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From Morons Dot Org:

First Afghanistan, then Iraq, and now law-abiding, tax-paying American citizens who happen to be sexually attracted to members of the same sex…
President Bush is declaring war on a new front and showing us just how out of touch he and his party are with the majority of Americans. He recently told Diane [...]

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A great Flash movie

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How does one claim that protecting Americans is Priority #1 in one breath, and then turn around and support the building of hate into the Constitution? Happy Hateful Holidays, everyone!! A lesson in tolerance for the new year. [metafilter.com]

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Aaron posted a great entry about Dean.

After watching him for a few days, I think Dean is the real deal. And his campaign manager, Joe Trippi, is doing everything right. Dean’s raising money from the grassroots, not the Democratic party elites. He’s got a comprehensive campaign finance reform plan. He has very moderate positions of [...]

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I discovered that the version of Aicha from Adam’s blog is by a group called Outlandish and it’s a big hit in Europe, as was Khaled’s original.

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Thanks to DailyTunes, I discovered that one album by The Pogues, “Streams of Whiskey”, is now available in iTMS. This is one album I don’t own, and the Pogues themselves don’t want you to buy it:

This album has been released without the permission, and contrary to the wishes of the band. It is a not [...]

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Thanks to Adam for linking to this one.
Khaled’s song ‘aisha’ sung in English by some kid
More about Khaled here. This is the second time Rai music is reaching a mainstream audience. The first time was when Sting recorded “Desert Rose” with Cheb Mami.

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I have several fields with date formatting in my application. Since I enabled natural language, you can enter something like ‘today’ or ‘next year’ and it will be converted to a valid date. I didn’t even have to write any code to do that!
By simply writing methods such a getXXX and setXXX I was able [...]

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Yatta! [via Scripting News]

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BushDraft.com was started to link all the news stories on Bush’s plans for a draft, and provide a place where people can find non-biased reports and articles about the draft. There will be a draft in 2005 if Bush is not stopped.

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I’m NOT interested in a bigger you-know-what and neither are the other people who read my weblog. I’ve banned your IP address and added all of your URL variations to my mt-blacklist. You’re NOT welcome here after spamming me twice today. Go bother someone else now, asshole.
This applies to other spammers as well. If you’re [...]

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I just wrote my first real Cocoa application. I ended up using mostly ObjectiveC++ since I needed to use some pre-existing C++ classes for most of the functionality. Most of the code I wrote was for bridging the C++ & ObjectiveC code.

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I just made my biggest single iTMS purchase ever: 29 songs, all by Johnny Clegg & Juluka. His music was added in the latest update and he’s now a featured artist.
Lots of talk about iTMS in the scatterlings group.

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Jim did a great job in Wilton Manors. I would have liked to see him continue in politics, and even run for governor or enter national politics.

From Sun-Sentinel:

Wilton Manors Mayor Jim Stork, who for the past two years has helped lead the city’s push toward redevelopment, announced he won’t be seeking a second term in next year’s election.

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When I turned on my G4 minitower, instead of booting into the GUI, I got a Darwin/BSD login and my password wouldn’t work. If I booted from the other drive (which has Jaguar installed), everything was normal and I could access the main drive. I repaired the drive & repaired permissions successfully.
The next time [...]

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My biggest productivity killer isn’t a game or a website; it’s Midnight. Whenever I’m busy, he’ll jump on my lap and demand to be petted. If I ignore him for too long, he’ll give me a little bite.

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Via Morons Dot Org:
Here’s my result from this test.
Threat rating: Medium. Your total lack of decentfamily values makes you dangerous, but we cancount on some right wing nutter blowing you upif you become too high profile.
What threat to the Bush administration are you? brought to you by Quizilla

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[mike: ~]$ uptime
18:19 up 9 days, 9:06, 2 users, load averages: 2.49 2.44 2.29

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I still haven’t seen the webcast or MTV’s broadcast of the 46664 concert. It sounds like it was awesome - I’m going to try to watch it this weekend & I plan to buy the DVD when it’s available. Among the performers were some of my favorites: Peter Gabriel & Johnny Clegg (above), Bono, Queen, [...]

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As a historian, I am dismayed by the letters I see that proclaim that America was founded as a Christian nation. “America is not a Christian nation but rather a nation of mostly Christians. That was the intent of the Founders, to allow each of us the right under natural law, to decide matters of [...]

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