Maszman Speaks!

Our rab­bit Hoover was hav­ing trou­ble breath­ing today and unfor­tu­nately he was diag­nosed with a large mass in his chest cav­ity that was press­ing on his heart and lungs. Our vet told us the chances were very small that he could be saved, even if we took him to the spe­cial­ists at Cor­nell. I made the deci­sion to end his suffering.

It was the right thing to do but at present it doesn’t feel that way. I will miss giv­ing him his break­fast car­rot and watch­ing him dance with joy when he saw it in my hand.

More of Hoover at the gallery tab above.

A Fed­eral judge has ruled that the 1^st Amend­ment pro­tects the rights a Vir­ginia woman to post the SSNs of state offi­cials on her web­site. The woman, a pri­vacy activist, is protest­ing her state government’s post­ing of real estate records that include the people’s Social Secu­rity num­bers. At present, they have given clerks three years to redact the SSNs but lack the fund­ing to make the changes. She hopes to accel­er­ate the removal now that state offi­cials are learn­ing what effect their iner­tia has on residents.

Scott Aaron­son asks Can we? Can nerds really make a dif­fer­ence in November?

Wow. Just wow. The FBI has arrested a man for post­ing unre­leased Guns N’ Roses songs on his web­site. He is accused of vio­lat­ing a new Fed­eral copy­right law that has sig­nif­i­cantly added to the penal­ties for post­ing unre­leased mate­ri­als online. Of course, numer­ous tracks from the the album have been avail­able for years, but he drew atten­tion to him­self when he not only posted them but blogged about them. The result­ing atten­tion crashed his server and got the Feds interested.

Moria

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Reflec­tive let­ters on the War Memo­r­ial sign along Broad Street.

The Chris­t­ian Sci­ence Mon­i­tor pulls no punches on the issue of global warm­ing.

This is because global warm­ing, at its core, is not a tech­nol­ogy or pol­icy prob­lem. It is the great­est fail­ure of thought in human history.