Overview of Changes to Legal Rights
On September 5th, 2002 the Associated Press put out an article that lists the changes in our legal rights since September 11th, 2001.
Database keeps DNA from cleared suspects
Moving this from my links page into here where it’s a little more appropriate. Old Cincinnati Enquirer article about how Ohio likes to keep DNA profiles of suspects who have been cleared of crimes.
I somehow missed this when boingboing originally posted a link. Thankfully Emily pointed it out to me. To quote boingboing, “August Strindberg was a 19th Century depressive Swedish playwright who now stars in a series of convulsively funny Flash movies called Strindberg and Helium. In Strindberg and Helium, Strindberg has a little pink floaty balloon chum called Helium, who wheedles out happy messages.”
Only four videos up as I post this, all of them short. Worth a visit.
A Dictionary of Old Hobo Slang
A big list of slang words and translation from the Original Hobo Nickel Society. Lots of great imagery. It does prompt one to wonder what words comprise current hobo slang.
The Left and Historical Knowledge
List of 12 books about American History. File this under “things to do with my shiny new library membership.”
“On the virtues of idleness
By Mark Slouka – Harper’s Magazine – November 2004 issue”
I like some of what’s talked about here, although frankly he never really seems to prove anything. This article reads like the inspiration for something really cool.
The Beast 50 Most Loathsome People in America, 2004
Not to spoil the surprise, but guess who’s number one with a bullet? Our very own Kenneth Blackwell. Fucker.
“The Gematriculator is a service that uses the infallible methods of Gematria developed by Mr. Ivan Panin to determine how good or evil a web site or a text passage is.”
It turns out my homepage is 98% good! Alas, my resume is 52% evil.