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justin
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Fri Mar 19 23:40:40 PDT 2010
[neatlinks]
Aww! What a nice tweetimonial:
So refreshing to read a real blog. Well written, not trying to be anything but himself, http://justinsomnia.org
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justin
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Fri Mar 19 18:36:32 PDT 2010
[photos|transportation]
Before the Mini, there was the Minor
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Pam Spaulding
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Fri Mar 19 13:41:59 PDT 2010
[jim pietrangelo|dan choi|dadt]
We were in the courtroom as Lt. Dan Choi and Captain Jim Pietrangelo, jailed for chaining themselves to the fence at the White House because of inaction on repeal of DADT, and it was a dramatic and moving appearance. Many of the ENDA 8, and and other supporters were also present, including Alex Nicholson of
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Rafe
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Fri Mar 19 12:12:20 PDT 2010
[commentary|patents]
He lists a lot of good reasons to be against software patents, but here’s his favorite:
I am against software patents because it is not reasonable to expect that the current patent system, nor even one designed to improve or replace it, will ever be able to accurately determine what might be considered
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Lurleen
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Fri Mar 19 11:36:40 PDT 2010
[civil unions|new jersey|marriage equality|lewis v harris]
"The New Jersey Supreme Court ordered equality for same-sex couples, and the legislature has failed to meet that crystal-clear obligation." --Hayley Gorenberg, Deputy Legal Director, Lambda Legal
The moment we've all been waiting for has finally arrived! After the defeat of New Jersey's marriage equality bill in
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Lurleen
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Fri Mar 19 10:15:41 PDT 2010
[sharon reed|joann ritchie|marriage equality|hospitals|washington|judith lonnquist]
A favorite anti-LGBT talking point is "They don't need marriage, they can do it all with powers of attorney and contracts". Of course the truth is that the government confers many rights and responsibilities with a civil marriage that cannot be garnered with a power of attorney or private contract. For
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Pam Spaulding
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Fri Mar 19 08:34:01 PDT 2010
[dan choi|dadt]
Yes it is, and it's people putting themselves on the line, willing to be jailed to tell everyone that sometimes the fight for equal rights not only means talking to lawmakers, but demonstrating to them that it's no longer about winks and nods and relationship-building.
What happened yesterday was that grassroots
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Pam Spaulding
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Fri Mar 19 03:17:45 PDT 2010
[get equal|enda|employment non-discrimination act]
GetEqual activist C.D. Kirven, one of four lesbians arrested at Speaker Pelosi's DC office yesterday has just sent the Blend photos (credit: Omar Clarke, GetEqual.org) of the civil disobedience act around 3:00 AM ET.
These photos were taken just as she and the three other GetEqual activists were taken into custody
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Fri Mar 19 01:30:11 PDT 2010
I've been working on a Ruby database driver for Ingres. Most of the work has been in C, but I finally have my Ruby code (via C) fetching data from the database.
Now I'm starting on the Ruby on Rails portion. It involves adding a lot of additional calls that I didn't have in place. It's actually a pretty big test suite
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Pam Spaulding
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Thu Mar 18 21:28:04 PDT 2010
[sldn|servicemembers legal defense network]
How about this timing?!
With Dan Choi and other offline activists locked up Thursday for civil disobedience at the White House and on the Hill for calling for an end to DADT and action on ENDA, and online activists swarming on the latter and Tweeting/blogging furiously to cover the former, it's a wonderful time for
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Rafe
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Thu Mar 18 19:51:18 PDT 2010
[commentary|politics|the media]
I have never agreed with anything so wholeheartedly as I do with this Matt Welch piece calling the media out for its obsession with “narratives”.
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Lurleen
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Thu Mar 18 18:59:29 PDT 2010
[new hampshire|dean barker|warrant|marriage equality]
Dean Barker, a managing editor at Blue Hampshire, has kindly given me permission to post a copy of his latest diary here at Pam's House Blend. Note that organizations Dean mentions, Cornerstone and LetNHVote, were the ones behind the recent FAILED attempt to intimidate the New Hampshire legislature into putting a
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Pam Spaulding
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Thu Mar 18 18:53:00 PDT 2010
[dan choi]
So who is the entity playing hardball with these patriotic LGBT service members who called for repeal of DADT with direct action today? This sounds like something out of the Bush Administration. John @ Americablog:
Dan's representative just called the DC Central Cellblock, where Dan and James are being held. I'm told
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Pam Spaulding
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Thu Mar 18 17:02:40 PDT 2010
[enda|getequal|employment non-discrimination act]
UPDATE (11:48PM ET): @GetEQUAL: The ENDA 4 from DC action have just been released without bail.
Just in, from DC Agenda (an aside - has anyone seen MSM reports on this direct action yet?):
Five activists demanding congressional action on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act were arrested Thursday evening at House
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justin
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Thu Mar 18 16:48:30 PDT 2010
[neatlinks]
Surprisingly profound implications in 4 words: Always Be Content Creating
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Pam Spaulding
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Thu Mar 18 16:45:13 PDT 2010
[dan choi|dadt]
Shared with us from Blender Tracey in D.C., photos of direct action in the nation's capital today, urging the White House and Congress to repeal DADT -- Lt. Dan Choi was arrested (and is still sitting in jail), along with Capt. Jim Pietrangelo, for chaining themselves to the White House fence.
From 3/18/2010 WH
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Pam Spaulding
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Thu Mar 18 13:31:48 PDT 2010
[enda|employment non-discrimination act]
It's a day of pink advocacy and activism that we haven't seen in a long time.
We had the DADT demonstration led by Dan Choi, who chained himself to the White House fence to protest inaction on DADT repeal, resulting in his arrest.
And earlier in the day, bloggers did a swarm asking readers to call Speaker Pelosi to
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Rafe
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Thu Mar 18 12:46:35 PDT 2010
[commentary|copyright|dmca|youtube]
So copyright giant Viacom is suing YouTube for failing to take the necessary steps to prevent copyrighted material from being distributed through the site. But as it turns out, ViaCom has been secretly uploading its own content to the site for marketing purposes, using third parties and fake names to cover its tracks.
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Pam Spaulding
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Thu Mar 18 11:25:49 PDT 2010
[dan choi|dadt]
CNN has coverage now (via Joe Sudbay):
James Pietrangelo II, Dan Choi and Robin McGehee from http://www.getequal.org/ were arrested.
Raw AP footage is up:
Press Secretary Robert Gibbs was asked about Dan Choi being chained to the fence:
Q: Robert, a couple of questions. First of all, while we've been out here,
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Pam Spaulding
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Thu Mar 18 10:17:47 PDT 2010
[dan choi|dadt]
UPDATE 2: Via JMG, HRC's statement regarding the Choi WH civil disobedience that was not attended by either Joe Solmonese or guest speaker at HRC's rally, Kathy Griffin.
"Today more than 1000 people showed up at a rally - 500 of which signed up to become more involved in the fight to repeal 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell.'
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Pam Spaulding
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Thu Mar 18 07:30:00 PDT 2010
[enda|employment non-discrimination act]
Today is the day to take a stand for one of the most important pieces of legislation for our movement -- the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) - HB 3017.
The Blend and other blogs are swarming to give readers the tools to tell House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that ENDA must move to a vote. The Bilerico Project, Daily
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Alvin McEwen
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Thu Mar 18 05:06:55 PDT 2010
crossposted on Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters From the Midlands Connection: The number of people in this state living with HIV and AIDS is on the rise. According to the South Carolina HIV and AIDS crisis task force, more than 14,000 people have the disease. Nearly 25 percent of them rely on government
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Thu Mar 18 01:30:11 PDT 2010
One my college buddies, Eric Star is at Evoca, a very cool startup. I'm not going to try to tell you everything they do... I'll just say that they let you post audio "blogs" and make them searchable. There are free accounts and professional level accounts as well.
Here's an article about them over at TechCrunch.
Eric
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justin
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Wed Mar 17 22:59:08 PDT 2010
[neatlinks]
Nuns vs. Bishops would make a great movie title: Nuns in U.S. back healthcare bill despite Catholic bishops’ opposition
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justin
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Wed Mar 17 22:55:06 PDT 2010
[neatlinks]
This was better than I expected: chat roulette by casey neistat (via Pamela)
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Rafe
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Wed Mar 17 12:49:23 PDT 2010
[commentary|html|javascript|web development]
Dojo developer Alex Russell continues to look out for view source:
If HTML is just another bytecode container and rendering runtime, we’ll have lost part of what made the web special, and I’m afraid HTML will lose to other formats by willingly giving up its differentiators and playing on their turf. Who knows, it
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Rafe
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Wed Mar 17 11:15:21 PDT 2010
[commentary|health care|politics]
The big question I’ve had this week with regard to health care reform is, “Why is it taking so long to vote?” The path forward is that the House will pass the Senate bill, and then the House and Senate will pass a small bill that amends the Senate bill by way of reconciliation, so that it can be
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Wed Mar 17 01:30:11 PDT 2010
I finally got myself a MacBook Pro. This is the first Mac I've every owned or spent any serious time on, so I guess I'm what the Mac folk call a "switcher". Given that I've spent a lot of time on Windows and Linux boxes, I thought my impressions might be of interest to others thinking about this new Intel Mac
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justin
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Wed Mar 17 01:11:14 PDT 2010
[music]
Beirut – Nantes
[See post to listen to audio]
Well it’s been a long time, long time now
Since I’ve seen you smile
And I’ll gamble away my fright
And I’ll gamble away my time
And in a year, or a year, or so
This will slip into the sea
But it’s been a long time, long time now
Since
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Rafe
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Tue Mar 16 17:54:36 PDT 2010
[commentary|ruby|sports]
As you may or may not know, the NCAA Tournament starts this weekend, and people around you are probably doing their best to predict the winners of all of the games in the tournament. Most years I join one (or more) pools, but I don’t watch enough college basketball to make educated guesses about who will win each
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Tue Mar 16 01:30:11 PDT 2010
A short article I wrote entitled The Cornerstone of a Great Shop was published in the spring edition of Methods and Tools. It's a great online only magazine, available via PDF or HTML.
Jared
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Dan
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Mon Mar 15 13:33:00 PDT 2010
[michael sheen|johnny depp|crispin glover|helena bonham carter|anne hathaway|tim burton]
ALICE IN WONDERLAND (Dir. Tim Burton, 2010)I had forgotten that in my review of SWEENEY TODD (January 13th, 2008) I had joked that I was only going to see Burton/Depp productions at Movies At Timberlyne in Chapel Hill. Since I now live in Raleigh, I'm so glad that wasn't a strict vow because this really wouldn't have
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justin
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Mon Mar 15 10:36:51 PDT 2010
[neatlinks]
IN-SAN-ITY: Photographer captures amazing images of lions after submerging himself in watering hole for three months
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Rafe
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Mon Mar 15 08:05:58 PDT 2010
[commentary|android|google|iphone]
Here’s Tim Bray (now officially part of the loyal opposition) on the iPhone:
The iPhone vision of the mobile Internet’s future omits controversy, sex, and freedom, but includes strict limits on who can know what and who can say what. It’s a sterile Disney-fied walled garden surrounded by sharp-toothed
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Mon Mar 15 01:30:11 PDT 2010
A project that I've been working on has involved calling C code from Ruby code. It was much easier to do than I anticipated and I thought others might find it interesting.
Why would you do this? Suppose you have a bit of Ruby code that's too slow in a key portion of your program? You can easily move that bit of code
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justin
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Mon Mar 15 00:45:31 PDT 2010
[neatlinks]
Constraints are cool: Super Mario Bros on an 8×8 LED matrix
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Paul
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Sun Mar 14 15:16:51 PDT 2010
[general]
Open Government and the World Wide Web
The opening ceremony of WWW2010 will include a plenary panel offering perspectives from both sides of the Atlantic on the move to make data more open and accessible on the Web (data.gov and data.gov.uk). The panel features inventor of the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee;
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Rafe
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Sun Mar 14 07:50:59 PDT 2010
[commentary|java|open source]
Dave Johnson on why he’s migrating his build scripts for Roller from Ant to Maven:
I was a Maven hater and resisted it for a long time but over the years Maven has gotten much better, it’s well supported in IDEs and as far as I can tell, Maven has replaced Ant as the de facto build system for Java
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Dave Johnson
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Sun Mar 14 06:47:26 PDT 2010
[maven|roller|ant|java]
I was a Maven hater and resisted it for a long time but over the years Maven has gotten much better, it's well supported in IDEs and as far as I can tell, Maven has replaced Ant as the de facto build system for Java projects. If you want new developers be able to easily build, debug and run your code via command or
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Sun Mar 14 01:30:11 PST 2010
In a meeting today AJAX was mentioned and several people asked what it was, so I thought I'd pass on a just a little bit about AJAX.
AJAX just means that the web page you are hitting is getting updated without reloading the entire page. Think about most web sites. If you click on a link, or a tab, or anything, the
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Rafe
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Sat Mar 13 17:12:10 PST 2010
[commentary|tv]
The good news is that Tivo is releasing a new DVR. It looks awesome. I have been a Tivo customer for many years, in fact, Tivo is perhaps my favorite product of all time.
The bad news is that Tivo is a perpetual money loser, and lost 730,000 subscribers last year.
For many years I’ve had a DVR provided by
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justin
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Sat Mar 13 17:12:04 PST 2010
[neatlinks]
LA BLOGOTHEQUE’s Take-away shows (Les Concerts à Emporter) are becoming an internet treasure. Look at you France! Beirut’s Nantes is particularly spellbinding. But there are so many others.
More Blogotheque/Beirut-y goodness here: la Soirée de Poche (a mini-concert)
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justin
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Sat Mar 13 16:18:42 PST 2010
[neatlinks]
What is this thing that the internet has with Phoenix’s Lisztomania? Exhibit A, Exhibit B
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Sat Mar 13 01:30:11 PST 2010
I saw a great post on Ed Burnette's ZD Net blog about developing
software The Eclipse Way. It had some great quotes and the ideas can be applied nearly anywhere. It's not Eclipse specific
by any means. It's about developing good software.
Some of the good quotes:
Project health is stronger than saying "quality".
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Rafe
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Fri Mar 12 18:58:09 PST 2010
[commentary|philosophy]
Here’s Scott Berkun on The Cult of Busy:
The phrase “I don’t have time for” should never be said. We all get the same amount of time every day. If you can’t do something it’s not about the quantity of time. It’s really about how important the task is to you.
When I was in college around 20 years ago, I
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