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I arrived yesterday to Palo Alto, I’m crashing with my buddy Will. Today we hit SF, walked around and raided a Google snack room. Good times.

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Speech, 9/10/05 > Press Room > Sierra Club: “The New York Times reported a couple of weeks ago that the second-in-command of the Council on Environmental Quality, which is in the White House directly advising the president on environmental policy, is a lobbyist for the American Petroleum Institute. His only job was to read all of the science from the different federal agencies to make sure they didn’t say anything critical and to excise any critical statements about the oil industry. “

Wow, I knew it was bad, but that bad!. Three more years…..

Bruce Schneier: Unchecked presidential power: “This is indefinite dictatorial power. And I don’t use that term lightly; the very definition of a dictatorship is a system that puts a ruler above the law. In the weeks after 9/11, while America and the world were grieving, Bush built a legal rationale for a dictatorship. Then he immediately started using it to avoid the law.”

Entertainment Weekly’s EW.com | Feature: Joss Whedon lets ”Firefly” go: “”In the end, it was what it was: a tough sell,” says Whedon, adding that it appears the Firefly saga has reached its conclusion.”

Bummer!

A judge that can interpret the constitution and figure out that ID is not science.

Judge rules against ‘intelligent design’ in science class: “We have concluded that it is not [science], and moreover that ID cannot uncouple itself from its creationist, and thus religious, antecedents,’”

This should create precedent for similar rulings in other states.

Let me make something clear. I am not some sort of anti-religious zealot zealot, I have no problem with Belief in God, I just don’t think it should be taught in a science class. I think it blurs, or redefines as Kansas did, the definition of science, and gives our students a disadvantage in the future. How can you properly study science, if all of the sudden the scientific method turned into some blurry concept.

Bush says spying leak shameful: “My personal opinion is it was a shameful act for someone to disclose this very important program in a time of war,’ Bush told a news conference at which he was questioned repeatedly about the controversial operation disclosed on Friday by The new York Times. “

Yup, spying on domestic communications, who would’ve guessed they’d do that…..

London Punks 1976 -1984: Some really cool pictures of punk rock culture in London from the late 70’s and early 80’s

Interesting how people feel threatened by what they don’t understand, even simple things like language.

American Family Association - AgapePress news: “Junior Zach Rubio was suspended for one and a half days from Endeavor Alternative School in Kansas City for speaking Spanish, his father’s native language. According to one Washington Post report, the teen says another boy asked him a question in Spanish in the school hallway during a bathroom break, and it only felt natural to Rubio to reply in the same language, which he did.”

First the whole ID debacle, and now sending kids to the office for speaking spanish. Kansas has to be the most retarded state ever.

I particularly love this part:

Boulet feels the school was in a no-win situation, where if it does not stop someone from doing something bad it gets sued and if it tries to stop someone from doing something bad, it gets sued. Now, he says, as a result “we have a situation here where the [Rubio] family is all ready to file a lawsuit because the father is a new American citizen, and evidently he learned in citizenship class that whenever you’re unhappy with someone, file a lawsuit.”

WOW!!!, can you believe this! Speaking spanish is BAD!. There you have it all Spanish speaking American citizens do bad things when you speak Spanish. Wow, just wow, the ignorance, closed-mindness and intolerance in this country are sometimes unbelievable.

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Rails 1.0: Party like it’s one oh oh!: “15 months after the first public release, Rails has arrived at the big 1.0. What a journey! We%u2019ve gone through thousands of revisions, tickets, and patches from hundreds of contributors to get here. I%u2019m incredibly proud at the core committer team, the community, and the ecosystem we%u2019ve raised around this framework.”

Apache Geronimo : “SAN DIEGO, Dec. 13 /PRNewswire/ — The Apache Software Foundation is pleased to announce the release of Apache Geronimo 1.0 and welcomes the incubation of key sub-projects, including ActiveMQ, OpenEJB, ServiceMix, WADI and XBean, that will now be supported by the Apache Software Foundation’s development, licensing, planning and release process.

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