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• No Saturday Mail Deliveries?

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  Apparently this is not a Washington Monument ploy: the USPS plans to discontinue Saturday delivery.

  The Post Office’s money troubles stem from totally unreasonable congressional requirements, not imposed on any private business, that they fund not just current retiree’s pensions or 401(k) contributions for current employees (the private sector [...]

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• Quote du Jour

  Buying domains from GoDaddy is like going to dinner with Hannibal Lecter: you have only yourself to blame if the chicken tastes funny.

  – Man claims GoDaddy canceled domains after transfer unlock – Boing Boing

  Bonus: Go Daddy Super Bowl ad selected as #1 most sexist by Ms. Magazine. (Predictable.)

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• 350 Wrongly Convicted People Cleared by DNA Evidence

  Massive infographic based on data from 1989-present from the Innocence project.

  (Overlarge graphic seems fine, but author of graphic is a weird site promoting online criminal justice degrees. Run away.)

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• Law.tm Got Hacked — An Update

  I described recently how law.tm got hacked and what I did about it.

  Since then I’ve been in correspondence with Netnames who argue pretty convincingly that the problem was not on their end. They say their records show no DNS changes for the period [...]

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• Ed Koch 1924-2013

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  Former NYC Mayor Ed Koch — who just a few days ago was still going, if a bit weakly — has died. The NYT has a very readable obituary, which notes,

  Besides his sister, a former dean at New York University whom he saw regularly in later years, Mr. [...]

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