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R.J. Anderson
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Sat May 10 08:25:06 PDT 2008
Here are Miller's splits thus far this season:
OPS versus right-handed batters: .876
OPS versus left-handed batters: .596
By those numbers Miller should be purely a LOOGY, yet amazingly he's actually faced the same number of lefties and righties (22 plate appearances against each). This is a problem, and I'm not really
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justin
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Fri May 09 21:50:35 PDT 2008
[neatlinks]
Love me some Banksy: Tagger (kind of boggles the mind how much stuff is up on Flickr)
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justin
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Fri May 09 21:39:18 PDT 2008
[neatlinks]
Scandalous: Foie Gras & Poutine (in a good way)
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R.J. Anderson
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Fri May 09 18:36:21 PDT 2008
As Evan said: "[James] pitched his ass off."
9 innings, 1 hit, no walks, 8 strikeouts, 92 pitches, 61 strikes, 66.3% strikes (!!!)
Sorry Sonnanstine, Jackson, and even Kazmir, tonight was the best pitching performance in team history, and it's not even that close. Shields was amazingly effective while being so
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Susan
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Fri May 09 18:21:00 PDT 2008
From http://faculty.ucmerced.edu/smalloy/atomic_tragedy/photos.htmlThe Robert L. Capp collection at the Hoover Institution Archives contains ten never-before-published photographs illustrating the immediate aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing. These photographs, taken by an unknown Japanese
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The Author
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Fri May 09 16:11:05 PDT 2008
(cross posted from Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters)
Reports are slowly coming out that the University of Toledo fired Crystal Dixon.
Dixon had written a column this week calling homosexuality a choice and saying that she takes umbrage with the comparison of being black and being gay. She also said she did not
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Patrick L. Kennedy
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Fri May 09 15:15:01 PDT 2008
Los Angeles at RAYS
7:10; FSN Florida RAYS RADIO/1250 AM
Pitching Matchup:
IP
ERA
+
K/9
BB/9
K/BB
HR/9
OPS
WHIP
G/F
P/IP
LAA
RH J. Garland
44.1
5.08
82
2.03
2.64
0.77
1.22
.857
1.51
1.71
14.98
RAYS
RH J. Shields
42.2
3.80
109
6.54
2.53
2.58
0.42
.709
1.36
1.19
15.77
GO RAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Autumn Sandeen
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Fri May 09 13:16:50 PDT 2008
To the surprise of probably no one, Sen. Obama has pulled ahead of Sen. Clinton in the number of superdelegates.
Senator Barack Obama has passed his opponent, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, in the count of superdelegates, the first time since the outset of the race that Mrs. Clinton has lost the lead in one of her few
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justin
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Fri May 09 11:56:06 PDT 2008
[neatlinks]
xkcd instant classic: Making Hash Browns
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justin
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Fri May 09 11:54:58 PDT 2008
[neatlinks]
Photo of the day: Friday Is Office Dog Day
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pam
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Fri May 09 11:00:00 PDT 2008
Out. Of. Control. Dateline Kamloops, British Columbia - Three Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers apparently couldn't subdue an elderly patient. The sadistic sickness continues. BTW, you can see pics of the man's stun gun burns at the CBC site.Frank Lasser, 82, appeared fragile Thursday when he showed the stun gun
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Rafe
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Fri May 09 10:40:16 PDT 2008
[uncategorized|mexico]
For the past six months or so, I’ve noticed a smattering stories that paint a very grim picture of goings on in Mexico. This morning’s news is that Mexico’s national police chief was assassinated in his home yesterday.
Last year the Washington Post reported on murders of Mexican musicians by drug
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Fri May 09 10:30:11 PDT 2008
I'm finally releasing my new website to the public. The bugs I know about have all been fixed (grin). This site, JaredRichardson.net isn't going away, but I'm not planning on updating much of the content.
My new site is running an open source Rails blog/CMS package of my own design, called MOP CMS. (The source
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Fri May 09 10:30:06 PDT 2008
Christopher, my 13 year old, has been playing with Flash for quite a while and has produced his first game: Gravity Mouse. It's a really neat concept and has already gotten 28 reviews and received a score of 2.89/5.0 on Newgrounds. I'm really proud of him. Of course, this is what he was doing when he should have been
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jmeadows
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Fri May 09 10:14:47 PDT 2008
[links|information]
I got this from the Art News Blog, which is fast becoming one of my favorite places to find out about off-the-wall things happening in the art world. I have to admit that hearing a visual artist would offer free downloads of their work is a bit surprising, until I think about all of the musicians that have done it; I
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TerranceDC
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Fri May 09 08:30:00 PDT 2008
I fell down a bit of a rabbit hole yesterday. During a (rare) quiet moment, I took some time to catch up on my news/blog reading. And I finally started reading a collection of news stories that I'd quietly tucked away until I could actually bring myself to read them. I thought that would be a long time, because they
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Rafe
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Fri May 09 08:23:30 PDT 2008
[uncategorized|javascript]
… and then there are programmers. jQuery creator John Resig has ported the Processing visualization language to JavaScript. Not only is this an incredibly cool hack, but it also makes Processing a heck of a lot more useful in a practical sense. I wonder if this will become the new best approach for presenting
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Paul
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Fri May 09 07:54:38 PDT 2008
[general]
Today:
At BBC “Great tits cope well with warming”
At NandO “Easley supports college for aliens” later changed from ‘aliens” to “illegal immigrants”
Brit Band uses CCTV cameras and FOIA to produce music video.
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pam
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Fri May 09 04:00:00 PDT 2008
Whoops. This NY pol was not only fornicating outside the marital bond, he was procreating with a sex partner other than his wife. He receives bonus points for being charged with driving while intoxicated! (NYT):Representative Vito J. Fossella, a Staten Island Republican who was arrested on May 1 in Alexandria, Va., and
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pam
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Fri May 09 03:00:00 PDT 2008
Just the other day (as in Wednesday), Congressman Brad Miller (D-13) sounded like he was going to stay on the fence for a while. I wonder what got him off the fence. From a press release that hit my inbox:"I will cast my vote as a delegate in Denver for Senator Barack Obama. The decision was not easy. Senator Clinton
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justin
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Fri May 09 00:33:52 PDT 2008
[neatlinks]
It occurs to me that I’ve been twittering all along: with neatlinks. That last one was totally @griffey, who I just discovered had twittered about White Noise Lounge!
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Matt Bishoff
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Thu May 08 20:17:26 PDT 2008
Poll
MVP
Dioner Navarro: 3-6, Grand Slam in 13th
Edwin Jackson: 8 innings of shutout ball, 1 BB
Dan Wheeler: Work out of jam in 10th with runner on 3rd and no outs
JP Howell: 3 innings of Shutout ball for the Win
269 votes | Results
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pam
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Thu May 08 19:00:00 PDT 2008
Washington University students and faculty are in an uproar over the decision to award anti-gay, anti-feminist Eagle Forum fossil Phyllis Schlafly an honorary doctorate at its May 16 commencement ceremony. A Facebook group created to protest the move has over a thousand members. Mary Ann Dzuback, the director of the
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roller
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Thu May 08 16:19:43 PDT 2008
[opensocial|socialsite|google|social software]
There will be a OpenSocial Summit: May 14th, at the Googleplex covering the new v0.8 spec changes and all sorts of other interesting things. Wish I could make it, but I'll be happily back home in the old north state. Hopefully, somebody from the SocialSite team will be able to attend.
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justin
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Thu May 08 15:25:05 PDT 2008
[neatlinks]
Sentence of the day: Gagging librarians is horrendous.
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Patrick L. Kennedy
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Thu May 08 14:30:18 PDT 2008
RAYS at Toronto
7:07; FSN FloridaRAYS RADIO/1250 AM
Pitching Matchup:
IP
ERA
+
K/9
BB/9
K/BB
HR/9
OPS
WHIP
G/F
P/IP
RAYS
RH E. Jackson
34.1
4.98
83
6.82
4.98
1.37
0.79
.712
1.49
1.19
16.81
TOR
RH J. Litsch
33.1
4.32
95
6.21
1.89
3.29
1.35
.807
1.35
1.36
15.51
GO RAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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pam
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Thu May 08 14:00:00 PDT 2008
(UPDATE: Jim posted this over at at BlueNC, and he's very active in the comments there. Go surf for a look at all the love he's receiving from the progressive community.)
Jim Neal may not have won the NC primary, but down here in the Tar Heel state, he gave progressives and LGBTs and allies here a big victory in so
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zythyra
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Thu May 08 13:00:09 PDT 2008
This is great. If I'd dared to wear a dress to school, I wouldn't have lived to tell the tale. I was harassed enough as it was for my clothes and being a "sissy", grown up to be trans. Now other kids are crossdressing in support. Way cool!
High school students crossdress to support transsexual sophomore
The Associated
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Rafe
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Thu May 08 12:34:52 PDT 2008
[uncategorized|os x]
Good news: there’s now a native version of OpenOffice for OS X. Bad news: it’s really slow and buggy.
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Rafe
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Thu May 08 12:25:47 PDT 2008
[uncategorized|quotes]
Everyone’s heard the old saw, “Those who can’t do, teach.” Turns out the basic formulation goes back to the sixth century BCE, and is attributed to Anacharsis, a Scythian philosopher. Here’s the original, as reported by Diogenes:
He marvelled that among the Greeks, those who were
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Ruby Sinreich
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Thu May 08 11:49:16 PDT 2008
[hillary clinton|2008|rants|election|barack obama|politics|potus]
Just when I was starting to warm up to the the idea of a Clinton vice-presidency, she comes out with this crap that reminds me why I will never (again) support her for any elected office.
Hillary Clinton suggested Wednesday that “White Americans” are increasingly turning away from Barack Obama’s
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TerranceDC
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Thu May 08 11:39:37 PDT 2008
Short of yodeling, I've been doing my best Switzerland impersonation during the primaries. When it came my turn to vote in the primaries I voted my hopes, knowing I'd support whomever we got in the Democratic nominee. (Let's face it. My values would never let me vote for a John McCain.)
Well, it's pretty clear now
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Thu May 08 10:30:11 PDT 2008
The Ship It! LIVE training course got a new infusion this week: Pragmatic Programmer Andy Hunt will present with me in select venues.
We've also expanded the focus of the course. The first day will cover Ship It! key practices with hands-on training for topics like Peer Code Reviews, daily meetings, and test
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Thu May 08 10:30:06 PDT 2008
I'm not following HTML5, so this was pleasantly surprising news: The last few weeks there has substantive discussion on the HTML WG mailing list (public-html) and the Math WG public dicussion mailing list (www-math) regarding embedding non-HTML languages in the text/html serialization of HTML focusing mostly on MathML
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Autumn Sandeen
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Thu May 08 10:00:00 PDT 2008
From the Bay Area Reporter:
A shareholder proposal to amend Verizon Communications Inc.'s written equal employment policy to explicitly prohibit discrimination based on gender identity was voted down May 1, but backers of the plan say they were encouraged by the amount of support it got, and the group that proposed the
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Rafe
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Thu May 08 09:52:46 PDT 2008
[uncategorized|hardware|space]
This story is astounding on many levels. Scientists recovered data from a Seagate hard drive found in the wreckage of the space shuttle Columbia. The hard drive was used to record data from a physics experiment conducted on the shuttle mission, and that data has now been processed and the results of the experiment have
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RadicalRuss
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Thu May 08 09:39:42 PDT 2008
Congressman John Conyers, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, has responded to the requests of numerous citizens as well as the cities of Los Angeles and San Francisco regarding the use of federal DEA resources in enforcement of marijuana laws against patients legally using medical marijuana under state law.
The
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pam
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Thu May 08 08:00:00 PDT 2008
Surf over to Box Turtle Bulletin and read Tim Kincaid's piece detailing Peter LaBarbera's latest "research" at David DuKKKe's web site. He's culling material at the white supremacist's site to produce a call for action in support of an alleged anti-gay hate crime perpetrator in Illinois.
Just unbelievable.TAKE ACTION:
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Kosh
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Thu May 08 06:44:53 PDT 2008
Roman mayor vows purge of gypsies
Irish Independent
The new mayor of Rome promised yesterday to purge the Italian capital of 20,000 illegal immigrants and to raze 85 Roma Gypsy camps.
Gianni Alemanno (50) a firebrand neo-fascist and the first rightwing mayor of the city since the Second World War, vowed to make Rome
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justin
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Thu May 08 00:55:23 PDT 2008
[neatlinks]
This is so brilliant it blows my mind: Kent Rogowski’s Altered Puzzles (currently on exhibition at the Jen Bekman gallery in NYC—coincidentally I just read about Jen on Tony’s Small Business Hacks post)
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R.J. Anderson
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Wed May 07 20:10:19 PDT 2008
Rays minor-league outfielder Desmond Jennings, one of the team's top prospects, hasn't played this season and could be out for a lot longer. Jennings had a back injury in spring training and has since hurt his left shoulder, farm director Mitch Lukevics said. Jennings is still in Tampa Bay's extended spring program,
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Anton Zuiker
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Wed May 07 18:58:32 PDT 2008
[media]
On NPR’s All Things Considered today, a very long feature, Two Families Grapple with Sons’ Gender Preferences, compared the stories of two young boys whose families struggle to help through gender identity crises. It’s a fascinating story, but even though NPR labels it a Health & Science story, the
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Patrick L. Kennedy
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Wed May 07 14:30:01 PDT 2008
RAYS at Toronto
7:07; RAYS TV/IONRAYS RADIO/1250 AM
Pitching Matchup:
IP
ERA
+
K/9
BB/9
K/BB
HR/9
OPS
WHIP
G/F
P/IP
RAYS
RH M. Garza
19.0
6.16
67
4.26
4.74
0.90
1.42
.772
1.58
0.89
17.84
TOR
RH S. Marcum
40.0
2.70
151
7.88
3.38
2.33
1.13
.570
0.98
1.17
15.18
GO RAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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R.J. Anderson
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Wed May 07 11:39:39 PDT 2008
In case you hadn't noticed how dominant the Rays' main set-up man and closer have been this year, take a look at these numbers:
Percival: 11 IP, 2 hits, 1 BB, 10 K's, 7 saves, 0.00 ERA, 0.27 WHIP Wheeler: 18 IP, 9 hits, 2 BB, 9 K's, 0 saves, 1.50 ERA, 0.61 WHIP combined: 29 IP, 11 hits, 3 BB, 19 K's, 7 saves, 1.30
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Wed May 07 10:30:11 PDT 2008
On Tuesday I'll be at the Madison Java User's Group.. you've got to love a group called MadJug! :)
Then on Wednesday I'll be in Brookfield (near Milwaukee) for the Wisconsin Java User's Group. I'll be giving my No Fluff Just Stuff talk on software techniques both nights. It's one of my favorite talks, so I'm
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