November 2008 Neatlinks

Mon, Nov 3

Very helpful if you find yourself upgrading a Lenovo X200 from Ubuntu Hardy to Intrepid: Installing Ubuntu 8.04 & 8.10 on an X200 (0 comments)

So there I am blocking “protect” marriage dot com from displaying any AdSense ads on my site when I read John’s post: So…Why Is Google Reminding Folks How to Block Advertisers…Now? (nice synchronicity) (0 comments)

I’ve often thought (re: politics) that the only way for significant cultural change to happen is for old people to die. Today I learned a much nicer way to say the same thing: “progress happens one funeral at a time.” (0 comments)

Wed, Nov 5

Keep up the good fight!

“A major purpose of the Constitution is to protect minorities from majorities,” said Elizabeth Gill, a lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union, one of the groups suing on behalf of the six unmarried couples. “Because changing that principle is a fundamental change to the organizing principles of the Constitution itself, only the Legislature can initiate such revisions.”

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What a difference an election makes:

Barack Obama’s Kenyan relatives and Africans across the continent sang, danced in the streets and wrapped themselves in U.S. flags Wednesday to cheer for America’s first black president. Kenya will party for two days, after the president declared a national holiday.

And props from Kofi Annan:

He said Obama’s victory demonstrates “America’s extraordinary capacity to renew itself and adapt to a changing world.”

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Nice work NC: Obama unofficial winner in North Carolina (0 comments)

Photo of the day: Goats! (0 comments)

Dude, really?

When my house is in range, it does the magic HTTP request to my garage door opener’s webserver (HMAC-signed timestamped URL, for non-replayability/forgeability if sniffed) and my garage door opens.

Did he really just say “my garage door opener’s webserver”? (2 comments)

Feeling linky tonight. Thing I didn’t know existed: Slacklining (0 comments)

Thu, Nov 6

I’m feeling like getting protesty: PROTEST 8 (Friday 5:30pm from Market and 7th to Dolores Park) (0 comments)

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More than half of the babies born in a Kisumu Hospital on the day after the election were named either Barack or Michelle Obama.

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Fri, Nov 7

Man this is just great: Photoshop as a real life diorama (0 comments)

Mon, Nov 10

These photos, particularly the colors, are awesome: Scenes from Antarctica (1 comment)

This is pretty enjoyable to watch: Unbelievable can throwing skills (0 comments)

Tue, Nov 11

Photo of the day: Camper-Yurt (from Cat’s Mongolia, Part III via Terrie) (0 comments)

Wed, Nov 12

Hehe, this makes me laugh: fax this email (0 comments)

Quite possibly the cutest thing ever: Place setting by a five-year-old girl (0 comments)

OMG, what is up with cuteness on Boing Boing today? It’s overwhelming: Amelie, Jr. (3 comments)

Pano of the day: Scooter switchback (via) (2 comments)

Thu, Nov 13

What the? Tenderloin National Forest (0 comments)

Fri, Nov 14

Like a turducken, but funnier: Taco Town (0 comments)

Ugh:

A recently laid off high-tech employee opened fire Friday afternoon inside the Santa Clara office where he used to work, killing three people and sparking a massive police dragnet that spread throughout the South Bay.

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Sun, Nov 16

Furry cows! Interview With A Highlander (0 comments)

Mon, Nov 17

I learn something every day:

From the mid-16th century until the late 19th or early 20th century, young boys in the Western world were unbreeched and wore gowns or dresses until an age that varied between two or three and seven or eight.

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Fri, Nov 21

I WANT TO MAKE THIS RIGHT NOW!!! Turbaconducken (my fav new blog!) (1 comment)

Wow: Batman and Robin face paint (0 comments)

Sat, Nov 22

Nice:

Equality Utah said statements made by Mormon leaders in defense of their actions in California — that the church was not antigay and had no problem with legal protections for gay men and lesbians already on the books in California — were going to be taken as an endorsement to expand legal rights that gay and lesbian couples have never remotely had in Utah, where the church is based.

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Terrie guts Heritage Turkeys with Slow Food Russian River (just like in the Omnivore’s Dilemma!) (0 comments)

Sun, Nov 23

Wow: QT Luong has photographed all 58 National Parks with a large format camera (0 comments)

If only I had a backyard! A Smoked Turkey With An IP Address… (0 comments)

You have got to be kidding me: sleeping rat with stuffed animal (cute overload!) (0 comments)

Wed, Nov 26

Josh Myer went to Juniper and Folsom! Morse code in the wild, sorta (0 comments)