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Awesome part: Nick Boserio

Speed and style reminds me of Matt Hensley. And music is good, too. Apparently from a video “No Strings Attached”.

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My Battle at the Berrics 3 Picks

For BATB3, I see Cory Kennedy and Marc Johnson going all the way this year, and Cory taking it. Although P-Rod is usually ultra consistent I’m calling his defeat to Billy Marks. I’d like to see Lutzka go farther if he can get past Koston’s dork tricks. Mike Mo took the first one. Cole the

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HealthCare Thought Exercises

I can’t remember where, but I’m fairly certain I saw compelling evidence that nations with universal access to healthcare, contraceptives, and abortions have the lowest rates of abortions. Let’s assume this is true. Also assume that the U.S. military, as well as foreign militaries aided by the U.S., engage in a perhaps small but non-zero

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Shifting Morals and Shifting Laws

Blogger Classically Liberal shows how codifying the morality of the day (“societal justice”) can give you laws that abuse a slowly changing demographic of victims. With support of Christians, England at one time had criminalized homosexuality; but now that most brits openly accept it, England’s remaining Christians and their speech are becoming targets for abuse

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SCOTUS: Florida handed out cruel & unusal sentences

The Supreme Court today ruled that juveniles cannot be sentenced to life without parole for nonhomocide crimes. Good. How does Florida fit in the picture? Seventy-seven of the 129 American juveniles sentenced to LWOP are in Florida. Either Florida’s teens are the most evil in the nation or something in the CJS is wrong. Today

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Scathing AP Editorial on U.S. Drug War

AP IMPACT: US drug war has met none of its goals This writer is obviously on fire about this issue, and while I appreciate the fact that it will expose more people to the wider effects and history of our drug policy, it’s simply unfair to claim that the drug war has met no goals.

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Skate 3 Could Use a Light

Skate 1 was and remains awesome. EA delivered an amazing city in Skate 2, but tinkered with the mechanics, breaking a perfect thing in my opinion. I eventually re-bought S2 and it’s OK, but returning to S1 always feels like switching to a pair of well-worn in skate shoes—skating is easier when you can feel

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The Future is Windows 3.11 Workstation

[slightly NSFW] Related: Screenshot of the Win3.11 skin for WindowBlinds

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Bookmarklet and PHP to prevent Shibboleth-related Firefox Lockouts

Reason this might be useful. /* * Remove all _shibstate cookies if there are too many of them. This usually * occurs due to Firefox session restores. Unfortunately we don’t know which is * the active state cookie, so we have to delete them all, but this is a lessor * crime than locking the

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Google’s School for Hackers

Google is offering programmers their own personal sandbox application—called Jarlsburg—and hints of how to exploit the common vulnerabilities purposefully left in it. Although Google is basically walking folks through how to attack apps, publicizing this info is a necessary evil in order to build safer programmers. We have to start thinking of each line of

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Another Great Drug War Moment

From Radley Balko: In February, I wrote the following about a drug raid in Missouri: SWAT team breaks into home, fires seven rounds at family’s pit bull and corgi (?!) as a seven-year-old looks on. They found a “small amount” of marijuana, enough for a misdemeanor charge. The parents were then charged with child endangerment.

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Uh-Oh: Firefox’s Unique Session Cookie Behavior

By now, Opera’s invention of restoring tabs automatically is available in most browsers, but unlike every other browser, Firefox’s restored tabs retain session cookies for the domains of the saved tabs Firefox restores all session cookies as if the browser were never closed. This is handy in some ways, but dangerous in others: It’s fooling

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