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Word on the street is that Verizon is going to stop carrying most of the Usenet. Apparently this is how they plan to implement their settlement with the NY AG. You have to suspect the rest of the mob who’s settling will use similarly coarse filters. With that, at least in the alt hierarchy, September could at last be over. I’m sorry to see it go, for a reason like this anyway.

I’ve finally decided to bring my personal projects out of the dark ages. After using CVS for years and years, I’m making the leap to Subversion. Git and friends look appealing, but, the fact is that “a little better than CVS” does it for me at this point. Plus I understand Subversion and the tool support on the Mac is excellent. For my server, I’m using VirtualBox 1.6.2 as the host and Ubuntu JEOS 8.04 as the guest. These notes may or may not be useful for others. I’m just trying to keep track of what I did here.
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about “knocking off” a politician on the side Fox likes, Fox would be calling for their head.

That’s irritating.

Fox News sent some reporter (who sounds about 18 years old) out to grill Father Pfleger because he had invited Reverend Wright to church. They should have sent someone smarter.

I can never remember where to look at Apple to download iPod firmware without iTunes.

This gentleman has made it easy to find.

Auction 73 is over. Most of the spectrum that will be freed up by the discontinuation of analog television broadcasting in 2009 has been sold off. According to Engadget, Verizon and AT&T bought most of it. Verizon had previously warned the FCC that the open access rules it was imposing on the spectrum would prevent telcos from bidding on it. Looks like they decided it was valuable anyway.

How many times have we all said similar about lesser things. [Link]

This screensaver goes out to google and searches for publicly accessible surveillance cameras, and displays what they see. I don’t know whether it’s fun or just creepy. I’m leaning towards creepy. There’s a Windows version too.

Mesopotamian Quicksand. What was that about understanding and repeating history?

Quoth Hillary Clinton at the Nevada Democratic debate:

I have a plan – a moratorium on foreclosures for 90 days [and] freezing interest rates for five years, which I think we should do immediately

Holy cow. Talk about exacerbating risks. The best thing I can say about this is that Edwards’ plan was worse.[Link]