A public or private organization’s best defense against whistle-blowers is to refrain from doing things it doesn’t want to read about on the front page of the newspaper.
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International espionage existed for millennia before the Internet, and has never taken a holiday.
We’re going to create this iconic American hero, and we’re going to demolish him
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(Re)Bloging for our Cause
From the Goods4Good Tumblr:
What can Goods for Good do with $3000? A lot.
Consider some of this:
- $39 clothes 80 orphans in Malawi
- $250 buys toys for 4 nursery schools at Consol Homes Orphan Care
- $1,057 trains 12 nursery school teachers in early childhood development
- $2,218 pays for a year’s supply of pens and notepads for ALL children in G4G schools
This blog post is part of Zemanta’s “Blogging For a Cause†campaign to raise awareness and funds for worthy causes that bloggers care about.
As a Jesus-fearing moose-hunting hockey-mom mother of five who hunts moose for Jesus, Sarah Palin is kin to the wild outdoors and appreciates its bountiful splendor as she is gunning it down from her airplane. Sarah Palin understands that America is dangerously addicted to oil, and that the only cure is more oil. She also understands that nature is our natural enemy, created by a malevolent Satan to come between us and our God-given oil deposits with its hateful, clean water and its foul, pristine air.
Fafblog will redeem us all.
None of us ever live in dystopia. That’s an imaginary extreme. They just live in shitty cultures. And these societies [in my books] seem dystopian to middle class white people in North America. They don’t seem dystopian if you live in Rio or anywhere in Africa. Most people in Africa would happily immigrate to the Sprawl.
William Gibson Interview: William Gibson Talks to io9 About Canada, Draft Dodging, and Godzilla
At the moment, IPv4 address blocks are not private property. All the Internet registries have policies for reclaiming unused allocations for reassignment. Because there are still addresses in the free pool, the application of these policies hasn’t inconvenienced anyone. To keep your allocation, you basically just have to be able to fog a mirror.
“CLINTON: That’s right, Fafnir. No one has more experience failing to fix health care than me. I worked in the White House for eight years failing to fix health care, and as president I’ll make failing to fix health care my number one priority.
FB: Well that sounds pretty good, Hillary Clinton, but what if I wanna vote for someone with even more experience, like John McCain or Zombie Strom Thurmond or Andrew Jackson’s collection of antique spittoons? Those spittoons have been in the White House for a long time an I hear they got a formidable command of foreign policy.â€
cut copy – “lights & music (boys noize remix)â€
i saw cut copy last night at studio b and IT WAS FREAKIN AWESOME! i danced my little arse off – and so did everyone else. which i’m told, in brooklyn rarely happens. silly hipsters.
“—you don’t like my style of airline-ticket purchasing, then get the fuck out of my home office. Shit.â€