometimes I feel like I should give Red Hat a whirl since it is so widely used. I feel like I may be missing things that thousands of [...]

This is an entertaining quiz that will tell you what political stereotype you fall in.