Posts from — July 2006

Pregnancy centers mislead girls, says congressman – Yahoo! News:
Democratic staff on the House of Representatives Government
Reform Committee who called up some faith-based pregnancy
resource centers said they received incorrect advice aimed at
discouraging abortion.
“Twenty of the 23 centers reached by the investigators (87
percent) provided false or misleading information about the
health effects of abortion,” California Democratic Rep. Henry
Waxman (news, bio, voting record) said in a statement.

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the government should not fund people to lie…. end of story. this is why they should not fund things through religiously affiliated groups, because they tend to promote their ideological views above the facts of the matter.

Logos 2.0:
Famous logos, if they were created for Web 2.0 sites.
Link courtesy of Good Morning Silicon Valley

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some are funny

Open Source Socialtext:
Socialtext just released their wiki code under the OSI-compliant Mozilla Public 1.1 license. You can downloaded it here. The package is called Socialtext Open, and according to the press release, it is “the first open source wiki with a commercial venture as its primary contributor. Over 2,000 businesses run Socialtext Wiki products today as a hosted service or appliance.” I’m on the board of Socialtext and we’ve been talking about doing this for a long time. Socialtext has always been an open source contributor, but this is a fairly important step forward and a shift in the business model. I think this puts Socialtext solidly on the right side of the open source movement.

Green Acres Is Not the Place for Him – New York Times:
“They honk at you, of course, because you’re going so slow,” he said, noting that his tractor clocked a top speed of 25 miles an hour. “But mostly they wave.”

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this made me smile…. if it was a Model 60 John Deere… well i’d be right there.

Which Countries Support Middle East Ceasefire?:

Which countries back immediate ceasefire in the growing Middle East Crisis (some call it a war already) and which countries do not, asks the Belfast Telegraph. Here’s the answer: Link – via digg.
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this makes a key point….

firstamendmentcenter.org: news:
Residents of trailer parks set up by the Federal Emergency Management Agency to house hurricane victims in Louisiana aren’t allowed to talk to the press without an official escort, The (Baton Rouge) Advocate reported.
In one instance, a security guard ordered an Advocate reporter out of a trailer during an interview in Morgan City. Similar FEMA rules were enforced in Davant, in Plaquemines Parish.

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more erosion of rights, someone should sue.

Salon.com | News Wires:
Arrested Bush Dissenters Eye Courts- – - – - – - – - – - -By TODD DVORAK Associated Press Writer

July 22,2006 | CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — When school was canceled to accommodate a campaign visit by President Bush, the two 55-year-old teachers reckoned the time was ripe to voice their simmering discontent with the administration’s policies.

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free speech is a right isn’t it?

Please don’t send me Microsoft Word documents — Tristan Miller:
Please don’t send me Microsoft Word documents

Most likely you have been directed to this document because
you have attempted to e-mail me a document in Microsoft Word
format. I would like to explain to you why I am probably not
able to access this document, why you should reconsider
sending Word documents to people, and what better alternatives
are available for document exchange over the Internet.

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great page, excellent idea.

Make a timeline of your life story at Dandelife:
Web app Dandelife, a “social biography network,” creates a timeline of your life linked to textual posts, YouTube videos and Flickr photos.
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this could have amazing uses in documenting local knowledges and microhistories.

Mickey Spillane – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Frank Morrison Spillane (March 9, 1918 – July 11, 2006), better known as Mickey Spillane, was an American author of crime novels. He was known for his series of novels featuring his signature detective character, Mike Hammer, among other works.

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the big softy passes on.