Flutterby™! From 2015-04-01 to 2015-04-30

Lots off sirens and lights headed east out Lakeville Highway. Hope everyone survived whatever collision spurred this.

Enough with the replication police:

Can you imagine what might happen if any published result could be questioned—by anybody? You’d have serious psychology research being grilled by statisticians, and biology research being called into question by . . . political scientists?

Are scientists really ready for ‘retraction offsets’ to advance ‘aggregate reproducibility’?

Given recent evidence of the irreproducibility of a surprising number of published scientific findings, the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) sought ideas for “leveraging its role as a significant funder of scientific research to most effectively address the problem”, and announced funding for projects to “reset the self-corrective process of scientific inquiry”. (first noted in this post.)

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Politics Psychology, Psychiatry and Personality moron Law Enforcement Race Real Estate ]

"It's never your successful friends posting the inspirational quotes." -- probably Damien Fahey

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So Violet Blue retweeted charlie ‏@princeJCE:

Do not support Big Gay!! Do your shopping at small, local gays instead!! #DownWithBigGay #SupportLocalGays http://pic.twitter.com/hN4kDa2PCX

And I observed that "Big Gay and the Homosexual Supremacy" was a band I'd stand in line for (and that Homosexual Supremacy sure is the long way of saying "Daddy", but my kink is not your kink).

Stuart Surname ‏@TotallyLeggit did the album art:

@danlyke @princeJCE @violetblue Get the album :)

[ related topics: Hardware Hackery Photography Sexual Culture Robotics Political Correctness Sociology Art & Culture Embedded Devices Archival Marriage ]

"Remove all clothing from patient's chest. Stand by. Preparing to shock." CPR has changed in the two decades since I last took it.

[ related topics: Clothing ]

QOTD comes from E.T. Jaynes:

You insist that there is something that a machine cannot do. If you will tell me precisely what it is that a machine cannot do, then I can always make a machine which will do just that!

(Via AskMeFi)

[ related topics: Quotes Interactive Drama Books ]

She waved plantains when I walked in, so no pupusas today...

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Want to help prevent online bullying? Comment on Facebook

As TED’s social media editor, I have seen a lot of nasty comments. I’ve seen grown men and women deride a 14-year-old girl for her choice of dress. I’ve seen them say they’re revolted by a beautiful transgender woman. On every talk about race, I’ve seen a slew of racist comments. But none have ever been as bad as the comments we got when we published Monica Lewinsky’s TED Talk, The Price of Shame. At least at first.

[ related topics: Sexual Culture Journalism and Media ]

RT @marinmaven:

An awesome young woman at San Rafael HS put this flier up. I can't believe the admin has given her trouble for it.

[ related topics: Photography Bay Area Archival ]

I will accept a "Full House" reboot if it catches Bob Saget in his filthy phase.

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Real Estate ]

The miscalculations in U.S. middle east policy seem to have come because our leaders think people there blindly follow their leaders...

Just to be fair: Raspberries to the asshole on the bicycle who ran the light at D St & Petaluma Blvd at about 6:55 this morning.

[ related topics: Pedal Power Bicycling ]

Clipper card was low; auto-load is *per card*, not per account. Email says it can take 5 days(!) for my web transaction to clear. Wha?

[ related topics: Privacy ]

RT beta is tomorrow ‏@steveklabnik:

Capitalism:

1. Tesla posts April Fool's joke
2. Algorithms read headline
3. HFT bots: "BUY BUY BUY" http://www.bloombergview.com/a...a-stockholders-can-t-take-a-joke

One of the things I occasionally ponder is the impact of the SEC: Obviously they reduce some friction in trading transactions because they create standardized evaluation formats, help weed out some of the obvious frauds, but the article asks:

A reader named Jakob Stoeber sent this story to me and asked what I thought the Securities and Exchange Commission would think of a corporate press release, like this one, that (1) is false and (2) moved the price of the company's stock. ...

And I wonder about the hazard created because of that reduced friction and standardization...

[ related topics: moron Economics ]

Tim Cook may decry Indiana and open Saudi Arabia Apple Store, but "at least we let women drive" is still not how a U.S. state should be...

[ related topics: Apple Computer Food ]

RT Eλf Sternberg ‏@elfsternberg:

There's so much doe/deer/gazelle imagery mixed with boobs in Proverbs I suspect the writer of being a cervine furry.

[ related topics: Writing ]

The United States government has an official marijuana menu, and it’s posted online, a little look at marijuana available for researchers from the National Institute on Drug Abuse:

Roughly $1,200 a pound would be pretty good for wholesale bud, but the selection here is atrocious.

The highest THC cigarette the government is selling tops out at 6.7% THC. Compare that to 25% THC for pre-rolls in San Francisco and L.A. Uncle Sam has no high-cannabidiol pre-rolls, whereas high-CBD pre-rolls are common in advanced cannabis markets.

[ related topics: Drugs Weblogs Health Bay Area Software Engineering moron Beer California Culture Economics ]

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health press release: To improve bicycle safety, crash reports need to capture more data. A little teaser for a call for standardization of collection data published April 2, 2015 in Injury Prevention.

[ related topics: Children and growing up Health Current Events Pedal Power Bicycling ]

VR. Home automation ("IoT"). Electric bicycles. Social web sites. Server ("cloud") compute. The teens: the '90s, but cynically.

[ related topics: Bicycling ]

The thing about early April is that now we've got 2 weeks of NYT columnists re-tweeting the April Fool's jokes.

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Coworker ran into an abbreviation for "AT&T Single Sign-On Login Error" and has promised to start using "attssole" as a perjorative.

Wait, the bus WiFi sign on page has video on it? Glad I don't have Flash enabled by default...

[ related topics: Video Public Transportation ]

Skipped the 48 to wait for the 48X. If only Sonoma County Transit had real-time bus data so we could tell whether this was a good idea...

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Public Transportation ]

Yep The 48 is in the lead! Just pulling away from the Rohnert Park stop as we're pulling in. Should have gotten on the first bus.

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Traffic backed up into town from DUI checkpoint on Petaluma Blvd N. northbound before Corona Road.

Learning about the German orthography reform of 1996 reminds me of how privileged I am to have grown up speaking American English...

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Some software methodologies have daily stand-ups, some have hourly face-palms.

[ related topics: Software Engineering ]

Cold out at the coast

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Looking south to Point Reyes

[ related topics: Photography Bay Area ]

Thanks to the Spud Point Crab Co for sponsoring the Bodega Bay Wooden Boat Challenge. And awesome clam chowder.

[ related topics: California Culture Boats Machinery ]

Didn't see the bald eagles that have been feeding at the mouth of the Russian River

[ related topics: Photography Dan & Charlene's July 2003 San Juan Trip ]

Woot.com has an Asus Windows 8.1 Transformer book today. Anyone know if this is a reasonable Android tablet equivalent?

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Books Microsoft ]

Grocery store wine guy just described a flavor as an "overriding subtlety"... uh...

[ related topics: Wines and Spirits ]

If you have some spare time this summer, you might consider the Apr-30-May-3 Challenge Sonoma ropes course facilitator training...

[ related topics: Interactive Drama ]

Sharpening block planes for next weekend's boat building competition

[ related topics: Photography Boats Machinery ]

Looking at the pix from Hunky Jesus, and realized that oh, yeah: If you're gonna play Jesus with thorn crown, you've gotta be early 30s...

[ related topics: Religion Interactive Drama Humor ]

How I cracked NQ Vault's "encryption".

Turns out top-selling mobile "encryption" app does XOR with the key for its length, and then stops.

[ related topics: Cryptography ]

What happens when you commission a sculpture rather than a bridge: http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/...dge-may-have-snapped-6178607.php

[ related topics: California Culture ]

RIP James Best, best known as Sheriff Roscoe P. Coltrane on the Dukes of Hazzard.

“I learned more about acting in front of a camera from Jimmie Best in an afternoon than from anyone else in a year,” John Schneider, who played Bo Duke, in a statement. “When asked to cry on camera, he would say, ‘Sure thing – which eye?’ I’m forever thankful to have cut my teeth in the company of such a fine man.”

[ related topics: Photography Weblogs Technology and Culture Journalism and Media Television ]

RT Wim Remes ‏@wimremes

I tried to traceroute an IPA, failed cuz too many hops.

[ related topics: Beer ]

'Large Hardon Collider': BBC News covers Higgs boson reboot with a smutty spelling gaffe.

It's not like anyone else has managed to type it right on the first try...

[ related topics: Photography Current Events Monty Python Archival ]

A little article on the SF public defender's office use of YouTube:

But as copwatch groups use YouTube as a channel for public transparency, Adachi's ambitions go beyond whistleblowing — he's found that publishing videos on YouTube can put pressure on prosecutors to drop cases against his clients. He lists example after example: Last year, Adachi says he showed surveillance footage to the District Attorney that showed his client, a minor, was not responsible for a fatal stabbing. Weeks later, his client was still sitting in jail, and wasn't freed until after Adachi uploaded the video online. ...

[ related topics: Bay Area Law Law Enforcement Video ]

Saved for later watching: RT Kyle Machulis ‏@qDot:

My artist talk for my "Industrial ASMR" project at @autodesk Pier 9 is up! https://vimeo.com/123686188

[ related topics: Art & Culture ]

The police officer's statement was that the victim stole his taser and was attacking him. The video shows the police officer shooting the victim 8 times in the back as the victim ran to get away, and then planting the taser next to the victim.

• North Charleston officer faces murder charge after video shows him shooting man in back
• NY Times: South Carolina Officer Is Charged With Murder in Black Man’s Death
• Washington Post: South Carolina police officer charged with murder after shooting man during traffic stop

With that in mind, that without that video this'd just be another black man shot by a cop, let's look at what's happening in the Bay Area, where Police Union Vows To 'Go After' San Francisco's District Attorney for wanting to investigate allegations of wrongdoing:

Of course you know about these scandals, all of which broke in the last month: Prisoners at SF County jail were allegedly forced to fight, gladiator style, by Sheriff's Deputies. SFPD officers sent racist and homophobic texts to one another. The crime lab screwed up DNA evidence in "hundreds" of cases.

[ related topics: Bay Area History Law Current Events Law Enforcement Television California Culture Video Gardening ]

Google Play is offering "The complete Star Wars collection" for $89.99. That's a lot to pay for 3 movies.

[ related topics: Star Wars Movies Space & Astronomy Aviation - Helicopters ]

Any recommendations for a (C++) style guide? I'm prepping my framework for a "hey, this is useful" publicity, and should do some clean-up.

[ related topics: Douglas Adams ]

Bad Tutorials. Shawn riffs on the gawdawful linkbait technical answers that are making Google worthless.

Hmmmm... Four ways Ubiquiti Networks is creatively violating the GPL.

I've been a fan of Ubiquiti APs, but this is concerning.

Road Less Traveled: I Quit: Why Steve Jobs motivated me to quit Apple.

[ related topics: Apple Computer Humor ]

RT JRehling ‏@JRehling:

Loose regulation killed more people in a Texas explosion than the Boston bombing, and nobody's going to jail for it.

[ related topics: Photography Archival ]

T.Rob: Surprising security issue at HostGator.

Wall Street Journal: If They Want to Make It Hip, They Shouldn't Call It Square-Dancing:

"Square-dancing here isn't really what people imagine it to be," Mr. Silveria says of the hybrid rock and square-dance moves he does. "It turns into a hoedown mosh pit."

Hell yes: We need punk square dancing.

Strictly Come Square Dancing: Historian Digs Into Dance’s History

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Consumerism and advertising Economics ]

The calendar of a woman who travels back in time and doesn't have sex with anyone.

keythah in the comments:

I've definitely thought about birth control with regard to sex after time travel. That may or may not be part of why I got a copper IUD. 10+ years reliable BC I don't have to mess with. I'm ready for anything(, baby).

(Other comments are worthy of a read too...)

[ related topics: Erotic Sexual Culture ]

If we were Google's customers, there'd be an easy way to filter any domain serving "sign up for our newsletter" popovers out of search.

[ related topics: Interactive Drama ]

Hack Sonoma presentation on the ESP8266. $2.50 in small quantities WiFi+processor+GPIO.

A potentially bad precedent in California, about the proposed helmet law, with the awesome observation in the comments that:

...with the possible exception of “extreme sports”, the most dangerous exercise is none.

[ related topics: California Culture ]

ToroDB

... is an open source, document-oriented, JSON database that runs on top of PostgreSQL. JSON documents are stored relationally, not as a blob/jsonb. This leads to significant storage and I/O savings. It speaks natively the MongoDB protocol, meaning that it can be used with any mongo-compatible client.

I was actually just wondering if anyone has done a compatibility layer to let MySQL clients talk to PostgreSQL...

[ related topics: Free Software Databases ]

NYPD detective suspended after video shows him taking cash during Brooklyn deli raid.

"I look at my system, I see the officer took the money," he said. "It's crazy...At least give it to the sergeant. But he cannot put it in his own pocket."

We live in an amazing time: These actions can now be documented and proven.

[ related topics: Theater & Plays Television Currency New York Video ]

Is Mercury in "remove people's critical thinking abilities and make them forget what they've successfully done for months"-rograde today?

[ related topics: Astronomy ]

Running jpegtran by hand because the Android 4.4 image gallery apparently can't deal with progressive JPEGs. Bet it's written in Java...

[ related topics: Software Engineering Sports ]

Whatever state Mercury is in, Scooby Doo is in ruhrograde.

[ related topics: Astronomy ]

Android photo albums: WTF? Can view the pictures on our laptops just fine, put them on tablets, 1/3 of them show up as black.

[ related topics: Photography ]

This Android photo issue is why I hate prepackaged computer stuff: Because it's all broken, and without source there's no way to fix it.

[ related topics: Photography ]

This is a long time coming: Gun Deaths Outpace Motor Vehicle Deaths in 17 States and D.C. in 2013 http://www.vpc.org/studies/gunsvscars15.pdf

[ related topics: Guns ]

WTF? Crossing attendant at Rodota and Stony Point telling me to my walk my bike?

[ related topics: Bicycling ]

RT Bob Gunderson ‏@Bob_Gunderson:

Mandatory Helmet Bill Is Gutted: Now Asks for Study on how to shame bikers http://cal.streetsblog.org/201...10/mandatory-helmet-law-is-gone/

That article mentions this call to revisit the youth helmet law, pointing out:

To help answer that question, let’s compare against reported pedestrian accidents, shown in the following time-series graph. It is interesting that the youth pedestrian TBI rate saw a similar rate of decline — even though there is no pedestrian helmet mandate. This suggests the decline in cycling head injuries was mainly due to fewer kids walking and biking, and not a result of the helmet mandate.

[ related topics: Children and growing up California Culture Sports Pedal Power Bicycling Woodworking ]

It's Bodega Bay Wooden Boat Challenge Day!

[ related topics: California Culture Boats Machinery ]

Team Dog Slobber uses the mystery material

[ related topics: Photography Dogs ]

Team Dog Slobber

[ related topics: Photography Dogs ]

Practice paddling

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Team Dog Slobber made today about the teenagers, who paddled with great speed but low velocity to 4th place

[ related topics: Photography Dogs ]

That's the second year we've won the mystery material award...

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Final heat from today's Bodega Bay Wooden Boat Challenge race https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9F1Hf_35bcI

[ related topics: Movies California Culture Boats Machinery ]

Recap of the 2015 Bodega Bay Fisherman's Festival Wooden Boat Challenge, in a page http://www.flutterby.net/2015-04-11_Wooden_Boat_Challenge

[ related topics: California Culture Boats Machinery ]

Using up leftovers. Dinner involves tempeh fried in bacon fat. What other foods can I pervert?

[ related topics: Food - Bacon ]

Yeesh: The marketing folks aren't even pretending to speak English any more. RT HP Insights ‏@HPInsights:

[ related topics: Photography Consumerism and advertising Marketing ]

FastCo Design: The Golden Ratio: Design's Biggest Myth:

Devlin's experiments aren't the only ones to show people don't prefer the golden ratio. A study from the Haas School of Business at Berkeley found that, on average, consumers prefer rectangles that are in the range of 1.414 and 1.732. The range contains the golden rectangle, but its exact dimensions are not the clear favorite.

Confirmation bias. It's a thing.

[ related topics: Children and growing up Bay Area Consumerism and advertising Marketing Graphic Design ]

Jessamyn gets to the bottom of Wikipedia, Louisa May Alcott, and neckbeards.

Bwahahaha! “Hunky Jesus” Forced to Cede Title After Shocking Discovery That He Believes in Jesus:

Scandal rocked San Francisco’s Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence this week after the discovery that 2015’s newly crowned “Hunky Jesus” is actually religious.

“We’re reeling from the news,” said spokeswoman Sister Gloriana Rimjob. “Obviously we had no idea until the pictures surfaced.”

[ related topics: Religion Humor Photography Bay Area History Current Events California Culture ]

Wake me when the Internet of Things is more than making my sock drawer blink 12:00, and refuse to open when it rains.

[ related topics: Net Culture ]

RT Rick Wolff ‏@RickWolff:

Hillary Bold. Because, America. You're welcome.

Edit: Talking Points memo has a bit more, including RT Rick Wolff @RickWolff:

I went for directionlessness. RT @JonQuixote: @seanbonner @monteiro @sdkstl @hughcartoons … it doesn't point left often enough.

[ related topics: Photography Archival ]

Ooooh: Designed With A Roll Cage, This Bicycle Can Survive A Crash With A Semi.

The IndieGoGo For the Babel Bike, a $3k recumbent with a crash cage.

[ related topics: Pedal Power Bicycling ]

Ya know, I don't know if pointing this out is just encouraging the New York Times engaging in link baiting, or if I'm calling out someone taken seriously.

New York Times: David Brooks: The Lost Language of Privacy:

Cop-cams chip away at that. The cameras will undermine communal bonds. Putting a camera on someone is a sign that you don’t trust him, or he doesn’t trust you. When a police officer is wearing a camera, the contact between an officer and a civilian is less likely to be like intimate friendship and more likely to be oppositional and transactional. Putting a camera on an officer means she is less likely to cut you some slack, less likely to not write that ticket, or to bend the regulations a little as a sign of mutual care.

Holy shit, can he not see how fucking privileged that is? The Facebook teaser for this said:

I support putting cameras on the police, but we need to acknowledge that we will pay a high price for them in lost privacy and social trust.

No, asshole, this isn't about losing that social trust, this is about re-gaining that trust. Ya know, that morons like this have writing gigs with international stature is a good reminder that humans are stupid.

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Photography Privacy Invention and Design Writing Law Enforcement New York Economics hubris ]

Washington Post: Fatal shootings by on-duty police officers: an analysis.

Among the thousands of fatal shootings at the hands of police since 2005, only 54 officers have been charged, a Post analysis found. Most were cleared or acquitted in the cases that have been resolved.

Via Daily Kos.

[ related topics: Invention and Design Bay Area Law Enforcement ]

Not only are TSA employees stealing from locked luggage (Via), proof that satire can't keep up with reality: CBS4 Investigation: TSA Screeners At DIA Manipulated System To Grope Men’s Genitals.

[ related topics: Aviation Work, productivity and environment ]

JameCo has a little video of reversed polarity and over-voltage on capacitors. (direct YouTube link)

Refreshing for marketing material in that it just gets right down to things going pop and boom.

[ related topics: Movies Consumerism and advertising Marketing Video ]

Why the modern internet sucks: The original Tomagothi web page is gone, and there's no phone app for it.

[ related topics: Net Culture ]

Saw a DC resident complaining about paying taxes but not having a say in how its spent. Yeah, we all have to buy congresspeople separately.

[ related topics: Politics Woodworking Government ]

When you type your carefully memorized long randomly generated password into an IRC window. Time to retrain neurons...

A month ago I noted Deborah de Robertis recreation of Gustave Courbet's L'Origine du monde at the Musée d'Orsay (YouTube video). It's easy to critique spread pussy porn, but...

Syreeta McFadden: The lack of female genitals on statues seems thoughtless until you see it repeated, a look at how classical sculpture has penises everywhere, but naught a vulva.

Via MeFi.

[ related topics: Erotic Sexual Culture Art & Culture Video Archival ]

Snerk: RT Matthew Hankins ‏@mc_hankins:

Imposter Syndrome is over-diagnosed in academia; most 'cases' turn out to be actual imposters @PhDefunct

Saved for later reading/viewing: Tracing the origins of modern Internet culture to the BBS world

[ related topics: Sociology California Culture Net Culture ]

Evidence of man-in-the-middle (MitM) attacks against cryptography software downloaded on servers in Europe. Presumably state sponsored.

Time to start super carefully checking your downloads against published hashes...

[ related topics: Privacy Free Speech Software Engineering Cryptography ]

Just shy of $200 for my Callerlab renewal and BMI/ASCAP fees. Have to call a bunch of square dancing to make this worthwhile...

What Yahoo got out of making several million Firefox users have to change their search engine back to something reasonable is unclear.

[ related topics: Machinery ]

Turned back on the roof irrigation at minimal levels...

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So SolarCity is selling these leases to investment banks. Solar subsidies are going straight from taxpayers to J.P. Morgan pockets...

[ related topics: Economics Photovoltaics ]

Yeah, move around, be enthusiastic

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Evidence from Chicago detective Richard Zuley's cases re-examined for multiple exonerations. Chicago cop who went on to be a Guantanamo Bay torturer...

[ related topics: Current Events California Culture ]

Lawyer representing whistle blowers finds malware on drive supplied by cops

All three trojans are usually easily detected by antivirus software. In an affidavit filed in the whistle-blower case, Campbell's security consultant said it's unlikely the files were copied to the hard drive by accident, given claims by Fort Smith police that department systems ran real-time AV protection.

[ related topics: Software Engineering Law Current Events Journalism and Media Law Enforcement ]

RT Paul Palubicki (@paplikaplik)

The Star Spangled Banner is about explosions and battle set to an old drinking song. We basically have the Michael Bay of national anthems

[ related topics: Space & Astronomy California Culture Aviation - Helicopters ]

Email, the New York Times "from $5 and Enjoy the New Men's Style Section". NYT Style? Dudes, I get The Onion for free!

[ related topics: Invention and Design Food New York ]

It's Thursday, which means: Santa Rosa, noon, Marlow & West College: Pupusas and conversation.

[ related topics: Education ]

netconnectd, a tool to manage network connections on headless devices, and if it can't connect to a network, configures itself as an AP so that you can connect to it and configure it.

[ related topics: Interactive Drama broadband ]

Seth Godin: I am anti-business, and you might be too:

The term anti-business actually seems to mean, “against short-term waste, harmful side effects and selfish shortcuts.”

[ related topics: Weblogs ]

Meanwhile, we're hand watering individual plants rather than running the whole drip system

[ related topics: Photography Sports Gardening ]

Edit: Among other things, here's her article at The Stranger

This is awesome. Alice Dreger sat in on her son's abstinence based sex ed class, and live-tweeted it.

Other excerpts:

• Mom hilariously live-tweets son's AWFUL abstinence-only sex ed class.
• Awesome professor live-tweets her kid’s abstinence sex education class

Her book, Galileo's Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists, and the Search for Justice in Science, looks pretty good, and her Twitter stream says she's got an essay about the experience coming soon to The Stranger, will link when that happens.

[ related topics: Books Erotic Sexual Culture Theater & Plays Writing Law Enforcement Pop Culture Education ]

Back in 2013 I linked to Laser Unicorn's kickstarter for Kung Fury, an '80s themed kung fu cop time traveling dinosaur movie.

Metafilter informs me that they raised $630k, are hoping for release soon, and David Hasselhof has done the video for their theme song.

It only took us 25 years, but we have now reached peak '80s.

Addendum: Other '80s incident happened today: Star Wars: The Force Awakens Teaser #2. Which, admittedly, looks like it could be the first Star Wars film in over 30 years, but I like Nick Turner's Twitter take on this.

[ related topics: Star Wars Movies Space & Astronomy Video Archival David Hasselhoff Aviation - Helicopters ]

Fixture fail

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OH: "I read it with an eastern european accent in my head, so that helps"

Why lawmakers are increasingly losing faith in America’s top drug cop:

In 2011, the Washington Post wrote about a report on the deaths of hundreds of children at the hands of Mexican drug cartels. Asked to comment on the findings, Leonhart said that “it may seem contradictory, but the unfortunate level of violence is a sign of success in the fight against drugs.”

Relatedly, it is oft pointed out that of the nations top 10 in military spending, the United States spends more than the other 9 combined. It was recently pointed out to me that more than half of the remainder is spent by U.S. allies.

So ¾ of the combined top 10 in military spending are allies, and yet... not being spent very efficiently, is it? Or the goal isn't peace.

[ related topics: Drugs Children and growing up Health ]

NY Times: The cost of Sally Mann's Exposure. Sally Mann, known for her black and white photography which includes pictures of her children, naked, muses on art, the fallout from the publication of those pictures, and how perception and culture impact the artist's work. Worth reading the whole thing.

Once the work was out in the world, I was puzzled as to why that sensuous beauty should be signposted as controversial, while magazine pages were filled with prurient images of young girls, all aimed at selling commercial products. Lanning understood and noted the difference between the images of my children’s bodies and those of the pornographers or the profane consumer culture. That day in Quantico, he reassured me on some points but cautioned me on others: No, law enforcement wasn’t likely to come after me, he said, but I was in for a rough time nevertheless.

[ related topics: Children and growing up Photography Sexual Culture Nudity Sociology Consumerism and advertising Work, productivity and environment Law Enforcement Art & Culture California Culture Race ]

Whoah: The Placebome: The Impact of Genetics to the Placebo Response

“We’re discovering that the placebo is not the only component in the placebo effect,” explains the paper’s coauthor Ted Kaptchuk, Director of the PiPS at BIDMC and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. “These neurotransmitter pathways, which are modified by genetics, are pathways that both drugs and the placebo act on. This now suggests that a drug could change a placebo response and a placebo response could modify a drug response.”

Looks like it's Trends in Molecular Medicine: Genetics and the placebo effect: the placebome Kathryn T. Hallemail, Joseph Loscalzo and Ted J. Kaptchuk

[ related topics: Health broadband Software Engineering Bioinformatics Current Events Graphic Design ]

Why American Eggs Would Be Illegal In A British Supermarket, And Vice Versa. I knew about the refrigeration thing (although I didn't know the argument about refrigerating the eggs causing condensation on them), but I didn't know that salmonella could be vaccinated against at a cost of $.40/chicken...

... In 1997, there were 14,771 reported cases of salmonella poisoning there, by 2009 this had dropped to just 581 cases. About 90 percent of British eggs now come from vaccinated hens – it’s required for producers who want to belong to the Lion scheme. ...

[ related topics: Food Birds ]

This. Is. Hilarious.

Inspirational quotes for drinking: http://imgur.com/a/PdoLl

From /r/Drunkspiration.

Via JWZ, who's cherry-picked some of the best ones

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Yet another bullshit "resisting arrest" charge comes under scrutiny when video shows up: Video casts new light on use of force in Santa Rosa jaywalking case:

The video, taken by a neighbor, contradicts Blount’s court testimony earlier this week that he placed both of his hands on Moon’s shoulders and pushed her down, said Moon’s lawyer, Izaak Schwaiger. The 17-year law enforcement veteran did not know the video existed before testifying before Judge Jamie Thistlethwaite, Schwaiger said.

the video, which I haven't watched.

[ related topics: Movies Invention and Design Law Current Events Law Enforcement Television Video ]

5:00! And it's Stumptown Stomp weekend! If anyone needs me, look elsewhere, 'cause I'm out in Guerneville square dancin'!

[ related topics: Interactive Drama ]

Saw someone use the abbreviation "PCP" to mean "Primary Care Provider", but my immediate reaction was "drugs are not the answer to this!"

[ related topics: Drugs Health Woodworking ]

Fingerprints, DNA, and now hair matching? What's the next prosecutorial/evidence tool to be grouped with phrenology?

FBI admits flaws in hair analysis over decades.

Same exact item, $10 at OSH, $14 at KMart. Both have "loyalty"/"rewards" programs.

Happy Bicycle Day! http://blogs.scientificamerica...thplace-a-story-for-bicycle-day/

[ related topics: Pedal Power Bicycling ]

B, remarking on arriving first: "I thought you guys beat me up here." Me: "I wouldn't beat you up without a safeword." B: "cantaloupe."

Forget back doors, the NSA wants to mandate a front door:

Of all possible uses to which such a law can be put, the only ones we can predict with 100% confidence to be implemented are those that abuse the privacy of law-abiding citizens.

[ related topics: Interactive Drama moron Graphic Design Cryptography ]

It's April 20th, 4/20, which I notice from my calendar is time to refresh our disaster preparedness water. #adultlife

Yelp reviews of newborn babies.

I am going to smack the next person who complains that businesses are moving out of state because California won't bend over and give tax breaks...

Payday at the milll How sophisticated financiers used a Maine investment program they devised to wring millions of dollars in risk-free returns at taxpayer expense

Via MeFi.

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RT pakalu papito ‏@pakalupapito:

4/20? You mean 1/5 reduce your fractions did you even learn math

We put a chip in it! http://weputachipinit.tumblr.com/

Examples of gadgets you didn't want in the first place being made "smart".

Because the "Internet of Things" means that your underwear will forever be set to Shenzen's time zone.

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This is related to my feelings about undocumented immigrants from Central America: RT Ben Hammersley ‏@benhammersley:

Getting across a hostile continent, then risking all in tiny boats to get here? Hell of a CV. We should be fighting over these people.

RT Ben Hammersley ‏@benhammersley:

I mean, If I walked from Somalia to Libya, and took an unequipped boat across to Italy, I'd get a TV series and sponsorship from Rolex.

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So that new Jurassic Park trailer: CG as a lowest bidder commodity, rather than a valued collaborator with the acting. Awful crap.

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The original URL and store is gone, but I need to find some Freeline Skates: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlhUt8AJJO8

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California Bill Would Require Crisis Pregnancy Centers to Discuss Abortion Options.

AB 775—the Reproductive Freedom, Accountability, Comprehensive Care and Transparency (FACT) Act—is being backed by the groups Black Women for Wellness and NARAL Pro-Choice California, which in March published a report on the deceptive misinformation given by the state’s 167 CPCs to pregnant people seeking services.

I'm sure this is a symbolic measure that's not actually expected to pass, or to withstand judicial scrutiny, but I like the sentiment.

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RT Cates Holderness ‏@catesish:

FYI: "dog food lid" backwards is "dildo of god"

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Bunny Ranch sex workers endorse Hillary Clinton with "Hookers 4 Hillary" initiative.

ObTypo: Typed "Cliton" first time around.

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Another study showing no link between the MMR vaccine and autism, looking at 95,000 children:

In fact, in the raw analysis of the study published in JAMA today, the likelihood of developing autism was actually lower for those at-risk children if they received the vaccine, though that finding was not statistically significant and no one would suggest that vaccination reduces autism risk. ...

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We Can’t Let John Deere Destroy the Very Idea of Ownership.

RT Ben Werdmüller ‏@benwerd

I wish life was like Monkey Island. No death, no wrong answers, just exploration until you find the right path. Rubber chickens, also.

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RT le vélo du no[MN]d @mikesonn:

all ties in:

- I live in burbs & need parking downtown!! (gov't: ANYTHING YOU WANT!)

- I live downtown & need HSR!! (gov't: STFU HIPPIE!)

- I drive to work & need more highway lane miles!! (gov't: here's extra!)

- I bike & don't want to die. Infra please? (gov't: STFU HIPPIE!)

- I ran from your city to subsidized rural land. (gov't: you patriot!)

- We can't lose more taxable land to roads. (gov't: STFU HIPPIE!)

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Fascinating: Machine learning and text analysis to rework job postings (among other writing) to attract different job applicant demographics: Textio Spell Checks for Gender Bias - Re/code:

Some of the tweaks are head-scratchingly tiny. Swapping out “exceptional” for “extraordinary” is statistically proven to attract more female applicants. (But while you’re at it, you should also insert “validated” instead of “proven.”)

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After 6 decades, Jimmy Carter severs ties with the Southern Baptist Convention over women's rights: http://www.theage.com.au/feder...uality-20090714-dk0v.html?stb=fb

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Wall Street Journal: Is Government Debt Too Low? links to Brad DeLong: Things I Probably Will Have Time to Say: Rethinking Macro Policy III Conference, Washington D.C., April 15-16:

... isn’t the point of the market economy to make things that are valuable? And isn’t the debt of reserve-currency issuing sovereigns an extraordinarily valuable thing that is very cheap to make? So shouldn’t we be making more of it?

I got there via Larry Burton asking "Are you saying we can borrow ourselves into prosperity?" who observed that

This actually makes some perverse sense if one is a Keynesian. Money is really cheap right now and a government, unlike a family, has forever to work and pay off this debt so, sure, borrow more money, fix up the infrastructure and then pay off the debt with the inrush of taxes from the new, mo’ better economy.

I'm having trouble commenting on his site (Probably the broken vestiges of OpenID and stale cookies), so I'll comment here:

This makes perfect sense if we're investing in things that have a return. It's not clear to me that automobile infrastructure has that return. Education, social programs to break the cycle of poverty, those things have a return. If we spend wisely.

But the other nagging feeling I have... Essentially, economic growth is the portion of the economy that isn't devoted to food. At a Malthusian subsistence existence, all of our energies are devoted to food. At modern developed nations existence, enough calories per day to survive is low single-digit percent (farms are about 1%, add agriculture related industries were under 5%, we may spend more of our budgets, but much of that is because we fly fresh produce in from Chile in the winter or high markups for cartoon characters on our cereal grains).

Everything else is luxury spending. Even healthcare is essentially "how much longer do we want to live after our reproductive years are over". So do we get diminishing returns as food becomes less? When everything is luxury spending, what does economic growth mean?

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Make: Understand 1,700 Mechanical Linkages with these Helpful Animations

Đức thắng Nguyễn's YouTube channel where he provides animations of interesting mechanisms.

Australian "wellness" guru Belle Gibson admits to lying about brain cancer and curing it with diet.

Belle rose to fame in May 2013, when she announced on social media that she had been healing her malignant brain cancer with wholefoods and alternative therapies for four years, despite being given just months to live.

Via BoingBoing

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The cost of distribution vs cost of generation problem: What does this mean for solar subsidies? http://www.sfgate.com/business...Use-less-electricity-6215308.php

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"Oh children, you would have all burned." http://www.alicegrove.com/post...4943939/alice-is-great-with-kids

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Two from Shadow:

• Trek recalls a million bicycles for a situation where the front quick release can interfere with the front disc brake, leading to permanent injury of the rider. My local cycling email list suggests that Trek is the first, and the problem stems from people just tightening up the QR and not clamping it.
• Boston "bike flap" trooper to be "counseled". Trooper parked his cruiser in the bike lane, and was unapologetic:

“The department will reiterate to those troopers on the bridge Tuesday our responsibilities to bicyclists, and will counsel the trooper who spoke to the cyclist about the proper way to respond to concerns raised by members of the public,” Procopio said.

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I have talked to a number of recruiters recently. A couple have given me good pitches, I've sent resumes along, but generally I come away from those discussions pretty disgusted: If this is a public face of the company, I'm pretty ambivalent about prospects there.

Last guy I talked to didn't even pretend to know the geography of the area where the company was located, or anything about any of the technologies he asked me for "yes" or "no" answers on, even though I had in fact already provided those answers in email.

Inside Automattic’s remote hiring process is worth a read:

Ultimately, much of your success with hiring will come down to the degree to which your CEO see’s it as a priority (hint: hiring should be a top priority for every CEO). Matt Mullenweg, Automattic’s founder and CEO consistently spends about 20-30% of his time on hiring. To this day, Matt pre-screens every single resume that comes into Automattic. This takes a significant portion of his time (we get lots of resumes).

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A couple on the topic of abuse of secret warrants in Wisconsin, via Larry's Facebook feed:

• National Review: Wisconsin’s Shame: ‘I Thought It Was a Home Invasion’
• USA Today: Glenn Harlan Reynolds: Wisconsin's dirty prosecutors pull a Putin
• Wisconsin Reporter: Wisconsin Supreme Court Rejects Rindfleisch Fourth Amendment Appeal
• Salon: The National Review’s police-state hypocrisy: Ferguson protesters deserved it, but Scott Walker probe crosses the line

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Savage Love Letter of the Day: A Medievalist Schools Dan on Medieval Attitudes Toward Sex.

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RT Carl Malamud ‏@carlmalamud:

If you blog, microblog, or social medialize, I’d appreciate your help getting word out about the 5/1 PACER Polling. https://yo.yourhonor.org/vote.html

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In the 14 people who may have been wrongfully executed, they don't include those harmed because the guilty were being set free http://www.slate.com/articles/...sis_bite_marks_fingerprints.html

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Looking at weird crap in my web server logs, and thinking that HTTP needs more "tell me why?" and "how did you get here?" conversation.

Search engine hammering my site. I complain about lack of referrers. They point to videos on how to use their tools. May firewall instead.

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Evan Miller: Four days of Go, in which the author looks at the Go programming language:

In other words, Go represents a kind of Machiavellian power play, orchestrated by slow-and-careful programmers who are tired of suffering for the sins of fast-and-loose programmers. ...

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Strong Towns: The economic development strategy that's too cute to prioritize, the usual great little musing on place that we've come to expect from Strong Towns, and it pulls this little quote on building compelling places:

“Men do not love Rome because she is beautiful. Rome is beautiful because men have loved her.”

— Leopold Kohr

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Commit Strip: What's Wrong With IDEs

Keep fumble-fingering .net to .ent, now imagining the TLD for talking ambulatory trees.

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This is fascinating for the different approaches to how it's reported in the various link-baity republishers: Swedish cops break up subway fight on 6 Train (YouTube)

• DNA Info: Swedish Police Break Up Subway Brawl on 6 Train, Witnesses Say
• Free Thought Project: Four Swedish Cops on Vacation in New York Just Showed Americans What REAL Policing Looks Like
• Raw Story: Watch: Vacationing Swedish cops show NYPD officers how to subdue suspects without hurting them.
• Gothamist: Hot Swedish Cops Break Up Subway Fight, Sweep Weary City Off Its Feet:

Asberg stayed with the victim, and all four waited for NYPD officers to arrive, whereupon both were taken off the train. The NYPD did not immediately have any details regarding an arrest, but an NYPD spokesman referred to it as "The Swedish Incident," which is coincidentally the title of my most recent Fifty Shades fanfic submission.

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NPR: Thoughts can fuel some deadly brain cancers.

Well, some people are never gonna die from brain cancer.

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"The Cloud" is just other people's computers. We need to actively preserve our own memories: http://www.slate.com/articles/..._years_of_my_family_history.html

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Three. Thousand. Years. Developing written language, and we're back to heiroglyphs. #offmylawn http://www.unicode.org/Public/emoji/1.0/full-emoji-list.html

Butter And Eggs Day cow chip throwing

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"...with all amusement devices there are inherent risks...l

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It is a truth universally acknowledged that any pedestrian thoroughfare chokepoint must be in need of a family adjusting several strollers.

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We have a theme

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Burning Man comes from Petaluma...

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I bet that pony has a raspy voice, 'cause...

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Love this lamp at the Riverfront Art Gallery

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Also like these Janet McBeen wire sculptures at Riverfront Art Gallery

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Plenty of parking if you were thinking of coming to downtown Petaluma

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RT N.O.T.O.R.I.O.U.S.™ @MrMilitantNegro:

We Have Not Overcome Shit....Yet

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Washington Post: Why you should be wary of statistics on modern slavery and trafficking. Spoiler: Because they're made up.

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Security companies accused of exaggerating Iran's cyberthreats against the U.S.

Now, the report’s authors stand accused of hyping up the Iranian threat, arbitrarily redefining words in order to fit their agenda, and focusing in on attacks that never actually took place. The report’s authors—Norse, a prominent cybersecurity firm, and the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank—have defended their work but criticism is mounting.

Remember, when you hear "cyber", you should think '90s AOL and "a/s/l"...

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Tee hee hee. Via Shadow, Instead of watching Bruce Jenner last night, I built a coffee table. It's in reverse order, gotta scroll up from the bottom. Cute simple project.

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Yes! Keep pushing that edge: "Yes we were the only 2 girls skating that weekend. That’s pretty normal for us." http://www.girlisnota4letterwo...-to-know-to-skate-mega-ramp.html

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Surprised customers find themselves with surprised solar liens.

A look at how Solar City and the other big solar installers who are sucking taxpayer subsidies out of our wallets lie. And don't ever lease a solar installation.

We're looking at solar on our house. Looks like the whole Watchdog.org series on Solar City is worth a read

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Sigh. Even if I have to go to Friedman's eventually, I should *always* go to the downtown hardware store first. Smarter staff.

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Pretty sure they're not supposed to do that #madeinchina

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Wow: Reform is coming to the Albuquerque New Mexico police department: Police Cadet Turns in Cop for Turning Body Cam Off Just Before Pummeling his Victim.

APD officer arrested, charged in excessive force allegations case.

This is after another recent incident: Police Cadet Quits Academy, Reports Cops After Witnessing Homeless Man Being Beaten By Officers

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RT JRehling ‏@JRehling

Since 9/11, 140 thousand Americans have died in DUI-related accidents. Public transportation would save more lives than a stronger military.

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Bling Bullets - Self Defense with Style. Because how many times have you been facing down an intruder who said "you know, that ammunition would really look better in pink alabaster"?

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It's great to celebrate that you write software for humans, but any legacy beyond this solar system will be sentient robots, not people.

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Man, nothing makes me think that maybe the anti-alcohol prohibitionists were right than the police blotter round-up of Butter & Eggs day.

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About to give a talk to WIMP

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Baltimore City Paper: How drunk sports fans helped spark Saturday night's post-protest violence

Double edit: turns out people on the ground aren't necessarily reliable narrators http://touch.citypaper.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-83408230/

Edit: There is some dispute over Brandon Soderberg's narrative

• http://imgur.com/gallery/QVh32
• http://www.reddit.com/r/baltim...deos_here_to_clear_something_up/

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Google Searches for "N-Word" Associated with Black Mortality.

Washington Post: The most racist places in America according to Google.

The paper: Association between an Internet-Based Measure of Area Racism and Black Mortality

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Interesting reminder last night of how the word "blog" has morphed from meaning the thing it was originally coined to describe.

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RT LZ Granderson ‏@Locs_n_Laughs:

With Baltimore and same-sex marriage arguments in the news today, it should not be lost that "Stonewall" was a riot.

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Motel Decides It Should Just Start Faxing All Guest Info To Local Police Every Night

ACLU asks Motel 6 to stop sharing guest list with Warwick (Rhode Island) police

Motel 6 giving police names of guests

The names of Motel 6 guests, which police then check for outstanding warrants, is one of five steps Motel 6 corporate managers agreed to take in response to a string of high-profile incidents and concerns the establishment was becoming a haven for passing criminals.

The other measures listed in an agreement Motel 6 executives signed Tuesday include raising the minimum age to rent a room from 18 years old to 21, hiring a police detail every night, sharing their national "do not rent list" with police and conducting regular training, including on how to spot human trafficking.

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Two videos from my coworker Joe for later viewing:

• Bending Wood with Ammonia
• Additive Manufacturing User Group

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I spent hours this last weekend working on re-using a few tens of gallons a week for irrigation. But cemetaries? http://www.npr.org/2015/04/27/...-restrictions-to-avoid-going-dry

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This morning's Baltimore protests round-up: RT Ultra @Loot_Back:

"why do people burn their own payday loan centers, pawn shops, liquor stores, and cop cars?"

Conor Friedersdorf in The Atlantic: The Brutality of Police Culture in Baltimore notes:

I could go on, but I've long since started to skim past stories like "Baltimore police officer pimps out his own wife" and thinking, meh, I've seen worse from cops there. The cop who shot himself and lied about it to get worker's comp benefits? Meh, at least he didn't shoot someone else and then lie about what happened. ...

and expands on Baltimore Sun: Undue Force, looking at how Baltimore police officers have... well...

Orioles COO John Angelos offers eye-opening perspective on Baltimore protests transcribes a tweet conversation:

That said, my greater source of personal concern, outrage and sympathy beyond this particular case is focused neither upon one night’s property damage nor upon the acts, but is focused rather upon the past four-decade period during which an American political elite have shipped middle class and working class jobs away from Baltimore and cities and towns around the U.S. to third-world dictatorships like China and others, plunged tens of millions of good, hard-working Americans into economic devastation, and then followed that action around the nation by diminishing every American’s civil rights protections in order to control an unfairly impoverished population living under an ever-declining standard of living and suffering at the butt end of an ever-more militarized and aggressive surveillance state.

Goddamn if that doesn't make me sympathetic to the beneficiary of a sportsball dynasty.

Finally, some musings on what abuse at a personal level looks like: yesivebeenthere2: Baltimore:

My mother beat the shit out of me from 3 to 13. CRUNCH! There’s no suitable onomatopoeia for the sound of an adult’s hand belting a child across the face. There’s no word that describes what it’s like to feel your cartilage ring. ...

Seriously. Go. Read. It.

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Reasons I'm going we may have to break down and subscribe to Netflix: Netflix has released the trailer to their new Nina Simone documentary (video) (Via Entertainment Weekly)

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Mad props to the driver who ran a stop sign to pass me on the bicycle. Totally beat me to the next light, where we both waited for it.

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call me old fashioned but i think riots are good for society:

believe me when i tell you that i approve of any riot that you hold in my name if cops murder me.

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10 Up releases markup, CSS and project structure pages for their Best Practices docs. I don't do enough HTML or CSS to know what best practices for this are, so I'm gonna steal theirs.

http://10up.github.io/Engineering-Best-Practices/

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Shadow sent along the YouTube feed of Scott Rumschlag, who's got a cool "Jupe" style expanding table design with lots of how-to.

And this animated gif of a Jupe table which I think is one of the Fletcher tables.

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