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Mark J.

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    Public Sometimes the facts are so damned inconvenient! The guys been in prison for 25 years, due to be executed tomorrow, and all of this evidence of his innocence keeps showing up! What's an Attorney General to do? Well, examine and verify the evidence? If the truth is what we're after, that would seem to make the most sense, even if it makes someone appear less than infallible.

    The ...

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    Public Net Privacy/Net Neutrality: Welcome to the tangled values of Deep Packet Inspection (DPI)...

    http://arstechnica.com...

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    Jul 21st Mark J. 1 Reply Forward

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    Public Beware of Beer! This sounds serious! (Female Powncers: Don't shoot me, I'm only the messenger.)

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    Jul 18th Mark J. 4 Replies Forward

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    Public Microsoft Usability Issues? Hear what Bill Gates himself had to say!

    In 2003 Bill Gates sent a flaming email to his Microsoft guys after trying to use the http://Microsoft.com site to download Moviemaker. Here's a "reading" of that email by Dave Ross of Seattle's KIRO radio, my favorite radio host from the days I lived in there.

    The Seattle Post-Intelligencer wrote the original story the Dave ...

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    Jul 7th Mark J. 1 Reply Forward

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    Public Thankfully, Fox didn't resort to any "yo mama's so fat..." trash-talking...

    Claiming that the New York Times wrote a "hit piece" and that "attacked" the Fox News network, Fox proceded to air a report in which they displayed altered photos of the NYT reporters.

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    Jul 6th Mark J. 2 Replies Forward

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    Public To all of you 50-ish guys out there... how often do you get together and sing in great camaraderie about your erectile dysfunction meds? Yeah, that's what I thought.

    Jul 6th Mark J. Reply! Forward

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    Public Another email joke: (My apologies if you've already seen this.)

    > The next time someone asks you a dumb question wouldn't
    > you like to respond like this ?.....
    >
    > Yesterday I was buying a large bag of Purina dog chow for
    > Athena, my wonder dog, at Wal-Mart and was in the check out
    > line. A woman behind me asked if I had a dog. What did she
    > think I had - an ...

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    Jul 3rd Mark J. 1 Reply Forward

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    Public Consumers are having their Web browsing intercepted and Web sites are having their computer code altered by NebuAd, a company that provides targeted advertising for Internet Service Providers (ISPs), according to a technical investigation by Free Press and Public Knowledge.

    NebuAd is an online advertising company whose partnership with cable and phone companies has raised substantial privacy questions for House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet Chairman Ed Markey (D-Mass ...

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    Jul 3rd Mark J. 1 Reply Forward

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    Public Just got this in an email:

    > Subject: Beautiful Name
    > To:
    > Date: Sunday, June 29, 2008, 7:13 PM
    > A woman scanned the guests at a party and spotted an
    > attractive man standing alone. She approached him.
    >
    > 'My name is Carmen,' she told him.
    >
    > 'That's a beautiful name,' he replied, 'Is
    > it a family name?'
    >
    > 'No,' she replied. 'I gave it to myself. It
    > reflects the things I like most ...

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    Jul 1st Mark J. 11 Replies Forward

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    Public I did it! I'm weak! I turned on the AC! Thought I could make it to July 1st, but trying to sleep the last couple of nights has been a miserable exercise is sweaty futility... my bedroom was up to 87 degrees, and even with a fan blowing I I couldn't feel comfortable. It's about 84 outside at 11 a.m. I know that's nothing to ...

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    Jun 25th Mark J. 6 Replies Forward

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    Public I got up around 11 a.m. today! I was up until about 3 a.m. hanging/sorting/draping/folding/unfolding/redraping laundry in varying states of wetness. Then I couldn't sleep when I got into bed. I always know I'm in trouble when BBC World News gives way to NPR's Morning Edition (5 a.m.)

    When I came out to check my email, my notebook was ...

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    Jun 24th Mark J. 3 Replies Forward

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    Public George Carlin: American Radical (From The Nation)

    "I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately." -- George Carlin

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    Jun 23rd Mark J. 3 Replies Forward

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    Public FNPDC is on Plurk! Come join in!

    2.5 stars

    Jun 20th Mark J. 4 Replies Forward

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    Public Did I mention that I'm lousy... (as in play like I'm full of louses!) at Poker? Well, I am! Here's my current Facebook Texas Hold'em status. Amber is doing much better than me!

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    Jun 20th Mark J. Reply! Forward

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    Public My son Karsten (with the cap) and his friends Justus and Stefan... hanging out in the front yard of our house. Yes, we live in a classy neighborhood!

    (They had just carried the sofa sleeper to the curb for trash pickup, and decided to seize the moment!)

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    Jun 20th Mark J. Reply! Forward