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• These People are Really Strange

  FreedomWorks Made Video of Fake Giant Panda Having Sex With Fake Hillary Clinton.

  A Fake Giant Panda?

  Yes. Really.

  An internal investigation of FreedomWorks—the prominent conservative advocacy group and super-PAC—has focused on president Matt Kibbe’s management of the organization, his use of its resources, and a controversial book deal he signed, [...]

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• Coral Gables is Having an Election

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  In keeping with its unfortunate pattern of having elections when nobody else does1 the City of Coral Gables is having an election April 9, 2013, for three seats on the Commission (one [...]

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• Beat My Score

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  I got 50% on the Prof or Hobo? Quiz, a score that equals what I could have expected from guessing randomly. No doubt readers can do better.

  Update: I do somewhat better, however, on arXiv vs. snarXiv in which one is asked to guess which are the real titles [...]

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• About that Stadium

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  Just about everything that is wrong with the discussion about the Miami Dolphins’ attempt to hold up the taxpayers of Miami-Dade county for a giant bit of corporate welfare is visible from the first sentence of Sunday’s Miami Herald story on the leadtrial balloon:

  The Miami Dolphins have agreed to [...]

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• Top 10 Reasons Why I Didn’t Write About It

  People sometimes ask me why I didn’t write about something. This happens more often than I would expect, be it in comments, in person, or by email. But not being a professional pundit, and indeed having long given up promoting the blog, I feel no obligation to weigh in on [...]

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• Fun With Traceroute

  [Update: It's gone. The whole thing has been DDOSed out of existence.]

  Traceroute is a network tool for figuring out what route a packet takes to get from some point to your machine. This can matter when something is gumming up the works.

  If you have a unix machine connected to' [...]

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• Fight Procrastination on Taxes to Avoid ID Theft

  This may be the first piece of advice the U has sent me on ID theft that I actually agree with: Tax Season Is Here; File Early to Avoid Scams:

  As faculty and staff start receiving their W-2s and other tax documents, it is time to start thinking about filing [...]

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• 3TB of Storage for Under $150

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  Amazing. I would almost buy one just to have it. The truth is, though, I don’t need it: I’ve almost given up recording movies I’m not getting around to watch.

  Specs: Fanless, USB3 external drive, $149.99, free shipping. Not tiny, not the fastest, but it has a 3 year warranty.

  Still, [...]

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• Rebranding?

  –via the awesome Pulp-o-mizer.

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• Civilized Discourse Construction Kit

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  Jeff Atwood, of the great Coding Horror weblog, writes about his new “next-generation, 100% open source discussion platform built for the next decade of the Internet.”

  He’s calling it “Discourse“.

  As much as existing forum software is inexplicably and terrifyingly awful after all these years, it is still the [...]

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