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Dang, man. This one’s just messed up.

I mean, everyone’s entitled to their freedom of speech and expression, but something about this one just ain’t right. Children’s services department: y’all payin’ attention to this one?

I swear, this kind of crap puts me in a mood to listen to some quality civils rights movement music, like the tune listed above. Damn shame about what happened to Sam Cooke.

Oh yeah, don’t forget my earlier post about the follies of other white supremacists.

From the looks of things, the federal prosecutor who’s jumping all over the Bushies in this CIA-leak case is a rare example of the stand-up sort of public servant . I’m just glad to see him doing his job investigating this mess, no holds-barred style. More pit bull lawyers, less Harriet Miers. Maybe we should look at Fitzie for that Supreme Court opening?

Also, in spite of the self-guided implosion of the ID folks in the Pennsylvania case, there’s still a serious erosion of scientific literacy and legitimacy, as far as the general public opinion goes. Not sure where we should be pointing the fingers on this one, but it’ll only get worse if we refuse to acknowledge it. The floor is open to ideas, so take a minute away from the physics/astronomy you weren’t really working on anyways and devote some brainpower to this one; maybe we’ll come up with something.

There’s some very cool movies from Cassini, in orbit around Saturn, at this site. Cassini even discovered a new “moonlet” orbiting within the rings.

I dunno how many of you have been keeping up with the NBA’s recent dress-code fiasco, but here’s a great suggestion for player reaction.

[Quick recap: Commish David Stern/some owners/marketpeople didn't like the the "thug" look that some players were going for, so over-reacted and instituted a relatively harsh dress code. Some kind of dress code might not be a bad idea, but both the policy and the way it was implemented could use a lot of improvement.]

(1) Willie Nelson is playing down at UNH, 8pm. Whittemore Center Arena, tix ~$30-40.

(2) For those not going, the 4th annual Bonfire-Party-at-Kara-and-Dave’s. Directions here, but you basically go North on Rt-10 for ~15 miles, turn Right and go to the end of Sawyer Brook Rd, and there will probably be some carpools. Grilling of food, drinking of beer, and generally hanging out.

send an email to this address:
(sorry I’m breaking it up, I don’t want to fill the account with spam right away)

nathaniel
(at)
paust.co.uk

It’s my new “cultured” email address.

As in, how to disable autorun so you can
(a) rip tracks from a CD
(b) avoid sneaky spyware
with one mod to your registry:

Start Menu -> Run -> type “regedit”.
Click through HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE -> SYSTEM -> CurrentControlSet ->Services -> Cdrom.
Click on the CDRom folder and open the AutoRun registry item, then set the value to 0 (probably is set at 1).
Then, restart, and you’ve turned off the autorun feature for inserted CDs.

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