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Freedom is Blogging in your Underwear is from Hugh MacLeod of GapingVoid.com. I’m now Western Regional Editor for the Independent Voter Network. IVN is part of a non-profit and focuses on high quality political content from all viewpoints with a view towards reforming a dysfunctional system. It was founded by two former members of the California legislature who were tired of the gridlock. The site has [...] Recently I posted about Glasgow to Detroit, a documentary by Don MacKeen concerning urban farming in these two post-industrial cities. Don is an American expat living in Glasgow and had emailed me about the film. After the post appeared here, Scottish Televison in Glasgow emailed me asking how to contact Don. I sent the info [...] This blog was acting sluggish. My webhost said something was eating up compute cycles because of large numbers of database hits. I deactivated plugins one by one and looked at the results after a couple of days but there was no difference. I installed a CDN via the excellent W3TC cache plugin and while [...] Reading the News, Texas, 1907. Erwin Evans Smith, American (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.) We all have blogs we visit which have become a part of our daily lives (besides this one, of course). Here are several of mine: Lawyers, Guns and Money and Balkinization are two of my favorite [...] I was out in the pickup the other day when I noted a rather small, perhaps two by three inch, bumper sticker in the window of a jacked-up, de-engineered suburban assault vehicle with tires the size of Volkswagons and a hood ornament the perfect rendition of the human female reproductive system, that said: “Your Stupid”. [...] Steve M, No More Mr Nice, is trying to figure out what sort of Chrysler [Superbowl] ad actually would have met with the Republican Party’s approval. Probably something like this: Look, that evil Kenyan put a gun to our heads and forced us to take his filthy socialist money. We never should have done it — in fact, [...] NASA will use the Twitter bootstrap framework for the theme. They looked at several CMS and decided on WordPress for their open source code repository. They will being using Super Cache to speed things up. (Polizeros uses the more powerful W3 Total Cache which it is also seriously geeky and requires more time to [...] Handing the US government further justification for its ongoing crackdown on the Internet: Gizmodo reports that in response to the Feds shutting down the extremely popular file-sharing site MegaUpload, the “Hacktivist” collective “Anonymous” have shut down the websites of the main corporate copyright enforcers, including the Motion Picture Association of America, the Recording Industry Association of America, Universal [...] |  | ||||
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