19 May 2013 @ 04:00 am

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Tails 0.18, a new version of the specialist live CD whose goal is to preserve the user's privacy and anonymity while surfing the world wide web, has been released: "Tails, The Amnesic Incognito Live System, version 0.18, is out. All users must upgrade as soon as possible. Notable....
 
 
 
19 May 2013 @ 01:06 am

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April 17, 1940. When enameled steel was sexy. "Electric Institute of Washington. Display of ranges in lobby at Potomac Electric Power Co. building." 8x10 acetate negative by Theodor Horydczak. View full size.
 
 
18 May 2013 @ 11:20 pm
The Onion!

The Onion was a wee smidge snippy about it.

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18 May 2013 @ 09:39 pm
I recently read Sam Harris's essay on lying (it's a Kindle single), and it's absolutely fascinating. The usual school of thought on lying it's that it's bad, except white lies are OK. But he rejects most of that as a rationalization, and that telling the truth is still kinder. He also references a book I read two years ago, M. Scott Peck's PEOPLE OF THE LIE, which discusses the repercussions from an explicitly Christian viewpoint. But it's still fascinating for a non-believer like me (and Sam Harris). I'm still working on being more honest in my life, and I'm still angered by the sheer amount of bull**** I've been fed in my life. To get some distance from it, gives me some scope to the enormity of it. And for the folks who thought I was overreacting  you have no idea just how many lies I was told, and how manipulated I was. So happy I am living in truth now, and the lesson I'm taking away is it's better to walk away and be in pain than to be pulled into a lie, and be in pain later, and for longer. 
 
 
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18 May 2013 @ 11:45 pm

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Jeff Rizzo has announced the release of NetBSD 6.1, a new stable version of the highly portable UNIX-like operating system available for a wide range of platforms: "The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce NetBSD 6.1, the first feature update of the NetBSD 6 release branch. It represents....
 
 
18 May 2013 @ 08:18 pm

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Guys gone wild, 1860s style. "Unidentified soldiers in Union uniforms holding cigars in each other's mouths." Ninth-plate tintype, hand-colored. Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs, Library of Congress.
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<p class="ljsyndicationlink"><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/shorpy/~3/CEAxhv96Cso/15309">http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/shorpy/~3/CEAxhv96Cso/15309</a></p><img src=http://www.shorpy.com/files/images/SHORPY_00342u1.preview.jpg><div style="width:512px; margin-top:10px;">Guys gone wild, 1860s style. "Unidentified soldiers in Union uniforms holding cigars in each other's mouths." Ninth-plate tintype, hand-colored. Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs, Library of Congress. <a href="http://www.shorpy.com/node/15309?size=_original"#caption>View full size.</a></div>
 
 
18 May 2013 @ 05:55 pm

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From 1952 comes this conflation of two popular genres in the children's TV show "Tom Corbett, Space Cadet." Photo by Charlotte Brooks for the Look magazine assignment "Cowboys and Meteors."
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<p class="ljsyndicationlink"><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/shorpy/~3/yxh7Zn5TTZc/15308">http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/shorpy/~3/yxh7Zn5TTZc/15308</a></p><img src=http://www.shorpy.com/files/images/SHORPY_00964u1.preview.jpg><div style="width:512px; margin-top:10px;">From 1952 comes this conflation of two popular genres in the children's TV show "Tom Corbett, Space Cadet." Photo by Charlotte Brooks for the Look magazine assignment "Cowboys and Meteors." <a href="http://www.shorpy.com/node/15308?size=_original"#caption>View full size.</a></div>