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Another company I won’t continue doing business with

June 29th, 2008 · No Comments

Slashdot | GoDaddy VP Caught Bidding Against Customers
A GoDaddy Vice President has been caught bidding against customers in their own domain name auctions.
I had been pretty happy with GoDaddy, despite their annoyingly busy web site, as my domain name registrar. I’ve even recommended them to other people. Now they go on the list of companies […]

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Tags: Politics · Tech

Bailing Us Out

April 2nd, 2008 · No Comments

From the ever-amusing Indexed: Bail us out, nerds.

Unfortunately, Anti-Intellectualism has been on the rise for about a decade, led by our Misunderestimated President.

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Tags: Religion · Politics · Tech · Science

Fafblog is BACK!

April 1st, 2008 · No Comments

I am not fooling at all. It’s only one two posts so far, but hopefully the site re-design indicates that Fafnir, Giblets, and the gang are back.
Site is here, RSS feed (which is not listed on the Fafblog for some reason) is here.
All hail Fafblog!

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Tags: Politics · Other

Project Vote Smart

February 22nd, 2008 · No Comments

With all of this election hoopla going around, all of the claims by candidates, debates, and invective, it’s difficult sometimes to figure out what candidates really represent.
Or, it was. All you have to do (assuming they already hold a political office) is check out Project Vote Smart.
Just punch in the name of the representative of […]

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Tags: Open Access · Politics

Call Your Congresspeople

February 15th, 2008 · 2 Comments

As another blogger I know recently stated, this is not really a political blog. Nonetheless, this important enough that I need to bring attention to it.
The senate recently passed a new version of the Protect America Act that gives retroactive legal immunity to companies like AT&T for the illegal wiretapping of Americans that they have […]

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Tags: Politics · Tech