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Category Archives: Politics

Participating in the Grand Democratic Experiment, one post at a time.

evening round-up.

by Rob Friesel

Popecountdown.com? Uh. Um. OK. Some selected tid-bits: “I’m hoping for you your ideas about heaven are true; it would suck dying while having wasted your life.” “if u have to die do it on my B-Day” “I wish for him that he goes to heaven, just like everybody else” “Could you maybe canonize me before […]

damaged.

by Rob Friesel

Apparently, vigilante justice is OK in Philadelphia. I mean, sure … Susanto should get his punishment from the law — but who is charging the neighbors? And should those Catholic school girls be trading their plaid skirts for some bright orange jumpers as well? Just seems strange that little dick-waggling becomes a huge offense, just […]

more iTunes.

by Rob Friesel

From Ape Infinitum, re: iTunes Music Store: It’s all about recapturing second market revenue. *shrug*makes-face* Though I definitely fall in line w/ statements like: I wish I knew how to feel about iTunes. And/or “…people want to do the right thing [and go along with] good services at fair prices…” First off, $0.99 per song […]

buck-a-neer.

by Rob Friesel

From the Wired article on iTunes for Windows: [Apple’s] iTunes Music Store for Windows appears to be off to a grand start, but no matter how successful it may be, the online store will never, ever have the slightest impact on the file-sharing networks… Maybe not. But rampant file-sharing viruses just might. But I digress… […]

unicoded.

by Rob Friesel

*ahem* Getting back to the “English-language-centric Web” thing from not too long ago: The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!) I’ll need to finish reading this at some point. But at least I knew to use encoding. And Unicode, at that.

take your time, CA.

by Rob Friesel

“It was real easy — I just took my time and found it,” [19 year old Marcus] Brown said of Schwarzenegger’s name.” Right. UPDATED. You’re going to get what you deserve, CA. CA got what it deserves. I’ve heard the song-and-dance before re: “Lawyers and liberally-educated-college-boy-activists aren’t the only ones qualified to run for political […]