Blog Heap of Links for the day 15 June 2009

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Obamanation

After the CIA director apparently told The New Yorker that he thinks the former vice president is crossing his fingers for another attack on America, Dick Cheney says he hopes his "old friend" didn't really say those words.... Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., called on Panetta to "retract immediately" his statement, arguing that the director crossed the line....

4:55pm CDT Mon 2009 Jun 15 :MW

Wars and Rumors

The United States has determined that the nuclear test conducted by North Korea last month yielded an explosion of a few kilotons, the U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence

4:55pm CDT Mon 2009 Jun 15 :MW

Modern Medicine can be Dangerous

may be an association between use of stimulant medications used to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and sudden cardiac death in healthy children... [BUT THEY SAY, KEEP GIVING THEM THE DRUGS!!]

4:57pm CDT Mon 2009 Jun 15 :MW

Digital Tyranny

One of the Chinese developers of the "Green Dam" filtering software pledged to patch the software's vulnerabilities, while intimating that he may take legal action against the authors of a U.S. report that discovered them. [BWAH HAHAHAHAHHA]

5:05pm CDT Mon 2009 Jun 15 :MW

some of the blacklists the software uses to filter sites was taken from U.S.-based Solid Oak Software, maker of Cybersitter... It wasn't just that "blacklisted" URL addresses appeared to be copied directly from Cybersitter; "a news item, almost like a press release that Cybersitter sent to customers was included in the shipping version of Green Dam software," Halderman said. "It appeared to be copied into Green Dam by mistake."...

5:03pm CDT Mon 2009 Jun 15 :MW
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Bartlesville - prairie frontier town

On Tuesday, June 16, thirty young adults with Bike & Build Inc., a national non-profit committed to affordable housing, are bicycling into Bartlesville on their journey across the United States.

5:34pm CDT Mon 2009 Jun 15 :MW

Repeal! Repeal! Repeal!

HempBartlesville -- Westside Community Center Director Morris McCorvey is free on bond after his arrest on marijuana-related offenses following a raid on his Bartlesville home Sunday evening... also found what appeared to be a "grow room..."

5:58pm CDT Mon 2009 Jun 15 :MW

Digital Business

GoogleGoogle.... co-founder Sergey Brin is so rattled by the launch of Microsoft's rival search engine that he has assembled a team of top engineers to work on urgent upgrades to his Web service

5:06pm CDT Mon 2009 Jun 15 :MW

Iran

Iran's hardline Islamic Basij militiamen killed at least one person on Monday and wounded more when their building was attacked by demonstrators protesting an election they say was stolen

4:53pm CDT Mon 2009 Jun 15 :MW
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Urantiana

There is a similarity between Scientific Theory and Religion and The Urantia Book. There is a popular idea that the origin of humans began in Africa. This idea is promoted by scientists that specialize in these areas, such as paleoanthropologists. So it is a difficult task to change that idea. But looking at their findings there are serious objections to the idea that humans arose in Africa.... -Frank Jakubowsky

5:02pm CDT Mon 2009 Jun 15 :MW

Sarah Palin 2012

Let's come together and boycott products that advertise on Letterman's show.... The media wolf pack attacks on women candidates observe no political boundaries...

5:01pm CDT Mon 2009 Jun 15 :MW

it seems that Palin and her husband, the first dude of Alaska, feel the need to keep this ball up in the air.... I used to feel sorry for Palin, a not-very-smart person ... [Another dirty old man supporter]... she reminds me of my sister when she was in 10th grade. I never had a sister, but you know what I mean. [OH, and an IDIOT]

4:59pm CDT Mon 2009 Jun 15 :MW

In this age of out-of-control political correctness, it never ceases to amaze me how thin our skins have become. Can anyone around here take a joke anymore? I'm referring to the latest — and utterly ridiculous — furor being made over the comments David Letterman made last week about Sarah Palin's daughter. Palin, of course, went ballistic.... [Well, guess we know where "Chuck Barney" stands on the filthy old man issue.]

4:58pm CDT Mon 2009 Jun 15 :MW