Joe Szilagyi

Thanks again, to the President that took our good name and utterly ruined it globally. Thanks again to the complete fools that elected this fool, who was completely and utterly unqualified to run a baseball team (which he failed at) let alone a world superpower. January 20th can’t get here any sooner.

How does this work? The Church moved to import millions (tens of millions?) of advertising dollars across state lines from Utah to California to ensure Proposition 8 and the banning of marriage rights for same-sex couples passed, and they’re upset now that others are using their free speech rights to protest the free speech that the Church used. That’s only extremely hypocritical, boys. Did the Churches honestly think they were exempt from scrutiny and criticism here…?

It is disturbing that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is being singled out for speaking up as part of its democratic right in a free election.

Members of the Church in California and millions of others from every faith, ethnicity and political affiliation who voted for Proposition 8 exercised the most sacrosanct and individual rights in the United States – that of free expression and voting.

While those who disagree with our position on Proposition 8 have the right to make their feelings known, it is wrong to target the Church and its sacred places of worship for being part of the democratic process.

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Here are some really big holes from around the world.

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This is just awesome.

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One of the best ways to discover new music online is with Last.fm, a music recommendation community. Last.fm is a pretty simple way to listen to tunes, but there are a few quick and dirty ways you can oomph it up a little. Keep reading for fifteen ways to tweak your Last.fm listening experience.

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From Digg. Yessir, they’re all about them family values… “Moreover, when Thompson married his first wife, Sarah Lindsey, at Lawrenceburg Methodist Church in 1959, she was already two months pregnant with their first child.”

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This is too funny: “I recently found a fun feature available within the sudo program that will insult you when you do the wrong thing such as enter your password incorrectly. I
’ll tell you how you can activate the feature for a few laughs and also give a few examples of what insults you might get.”

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Via Digg: “Adblock Plus, the Firefox browser plug-in that erases advertisements from web pages, is a killer of a killer app … or it could be if it became really popular.The widespread adoption of ad-blocking software could totally atomize online advertising. But, the numbers still aren’t high enough YET to spur a counterattack by the big guns, like Google.”

If this ever does take off and reached critical mass, I wonder what sort of outcry we’d see, from it, on the part of e-business. Personally, I don’t see any harm in web advertising, or targeted web advertising: bandwidth is NOT free, up or down the Internets, and ultimately someone needs to pay for it. The vast majority of websites, even high quality ones, are done by hobbyists–they don’t make a profit. They need a way to recoup bandwidth and hostings costs at the least.

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A method to update your wordpress blog, using a plugin that will upgrade your blog automatically to the latest version.

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Almost half of the world’s countries can be considered democracies, but only 28 qualify as “full democracies”

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What is urban life without a little excitement, spontaneity and strangeness? Instead of your usual routine, try rounding up people to go pole dancing in a crowded subway car. Alternatively, send mass emails to get your friends to dress like Santa and wage urban guerilla warfare with feather pillows! [images and video included]

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The Linux Vault is a new wiki project founded with the mission of creating a centralized GNU/Linux information website. It has been just created, so we are begging everybody to take part of it and make it the place for writing guides, HOW-TO’s, configurations, administration tips, tricks, tweaks or whatever else related to the GNU/Linux system.

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Swedish grannies are connecting to the net at 40 gigabits per second.

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Via Digg: The Segway took the idea of the two wheeled vehicle and made it require thousands of dollars of electronics to remain as stable as an ordinary two wheeled bicycle. The Apple Newton was a personal organizer that required a personal assistant to carry it around for you.

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Wow. Two small planes collided during an acrobatic display at an air show in Poland on Saturday, killing both pilots, authorities said. The video is short but seriously messed up.

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It’s not proper legal advice, of course, but it’s a fine starting point before a legal war ensues.

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Pretty interesting. We (the United States) aren’t at the top of the list.

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A list of the first 100 domains domain names ever registered. Kinda cool, actually. It’s history!

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Good story on computer forensics and open source tools used.

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It’s surprising which parts of the Internet allow information to flow freely. Want to see a map of the world where people are oppressed and the truth buried?

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