Thursday, March 03, 2005
nose droppings
Since it is another cold, drizzly day and it seems as if I have caught that drizzly cold I was exposed to most of a couple of weeks ago (been 'enjoying it for a couple of daze), send me some cute, fluffy kittens so I can bite their heads off!
Nah, go for some cheerful stuff. I just came across this don't mess with Texas grannies 4 MB wav that's been around for years according to Snopes. It's hilarious and worthy even if does hurt when I laugh!
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Wow! These WW 1 color photos (~5 MB) are spectacular! Thanks Kate at small dead animals.
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This truly stinks.
The coming crackdown on blogging
Bradley Smith says that the freewheeling days of political blogging and online punditry are over.
Go read the rest. Lots of seriously bad cess in that article. Even the thought of some unelected bureaucratic/judicial weenies messing with free speech on the net gives me the willies. Worth watching.
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Nah, go for some cheerful stuff. I just came across this don't mess with Texas grannies 4 MB wav that's been around for years according to Snopes. It's hilarious and worthy even if does hurt when I laugh!
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Wow! These WW 1 color photos (~5 MB) are spectacular! Thanks Kate at small dead animals.
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This truly stinks.
The coming crackdown on blogging
Bradley Smith says that the freewheeling days of political blogging and online punditry are over.
In just a few months, he warns, bloggers and news organizations could risk the wrath of the federal government if they improperly link to a campaign's Web site. Even forwarding a political candidate's press release to a mailing list, depending on the details, could be punished by fines.
Smith should know. He's one of the six commissioners at the Federal Election Commission, which is beginning the perilous process of extending a controversial 2002 campaign finance law to the Internet.
In 2002, the FEC exempted the Internet by a 4-2 vote, but U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly (lefty site with some good stuff) last fall overturned that decision. "The commission's exclusion of Internet communications from the coordinated communications regulation severely undermines" the campaign finance law's purposes, Kollar-Kotelly wrote.
Smith and the other two Republican commissioners wanted to appeal the Internet-related sections. But because they couldn't get the three Democrats to go along with them, what Smith describes as a "bizarre" regulatory process now is under way. (snip)
Go read the rest. Lots of seriously bad cess in that article. Even the thought of some unelected bureaucratic/judicial weenies messing with free speech on the net gives me the willies. Worth watching.
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