Flutterby™! From 2015-08-01 to 2015-08-31

Rowdy Roddy Piper, dead of a heart attack at 61: "I have come here to chew bubblegum, and to kick ass... and I'm all out of bubblegum." (YouTube)

[ related topics: Movies ]

Dave Alden: Petaluma's Rainier Connector: When neither yes nor no meets the need (I'm agin' it) http://vibrantbayarea.org/2015...ither-yes-nor-no-meets-the-need/

Bike advocacy fail: we gave up the shoulder of 101 for a 15MPH MUP.

[ related topics: Photography Bicycling ]

The strawberries are getting aggressive, invading the thyme

[ related topics: Photography ]

More foliage the roof

[ related topics: Photography ]

Well crap. Those angles didn't work.

[ related topics: Photography Work, productivity and environment ]

Sirens and some multi-engined airplanes relatively low south of Petaluma. Don't smell or see smoke yet

[ related topics: Aviation ]

Back from dancing to Michael Kellogg at El Camino Reelers. Non-stop movement, totally exhilarated, fantastic group to dance with.

New York Magazine: What’s the Right Way to Protect Sex Workers?

On Amnesty International's call to decriminalize sex work, and the ignorance they're fighting.

[ related topics: Erotic Sexual Culture Invention and Design Work, productivity and environment New York ]

Decided the late night wasn't conducive to safe power tool use, so running the I Street to San Antonio to D Street loop. Need water...

[ related topics: Bay Area Sports ]

Well, bet that's what yesterday's air traffic was about

[ related topics: Photography ]

Pro tip: contact with the guard rails isn't good

[ related topics: Photography ]

Looks like a broken water main, 6th and I st. Dept of Water Conservation just arriving

[ related topics: Photography ]

10.3 miles, all sorts of excuses about why it was slow, but thinking my lunch runs should be intervals this week...

Digitizing old square dance 45s. The standard seems to have been 130BPM. Y'all look out, I'm gonna be calling fast...

RT kate @QUEENWlTCH:

my heart goes out to any aspiring dystopian fiction authors who keep having their ideas stolen by the conservative party

Old people problem: Hearing "on fleek" and thinking "That Internet currency Whoopi Goldberg was pitching?" (that was "flooz")

[ related topics: Net Culture Currency ]

's'okay, we'll make up for the lack of poo flinging when @TheAuthorGuy comes to Petaluma https://twitter.com/TheAuthorGuy/status/628326457249558533

RT Ranjit Bhatnagar ‏@ranjit

Support emerging artists! Slit their cocoons! Lick the slime from their new pelts!

[ related topics: Invention and Design Art & Culture ]

Santa Ana police officers sue to quash video of pot shop raid:

SANTA ANA – Three Santa Ana police officers want to quash a surveillance video that shows officers making derogatory comments about a disabled woman and possibly snacking on pot edibles during a recent raid of a medical marijuana dispensary.

[ related topics: Drugs Law Enforcement Television Video Handicaps & Disabilities ]

Homme de Plume: What I Learned Sending My Novel Out Under a Male Name.

Uber driver boasts of trick to falsely trigger surge pricing.

I dunno about "falsely"... it's just drivers deciding to all take a break at the same time.

Windows 10: Tablet view is showing saved porn images:

Loaded up WIN 10 last night and left it on to do its thing. Woke up to wife asking why I set it to rotate all my porn images right on the desk top view. I have no idea how to shut that feature off and that computer is staying shut down until I do.

Don't put pictures you don't want displayed in slideshow mode on your computer in "My Pictures". Or don't run Windows 10.

Via ErosBlog: Windows 10 Surfaces Man’s Porn, Shows It To His Wife

[ related topics: Photography Erotic Sexual Culture Microsoft Television Marriage ]

Slightly longer route, 3.1 mi at 8:43 min/mi today. Still recovering from Sunday's 10 mile run.

Braised WTF: Letter to the RWA Board regarding For Such a Time by Kate Breslin. Dafuq?

The book is a retelling of the book of Esther set during the Holocaust, an ambitious undertaking to be sure. But in addition to the attempt at redeeming a hero who is a Nazi commander, at the end of the book, the heroine converts to Christianity, a narrative decision that also insensitive and offensive. Christianity is what redeems the heroine and the hero, and again, I’m at a loss for words to fully explain how and why this is so objectionable. But I will try.

[ related topics: Religion Books Political Correctness ]

Got some PowerBar Protein Triple Threat bars for post-run laziness on sale at Grocery Outlet. It's clear now why they were 3 for $1...

[ related topics: hubris ]

Indictment claims Pine Lawn police lieutenant conspired to arrest mayoral candidate:

During the corruption trial in April of former Pine Lawn Mayor Sylvester Caldwell, Akram Samad, manager of the Pine Lawn Food Market, testified that he helped frame Nakisha Ford, Caldwell’s 2013 opponent. Samad said Blakeney had told him to call 911 and claim that Ford had taken a Caldwell campaign sign from the store. Blakeney then returned to take a police report, and told Samad to testify against Ford in court.

[ related topics: Food Current Events Law Enforcement Automobiles Economics ]

The Real Real Genius:

Thirty years ago, I helped inspire the lead female character in the classic nerd movie. I finally understand why some critics disliked its portrayal of women.

[ related topics: Movies ]

huh. That felt fast, but was just under 9min/mi. Short loop, GPS claims 2.24 miles. Lots of cars in driveways to dodge, though.

[ related topics: Maps and Mapping ]

Smoke in the air at office park in SW Santa Rosa: Local fire, or blowing in from another county?

[ related topics: Pyrotechnics ]

Bees are enjoying the mint flowers on the roof

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Shadow forwards along your amazeballs multi-configuration woodworking joint of the moment: http://imgur.com/Lcn5sUV https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_O1O1lz6zOo

[ related topics: Movies Woodworking ]

PLOS ONE: Likelihood of Null Effects of Large NHLBI Clinical Trials Has Increased over Time

17 of 30 studies (57%) published prior to 2000 showed a significant benefit of intervention on the primary outcome in comparison to only 2 among the 25 (8%) trials published after 2000 (χ2=12.2,df= 1, p=0.0005). There has been no change in the proportion of trials that compared treatment to placebo versus active comparator. Industry co-sponsorship was unrelated to the probability of reporting a significant benefit. Pre-registration in clinical trials.gov was strongly associated with the trend toward null findings.

Anne Thériault's "The Feminist in the wild" https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TIOQNJMUtos

[ related topics: Movies ]

It's Thursday, Santa Rosa: I will be lunching at the pupusa place NW corner of Marlow & W College at noon, and welcome company!

[ related topics: Education ]

Got this ad in an email from TomTom today. Really? You gendered a sports camera? A good way for them to redeem themselves might be to sponsor some women.

East Bay Express: These Female Skateboarders Are Changing the Sport for the Better. Maybe go help out WOMBATS. We could go on...

[ related topics: Photography Bay Area California Culture Archival ]

'Trainwreck' and Taboo:

The thing about taboos—ideas about what is indecent or disgusting—is that entire social structures get built around them. To violate the taboo is to threaten the entire edifice. Powerful taboos on women-things often go with male domination. So for the National Review, the Trainwreck reversal of rom-com gender roles makes the movie dangerous and subversive.

[ related topics: Books Movies Sociology California Culture ]

Police only investigate burglaries at even numbered homes, finds "no noticeable impact on victim satisfaction, and nor did it affect the overall ratio of scenes visited and suspects identified.":

“This pilot suggests that we may need to reconsider how best to deploy crime scene investigators, especially if we are currently sending them automatically to scenes where, despite their professionalism and expertise, there is no evidence for them to retrieve.”

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Current Events Law Enforcement ]

Every time I start thinking that TC may yet win that bandwidth bet... OFCom: The Communications Market 2015 (August), though this is UK data, so maybe we can assume that they're a decade or two behind the US...

Discovered when @BenedictEvans tweeted the hours of TV per day watched in real-time vs time-shifted.

[ related topics: Technology and Culture Movies broadband Television Economics ]

I've a feeling that the guy holding the camera here likely has a history with the Rohnert Park police, but I also think that brandishing the gun is a little frightening. Video captures Rohnert Park police officer pulling gun.

[ related topics: Photography Current Events Law Enforcement Guns Video ]

Oh this is awesome: Judge trolls lawyers without saying anything at all.

[ related topics: Law ]

So is sprinkling wine from a specific geographic region a... uh... rain of terroir? #sorrynotsorry

[ related topics: Wines and Spirits ]

If the predicted monster El Niño hits after this fire season, with no foliage to slow down the water the floods are gonna be *ugly*.

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Pyrotechnics ]

I'm tellin' ya: Carly Fiorina is the sole viable GOP candidate, via real-time Google trends: http://googletrends.github.io/...%20debate%20on%20Google%20search

[ related topics: Graphic Design ]

Okay, I've now seen Donald Trump and Scott Walker butt plugs, and I'm cool, but the thought of a Chris Christie butt plug terrifies me.

So Google's Eddystone beacons are kind of unmutable QR codes? What could go wrong? http://makezine.com/2015/08/04...google-beacons-made-by-estimote/

Really, autocorrect? "abetting" instead of "answering"?

What we ask of our soldiers: "Sir, there’s no such fucking thing as non-disclosure wearing this." #FKIN http://www.fuckinginappropriat...2015/08/06/born-naked-screaming/

[ related topics: Nudity ]

Driving to work, looking for a cool picture to send to Charlene...

[ related topics: Photography Work, productivity and environment ]

Design flaw in the x86 SMM portion of Intel chips opens door to rootkits:

Once installed, the rootkit could be used for destructive attacks like wiping the UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) the modern BIOS or even to re-infect the OS after a clean install. Protection features like Secure Boot wouldnt help, because they too rely on the SMM to be secure.

I mean, not that you had any reason to trust your computer to begin with...

[ related topics: virus Graphic Design Shoes ]

CIO Insight: How to Use the IoT to Boost Business Revenue is really just a link to http://sites.tcs.com/internet-of-things/ but is summed up by:

As for future goals, executives said the IoT will help them improve product support and repair while expanding new revenue streams through the sale of customer product usage data to third parties. " [emphasis mine]

The Internet of Things is about sellling your privacy to third parties.

Via T.Rob

[ related topics: Privacy Invention and Design Net Culture ]

RT benthoctopodidae ‏@OhMeadhbh

i propose we officially rename #IoT to #ITaaS (Identity Theft as a Service)

RT Shoshana Kessock ‏@ShoshanaKessock:

Why I won’t be watching the movie Stonewall:

[ related topics: Photography Movies Race Archival ]

*Everyone* breaks traffic laws. Why is the SFPD singling out the cyclists? http://blog.sfgate.com/bicycle...e-sfpds-campaign-against-biking/

[ related topics: Weblogs Pedal Power Bicycling Government ]

Last minute decided to dance to Joe Saltel at Monroe Hall. 15000 energetic steps later...

If you've been wondering about the culture at Mozilla, this helps explain Firefox: https://storify.com/christi3k/...d-talking-about-why-i-m-leaving-

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Open Source Sociology California Culture ]

Hiking near China Camp

[ related topics: Photography Nature and environment ]

Looking back in the gate

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It's always gray at Land's End

[ related topics: Photography Real Estate ]

Lunch run: 5.1 miles, just shy of 9:50 min/mi. Which I'm okay with, yesterday involved a lot of walking and standing.

Relevant to my bandwidth bet with TC: This is the year when pay TV subscriber growth went negative.

[ related topics: Technology and Culture broadband Television ]

Smoke, probably from the Jerusalem fire in Lake County, from the work office park on Santa Rosa

[ related topics: Photography Work, productivity and environment Pyrotechnics ]

TEDx: Timothy Kurek: Walking in the shoes of the other (his book, Cross in the Closet, is really good) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rk9ekcsbY0A

[ related topics: Books Movies Shoes ]

Gas pumps have become resigned to the tedium of their station, or are mocking voice mail. Numb, indeed.

[ related topics: Photography ]

Reminded that I used the same "open all in tabs" mechanism to read my morning web comics 17 years ago, & browser was more responsive then.

[ related topics: Comics ]

Modern problems, from GamerGate to Black Lives Matter: It's hard to tell who's legitimately speaking for a movement: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/p...christian-sarah-palin-supporter/

[ related topics: Religion ]

If you thought Kung Fury was too far out: Supercut of '80s hacking scenes from movies.

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Movies ]

"LOL" is dead, according to Facebook:

The researchers also found that "haha" is used by more males than females. Women also use emoji more frequently. Older people use "lol" more than emoji to express laughter. Out of those surveyed, 85% "laughed" more than five times in a week.

[ related topics: Net Culture ]

Short loop. 8:45min/mi.

That's 3 robocalls to my cell phone so far today. Will vote for any presidential candidate who promises to nuke telephone solicitors.

[ related topics: Wireless Phreaking ]

A new tiling pentagon has been discovered, bringing to 15 the number of known pentagons which can tile a plane without gaps.

Via MeFi.

[ related topics: Invention and Design Mathematics Guns Woodworking ]

A simple esp8266 Wifi enabled pushbutton.

which I got to from hacking the Amazon Dash button to record whatever you want

[ related topics: Books ]

Can we stop blaming that Colorado mine release on the EPA? That's like blaming land mine explosions on the victims with missing limbs.

http://www.kunc.org/post/why-w...ng-mine-above-silverton#stream/0

[ related topics: Real Estate ]

Shadow forwarded along this thread about a picture of a cyclist taking the lane and not riding in a designated bike lane... https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/..._theres_a_bike_lane_right_there/

And I've got one thing to say about that bike lane: Note the dotted yellow line down the middle. Of the three foot wide bike lane. On a downhill where, we can't see the car's speedometer, but I'll bet the biker is doing 30+MPH.

Ignoring the likelihood of all sorts of gravel and trash in that bike like, who the frack thought that two way traffic beside a lane of auto traffic was in any way acceptable?

[ related topics: Automobiles Bicycling ]

Probably via Shadow, but I'm not sure: Bacon Gate, a gate made with curved panel slats that looks pretty damned awesome. Good woodworking inspiration.

[ related topics: Woodworking Food - Bacon ]

No: "Will we ever have more than 2^32 rows in that database table?". Yes: "Is there any good reason to *not* use 64 bit row IDs?"

[ related topics: Databases Furniture ]

Lenovo used the BIOS to install its own software over fresh Windows installs:

The oddity was first noted by Ars Technica forum user ‘ge814‘ and corroborated by Hacker News user ‘chuckup.’

The users discovered the issue in May when using a new Lenovo laptop that automatically and covertly overwrote a system file on every boot, which downloaded a Lenovo updater and installed software automatically, even if Windows was reinstalled from a DVD.

This included software that sent system data back to Lenovo.

This is apparently a Microsoft-sanctioned thing: the "Windows Platform Binary Table".

Via /..

How much do you trust your computing platform?

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Humor Microsoft Invention and Design Software Engineering moron Current Events Shoes Community Furniture ]

This looks like it could have some fascinating tracks: Arse Elektronika 2015: SHOOT YOUR WORKLOAD / Sex, work and tech / Call for submissions.

[ related topics: Erotic Sexual Culture Work, productivity and environment ]

The Internet is slowly convincing me that the correct response to fire is not to hang out & video it: http://www.theguardian.com/wor...losion-chinese-port-city-tianjin

[ related topics: Net Culture Pyrotechnics Guns Video ]

Man Poses as Target on Facebook, Trolls Haters of Its Gender-Neutral Move With Epic Replies. Dude created a profile as "Ask ForHelp" and made his profile pic a target logo, and then started responding to people posting on Target's Facebook page.

Much like @nihilist_arbys, I think that there's going to be some amazing marketing either by fans, or with plausible deniability, coming up.

[ related topics: Hardware Hackery tolkien Robotics Consumerism and advertising Marketing Embedded Devices ]

Can you guess which government programs work? Most people can't.

Here's the quiz https://80000hours.org/articles/can-you-guess/

[ related topics: moron Work, productivity and environment ]

Listening to Poly Weekly on trans issues, & there's clothing to suppress breasts called a "binder". Mitt Romney now makes sense.

[ related topics: Pop Culture Clothing ]

Sex and Satanic Abuse: A Fad Revisited.

I stayed silent on the sidelines, observing all this foolishness but displaying a cowardly distaste for controversy. As Chair of the DSM IV Task Force, I had a bully pulpit to point out the utter craziness of the fad. Instead, I justified my passivity on the grounds that it was not really my fight and that getting involved might compromise my neutrality as DSM IV Chair. These were lousy excuses considering that innocent people were going to jail and kids were being traumatized by fake therapists who professed to be experts in childhood trauma. My priorities were all screwed up.

[ related topics: Children and growing up Erotic Sexual Culture Furniture ]

Even when told not to, Windows 10 just can’t stop talking to Microsoft.

We've asked Microsoft if there is any way to disable this additional communication or information about what its purpose is. We were told "As part of delivering Windows 10 as a service, updates may be delivered to provide ongoing new features to Bing search, such as new visual layouts, styles and search code. No query or search usage data is sent to Microsoft, in accordance with the customer's chosen privacy settings. This also applies to searching offline for items such as apps, files and settings on the device." This is consistent with what we saw (there is no query or search data transmitted), but also likely to run counter to most people's expectations; if Web searching and Cortana are disabled, we suspect that the inference that most people would make is that searching the Start menu wouldn't hit the Internet at all. But it does. The traffic could be innocuous, but the inclusion of a machine ID gives it a suspicious appearance.

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Humor Privacy Microsoft Invention and Design moron Net Culture Handicaps & Disabilities Woodworking ]

Johannes Ernst is drowning in unmanaged personal data, and I have the same issues...

[ related topics: Weblogs LID (Lightweight IDentity) ]

Whoah, that's why that throw-away comment got so many favorites: I made the MeFi front page sidebar...

At Square Dance Caller School in Sunnyvale. I can feel my rhythm improving every time I get behind the mic.

[ related topics: Children and growing up ]

Karla Westphal calling at the student square dance

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If you're a Bay Area square dancer: Caller practice in Sunnyvale on the 29th, and we're all getting better at this so it'll be more fun!

[ related topics: Interactive Drama California Culture ]

No, Torture Doesn’t Make Terrorists Tell The Truth — But Here’s What Actually Works:

Alison found that interrogators who scored highest on his rapport-building scale got more information and minimized suspects’ use of counter-interrogation tactics like refusing to look at the interviewer, remaining silent, and changing the subject. ...

[ related topics: Work, productivity and environment ]

I am still coming off the high of dancing to my fellow student square dance callers last night. Soooo much boisterous fun!

Woodworking design porn Rimas Navickas Furniture Studio.

[ related topics: Erotic Sexual Culture Nature and environment Graphic Design Woodworking ]

After 3 days of square dancing, and visible smoke in the air, lunch run was the short loop, 2.3 mi, at 8:34 min/mi.

If you do vulnerability testing: https://github.com/minimaxir/big-list-of-naughty-strings

Obviously it needs further expansion... giggle: https://github.com/minimaxir/b...s/blob/master/blns.txt#L330-L334

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Humor ]

Well shit, there's a bunch of clients for a protocol that has some real potential that are gonna need some rework: P2P File-Sharing in Hell: Exploiting BitTorrent Vulnerabilities to Launch Distributed Reflective DoS Attacks (PDF).

[ related topics: Space & Astronomy Conferences ]

If Twitter wants to be taken seriously, making it so I never ever see a "Justin Bieber just shared a photo" email again is a start.

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Photography ]

Evidence of the fires north of us

[ related topics: Photography ]

Further evidence of the fires north of us

[ related topics: Photography ]

RT Internet of Shit ‏@internetofshit:

And that's when our smart devices learned to blackmail us

And one of the responses suggests it's already happened:

RT Dan Berte ‏@danberte:

@internetofshit @wmaxeddy Dude, Max, that's a joke. But if you shared a dbx folder and want to change that now you need to pay premium! wtf

[ related topics: Photography Consumerism and advertising Net Culture Archival Woodworking ]

Aerial shots of the turning basin and river near downtown Petaluma https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6mXzzuLZf0&feature=youtu.be

[ related topics: Movies ]

Repurposed QOTD:

A person is no less a slave because they are allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.

(Lysander Spooner about proprietary cloud service providers)

http://www.enricozini.org/2015/debian/standup-comedy-notes/

[ related topics: Free Software Quotes Open Source Invention and Design ]

RT Joe Willie ‏@TheJoeWillie:

Just about the entire state of Washington is on fire.

Not too long ago we legalized recreational marijuana.

Insert joke here ______.

[ related topics: Drugs Pyrotechnics ]

Sight calling session at square dance caller school on Saturday

[ related topics: Children and growing up ]

Sight calling session at square dance caller school on Saturday. Photo credit to Joe Dehn.

[ related topics: Children and growing up Photography ]

Group picture from the Square Dance Caller School, photo credit Joe Dehn.

[ related topics: Children and growing up Photography ]

Karla, me and Nikki at caller school. Photo credit Joe Dehn.

[ related topics: Children and growing up Photography ]

A clarification on that observation about Justin Bieber: If Twitter could notify me when he released a 126BPM 4/4 song, I'd be ecstatic.

[ related topics: Interactive Drama ]

The American Psychological Association: pro-torture, anti-science (violence in video games): http://www.scribd.com/doc/2232...licy-Statements-on-Violent-Media

[ related topics: Games Psychology, Psychiatry and Personality Journalism and Media Video ]

So, in a square dance context, what could you replace the "knew that (s)he must've been 'bout 17" line from "I Love Rock & Roll" with?

RT @irongeek_adc:

Behold the (almost) TSA 007 master key. So far it has opened all the 007 locks I've tried, if not smoothy.

Includes a picture of the key, with a ruler, in case you want to take a file and make one yourself...

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Law ]

Emily Nagoski talks about flibanserin and desire.

Also: http://www.ohjoysextoy.com/scienceofdesire/

[ related topics: Erotic Sexual Culture ]

RT Iron Spike ‏@Iron_Spike:

For folk tempted to snicker at the Ashley Madison doxxing threat: I was reading a reddit thread where a Saudi user was asking about asylum.

#

He'd used AM, and his profile/PMs there detailed an interest in men. This is a death penalty offense in Saudi Arabia.

#

So, in anticipation of being outed, he was asking reddit which country was most likely to take him in.

Yeah. Suddenly not so funny.

Dan Savage on the Ashley Madison leak: Gawker Outs One Cheater and the Internet Condemns Gawker—Hackers Expose 37 Million Cheaters and the Internet Condemns Cheaters.

[ related topics: Net Culture ]

Jeb Bush believes the military industrial complex doesn't have a high enough share of the U.S. GDP

[ related topics: Politics Current Events Economics ]

A few months ago, BioMed Central reported on inappropriate manipulation of peer review:

During the course of our investigation, authors have shared with us the names of third-party agencies that offer support to authors but also guarantee favourable peer review outcomes in return for a fee. Other services sell authorship on entire papers written by others. Clearly, there is a need to distinguish the characteristics of reputable third-party agencies from those that are dishonest (in much the same way that bona fide open access publishers can be distinguished from those that are predatory).

BMC is a Springer imprint. Press Release: Retraction of articles from Springer journals.

Springer confirms that 64 articles are being retracted from 10 Springer subscription journals, after editorial checks spotted fake email addresses, and subsequent internal investigations uncovered fabricated peer review reports. ...

Via Washington Post: Major publisher retracts 64 scientific papers in fake peer review outbreak.

[ related topics: Current Events Journalism and Media ]

RT Chris Martin ‏@chris__martin:

"Dynamic typing": The belief that you can't explain to a computer why your code works, but you can keep track of it all in your head.

This... this is a brilliant observation. Snerk.: RT Bob Gunderson ‏@Bob_Gunderson:

Why should transit riders get WiFi? They can experience lack of access to a smartphone like 40% of motorists. http://www.sfchronicle.com/bay...s-hit-or-miss-on-Bay-6449842.php

[ related topics: Movies California Culture Public Transportation ]

Petronious pointed out the awesomest headline this week: Arizona wallaroo hullabaloo recalls llama drama as pet marsupials hop off.

[ related topics: Guns ]

Probably the last run before Sunday's 26.2. Work rushed me, so just 3.5mi at 8:54 min/mi. We'll see what happens...

[ related topics: Work, productivity and environment ]

The big revelation from those Ashley Madison leaks? Various of the Muppets had profiles there.... Giggle.

Edit: More seriously, apparently so did "reality" TV star and conservative "family values" activist Josh Duggar.

[ related topics: Humor ]

Well shit: Deborah Taj Anapol, 1951 - 2015. Anopol was a founder of the modern polyamory movement, author of Love Without Limits in 1992, and several other books on polyamory.

Eat every sandwich.

[ related topics: Books Sexual Culture Food ]

If you don't like the way I drive, get off the sidewalk: https://twitter.com/search4swag/status/634109374181457920

[ related topics: Interactive Drama ]

This bitcoin forking situation is delicious... a strong reminder that the value of a currency is decided by consensus belief.

[ related topics: Currency ]

Has anyone considered that Putin in that submarine is the closest thing we've got IRL to Jar Jar Binks traveling under the Gungan seas?

[ related topics: Star Wars ]

This over-states the case a little bit, the sample was 37 subjects who claimed gluten sensitivity in the previous study by the same researchers: Researchers Who Provided Key Evidence For Gluten Sensitivity Have Now Thoroughly Shown That It Doesn't Exist:

The subjects cycled through high-gluten, low-gluten, and no-gluten (placebo) diets, without knowing which diet plan they were on at any given time. In the end, all of the treatment diets — even the placebo diet — caused pain, bloating, nausea, and gas to a similar degree. It didn't matter if the diet contained gluten. (Read more about the study.)

The paper is No effects of gluten in patients with self-reported non-celiac gluten sensitivity after dietary reduction of fermentable, poorly absorbed, short-chain carbohydrates.

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Weblogs Pedal Power ]

Jim'll Paint It wrote:

Hey Jim. Please could you paint Bert and Ernie taking a trip to Vegas ala Fear and Loathing, with Ernie worried about stopping in bat country (ie The Count) and possibly with Elmo as their petrified hitchhiker? Sam Richards

(I took the liberty of making Bert into Raoul instead as I thought he looked more like him, sorry! - Jim)

Associated links:

• on Jim'll Paint It's Facebook page
• Highest res version I've found on Tumblr
• As a canvas print

[ related topics: Photography Travel Douglas Adams ]

OH: "That brings back memories of Catholic school."

[ related topics: Religion Children and growing up Photography ]

RT Nick Kay ‏@TheRealNickKay:

Daddy Bear -"Someones been sleeping in my bed."

Mummy Bear -"Wouldn't be the first time."

Daddy Bear -"It's been 3 years Sue, let it go."

[ related topics: Furniture ]

Printer reliability is the universe's dump stat. Every other technology improves, printers have gotten worse.

Meet the 15 year old Iowa farm boy behind the "Deez Nuts" presidential candidate who's now polling at 9% in North Carolina.

[ related topics: Politics ]

Big boats in the turning basin and huge amount of traffic downtown, what's happening in Petaluma this weekend?

[ related topics: Boats Machinery ]

Thinking about a "Cthulhu for President" bumper sticker, but with Trump in the race I'm no longer sure who's the lesser evil.

Crap. Santa Rosa Marathon tomorrow, and I ducked up my back helping someone out today. Trying to walk it off.

[ related topics: Sports ]

Wow. Taste Of Petaluma brought some congestion and traffic to town

[ related topics: Photography ]

Alarm set for 4:30. Hope this back hurts less by 6AM, else it's gonna be a painful 26.2. Catch ya on the flip side.

We'll crap. Too much pain. No way I'm running this morning. Damn it.

[ related topics: Sports ]

When Android gives you the volume warning, and you're trying to hear over the downtown auto traffic...

Sunday morning traffic

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Trying for Puerto Rican flavors

[ related topics: Photography ]

node-cobol, COBOL running under NodeJS.

Ars Technica:Calling 1959 from your Web code: A COBOL bridge for Node.js

[ related topics: Sports ]

Kevin Marks: 5 ways that Sesame Street stops children from reading

[ related topics: Children and growing up ]

RT Ash Warner ‏@AlsBoy:

Slightly disturbing design flaw in this Minion body wash

[ related topics: Photography Graphic Design Archival ]

Carl Malamud Asks YouTube To Institute Three Strikes Policy For Those Who Abuse Takedowns

SexyCyborg goes Pentesting:

So I devised the Wu Ying Shoes (无影鞋)! - Penetration Testing Platform Heels! "Wu Ying" means “shadowless", the name is from the folk hero Wong Fei Hung’s (黄飞鸿) famous "shadowless kick" (无影脚). Wong Fei Hung is from Foshan, which is my ancestral home as well as the ancestral home of Bruce Lee. As legend has it, to execute the "shadowless kick" Wong would distract his opponent with a punch or upper body move while striking with his foot.

With my shadowless shoes I distract the target with my…upper body and they don’t see the real danger on my feet:-) Also I get tired of English names for everything. If we are ever going to stop copying Western things we should stop copying Western names as well right? So "Wu Ying Shoes".

You can 3d print your own 6" pumps with hidden compartment for router, keylogger and lockpick set...

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Ya know, special effects have gotten way too cheap. On the other hand, this might be enough to get me to watch golf: http://www.gfycat.com/AgileSaneIrishsetter

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RT Somhairle Kelly ‏@Eithin:

You're an artist? You realise by charging for it you're devaluing the beautiful things other people make, right? #jobstreatedlikesexwork

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OH: Uber, but with "cars that travel on fixed railways" or "cars that can contain a lot of people, but fly to other cities"... Snerk.

My singing call at the Ken Ritucci Caller School student dance in Sunnyvale, Sunday a week ago.

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Your target audience doesn't exist, some notes on computer games and gamer demographics, but I think these are useful for marketing in general.

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Oh. Great. Firefox 39 and Firefox 40.0.2 apparently have different cookie behavior. #FML

Finding a decade old ".working.panic.php" file in a directory may be an indication of a broken release process...

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What The Rentboy Raid Tells Us About The Gendered Rhetoric Of Trafficking:

Reading the press release, I was immediately struck by its use of rhetoric. Unlike official statements around the crackdowns on Backpage and similar services that are known primarily for advertising cis women sex workers, no mention is made of Rentboy aiding the nefarious work of sex traffickers. As well, unlike in most sex work raids, no mention is made of anti-trafficking organizations reaching out to supposed “victims.” It is a loud and curious omission given that police find it impossible to talk about sex work at all these days without discussing trafficking.

Edit: Will the Rentboy.com bust be the Stonewall of sex work?.

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The weekly fruit box has arrived at work. Have decided that "Hardass Peaches" is my new drag name.

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AT&T Wifi hotspots are injecting ads. Which you probably suspected.

The Hitachi Magic Wand throughout art history.

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Infosec Reactions. Animated gifs for your information security situations.

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Leaving Everywhere. Using real U.S. Census data, generates one of those "why I'm leaving X for Y" letters.

If 1984 doesn't come to pass, it'll be because Big Brother gets caught up in procurement regulations: Oakland Californian Cops decide to collect less license plate data after 80GB drive got full: Police department unilaterally decides to impose six-month retention policy.. And Windows XP.

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Five Different Stylists Dressed Me In “Flattering” Outfits And Here’s What Happened

Ohio cop tells black man he tailed him and pulled him over for ‘direct eye contact’

I love etymology: ‘Netflix and chill’: the complete history of a viral sex catchphrase. Although I'd probably have used something other than "viral sex" in that headline...

And in 20 years I'm sure we'll be looking back at "Wanna Netflix?" in the same way that we now look back at "Wanna cyber?"

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"OMG! Google and Facebook can sway elections!" <-- Yeah, because the New York Times has historically been *so* responsible on that front.

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Dear every search engine: I *always* want the venue web site above the Yelp page. *Always*.

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Ideas for hanging out with Charlene on Sunday...

• "Trestle Talk" Presentation at the Petaluma Museum
• 9th Annual Greek & Middle Eastern Food Festival at St. George Orthodox Church in Rohnert Park
• Various Exhibits at the Charles Schulz museum
• Whales: Giants of the Deep at the California Academy of Sciences
• Tule Elk at Point Reyes
• Union Square Life: Dance tribute to Michael Jackson
• San Francisco Botanical Garden
• Stranded! Tropical Island Survival, looks like the Conservatory of Flowers is going kind of Gilligan's Island
• Operation Babylift exhibit at the Presidio Officer's Club, about the two thousand Vietnamese babies flown to the U.S. during the fall of Saigon
• Walt Disney Family Museum

Or we could have a leisurely morning, walk down to the Petaluma River Heritage Center, borrow a boat, paddle around for a bit, go walk down to the hot rod show at 4th and Sea...

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Associated Press sues FBI for impersonating its site to install spyware:

According to the AP lawsuit (PDF), the incident occurred when the FBI was investigating bomb threats made against a high school in Washington State. Hoping to lure out the person behind a MySpace account connected to the threats, FBI agents came up with an elaborate ruse: they constructed a legit-looking webpage with a fake news story under the AP masthead and the headline "Bomb threat at high school downplayed by local police department." Also buried within the site was a script to covertly install a piece of spyware. A link to the story was then sent to the MySpace account in a private message.

And, the EFF reports that a bogus domain purporting to be them is being used in another malware phishing campaign:

Electronicfrontierfoundation.org was not the only domain involved in this attack. It seems to be part of a larger campaign, known as “Pawn Storm”. The current phase of the Pawn Storm attack campaign started a little over a month ago, and the overall campaign was first identified in an October 2014 report from Trend Micro (PDF). The group behind the attacks is possibly associated with the Russian government and has been active since at least 2007.

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Raising the Costa Concordia: A Time Lapse. Hat tip to Mark Dalrymple.

That huge squashed area of staterooms where the boat hit the bottom is particularly sobering.

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Because somehow I ended up as the Foley guy for a local troupe of people playing around with doing radio play dramatic readings: Rain is sizzling bacon, cars are lions roaring: the art of sound in movies

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As You Sow Files Notice Of Legal Action Against Soylent Super Food: High Levels of Lead and Cadmium Found by As You Sow in Two Samples of the Trendy Meal Replacement Powering Silicon Valley Coders.

"Nobody expects heavy metals in their meals," said Andrew Behar, CEO of As You Sow. "These heavy metals accumulate in the body over time and, since Soylent is marketed as a meal replacement, users may be chronically exposed to lead and cadmium concentrations that exceed California's safe harbor level (for reproductive harm). With stories about Silicon Valley coders sometimes eating three servings a day, this is of very high concern to the health of these tech workers."

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If you bet your ass, are your winnings in more of your ass, or someone else's? Because it's not like ass is a fungible commodity...

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On the way up to Indian Tree

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Down at The Rafael to see Meru, because apparently we don't have enough nail biting terror in our lives right now.

Whole Foods, Expensive Cheese, and the Dilemma of Cheap Prison Labor.

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First time running since the training pause before my back injury, circa 2 weeks. A leisurely 2.9mi, 8:50min/mi.

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New Study Confirms: “Share The Road” Is a Problem

The study is “Bicycles May Use Full Lane” Signage Communicates U.S. Roadway Rules and Increases Perception of Safety, Hess & Peterson.

We'll see how long it takes for the various bicycle advocacy organizations to catch up, but given that people are still painting door zone "sharrows", I'm not optimistic.

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