Saturday, November 29, 2014
Happy liturgical new year's eve
I am going to get liturgically wasted, maybe hold hands during the Our Father or something. Woohoo!
Labels: catholic, public service announcement
Thursday, July 11, 2013
Happy Free Slurpee Day!
Because it's lame now, only from 11 am to 7 pm. Still my favorite holiday though.
Labels: food, fun, public service announcement
Tuesday, July 09, 2013
Mark Shea is looking for money
Give him some! He writes many awesome things, and also apologizes when he does something wrong, which is more than I can say.
Labels: catholic, metablogging, public service announcement
Wednesday, July 03, 2013
Happy 20th birthday Slave to the Grind
I've only been there for 14 of them, but that's not so bad.
Labels: public service announcement
Thursday, May 30, 2013
Bad things
In the last couple of weeks there have been a series of attacks on gay people in New York City, with one person being murdered in cold blood in the west village. The friars and staff of the Church of St. Francis of Assisi would like to make a clear statement deploring these heinous and sinful acts of violence.Continued . . .
Labels: catholic, public service announcement
Sunday, September 09, 2012
JWR update
JWR's editor is going through some tough times, so if you can throw a little dough their way, that would probably be a good thing in the greater scheme of things. A fine website, that is.
Labels: jewish, public service announcement
Thursday, August 23, 2012
eBay and arbitration
Ebay is sneaking a binding arbitration clause into their latest user agreement. Existing users have until November 9th to opt out. I'll be mailing my notice shortly.
EDIT: HT to Slashdot.
EDIT: HT to Slashdot.
Labels: law, public service announcement
Monday, August 13, 2012
Two PSAs for the price of one!
First of all, two good days coming up this week. Tomorrow we have the feast of good Saint Max. Wednesday is a rare Holy Day of Obligation, the Assumption. So get your extra churching in.
Also on the list if neat things, Wikipedia has a breakdown of all of the different types of screws, and I think I have been confusing Phillips and Posidriv for years.
Also on the list if neat things, Wikipedia has a breakdown of all of the different types of screws, and I think I have been confusing Phillips and Posidriv for years.
Labels: catholic, public service announcement
Monday, August 06, 2012
I've known about this for a long time
But perhaps that says a lot about me. So yes, voter data is public.
While voter data has been 'technically public,' it is usually accessed only by political campaigns and companies that sell consumer data.Well, them and bored high school studends interested in politics, I suppose.
Labels: politics, public service announcement
Friday, April 27, 2012
Government collects all data just in case
Here
Previously, CISPA allowed the government to use information for "cybersecurity" or "national security" purposes. Those purposes have not been limited or removed. Instead, three more valid uses have been added: investigation and prosecution of cybersecurity crime, protection of individuals, and protection of children. Cybersecurity crime is defined as any crime involving network disruption or hacking, plus any violation of the CFAA.
Labels: politics, public service announcement
Monday, April 02, 2012
Crystal Cox is bad, Marc Randazza is good
And here's why:
And what to do?
And so on. I have a pretty low ranking in the world of Googly goodness, one would imagine, but every little bit counts.
I agree with Marc that Crystal Cox is no journalist. Journalists don't offer their services as reputation managers to the people they are reporting on. Journalists don't engage in bizarre and incomprehensible rants. (Well, OK, not counting cable news.) Journalists don't engage in the writing equivalent of spam. But I'm not convinced that this should matter. I think that Crystal Cox — like me, or Marc Randazza — should enjoy the same protections as a journalist. But with that comes responsibility. If she destroys someone's life — as she did to Padrick — and he can prove that her claims were false and that she had the requisite mental state, then she should pay. If the Ninth Circuit reverses here, despite Crystal Cox's warts, she should get another trial — and then I hope that Padrick thoroughly cockroach-stomps her again. Given the freakish nature of her filings, that seems like a probable result, no matter what standard she is held to.
And what to do?
First, every time Crystal Cox attacks someone, we can band together — as bloggers did for Marc Randazza
when Crystal Cox attacked him — and write fair and factual posts about the target. That substantially blunted Crystal Cox's attempt to destroy Randazza's reputation by spamming numerous nutty blogs about him, pushing her efforts off the first page. As a team, we can render Crystal Cox powerless and largely irrelevant. More speech works. (Now you know why I put up that mysterious Popehat Signal.) It might be nice to start by offering this gesture to Kevin D. Patrick, her victim in the Oregon case. But if you're out there — if she's gone after you, or threatened to — we can help you, too. We'll throw up the Popehat Signal and gather a more-speech team and flush her off the first pages of your search results.
And so on. I have a pretty low ranking in the world of Googly goodness, one would imagine, but every little bit counts.
Labels: public service announcement, technology
Sunday, February 12, 2012
RWA, the mutant cousin of SOPA
But there is another threat also making its way through the US Congress — less publicised but also hugely important.
That threat is the Research Works Act (RWA), by which scholarly publishers like Elsevier (with its 36% profits as a proportion of revenue) hope to claw back total ownership of federally funded research. The way academic research works is an absolute scandal to start with, but the behaviour of publishers now — charging both authors and readers, and trying to get laws passed supporting their outdated and corrupt business model — is absolutely disgraceful.
The government pays a zillion for the research, and then the journal that charges the government to publishes it wants to make it illegal not to charge other people to read it. Sounds legit.
Also worth reading is the article "Academic publishers have become the enemies of science" that is linked to by ReProg.
Labels: politics, public service announcement, science
Sunday, January 22, 2012
Happy Lunar New Year
Monday, January 16, 2012
SOPA in a nutshell
As Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian explained, PIPA and SOPA are “the equivalent of being angry and trying to take action against Ford just because a Mustang was used in a bank robbery.”
Labels: humor, politics, public service announcement, trends
Sunday, November 06, 2011
Latin Q&A Stack Exchange
Taking shape . . .
Labels: education, public service announcement
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
RIP Mr. Lisp
Thursday, October 13, 2011
DMR RIP
Sunday, August 14, 2011
Justin Acocella - RIP
You will be missed.
"Lord," Martha said to Jesus, "if you had been here, my brother would not have died. But I know that even now God will give you whatever you ask."
Jesus said to her, "Your brother will rise again"
Labels: prayer requests, public service announcement
Tuesday, August 02, 2011
The Nine Days
Or as a Lit Hum classmate of mine once said, "Happy Ash Wednesday!".
Labels: jewish, public service announcement
Sunday, July 17, 2011
Psychology Stack Exchange in commit phase
If you're not familiar with "Stack Exchange", it is a family of Q&A sites that try not to suck. It's kind of a big deal in my corner of the Internet, right up there with Pedobear.
Labels: public service announcement, science, technology
