The Bangus Ultimatum

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• @MarkGatela er. *judge* khan. no. i didn't pull this off in open court. maybe someday. for the right audience. in reply to MarkGatela #

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• KHAAAAAANNN!!! #
• @MarkGatela er. *judge* khan. no. i didn't pull this off in open court. maybe someday. for the right audience. in reply to MarkGatela #

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These are my links for October 19th through October 22nd:

• Left vs Right | Information Is Beautiful – A concept-map exploring the Left vs Right political spectrum.
• Corporate bullying on the net must be resisted | Technology | guardian.co.uk – Leaving naked power without consequence lying around where anyone can find it and use it is an invitation to an abuse of that power.
• Dresden Codak » Archive » 42 Essential 3rd Act Twists – huh. wow.
• How Safe is the HPV vaccine? | Information Is Beautiful – I’ve been reading a lot about the HPV (Human Papillomavirus) vaccine and the risk of serious side effects and even death. I thought I would seek out the numbers and put them in context. Especially given headlines claiming the HPV jab is “as deadly as the cancer” it seeks to prevent.
• Are Software Developers Naturally Weird? — Datamation.com – Everyone that works in IT is weird. Admit it – us techies all have quirks in our personalities and our approach to our work. The level of weirdness is just a matter of opinion, interpretation and context.

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“It was never the object of those laws to grant a monopoly for every trifling device, every shadow of a shade of an idea, which would naturally and spontaneously occur to any skilled mechanic or operator in the ordinary progress of manufacturers. Such an indiscriminate creation of exclusive privileges tends rather to obstruct than to stimulate invention. It creates a class of speculative schemers who make it their business to watch the advancing wave of improvement, and gather its foam in the form of patented monopolies, which enable them to lay a heavy tax upon the industry of the country, without contributing anything to the real advancement of the arts. It embarrasses the honest pursuit of business with fears and apprehensions of concealed liens and unknown liabilities to lawsuits and vexatious accountings for profits made in good faith.”

- Atlantic Works v. Brady, 107 U.S. 192, 200 (1882)

These are my links for October 7th through October 15th:

• What’s right with Search Engine Optimization – Boing Boing – Search Engine Land's Danny Sullivan has published an open response to Derek Powazek's Spammers, Evildoers, and Opportunists defending the practice of search engine optimization, arguing that there's plenty of esoteric, useful, non-sleazy information that web-site-owners need to know to get their stuff recognized correctly by Google.
• Derek Powazek – Spammers, Evildoers, and Opportunists – Look under the hood of any SEO plan and you’ll find advice like this: make sure to use keywords in the headline, use proper formatting, provide summaries of the content, include links to relevant information. All of this is a good idea, and none of it is a secret. It’s so obvious, anyone who pays for it is a fool.
• Letters of Note – Letters of Note is an attempt to gather and sort fascinating letters, postcards, telegrams, faxes, and memos.
• Crack a Master Combination Padlock Redux – Illustration – Lifehacker – Two years ago we highlighted how to crack a Master combination padlock for those of you who may have lost the combination to your bulletproof lock; now designer Mark Campos has turned the tried-and-true instructions into an easier-to-follow visual guide.
• CopyTrans Manager is a Lightweight iTunes Alternative – iTunes – Lifehacker – Windows only: If all you really want out of your iPod experience is the ability to load music, movies, and podcasts onto your iPod without any bulk or bloat, portable and free CopyTrans Manager is a speedy iTunes-alternative.

These are my links for October 6th through October 7th:

• Technology Review: Blogs: arXiv blog: A New Graphical Representation of the Periodic Table – The great utility of Mendeleev's arrangements was its predictive power: the gaps in his table allowed him to predict the properties of undiscovered elements. It's worth preserving in its current form for that reason alone.
• Theme Builder Creates Document Themes for Office 2007 – Featured Windows Download – Lifehacker – Standalone application Theme Builder creates themes for Microsoft Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations, and even Outlook emails—allowing you to create a consistent look and feel across all your documents.
• Justice Scalia Calls for Dumbing-Down of the Legal Profession – Lowering the Bar – Scalia said that in his opinion those appearing before the Court were often "brilliant" and represented some of "our very best minds." And he thinks that's a tragedy.
• Unixmen – Things you didn’t know VLC media player can do | Unixmen – For most people, VLC is the favorite media player because it plays everything they throw at it without hiccups. No hunting for codec. But VLC can do a lot of other things as well. Find out how many of these listed below you knew, and how many you did not.
• 2D Goggles » The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage – ada lovelace! charles babbage! steam punk! crime fighting!