Yostivanich

A Linux user trusts that the soft­ware will come along.

“My name is Nick Kallen (@nk) and I’m the project lead on Lists, a new fea­ture we’re test­ing with a small sub­set of users. The idea is to allow peo­ple to curate lists of Twit­ter accounts. For exam­ple, you could cre­ate a list of the fun­ni­est Twit­ter accounts of all time, ath­letes, local busi­nesses, friends, or any com­pi­la­tion that makes sense.” Awesome.

“In what some oppo­nents say looks like a polit­i­cal move and Gov. Rick Perry says was “busi­ness as usual,” the gov­er­nor replaced the head of the Texas Foren­sic Sci­ence Com­mis­sion and two other mem­bers on Wednes­day, just 48 hours before the com­mis­sion was to hear tes­ti­mony from an arson expert who believes that Mr. Will­ing­ham was con­victed on faulty tes­ti­mony, a con­clu­sion that has been sup­ported by other experts in the field. Mr. Perry’s deci­sion to shake up the com­mis­sion and put one of his polit­i­cal allies in charge has, at the least, delayed the inquiry into the Will­ing­ham case. While Mr. Perry says he has no polit­i­cal motive for the move, his oppo­nents have called for the com­mis­sion to fin­ish its inquiry.”

“Dozens of col­leges — includ­ing Amherst, Bates, Car­leton, Colby, Vas­sar, Welles­ley and Yale — are embrac­ing stu­dent blogs on their Web sites, see­ing them as a pow­er­ful mar­ket­ing tool for high school stu­dents, who these days are less inter­ested in offi­cial mes­sages and sta­tis­tics than in first-hand nar­ra­tives and direct inter­ac­tion with cur­rent stu­dents.” Awe­some plan.

“My two cents, as some­one who is nei­ther a lawyer, nor a skate­boarder: taunt­ing a police offi­cer by call­ing him a “fckng dck” is about as dumb as it gets, but that does not give the offi­cer the right to threaten to break the guy’s arms, or arrest him for — what was it, in the end, fail­ing to carry iden­ti­fi­ca­tion?” Who watches the watches.

“Here I’ve col­lected 50 Beau­ti­ful Web­site Designs vary from and-drawn, grunge, big back­grounds, clean, cor­po­rate etc.., hope you get inspired from this list, pls men­tion your favorite designs in comments.”

“Sex, food and shel­ter. All pro­vided by robots.”

“When you open up Mariah Carey’s new CD, it’ll have the stuff you’re used to: liner notes and lyrics. But the CD’s book­let will also have adver­tise­ments.” Seriously.

“There is a chance, how­ever, that Texas could become the first state to acknowl­edge offi­cially that, since the advent of the mod­ern judi­cial sys­tem, it had car­ried out the “exe­cu­tion of a legally and fac­tu­ally inno­cent per­son.”” This arti­cle cer­tainly makes a really good case that Texas did in fact exe­cute a totally inno­cent per­son. The worst part is that it sounds like he was per­se­cuted on the fact that he had tat­toos and lis­tened to rock music.

“Regard­ing the Yale U.P. book that was stripped of all visual depic­tions of Moham­mad, Mr. Flem­ming quips that it seems “…Al-Qaeda has been appointed editor-in-chief of Yale Uni­ver­sity Press.” To me that aptly names the stakes: until our gov­ern­ment takes a prin­ci­pled stand and firmly upholds our right to free speech in the face of intim­i­da­tion and threats, we in effect sub­or­di­nate our lib­erty to Islamic reli­gious dogma.” One of the few times I find myself in agreement.

“Of course, since Paul was writ­ing after the time of Jesus, it’s been nat­ural to assume he got these ideas from the teach­ings of Jesus. But when you real­ize that Jesus utters the word love only twice in the Gospel of Mark—compared with Paul’s using it more than 10 times in a sin­gle let­ter to the Romans—the reverse sce­nario sug­gests itself: maybe the Gospel of Mark, which was writ­ten not long after the end of Paul’s min­istry, largely escaped Pauline influ­ence, and thus left more of the real Jesus intact than Gospels writ­ten later, after Paul’s legacy had spread.” How much did Pual and glob­al­iza­tion effect the way we view Jesus.

“Some Texas school dis­tricts are aban­don­ing abstinence-only cur­ric­ula in favor of abstinence-based pro­grams that also teach about con­tra­cep­tion and pre­ven­tion of sex­u­ally trans­mit­ted infec­tions, the Austin American-Statesman reports. Many of the school dis­tricts, includ­ing Austin’s, made the change after it became clear that teen preg­nancy rates were climb­ing under the abstinence-only approach, accord­ing to the American-Statesman. The change also comes as the Obama admin­is­tra­tion seeks to shift fed­eral abstinence-only dol­lars to pro­grams proven to reduce teen preg­nancy rates.” About time.

“Women have a par­tic­u­larly high stake in the health care reform debate because they “inter­act with the health care sys­tem more often” than men, “and so are more vul­ner­a­ble to a sys­tem with soar­ing costs and with restric­tions that hurt women espe­cially,” the Chris­t­ian Sci­ence Mon­i­tor reports. Although more men than women are unin­sured — 46% to 38%, respec­tively — women face greater hur­dles in the exist­ing health care sys­tem that reform leg­is­la­tion would address. For exam­ple, the House health reform bill (HR 3200) would ban “gen­der rat­ing,” a prac­tice by which health insur­ers charge women more than men for the same poli­cies. Under the cur­rent sys­tem, a 25-year-old woman typ­i­cally pays 6% to 45% more than a man the same age for iden­ti­cal cov­er­age, accord­ing to the National Women’s Law Cen­ter. “The cur­rent mar­ket doesn’t work very well for women,” Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.), co-chair of the Con­gres­sional Cau­cus for Women’s Issues, said.”

““Crit­ics of pend­ing health care reforms claim they want to ensure that the gov­ern­ment does not thrust itself between patients and doc­tors to dic­tate what med­ical pro­ce­dures can be per­formed,” but “many are try­ing to do just that when it comes to one legal and med­ically valid ser­vice: abor­tion,” a New York Times edi­to­r­ial states. Abortion-rights oppo­nents in both cham­bers of Con­gress “are seek­ing to pro­hibit mil­lions of Amer­i­cans” who might receive tax sub­si­dies to pur­chase insur­ance under health reform leg­is­la­tion “from pur­chas­ing plans that would cover an abor­tion,” the edi­to­r­ial says.”

Cre­at­ing a nav­i­ga­tion menu.

“Grayson told reporters that “I didn’t vio­late the rules of the House.” He’s right there. If mis­rep­re­sent­ing the other side’s posi­tion were against House rules, hardly any elected offi­cial would escape rep­ri­mand. But he’s wrong that the Repub­li­cans have “no plan,” whether he likes it or not, and it cer­tainly doesn’t boil down to “die quickly.” He’s right that main­tain­ing the sta­tus quo would mean deaths from lack of insur­ance, but as for how many, he’s rely­ing on one study’s estimate.”

Cre­ate a cus­tom background.

“The High Court has given per­mis­sion for an injunc­tion to be served via social-networking site Twit­ter. The order is to be served against an unknown Twit­ter user who anony­mously posts to the site using the same name as a right-wing polit­i­cal blog­ger. The order demands the anony­mous Twit­ter user reveal their iden­tity and stop pos­ing as Donal Blaney, who blogs at a site called Blaney’s Blar­ney. The order says the Twit­ter user is breach­ing the copy­right of Mr Blaney. He told BBC News that the con­tent being posted to Twit­ter in his name was “mildly objec­tion­able”. Mr Blaney turned to Twit­ter to serve the injunc­tion rather than go through the poten­tially lengthy process of con­tact­ing Twit­ter head­quar­ters in Cal­i­for­nia and ask­ing it to deal with the matter.”