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Good for privacy. - william

"The specter of unauthorized migrants sucking hungrily from the public teat is a tried-and-true method of turning people against their own interests. We heard the narrative used to attack the stimulus package, federal aid to needy families, housing assistance and the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (S-CHIP). Forget about how these measures might impact their constituents -- lawmakers told us they had to oppose them to prevent hard-working Americans from being forced to subsidize foreigners who had broken the law. It fits neatly within the larger right-populist memes that fuel much of the immigration debate -- an out-of-control government that doesn’t only fail to uphold the law, but also, unimaginably, offers benefits to "illegal aliens" that are denied to ordinary Americans. So it was inevitable that the unsettled and emotionally charged issue of immigration would be used as a cudgel against health reform. And it has -- not only by the usual motley crew of factually challenged pundits and radio hate-jocks, but by a number of conservative lawmakers." - William Harryman from Bookmarklet

I must confess that after paying in to health insurance for over thirty years, I'd be happy to suckle at the teat of a national plan. - william

This is google's social networking application. A little box that you can put on your website, and fill with pictures of people you barely know. - william

Sadly Google is merging google pages with their google sites, and any hosted HTML will be dumped.This means I'll have to find a new host for their social networking Google Friends - william

Interesting and eclectic, poetry and anything. - william

old (1983) article about the heart sutra with some comments on bodhicitta. from Sojun Mel Weitsman - william

A list of grants and foundations by blogger Mira Bartok - william

Interesting commentary from BRIN - william

Some creative Ideas about progress, development, culture. worth looking at from time to time - william

@C4Chaos is that what makes dharma interesting -- the invitation to examine experience rather than hold an assumption about what is what and why? - william

@~C4: i think i see. thanks. - MikeAmundsen

Human chimeras & mosaics Anomalous medical condition where a person has the DNA of two or more individuals. - william

A magazine of short prose / narrative verse. features stories of 500 words or less - william

Far off memories of your face Nick the corner of my vision. Another year ending on a minor chord - william

I don't get it. Why did she say that? - Shevonne

A variation on this happens when I pick up stuff from a store, after having called beforehand. I don't "sound black" and when I show up, folks often shocked that they were speaking to a dark-skinned brother. - Jamelle

Very good for sequencing beats, composing or making sound tracks for theater of film. simpler than Buzz, but with good audio for samples and It will allow VST instruments and effects. Also has an active community of users. - william

Includes wrapper for Psycle plugins and ladspa. Making music with Buzz is much more interesting with the ability to use exotic VST instruments like NI Absynth. The additional Psycle wrapper means the ability to use instruments from the psycle tracker in Buzz. Actually i'd like to see an adapter that lets me use Buzz instruments and effects in Psycle, since the psycle tracker is easier to set up quick patterns and compositions on. - william

A free audio tracker Ideal for composition and sequencing sound for video or stage. - william

hopefully some day the colors won't matter - clarke thomas

@clarke -- Black absorbs light and doesn't reflect it, therefore it's not a color. It is the absence of color. Whereas white is all colors. - Lindsey is Fierce!

amazing saturated colors - william

had't thought of it as conditioning before. more like action or the effect of action. - william

so along with coffee alcohol and chocolate, pot also can help stop the deterioration of memory? Well, no, but a drug developed from THC may have these properties. - william

Actually I'm starting to wonder about the novel writing moth. how does it prest he keys? Or is it really a guy dressed in a moth costume? - william

"Chinese farmers are trapping eagles and other birds of prey and throwing them into poultry pens so that the chickens can wreak their revenge on them. The farmers say the trussed-up eagle is so frightened of poultry after the experience that they never return to hunt them. Farmers have complained for years about eagles stealing their chickens but face fines or even jail if they kill the birds. So instead they have come up with the idea of catching but not killing them to avoid incurring any penalties. They say after the trussed-up birds is freed it never returns - while the chickens also learn self defence against the birds of prey. Farmer Xiao Wu of Huaxi Village at Lin’an said: 'Those eagles have eaten nearly 300 chickens over the past three months, and now I catch them with a trap and let the chickens get revenge. 'Free range chickens get the best price, but the chickens are always the target of the eagles. I tried every other means to drive the eagles away, including scarecrows, bamboo sticks, even - Cee Bee from Bookmarklet

Terrific!!! - Business Blogger【ツ】™

my blog is now black. - william

Ok A few sentences and links to some free fonts and software to buy - william

"Credit: Phaedra Wilkinson New ways to manipulate neural plasticity--the brain's ability to rewire itself--could make adult brains as facile as young ones, at least in part. Drugs that target these mechanisms might eventually help treat neurological disorders as diverse as Alzheimer's, stroke, schizophrenia, and autism. But first scientists will need to figure out how to harness this rewiring capacity without damaging vital neural circuitry." - ~C4Chaos from Bookmarklet

Recovery from spinal injury or brain trauma os one area that sounds very possible. On the more far out end, I can imagine "educational steroids" treatments that would allow one to acquire language or become more proficient in math or music. I wonder would people sacrifice some memories if it meant having a "new brain"? - william

Recent Address from Pres-elect - william

clever waste of Cpu time - william

You need to strike a balance that exploits the best of both worlds. - J. D. Ebberly

PNG better in my opinion (open format = no license problem ; transparency ; ...) , JPG = quality/compression ratio not always possible to fix + patent problems ; capacity is not a problem anymore ; seems like msn versus jabber fight (jabber way better but everyone [still] use msn) ! - TiTi

Can't run for prez. though. - william

There is a great 2004 New Yorker article about him with really paints a picture of a moderate Republican who tends to speak his mind, follow his heart, and not pander to party leaders. It really gave me a lot of respect for him. Here is the abstract http://www.newyorker.com/archive... If you're a subscriber you can get the full text. - Jen (SquirrelGirl)

@Squirrel Girl: thanks for the link to the New Yorker article. now here's a video of Schwarzenegger's interview on CNN. i won't be surprised if Obama picked him as energy czar - http://bit.ly/aIpa - ~C4Chaos

because they can :-P - Dobromir Hadzhiev

It doesn't matter how simple the URL is, I'll probably forget it when I need it later. I can Diigo something and then just search for tags, those I'll remember. - Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF