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There is a theory that the Large Hadron Collider has had bad luck getting started up, and the US based super colldiing super duperductor was defunded over 10 years ago because the Higgs Boson does not want to be discovered, and has gone back in time (to now) to muck up the process of its own discovery in the future (then). The story is outlined in an article in the New York Times.
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Category: OpenSource
Fight! Fight! The librarians are fighting about software!
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Posted by Greg Laden at 9:21 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: GLBTA
The Chicago Cubs have become the first major-league team to have an openly gay owner according to the Windy City Times.
On Oct. 30, the Ricketts family became the new owners of MLB team, the Chicago Cubs.
The family bought the team and Wrigley Field for $845 million.
Laura Ricketts, one of the purchasers, is an open lesbian who serves on the board for Lambda Legal, the nationwide advocacy organization for gay and lesbian rights.
Now, how does one avoid coming up with clever quips that somehow marry gay humor and sports humor. Like ...
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Category: Religion
When I was a kid, my friend Karl and I illegally snuck into a movie theater to see "The Mark of the Devil" (or words to that effect) then just out. We didn't sneak in because we didn't have the money. We snuck in because we were 13 or so and that was the only way we could see the movie, which we knew, by the way, was fiction.
But some people don't know that this whole "Mark of the Devil" thing is fiction.
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Category: GLBTA
The right wing is shameless.
In one ad after another, voters in California and Maine were besieged with images of what would supposedly happen if same-sex marriage were legal: Students on a field trip to a lesbian wedding, elementary kids gobbling up books featuring gay couples, kindergartners learning about homosexuality from their teachers.
The strategy worked....
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Category: Linux • OpenSource • Technology
I don't mean blog posts or emails. For blog posts I use souped up gedit, and for emails I use pico. (There was a time when I thought I'd be using emacs for both of those, but emacs suffers from a deep philosophical dysfunction.) I'm talking about longer documents that have sections with headings, bibliographies, etc. I may well make this transition with the never-ending paper I'm writing with Lizzie.
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