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Monthly Archives: November 2006

Firefox crop circle on google maps and google earth FINALLY !!

29-Nov-06

At last at last at last!
We’re finally imortalized on Google Maps and Google Earth!
Here’s the Digg story, a direct link to the google map (I’m the little dot on the far right in the picture of us near the trucks), and a article about the crop circle being in Google Earth!
I’m so stoked. I’m risking [...]

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Donating to support The Geek

12-Nov-06

A couple of my friends plus two of their friends (who are no-doubt equally cool) are trying to get to linux.conf.au and need the internet’s help to get there.
You can do one (or more) of the following things to help:

Digg this: How to raise 10,000 grassroots style
spread the word by blogging and linking to their [...]

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“V” comes to the capital.

12-Nov-06

A friend of mine sent me this link about people dressed as V (from V for Vendetta) visiting security check points at the White House, the main Treasury, IRS and Justice Department Buildings and the Capitol in order to
…deliver the People’s Petitions for Redress of Grievances relating to the Government’s violations of [...]

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less than 1/3 of 1% difference.

09-Nov-06

On the Virginia race:
An Associated Press count Wednesday night showed Webb with 1,172,538 votes and Allen with 1,165,302, a difference of 7,236, or less than one-third of 1 percent.
Wow. There are more people enrolled in some high schools than that. My high school was something like 6,000 people when I was enrolled. [...]

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Voter turnout

08-Nov-06

Cassady just told me that voter turnout exceeded 40% for yesterday’s midterms (preliminary analysis). I know that I was one of those people who decided to stop feeling apathetic and start actually trying to understand what’s going on and get people to vote. Seems I wasn’t the only one.
Other news is saying they [...]

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An Oregon reaction to Election Day!

08-Nov-06

Oregon:
Did you see the OregonLive results yet??
I’m pretty happy about pretty much everything there. :) Except, uh… laughably 47 is passing without 46. Considering that 46 ALLOWS laws regulating campaign funds in the first place, you can’t pass a MEASURE THAT WOULD REGULATE FUNDS (measure 47) without it. And thus… right [...]

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I need a good quote!

02-Nov-06

Help! I need a good (NOT CLICHE!) quote to engrave on an …um… ipod. :)
Any ideas?
(suggestions from complete strangers or new readers are welcome!)

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