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Tuesday, December 06

Life

Sad News

Pixie the cat, who I mentioned in an earlier post, passed away this afternoon. She will be missed.

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Pixie in younger and happier days.

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Monday, December 05

World

Fruit Bat Is Off

Looks like scientists have found the infection reservoir for Ebola: Fruit bats.

Never did like fruit bats.

(via Balloon Juice)

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Sunday, December 04

Geek

Exterminate!

While waiting for the bleeding to slow, I implemented subdomain elimination in Snark. We hadn't really needed it until now, but today we're getting small amounts of spam from dozens of different subdomains. They were still getting blocked fairly effectively, but the blacklist was getting longer and Snark was slowing down - it had used nearly 20 seconds of CPU time over the past week.

Fixed now.

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Life

Notes From Life

1. I never want to deal with another real estate agent as long as I live. They suck.

2. I am almost walking normally again.

Ow. Fuck. Ow. Another move, another scissors-related foot injury. OW.

3. My brother's cat, Pixie (pure coincidence), is not well. Please send happy cat thoughts her way.

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Friday, December 02

World

Supporting The Troops

Most U.S. troops will leave Iraq within a year because the Army is "broken, worn out" and "living hand to mouth," Rep. John Murtha told a civic group.
Eep?
Murtha predicted most troops will be out of Iraq within a year.

"I predict he'll make it look like we're staying the course," Murtha said, referring to Bush. "Staying the course is not a policy."

"Staying the course is not a policy"?
He said a civil war is likely because of ongoing factionalism among Sunni Arabs, and Kurds and Shiites.
Yeah, so we should opt for
immediate redeployment
What was that, Rep. Murtha?
immediate redeployment
and leave them to it.

I won't question his patriotism; I'll just point out that he's a partisan hack and an idiot.

(FOXNews)

Update: The Commissar has his own take on the story.

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Thursday, December 01

World

Redefining "Secret" Downwards

From The Age, possibly Australia's worst major paper:
THE US military is secretly paying Iraqi newspapers to publish stories written by American troops in an effort to burnish the image of the US mission in Iraq.
As reported by the Washington Post in June, and publicly listed by the Pentagon on its contracts page.

secret, adj. 1. Anything that wasn't explained to us in words of one syllable. Repeatedly.

While the articles are basically truthful, they present only one side of events and omit information that might reflect poorly on the US or Iraqi governments, officials said.
Only one side of events? The other side of truthful articles, then, would be untruthful articles? Why would we be paying for that when we have The Age to do it for free?

One slightly odd thing: When The Age picked up this story from the LA Times, they changed the expression "basically factual" to "basically truthful". Eh.

(via Protein Wisdom, additional reporting by You Big Mouth, You!
There's also some interesting commentary at Jawa Report)

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