June 2007
42 posts
Yahoo! UI Library (YUI) →
“In Israel, Bush said, “terrorists have taken innocent human life for years...”
– Bush touts Israel as yardstick for Iraq [Juan Cole: “These words may be the stupidest ones ever uttered by a US president.”]
HTML.zip - HTML/XHTML editing macros and menus. :... →
“The amusing similarity in apearance [sic] and voice to U.S. Senator Joe...”
– Droopy Dog - Wikipedia
5½ lessons that legitimate retailers can learn... →
sake: system-level rake →
ruby-macros.vim - macros for the ruby language :... →
“Digby! There is no terrorist threat to nice decent America — only to Darth...”
– Owen Paine, Eleanor Digby; or, All the lonely people
“Whereas Iran has aggressively pursued a clandestine effort to arm itself with...”
– USA House of Representatives resolution calling on the United Nations Security Council to charge Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad with violating the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide and United Nations Charter because of his calls for the destruction of the...
“The world needs no further hymns to heroism, the second deadliest fallacy after...”
– IOZ, Let Me Just Say This about That
“America does not have any intention of being the world’s jailer.”
– White House spokesperson Dana Perino
“The Guantanamo detainees do not fit into easy categories. They are not prisoners...”
– Bush Advisers Weigh Closing Guantánamo Prison Sooner [in fact, they are hostages. the categorization is difficult because its legal and moral implications are unthinkable for nearly everybody in the USA.]
Watchvia Xeni Jardin
OWASP Application Security FAQ - OWASP →
“More meddling will evoke more hatred.”
– Andrew Bacevich, More troops, more troubles
csrf killer plugin for rails →
“I chose to bomb a Federal Building because such an action served more purposes...”
– Timothy McVeigh (via IOZ) [terrorism is an evil act, but one motivated by rational political motives rather than the silly fantasies about black helicopters and heavenly virgins we invent for terrorists]
“I’d pray to God to give me strength to sign every e-mail petition...”
– John Hancock (how our Founding Fathers would fight back against the current King George)
“I feel sad. my friends are angry; I’m scared.
how did my father die? who killed...”
– Raphael Sosa, fourth-grade student from South Bronx (via Jeremy Sapienza)
“The belief in a simple past is the Helen to our Troy.”
– IOZ, The Broken Wall, the Burning Roof and Tower
relative_time_helpers Plugin →
“If the Christian law makers in the US just kept Church and State separate,...”
– Ashley, Gay marriage –or– Marriage is so gay
Arthur Silber: Of Faggots, Freaks and Niggers →
Wbox HTTP testing tool →
Ruby Unroller: a code tracing tool for Ruby →
Lincoln, Civil Liberties, and 9/11 →
HTML Entity Character Lookup › Left Logic →
“Our troops did the job they were asked to do. They got rid of Saddam Hussein....”
– Hillary Clinton
God Is A Big Jerk →
A cartoonish review of Christopher Hitchens’s God Is Not Great
streetviewr →
“Here is the litmus test for a so-called antiwar politician. Does he talk about...”
– IOZ, Property, the American Dream