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The Sex Pistols respond to their induction into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame:
"Next to the sex Pistols, rock and roll and that hall of fame is a piss stain. Your museum. Urine in wine. We're not coming,"

Emo Cow! Cow who is emo! Emooooooo!

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Black Box Voting finally got their hands on the election machine logs for Florida, 2004 - showing that in one batch alone, there were over 100,000 errors in just over 4000 machines, which recorded multiple instances in the log of the votes being "adjusted" and thousands of votes recorded days or weeks before the election.

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Proving once again that Yahoo has long since overtaken AOL as "internet company with the most stupid policies", Ed Callahan finds that he is incapable of signing up for a Yahoo email account using his name - because it contains the word "Allah".

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Man demands that New Jersey school board fire a substitute teacher with one of the best records in the state, on the grounds that her walking into a classroom somehow violates his freedom of religion.

"Jurassic Beaver rewrites history of mammals"

They get points for the headline.

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"How American elections became a criminal enterprise" - part one.

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"Red state meets police state" - federal employee in Idaho harassed, threatened with arrest and fine for having anti-war bumper stickers on his car.

Also,
"Roboscam" - a fake polling organisation has a machine dialling phone numbers, "polling" the recipients to ask if they object to Bush's illegal wiretapping after they are told that their congressman supports it. This kind of polling would be illegal even if it *was* honest, since it does not indicate the sponsor of the poll. As it is, it's solely a dishonest attempt to paint congressmen who oppose the wiretapping as supporting it. If you read the details, you'll note that Democratic Congressman John Salazar of Colorado received one of them personaloly, to his phone number, asking if he would support himself for re-election after he was told the lie that he supported Bush's illegal wiretaps.

Also,
Bush argues that outsourcing real jobs to India is good because it's creating a market in India for pizza from franchises owned by American companies.

No, really.

News that makes me very happy.

Tor books has apparently signed on with Baen, to provide some of Tor's author's books through Webscriptions. Webscriptions is Baen's completely DRM-free e-book service, where all the titles are available, full and complete, in most any format you want, with no technical restrictions on what you're able to do with the files. If they don't have the format you want (coughPDFcough), you can just load up the DOC or RTF file and export to PDF, if that's your thing.

No formal press release yet - pnh is posting about it to the bar, Baen's web forums, though, and autopope has posted about how he is eager to have his books go out through there.

I'm excited. This looks like a good thing.

(PS: Baen's Free Library, with its selection of downloadable sample books, is here. Webscriptions' free section with mostly, but not completely, the same book list is here. Webscriptions' registration is free, and you get the current month of books available for free download by signing up- that list (and the signup link) is here. The list of all books currently available through Webscriptions is here - it's $15 US for all the books from a month. None of this counts the massive selection of books that Baen gave out on CDs accompanying hardcover releases with instructions to spread them far and wide, as you felt like - I've got 7 or 8 of those around, and I recall that corruptedjasper was the one helping me fill the holes in my collection.)

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Iowa religious whackjob and convicted sex offender argues that he shouldn't be forced to wear an electronic tracking bracelet, on the grounds that "electricity can cause people to disobey God and religion and it should not be used in daily life."

Why is it that the only good anime is the stuff satirising anime? Oh, wait, I know that one.

Oh no! Fire at the baby factory! Who shall save us all?

RIP.

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