Minutely

Like, not monthly.
July 5
“Undoubtedly patriotism, so called, is the gravest danger to which civilization is at present exposed…”
—Bertrand Russell, 1929
July 2
Daniel Jalkut on the GPL
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Idea: “Unsubscribe” button next to “Delete” and “Mark Read” for bulk mail, in all mail clients. The link at the bottom of the email is far.
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Modernizr
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We should call it the “American Secession”, not the “American Revolution”. http://bit.ly/riNET
July 1
Video for Everybody! Impressive.
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Health care is not a right. Deal with it. http://bit.ly/oGjHs
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Living in San Francisco
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July 1st and it’s 59°F. NorCal is so broken.
June 30
NOVA | scienceNOW Neil deGrasse Tyson’s science show. Need to watch this.
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Length of original U.S. Constitution: 11 pages. Length of most recent energy/global warming bill: 1,200 pages. http://bit.ly/qd4zb
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“ The Constitution requires a census; true. But it doesn’t require that it be good. (Same goes for Congress.) Stephen Colbert, The Colbert Report
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“ Certainly I feel sure that early man would not have embarked on the road to civilisation if he had thought that, one day, humankind would arrive at a point where one man has the right to determine how much beer another man may take into a field in the middle of the night. Jeremy Clarkson
June 29
Know Your Meme
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Operation Downfall - Allied plan for the invasion of Japan