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Moving

25 January 2009

Not that anyone cares, but I’m killing this blog and moving everything to KingRat.us.

All the old posts here should appear there shortly. I don’t know if the export/import functionality handles comments, but we’ll see.

Once the import is done, I’ll delete everything but this entry.

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6 May 2007

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Videos of Today's Arrests at Chase Bank and the Ensuing Skirmishes (with Pepper Spray!) in the Streets 3 November 2011

Here's video of the five people arrested inside Chase being led out of the bank and into a cop van while other protesters cheer them on as heroes. Then protesters get on the ground in front of the van so it can't drive away. You can see people getting pepper sprayed at the 3:10 mark. Here is the skirmish continuing a few minutes later one block sou […]

Christopher Frizzelle

Free Ebook: The Engines of Dawn by Paul Cook 2 November 2011

Phoenix Pick’s free ebook of the month is Paul Cook’s The Engine of Dawn. The coupon code for November is 9991522 and will be good from November 2 through November 30. The download link is at http://www.PPickings.com. ABOUT THE BOOK The great engines of the Enamorati have enabled humanity to travel the stars, but at what cost? Little is known of the jealousl […]

John Ottinger III

The Snuggle Theory of Horror 31 October 2011

From a survey on the psychology of scary stories: With regard to age, there’s a suggestion that enjoyment rises through childhood, peaks in adolescence and then gradually fades with age. Related to this is the ‘snuggle theory’ – the idea that viewing horror films may be a rite of passage for young people, providing them with an opportunity to fulfil their tr […]

Alex Tabarrok

God, No! by Penn Jillette 31 October 2011

This was a total impulse buy. I just got paid and I was in the book store, saw a book by Penn Jillette about atheism, and thought, "Hey, sounds fun!" I was expecting an interesting, thoughtful, funny discussion of Penn's atheism and how it's affected his life.Unfortunately, the book is a mess. I wouldn't mind that so much since a lot […]

K.C. Shaw

The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin 29 October 2011

After her mother dies under suspicious circumstances, Yeine is orderedby her estranged grandfather, the head of the Arameri and sovereign of theworld to journey to Sky, the citadel from which the hundred thousand kingdomsare ruled. Yeine knows little of the ways of the Arameri who run a malevolenttheocracy centred on the god Itempas or skyfather. The gods re […]

Adi

The Israeli Army shot at me and 3 Palestinian kids in Gaza today 28 October 2011

After a lovely day of drinking excessive amounts of tea with a few families in South Gaza (Faraheen and Khuza’a, to be exact), an Italian colleague, Silvia, who used to live in Khuza’a, suggested walking down the road towards the … Continue reading →

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Sightline: Here’s a Tax Loophole that Could Save $450 Million 27 October 2011

Echoing her refrain from last year’s budget cuts, Gov. Chris Gregoire said this morning that she “hates” her budget proposal this year, which would eliminate school buses, increase class sizes, eliminate the basic health plan for low-income people, and cut funding to colleges and universities. However, Gregoire did not identify a single tax loophole she felt […]

Erica C. Barnett

Dennis Ritchie vs. Steve Jobs 26 October 2011

I've been hearing about how great Steve Jobs was for years. Yeah. Yeah. Huge impact. Huge. But two people died in the last few weeks and one of them had a tremendous impact on everything you touch. The other was Steve Jobs.It was Dennis Ritchie.Let us go back to the late Triassic of computers: the 1960's. Remember that line in Apollo 13 about how g […]

Steven Popkes

GOTV Arab Spring-style 24 October 2011

Issandr El Amrani shares this video of a brilliant Tunisian get-out-the-vote campaign. See what happens when a poster of Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali mysteriously reappears in Tunis:

Joshua Keating

"It makes me sad to go to the “We are the 53%” website, and not for any political reason. Just..." 20 October 2011

“It makes me sad to go to the “We are the 53%” website, and not for any political reason. Just because, if you go there, in between all the high schoolers and college kids who don’t know their asses from their face holes (no offense kids, none of us did either at that age, it’s not a crime), you’ll find… First of all, a lot of really inspiring stories. Do th […]

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