Pre homework linkdump:
- America as a One-Party State – hopefully alarmist
- Security As Theater – Maciej writes about his recent experiences/observations returning home on an international flight
- TPM George Soros Interview
And there is another aspect that is coming into sharper focus
to me, even since I wrote the book. That is that this administration
has no compunction in misleading the people. It has no respect for the
truth. This, I think, is a real danger. It is the danger of an
Orwellian world. It’s not new, because obviously, Orwell wrote about
this fifty years ago. But what he wrote in 1984,
you know, the Ministry of Truth being the Propaganda Ministry, the use
of words meaning the opposite of what they are meant to mean. The Fox
News, “Fair and Balanced,” the “Clear Skies” Act for permitting
pollution, the “Leave No Child Behind” [that] provides no money for the
legislation. All these things I think pose a real danger to our
democracy if they succeed in misleading the electorate. And there is
only one remedy: an intelligent and enlightened electorate that sees
through it. - Cheetohs of Mass Destruction – weapons of mass destruction-related program activities == processed cheese food snack product (contains no actual cheese)
- Unintelligent Design Network, Inc.
Miller himself, a biologist, states on of our best illustrations. There have been 23 elephant-like animals in history, and yet only two survive today (and we add, they’re not doing very well). Clearly, this is the mark of an all-powerful creator who is stuck on the same stupid idea and can’t figure out why the hell they keep dying off. Hmm, perhaps it’s because giant, big-eared mammals with huge, prehensile noses are ridiculous? I mean, WTF? A giant, powerful, grasping nose? It looks like something a preschooler would make up.
- Anti-spam software – some CRM114 add-ons; note, CRM114 dies on large attachments. the current solution seems to be limiting filesize to something reasonable in procmail (I decided to go with
* < 120000); Bill Yerazunis says it’s not a flaw, but why did it leave a dozen hanging crm processes on my system? (I’m running getmail on a 3/min cron) - Calendar Access Protocol (CAP) – draft 11, expires this week. final eta: never?
- The SAKAI Project is a collaboration among several higher education institutions to develop and share open source software. Additional details will be posted here soon. (OKI + custom uPortal; large Mellon grant)
- Redbrick Helpdesk: Procmail Tutorial – has info on setting up mutt
- Political Compass – Economic Left/Right: -4.62, Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.15 (smack dab in the lower left)
- “the Copy Left” – interesting /. tangent discussion on the term, views of IP/property rights
- Virtualmin – web gui for managing Apache virtual servers