Category: Miscellany

class=”linktitle”>Friday Ark #67 (8 links)
Modulator
HAPPY NEW YEAR We'll post links to sites that have Friday (plus or minus a few days) photos of their chosen animals (photoshops at our discretion and humans only in supporting roles). Watch the Exception category for rocks, beer, coffee cups, a

class=”linktitle”>Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies (7 links)
Jacqueline Mackie Paisley Passey
These are Terrence's favorite cookies: I'm using a modified version of The Best Recipe's Big and Chewy Oatmeal-Raisin Cookies. Terrence doesn't like raisins, so I eliminated those and replace them with a smaller amount of chocola
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class=”linktitle”>DOJ Investigating NSA Leaks (8 links)
The Strata-Sphere
This is great news:
The U.S. Justice Department has launched an investigation to determine who disclosed a secret NSA eavesdropping operation approved by President George W. Bush after the September 11 attacks, officials said on Friday.
We
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class=”linktitle”>FINALLY: JUSTICE DEPT. OPENS NSA LEAK PR (10 links)
Michelle Malkin
It’s about time. Via Breitbart/AP:
The Justice Department has opened an investigation into the leak of classified information about President Bush’s secret dom
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class=”linktitle”>How I became a professional blogger (7 links)
Jacqueline Mackie Paisley Passey
Jesse asked how I've made over $20,000 this year working an average of less than 10 hours/week. Most of that income has actually been from this blog! I originally started my blog in November 2003 to keep in touch with…
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class=”linktitle”>YOU CAN NEVER GO HOME AGAIN. Mainly, bec (20 links)
TAPPED
YOU CAN NEVER GO HOME AGAIN. Mainly, because you can’t afford to. As an addendum to Matt’s post on the…

I am wasted on Terrence (16 links)
Jacqueline Mackie Paisley Passey
Me: Hey, honey, do you want to make your girlfriend happy? Terrence: What? Me: Let's go to bed. Terrence: [looks surprised, as it is quite early for us] Me: [trying to entice him with further explanation] We could fuck and…
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Trust, But Verify (12 links)
Ezra Klein
Man, this is some insanely bad polling: Should the National Security Agency be allowed to intercept telephone conversations between terrorism suspects in other countries and people living in the United States? Yes 64% No 23% And I mean bad…

BARBARISM IN THE NAME OF "HONOR" (10 links)
Michelle Malkin
Unspeakable evil:
Nazir Ahmed appears calm and unrepentant as he recounts how he slit the throat
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Comparison shopping for goats (9 links)
Jacqueline Mackie Paisley Passey
One of Terrence's friends commented on Terrence's blog that he and his wife sponsor a child through Christian Children's Fund. This inspired Terrence and I to begin window shopping at some of the child sponsorship sites, looking for a
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Citizens Against The Troops (7 links)
Right Wing News (Conservative News and Views)
Here's a fun website (if by fun, you mean annoying, infuriating, and outrageously moronic): Citizens Against The Troops. Here are…
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Sing, Jackie, Sing! (7 links)
firedoglake

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class=”linktitle”>Public Employee Unions (7 links)
The Washington Monthly
PUBLIC EMPLOYEE UNIONS….This single paragraph from the New York Times does a pretty good job of encapsulating the mixed feeling a lot of people probably have about public employee unions:To control soaring pensions costs, the [Metropolitan Transpo

class=”linktitle”>Barron's: Investiate a possible imp (8 links)
The Big Picture
I normally steer clear of politics (except when it relates to science and technology). But I had to sit up and take notice this morning, when I saw the normally conservative-leaning financial weekly Barron's calls for an investigation into the

class=”linktitle”>THE NEW YORK TIMES STRIKES AGAIN (8 links)
Michelle Malkin
‘Twas the day before Christmas
And all through the Times
Hysteria reigned over
Bush’s “impeachable crimes”…
Yes, the New York Times continues to show its disregard for our nation’s security, publishing additi
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They're Not Going To Stop (7 links)
JustOneMinute
The NY Times escalates its war on America with its latest revelations about the high-tech capability of the NSA to monitor and data-mine international communications. Their first wave of coverage if the Bush Spied scandal was fizzling out – even…

class=”linktitle”>Dispute continues over election results. (7 links)
http://iraqthemodel.com/
Yesterday was an eventful day for the parties that rejected the results of the elections. Those parties and coalitions-more than 30 in total-signed a “charter of honor” and formed a new movement under t
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class=”linktitle”>Friday Ark #66 (7 links)
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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year We'll post links to sites that have Friday (plus or minus a few days) photos of their chosen animals (photoshops at our discretion and humans only in supporting roles). Watch the Exception category for rocks,

class=”linktitle”>Staying home (10 links)
The Flyaway Weblog – Fly away – far away… – King Kong at the Affinia Manhattan
[photo source: wikipedia] So you decided to skip all the stress and celebrate Christmas at home. A sigh of relief must have escaped your lips when you read about the long lines at the airport. Watching your kids run…

class=”linktitle”>Gizmo plus Google Talk? (10 links)
The VoIP Weblog – Your idea of Voice over IP – Links for 12/21/2005
The Gizmo project, a great alternative to Skype (if you need one) is now offering IM through Google Talk, according to Om Malik. This is big news. When I do podcasts with just one other person, we use Gizmo as…

class=”linktitle”>On the Legality of the NSA Electronic In (13 links)
Power Line
It has been widely suggested that the NSA electronic intercept program that has been carried out by the Bush administration…
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class=”linktitle”>Trivializing Terror (8 links)
The Washington Monthly
TRIVIALIZING TERROR….Remember Jose Padilla, the “dirty bomber”? Last September, in a major victory for the Bush administration, the 4th Circuit Court ruled that the government could detain Padilla in a military brig indefinitely without

John Gibson goes berserk — on air and off (8 links)
The Carpetbagger Report
Anyone familiar with Fox News broadcasts has come to expect a level of professionalism on par with an elementary school food fight, but once in a while, even the FNC gang manages to surprise.
CL and Newshounds offered terrific coverage last

class=”linktitle”>Newsflash: Leak from Liberal war-room pr (8 links)
Stephen Taylor – Conservative Party of Canada Pundit
In an email to select officials in the Conservative Party obtained indirectly by yours truly, a leak has come from the Liberal war-room in the form of some photocopied documents mailed in a brown envelope. The Liberal attack “storyboards”
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More information and tools for domesticity… and a little poker, too (8 links)
Jacqueline Mackie Paisley Passey
My brother and his husband will be visiting me in Costa Rica next month and are bringing down the rest of my books and DVDs. Since this may be my last chance to get stuff down here for a while…
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class=”linktitle”>Carnival of the Vanities 170 (14 links)
Ravenwood’s Universe – You can’t fight in here! This is the War Room

It's that time of year again. The holidays are upon us, and the internet will soon slow to a crawl as bloggers of all faiths spend more time with their families, take vacations, or just sit back and relax. But…
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Judge Posner and “Ad Hoc Initiatives” (i.e., Presidentially Sanctioned Felonies) (8 links)
Balkinization
Judge Posner has an Op-Ed in the Washington Post this morning that is understandably receiving a lot of att

class=”linktitle”>Enterprise SaaS (17 links)
The CIO Weblog – Business and Technology Coverage of the Software Market – Premier 100 IT Leaders –
Why will Enterprises Move to SaaS?, Exerpts from Amy Wohl’s Weblog, For a long time, we (the IT industry) told ourselves that SaaS would not be very tempting to large enterprises, except for specific narrow applications serving detached locations or

Carnival of Education – The Winter Hibernation Edition (7 links)
Circadiana
Welcome to this week’s Carnival of Education and to my blog. Thank you to Education Wonks for letting me host the Midway today. The school is (finally!) out and you may be sick’n’tired of it, but you canno

The Growth of Open Source Software in Organizations – Optaros (7 links)
The CIO Weblog – Business and Technology Coverage of the Software Market – Premier 100 IT Leaders –
Optaros recently published a report titled “The Growth of Open Source Software in Organizations”, This research report is based on survey data collected from an online poll distributed to more than 40,000 information technology and business professi

class=”linktitle”>NSA kerfuffle: redux (12 links)
protein wisdom
Drawing on remarks from both the President and the Attorney General yesterdayand on the responses I was reading around the blogosphereI began to suspect that the divisions were seeing in the debate over executive aut
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Security lines at the airport (12 links)
The Flyaway Weblog – Fly away – far away… – High tech traveller
According to the Transportation Security Administration, from 22 December, airline travellers will be subjected to random screenings; on the other hand, there will be fewer prohibited items. Passengers will be allowed to hand-carry small tools and s

Pentagon anti-terror investigators labeled gay law school groups a “credible threat” of terrorism (10 links)
AMERICAblog: Because a great nation deserves the truth
Jesus f-in Christ. This has gone far beyond the pale. We need to do something now, and in massive numbers. I’ve been talking with several of the blogs and politicos in the last few days. This is even wo

Intelligent design supporters get SPANKED! (9 links)
Jacqueline Mackie Paisley Passey
My favorite bits from the Associated Press article, Judge Rules Against Pa. Biology Curriculum:HARRISBURG, Pa. – In one of the biggest courtroom clashes between faith and evolution since the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial, a federal judge barred a Pennsyl
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(7 links)
Instapundit.com
THE NYC TRANSIT WORKERS' UNION has an unofficial blog, and it's getting an earful in the comments. Here are some excerpts: [S]econdly, if i could meet the masterminds behind this strike, i'd personally spit in each of their faces. I k
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class=”linktitle”>Wiretap Mystery: Spooks React (25 links)
Defense Tech
A few current and former signals intelligence guys have been checking in since this NSA domestic spying story broke. Their reactions range between midly creeped out and completely pissed off.