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I just noticed that Manilla's time zone support is not sensitive to daylight savings time. My last update times were an hour early. So, I changed the zime zone to GMT minus 4, and now it shows the correct Eastern Daylight Time.
Something I need to remember. From brianf, who has asked me not to point at his weblog until he works on it a bit more:
Recycle Hope, our most valuable renewable resource.
Paul A. Cantor at Reason Online - Fields of Glory: The absurdist anti-politics of W.C. Fields: [wnd]
Like many Americans, I'm having trouble getting excited about this year's presidential race. Somehow the candidates don't measure up to my standards of political greatness. Confronted with this group of diminutive talents, I think back nostalgically to earlier days of American politics, when giants strode the earth. Take 1940, for example--the last time an authentic Great Man ran for president of the United States. No, I don't mean Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and not Wendell Wilkie or Norman Thomas either, but the one candidate in the race who had the right attitude toward the government: W.C. Fields.
U-WIRE via Cannabis News - The Smell of Marijuana Reform is in the Air: a good summary of the history of marijuana prohibition with pointers to Jack Herer and the Million Marijuana March. [cn]
Brent Simmons at Inessential.com reported Sunday on a DNS server that "just sits there clicking; the machine won't boot."
I did have the interesting experience of taking the cover off the machine, calling support, then holding the phone up to the hard drive so the support guy could hear the problem. He immediately told me that a technician would be out to replace it, he didn't ask me to try X or Y or Z."I hate it when you call support and they ask you to try all sorts of things that you already know won't fix the problem. Glad he found a good person. [brent]
Environment News Service via Wired Future of Fuel: Micro Fuel Cells: Fuel cells made using chip lithography techniques, powered by hydrogen safely stored in low pressure hydride. [wired]
Slahsdot - Thus Spake Stallman: An interview with Richard Stallman, the founder of the free software movement. I am conflicted in my opionion on Stallman's ideas, mostly because I haven't figured out how I feel about intellectual property. Can ideas be property? Current patent/copyright law says they can. My take on Stallman's position is that he thinks they cannot. I don't know.
I found the following to be a wonderful expression of the current state of law-making:
If they do not win using present-day law, we can expect to see the record companies purchase new laws they can use to suppress these programs in the future--and trot out famous musicians like Metallica (only famous musicians get much of their income from copyright) who will say that copying music is like killing their baby.
David T. Hardy at Sierra Times - Conversations with Carlos Ghigliotti: Recollections of the events leading up to Carlos' Murder More about Carlos Ghigliotti's evidence that the FBI fired on the Davidians from the back of the burning building and then lied about it. [sierra]
In March of this year, Carlos called with several more discoveries, that truly sealed the matter. He'd managed to spot when a hatch opened on the tank at the back of the building, and when a crewman got out of it. That crewman then fired at an image of a man who fled back into the burning building. Carlos had said that the House Government Reform Committee knew the name of the FBI agent under that hatch. When his testimony was taken, he denied everything -- but began shaking violently as he did so.
