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Toil and trouble
First I break my motherboard trying to install a new heat-sink and fan, than the new one I get turns out to be a different socket type than the CPU. I really hate computers at the moment.
The new USB MIC comes today though
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Tuesday rapid fire
- S.F. mayor sees wireless service as basic right – Gavin Newsom is truly the most publicity-hungry mayor in America. A basic right? This makes me rather glad that we don’t have nationalized health care.
- Liquids per gallon – Hot Hooters Booby Oil is my favorite
- US finds fever bacteria during war protest weekend – This sees like it should be a bigger story.
- DOT frowns at U.S. 78 monitors – private industry stepping into help with a public problem, gets “frowned at” by government
- $100 Laptop – this could be really cool, if only it existed.
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I went back to Marginal Revolution, and came across this post, The Unreported Mexican Immigration Story which makes the point that Mexican immigration increases as Mexicans get rich enough to leave. Well worth reading.
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A sad article
Jonathan Rauch has an interesting article on the Cost-Benefit of the New Orleans levees. It would seem that the plan was to just abandon ship. Money Quote
Yet the most striking fact of the New Orleans catastrophe has received less notice than it deserves: The plan for New Orleans in case of a hit from a very powerful hurricane was to lose the city.
In other words, if a severe hurricane struck, the city’s flooding and abandonment was not what would happen if the plan failed. It was the plan.
New Orleans is built between a lake, a river, and the Gulf of Mexico, and it is lower than the surrounding waters. It was kept dry by an extensive system of levees and pumps. That system was itself contributing to the slow subsidence of the city.
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That was fast
- JusticeMyers.com is already up, made by Republican flac group it would seem.
- While I have no objection to a non-judge being on the court, Bush’s personal lawyer? Seems a bit ridiculous.
- Couldn’t they have found a better picture for her?
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Pithy quote
From an old article by Jesse Walker
But if I had to speak in terms of that map, I’d say the most successful culture warriors come from the blue states. The authoritarian conservative wants to maintain the old taboos. The authoritarian liberal wants to introduce some new ones, and he’s had a lot more success. The religious right may despise homosexuality and pornography, but the gay movement is thriving, despite last week’s losses, and porn is more freely available than ever before.
The liberal puritans, by contrast, are riding high in the media and in the courts. For many Americans, the Democrats are the party that hates their guns, cigarettes, and fatty foods (which is worse: to rename a french fry or to take it away?); that wants to impose low speed limits on near-abandoned highways; that wants to tell local schools what they can or can’t teach. There is no party of tolerance in Washington — just a party that wages its crusades in the name of Christ and a party that wages its crusades in the name of Four Out Of Five Experts Agree.
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Finally feeling better
It would seem that I caught the rare 24 hour bug. I went from feeling miserable all day today to somewhat tolerable today to hopefully better tomorrow.
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I’m hooked
On podcasts. It’s like talk radio but good.