If the three of you that content yourselves with reading this mess of a blog via a feed reader or something haven't actually visited in a while, you'll be surprised if you click through to look at the place. I got tired of the pretty pretty colors colors colors that I had overlaid on what started out to be a nice clean layout, and switched themes to WP-Andreas01 1.5. It's not as easy to customize as vanilla Tiga was, and having stuck my head under the hood to add my beloved drop shadows to the style sheet, I realized that…
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Flickr: Discussing Disabling Groups display in tantannoodles.com WordPress Flickr Plugins May try the latest version of this again – this is the trick for deleting groups from the display options page. (tags: Flickr tantannoodles WordPress)
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It's not quite Fitzmas, and it's a different agency that's investigating, but there may be a new holiday to celebrate if this inquiry goes where I think it's going: Political Briefings At Agencies Disclosed – washingtonpost.com Such coercion is prohibited under a federal law, known as the Hatch Act, meant to insulate virtually all federal workers from partisan politics. In addition to forbidding workplace pressures meant to influence an election outcome, the law bars the use of federal resources — including office buildings, phones and computers — for partisan purposes. The administration maintains that the previously undisclosed meetings were appropriate.…
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BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | New 'super-Earth' found in space The Gliese 581 super-Earth is in what scientists call the "Goldilocks Zone" where temperatures "are just right" for life to have a chance to exist. Commenting on the discovery, Alison Boyle, the curator of astronomy at London's Science Museum, said: "Of all the planets we've found around other stars, this is the one that looks as though it might have the right ingredients for life. "It's 20 light-years away and so we won't be going there anytime soon, but with new kinds of propulsion technology that could change in the…
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a gay spirit diary by josh thomas (tags: Anglican)
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TomPaine.com – GOP's Cyber Election Hit Squad Exposed Did the most powerful Republicans in America have the computer capacity, software skills and electronic infrastructure in place on election night 2004 to tamper with the Ohio results to ensure George W. Bush's re-election? The answer appears to be yes. There is more than ample documentation to show that on Election Night 2004 , Ohio's "official" Secretary of State website—which gave the world the presidential election results—was redirected from an Ohio government server to a group of servers that contain scores of Republican web sites, including the secret White House e-mail accounts…
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Here are a few simple rules on how to succeed as an arsonist: Use a slow accelerant so you can make your getaway and establish an alibi. Work clean, work careful. Don't spill, don't use smelly stuff, trim excessive hair. Don't blow up your own house; you'll be first on the suspect list if you screw up. Under no circumstances should you ever run out of your own house with burning hair and beard, smelling of gasoline, just before it blows itself to smithereens. Salt Lake Tribune – Explosion disintegrates Sugar House home, sparks fires in neighboring houses About 10 p.m. Monday,…
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Independent Catholic News The Catholic bishops note that the Anglican bishops in Zimbabwe toe the government line. Not our most shining examples, those guys. (tags: Anglican Bishops Zimbabwe) allAfrica.com: Zimbabwe: Anglican Bishops Rap Sanctions (Page 1 of 1) The bad Anglican bishops of Zimbabwe in the fawning pro-Mugabe article respond to the Catholic bishop’s Easter message calling for Mugabe to step down (tags: Anglican Bishops Harare Zimbabwe) NPR: Vote Audit in Ohio Finds Irregularities Question is, did the irregularities favor the Democrats, or the Republicans? The Repubs maintain constant vigilance against voter fraud, and yet they’re the ones most likely…
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Episcopal Life Online – WORLD REPORT The letter was signed by 14 bishops including Nolbert Kunonga, the Anglican bishop of Harare, who is a staunch ally of President Robert Mugabe and his policies and who once referred to the opposition as dogs barking at an elephant. The central African bishops represent Anglican churches in Botswana, Malawi, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Kunonga has a long-standing feud with his own church members because of his open support for Mugabe's ruling Zanu-PF party. He met with the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams, March 7 to discuss the grave challenges faced by the Church,…
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Mike Daisy: A Night To Remember YouTube link to video Last night's performance of INVINCIBLE SUMMER was disrupted when eighty seven members of a Christian group walked out of the show en masse, and chose to physically attack my work by pouring water on and destroying the original of the show outline. I'm still dealing with all the ramifications, but here's what it felt like from my end: I am performing the show to a packed house, when suddenly the lights start coming up in the house as a flood of people start walking down the aisles–they looked like a…