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I’m now sitting in Detroit airport (which doesn’t have free wireless) with a few hours before my flight.
The end of MacHack marks the end of an era. It was a major social networking event as well as a place to learn and share neat tricks. For Mac geeks it’s the years biggest social event, more [...]

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At the end of tonight’s banquet on the last day of ADHOC/MacHack it was announced that there won’t be any more. Attendance was dropping each year and we had fewer sponsors this year, so at this rate we could no longer sustain it.
This is the end of an era. MacHack is unique - no other [...]

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I’m now at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood airport waiting for my flight to Detroit for ADHOC. There’s a free public wireless network and I’m getting a very strong signal. It’s also extremely fast. I hope our network at ADHOC will be as good - we’ve had connectivity problems there the last few years.
I just looked at iTunes [...]

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Via Boing Boing: Good stuff from Daily Koz.
Regarding Grokster:
“We hold that one who distributes a device with the object of promoting its use to infringe copyright, as shown by clear expression or other affirmative steps taken to foster infringement, is liable for the resulting acts of infringement by third parties,” Justice Souter wrote.
Regarding guns:
Senate Republicans [...]

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I leave tomorrow morning for ADHOC Conference, so I probably won’t be posting much for the next few days.
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Via morons.org: Fundamentalist Jerry Falwell recently endorsed child abuse at an anti-gay industry conference…
Speaking at an anti-gay industry conference, Jerry Falwell endorsed child abuse or forcing kids into so called “reparative therapy” programs to “change” their sexual orientation. This type of therapy has been rejected by the American Academy of Pediatrics as harmful. Along with [...]

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Today’s top news on TV & papers is Ricky William’s return to the Dolphins, something I couldn’t care less about. They seem to think everyone is a sports fan and is more interested in their team than any other occurrences. I’m not a sports fan because I think it’s a monumental waste of time & [...]

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There was a fire in the men’s room at the pool over the weekend. It seems to have started in a trashcan. The pool & gym are closed & without electricity. The restroom was completely wrecked, but thankfully it didn’t spread to the rest of the clubhouse, although there was some smoke & water damage. [...]

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I found that the iSync 2.1 update made me unable to sync my Motorola V551 via Bluetooth, however I was able to regain the ability to sync by completely removing the device both in iSync & Bluetooth setup and re-adding it in both places.
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Looking at the stats for my sites, under browsers I see two unusual ones: ‘UofTDB_experiment leehyun@cs.toronto.edu’ and ‘larbin_2.6.3 larbin2.6.3@unspecified.mail’. Does anyone know what they are?
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On the third Wednesday of each month, we have the screening meeting for prospective buyers. Last night we had 15 people but only two of them are buying units; the rest are leases or roommates. We’ve also seen more leases & roommates than purchases the last few months. This doesn’t look good. We’d like to [...]

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Via MetaFilter: Iran executes two teenagers. Their crime? Making love. Homosexuality is a crime under Sharia law. Meanwhile, newly “liberated” Iraq moves closer to embedding traditional Islamic laws in its new constitution, reducing rights for women. Will Iraqi gays be the next to suffer the wrath of “Allah’s law” [...]

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Nobody seems too concerned about the excessive violence in GTA, yet Hillary & others have their panties in a bunch over some sexual content unlocked by a third-party hack.
Related links: Steven Johnson; Wired; MacWorld.
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Wil Wheaton says Senator Clinton’s time and energy would be better spent investigating Karl Rove, than Carl Johnson.
Does the mod she’s concerned about actually unlock a feature that’s already built into GTA: San Andreas or does it add a new feature that was not originally built into the game? If it’s the second case, [...]

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James Doohan, chief engineer Montgomery Scott on the original Star Trek, died today at age 85. Rest in peace, Scotty.
(Link - Via Boing Boing)

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Via Global Voices Online: African Bullets & Honey, noting that African churchs are starting to do missionary work in Europe, wonders if the once-colonized will become the colonizers.
There’s also a great quote in one of the comments:
Desmond Tutu likes to joke that when the missionaries went to Africa the blacks had the land and the [...]

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From the CNN story. It seems we know the reason why Bush appointed him:
During the dispute over the 2000 presidential election, Roberts was part of a team of Republican lawyers and former Supreme Court law clerks who assisted the Bush-Cheney campaign.
(Via Minipundit)
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DreamHost’s MySQL server has been having hardware problems today, which has caused a few hours of downtime here & on my other sites.
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This is completely screwed up. A man is accused of killing his baby son because of an irrational fear that he would become gay. (Via MetaFilter)
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My cholesterol has always been very high, although I avoided taking medication for it since I’m concerned about the side effects. A year ago I went on the South Beach Diet and in that time I lost 45 pounds, down to 155, which is my ideal weight. I’m now wearing size 32 jeans for the [...]

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