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Via A.: Protest flares up on Facebook over breast-feeding photos: A minirevolt is underway at Facebook after photos of mothers nursing their babies were removed from their personal pages. ¶ More than 58,000 people have joined a Facebook group called “Hey, Facebook, breastfeeding is not obscene!” to complain about the censorship. The article’s comment thread is a […]
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The 10 Free Resources Every Writer Needs at Write to Done JavaScript Inheritance via Prototypes and Closures at ruzee.com by Steffen Rusitschka (via Ajaxian) Is Einstein the Last Great Genius? at LiveScience (via /.): as I keep saying, this is the sort of thing that explains the steampunk appeal… Finch: What a Novel and Novelist […]
F_D was hit pretty hard since Sunday by a major outage in the Spacey cluster in the Dreamhost network. In a nutshell: shit was down for days. Where do we stand? As of this evening, and after lots of unacceptably bad best case scenarios described, the damage is relatively minimal. Mail has been back solidly […]
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If anyone is looking for some last-minute gift ideas for the beloved bookworm(s) in their lives, F_D has a few recommendations to pass along. I’ve picked my top ten reads from ’08 1 and posted them here for you to serve as gift ideas for the avid 2 readers in your lives. The list is […]
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