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    Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
    theweaselking
         		10:26p
    Guess the State!
    When a high school senior told her principal that students were taunting her for being a lesbian, he told her homosexuality is wrong, outed her to her parents and ordered her to stay away from children.

    He suspended some of her friends who expressed their outrage by wearing gay pride T-shirts and buttons at [the school], according to court records. And he asked dozens of students whether they were gay or associated with gay students.

    The American Civil Liberties Union successfully sued the district on behalf of a girl who protested against Principal David Davis, and a federal judge reprimanded Davis for conducting a "witch hunt" against gays. Davis was demoted, and school employees must now go through sensitivity training.

    "Davis embarked on what can only be characterized as a 'witch hunt' to identify students who were homosexual and their supporters, further adding fuel to the fire," U.S. District Judge Richard Smoak recounted in his ruling. "He went so far as to lift the shirts of female students to insure the letters 'GP' or the words 'Gay Pride' were not written on their bodies."

    Davis admitted under oath that he had banned students from wearing any clothing or symbols supporting equal rights for gay people.

    Davis also testified that "he believed rainbows were "sexually suggestive" and would make students unable to study because they'd be picturing gay sex acts in their mind."

    "We are a small, rural district [...] with strong Christian beliefs and feel like homosexuality is wrong," said Steve Griffin, Holmes County's school superintendent, who keeps a Bible on his desk and framed Scriptures on his office walls.
    theweaselking
         		9:49p
    As much as DC characters are boring, this is funny:


    EDIT: source link added.

    EDIT2: ohgodjustclickit.
    larabeaton
         		11:27a
    Fafblog - sporadically updated, consistently awesome.

    Take this snippet from yesterday's entry on the Republican VP choices:

    "MITT ROMNEY:
    Pros: history of rapid flip-flops will neatly counterbalance McCain's record of stunning policy reversals to achieve perfect pandering equilibrium; ability to suck opponents into the inky void of his soul should prove useful in veep debate; sweats liquid money
    Cons: eccentric space-god religion could appear unacceptably bizarre to pious nation of devout two-thousand-year-old Jewish zombie worshipers "
    theweaselking
         		2:01p
    TSA inspectors now protecting you from danger while flying by *breaking off external sensors*.

    After all, if the plane isn't safe to fly, it can't be hijacked midair!
    theweaselking
         		10:32a
    Why so skinny?


    (I take this from [info]fortysevenbteg. He takes from [info]mrfurious. And so, the cycle of life proceeds.)
    theweaselking
         		10:26a
    theweaselking
         		9:20a
    I really, really, really hate plagiarists.

    Google "it came from the lint trap!" if you want to know why.

    EDIT: I've already filed a DMCA takedown notice on it. I've also notified the AP, with numerous examples, of their own copyright being infringed by the douchebag in question.
    Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
    theweaselking
         		9:07p
    If this is an ad, I don't want to know what for.


    And I'm specifically not visiting the URL it tosses at me.

    But I'm happy to accept it as non-advertising art.
    theweaselking
         		8:14p
    larabeaton
         		2:46p
    Having turned my attention from giving telephone interviews to doing actual work, I have encountered certain horrible realizations.

    horrible realization #1 - I left the USB flash drive that I've been storing my work on on the coffee table this morning.

    horrible realization #2 - The flash drive is probabaly a cat toy at this very moment.



    Here's hoping that it doesn't end up underneath the fridge.
    theweaselking
         		5:34p
    larabeaton
         		10:31a
    Make my decisions for me
    I received an email a little while ago, informing me that Tony Robbins was coming to Vancouver to do an Unleash the Power Within seminar in October. When I went to UPW back in 2000, it helped me tremendously in so many areas of my life, areas which I'm thinking I could use a bit of help in again.

    ( a list of the areas, mostly for my own benefit. Feel free to skip. )

    With the non-stop stress fest that my life has been this past year, I thought about attending again. But the only things that I'm interested in working on are the areas that are covered on the 3rd and 4th days. (Well, the firewalk, too, but that's just cool.)

    Now, I'm thinking about volunteering to help out. The last time I crewed one of these, the crew was allowed to attend the Sunday and Monday sessions as a participant. They need a lot of people on the Friday to help with registration and the firewalk, but after that, there's not a lot of things that need to be done.

    So, on the one hand, it's a chance to attend for free and work out some Issues in an incredibly positive environment.

    On the other hand, it is absolutely exhausting to crew one of these things. Leaving at 2am and having to be back at 7:30am kind of exhausting.




    ...... now that I think about it - Fuck sleep. I've lost more sleep for less benefit. And just being a part of that, and helping people make positive changes in their lives was a great experience last time.
    theweaselking
         		2:22p
    Have I mentioned recently how cool TheCourt.ca is?
    Lying For JEEEZUS: Chris Bird exposes the true nature of the Order Of Canada whiners.

    Short version: They're lying about who they are, they're lying about the requirements of the Order, they're wrong on every factual claim, and they're accusing the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of bias on transparently spurious and baseless grounds.

    Lying: It's what pro-lifers *do*.
    jsbowden
         		12:14p
    What a great day...
    It's beautiful outside right now.

    The office is a ghost town, since we're in heavy vacation time around here.

    It's tempting to just say 'screw it' and go home.

    No one would miss me...they aren't here.

    Current Mood: working
    Current Music: Sarah MoocLachlan - Train Wreck
    theweaselking
         		10:40a
    Yikes.
    theweaselking
         		9:52a
    For the dorks in the audience.
    theweaselking
         		9:29a
    theweaselking
         		9:29a
    Monday, August 18th, 2008
    theweaselking
         		6:58p
    Dear Former Homeowner:
    While I appreciate that it's difficult to ensure that *all* of your addresses are changed, one would expect that you had perhaps changed *some* of them.

    However, since the 6-month period during which Canada Post forwards your mail to your new address has now expired, I should not be receiving:
    A) your bank statements
    B) your RRSP statements
    C) your cellphone bills
    D) your letters from HRCC based on requests made in MARCH OF 2008.

    While I am willing to call all of these people back, explain the situation, and then shred the documents that I have been erroneously sent since I do not have a forwarding address for you, I still don't like doing it.

    When this kind of document arrived during those six months of mail forwarding, complete with giant yellow "FORWARDED DOCUMENT" sticker, of the sort *we* saw for the few things *we'd* forgotten to get changed, did it not occur to you to contact your bank/provider/POTENTIAL FUTURE EMPLOYER and inform them of the address change?

    I hate you,
    John
    theweaselking
         		6:21p
    A really long time ago I realised that Danny Elfman and Tim Burton's "Kidnap The Sandy Claws" has a rhythm to the verses almost identical to that of KMFDM's "Megalomaniac".

    And that I *need* a Mash-Up of the two.

    And yet, despite all this time, I still have no Mash-up.

    Help me out, interwebs.
    theweaselking
         		6:01p
    It Came From The Depths Of The Photobucket Account!


    (This is a repost, but from more than a year and a half ago. And it's awesome)
    theweaselking
         		5:53p
    theweaselking
         		4:51p
    kjn
         		8:59p
    A Public Service Announcement
    DOS is easy to troubleshoot.

    This PSA has been brought by you by the letters A, H and E.
    theweaselking
         		8:06a
    Geek Pop Quiz: consumer products edition!
    Really quick easy one for today: Does anyone know of a commercial MP3 player with a blind-accessible interface?

    And no, a Shuffle doesn't count, because it's a real pain putting those songs onto the player and because not being able to even select a song is a *bad* thing. Besides, blind users often like audiobooks, which rely on you being able to play a number of tracks, in order, remembering your position in each one. Shuffle-devices can't do that.

    But: Does anyone know of a player with an audio menu? Maybe one that does TTS on the song artist and title? Or even just that *reads* the menu options to you?
    I realise open source projects are traditionally terrible about catering to people with disabilities, but maybe some version of something like RockBox has this as an option someone decided was cool?

    (Obviously, the first thing we're going to do is trash everything by Apple from consideration, since their interfaces *can't* be used by a blind person and they have no options for customisation. If we can find third-party firmware that replaces the Apple stuff an iPod *might* work - all we'd really need to do is add a physical "home row" touch-nubby-thing to the center button so the user can find it. However, I'd rather an actual product with actual support, rather than a hack on a closed system whose manufacturer would rather brick your device than allow you to make changes)
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