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  • Stupid Dirty Girl

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    California State Education Secretary Richard Riordan found himself the subject of a planned protest and calls for his resignation after he jokingly told a child her name, Isis, meant “stupid dirty girl.” Democratic state Assemblyman Mervyn Dymally was quoted thursday as saying the child was “a little African-American girl. Would he have done that to…

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  • Poutine: the dish of Gods

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    Maciej has a great description of his first experience with Poutine on Canada Day. For those who don’t know, poutine is a combination of cheese curds, brown gravy, and french fries, invented forty years ago. The hot gravy melts the cheese curds, which consolidate with the fries to form a gooey mass that it is…

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  • Links, Links, Links

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    Andrew Dice Clay on CNN Cory Doctrow talks to Microsoft about DRM I Gave My Cat an Enema The military records that could clear up the dispute over George Bush’s service in the Texas Air National Guard are missing ALIEN in 30 seconds, re-enacted by bunnies

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  • Mozilla use going up, up up

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    At the risk of turning this into a two-topic blog (Mozilla/Firefox and Politics seem to be all I’m writing about these days), Mozilla has been enjoying a bit of a surge in popularity since the announcement last week warning users away from Microsoft’s IE browser. In the wake of increasing frustration with IE’s shortcomings and…

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  • More Preaching

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    So it’s been over a week since the announcement of the latest MS/IE vulnerability that has left internet users’ banking passwords dangling in front of malicious hackers. Has Microsoft patched the bug yet? Well, kinda… they’ve released a patch but instead of fixing the flaw, the patch simply changes some sytem settings to ‘band-aid’ the…

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