Pirates
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Saturday links
- Deputy dumps man out of wheelchair – man then gets ahold of courthouse videotape, it reaches the media, and now that deputy is charged.
- Danish media reprints controversial cartoons, and show far more courage than American media outlets.
- Drunken Orgies Tainted System says Florida prison boss.
- Police Chief accused of improper chats retires – this is interesting. The police department in question was famous for find people trying to entice minors. Relevant quote
Lindsey said Murray used his city-owned computer to chat online with women during an ongoing investigation into local massage parlors used as fronts for prostitution.
All the department’s computers, except for one used for the continuing Internet child sexual predator sting operation, are monitored by a keystroke program.Why would the only machine in the department that produces intentional evidence NOT have the keylogger installed?
- Tax me more fund raises little revenue
- The law and economics of pirates
- An aerial photo of San Francisco in the age of Earthquakes
- Fake cops rob family – this will be a growing problem I fear.
Most of these factor info my coming law enforcement meldown/feedback mismatch post I’m going to write one of these days…
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Monday link roundup
- Popular Science has a predictions market
- Global Warming makes you fat! Really! Or so say the environmentalists. For some reason we treat a virgin birth as a matter of faith, but the weather in thirty years is a scientific fact.
- Safari is now available on Windows, I’m not sure why.
- An-arrgh-chy – The economics of Pirates. HT: ZenPundit
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Thursday rapid fire
- The art of bootstrapping in a small business.
- A cool article on facial recognition technology
- The navy still chases pirates!
- The best old-time record collector ever. Adam and Stephanie will be this guy in 40 years.
- A revealing interview with Cindy Sheehan – after reading the interview she just seems like a sad, pathetic creature and not the self-serving caricature she originally seemed to be. How she’s paying for her crusade is a question that to my knowledge no on has asked.
- A relatively old article about Roe V Wade, choice quotes
“Abortion rights have been slowly whittled away while we haven’t even been looking,” said Kitty Striker, 22, who decorated her hair with small coat hanger replicas for the protest. “That’s what’s so shocking and so scary to me.”
Decorated her hair with small coat hanger “replicas”? Isn’t that like a holocaust survivor decorating herself with swastikas?
