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Archive for June 26th, 2005

Sunday, June 26th, 2005

I Make Your Pathetic Life Worth Living

Not just the best Firefox extension ever but the crowning achievement of human evolution, the bugmenot extension for Firefox. What does it do? It puts a “bugmenot” option in your context menu when you right-click on a user/password field on an Establishment Media Enterprise (”EME!”) website. Click it and the extension goes to BugMeNot.com, finds [...]

Sunday, June 26th, 2005

Government of, for and by WHOM Exactly?

Let’s try to make a point about Kelo with maximum calm here, shall we? We’re told that it’s a “public use” to take property from one owner and hand it to another. It’s supposed to benefit “the community.” But who’s the “public” here? The Kelos and the Days and their neighbors? Apparently not. Who is [...]