Monthly Archives: June 2006
Communism and America(na)
This week, I got cds by Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie out of the library. I really dig Woody Guthrie–beside the fact that he’s the granddaddy of the folk genre we’ve got today, I just really dig listening to these old, laid-back sounding recordings. I didn’t really know anything about Pete Seeger, besides the fact [...]
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Synergy Revisited
I’ve been using Synergy on my desktop and laptop for a while not. It’s a little program that lets you share a mouse and keyboard (not monitor) with another computer. I set my laptop in front of my desktop. Without Synergy, to type on my desktop, I have to either hug my laptop or close [...]
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Your CD Drive Will Disappear
Just so you know: if you boot your computer with the cd tray open (on a laptop, where it doesn’t close the tray for you while it’s booting), your computer very well may think you’ve removed your cd drive. I know mine does. I had a panic attack earlier this evening, trying to figure out [...]
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Don’t Fight It–It’s Not Really Wrong
The Language Log is good. It’s good because they’re not freakin’ Nazis about language. Occasionally, there’s some dumb, archaic arguments, like when Geoff Pullum suggested that the idea that the linguistic meme of describing unfamiliarity with something by saying that a person had forgetten how to pronounce it was not only not hyperbole but was [...]
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Gaim needs gtk 2.6
Just so you know, Gaim needs gtk 2.6 NOT 2.8. If you use 2.8, thinking that you’re upgrading, you’re going to end up with msn throwing up “writing error” and not connecting at all. So, don’t ‘upgrade.’ I’ve still got to deal with the gtk problems I’m getting when inkscape and gimp start–it’s looking for some [...]
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The Religious Right Isn’t Founded on Abortion
A post in Opus, sent me to this npr page and excerpt from a book called Thy Kingdom Come: How the Religious Right Distorts the Faith and Threatens America. I tend to be skeptical of books with titles like this because they’re usually written by wacky liberal types who are angry about life and the [...]
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On The Bible
A few days ago, I got this email from my mom: I think you would be interested in some of the things that have come up in our Sunday School class lately. We have these new lessons (I think we might have shown them to you) that spark some deep discussions. The problem is that people [...]
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Why Net Neutrality Is Bad (or at least some reasons that make sense)
Here’s an article about net neutrality that makes sense to me. His solution, rather than getting Congress involved to take sides w/ either Google or Comcast, change the rules altogether and let the market sort it out. “‘[M]egabits to phones and gigabits to homes.’ We’ll only get there via competition,” he says, and argues that what [...]
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Vineyard Cd Banned at Wal-Mart