So the Westboro Baptist Church has been on 20/20 tonight.  I’ve seen these Westboro church members in a few documentaries, most notably a Louis Theroux British show earlier this year (probably filmed in 2006). 
This ‘church’ - mostly a small extended family - have web sites like ‘godhatesfags.com’ and picket military funerals with signs like [...]

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A nephew of the Queen is being named as the victim in the Royal blackmail plot. His name is now being widely touted on the internet, including the authoritative Huffington Post, quoting the Radar publication.
Royal Anecdotes

My wife is really eating this stuff up. The name in question is supposedly David Linley, son of Princess [...]

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UK’s Daily Telegraph had an article about Dr. James Watson’s comments about the genetic implications of intelligence. Some of the conclusions he draws imply that blacks are genetically not as intelligent as whites. Dr. Watson was one of the co-discoverers of the double-helix foundations of DNA.
Another article from the BBC includes the following [...]

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So I’m off to ConvergeSouth this year. I just realized I never posted the ’second half’ of my thoughts of last year’s meeting. I’ll try to do better this year!
I’ve signed up for a dinner with Anil Dash this year. And it looks like the honorable Jackson Fox (blog) will [...]

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I’m posting a repeat of this request because this blog feed was recently accepted in to the planet-php.net blog aggregator/feed thingy, and likely a new group of people will see this and be able to respond.  To that end, I’m calling for people to visit http://www.phpjobbook.com/survey to answer questions about their PHP job hunting and [...]

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I’m sure this isn’t a terribly *new* idea, but I’m not seeing any big names getting in to this. Given all the social networks that have exploded which simply focus on interests (flixter) or geography (facebook), giving people ’social networking’ tools to help communicate about their health and medical issues seems like a much [...]

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Alfred’s a friend from a way back in Michigan (well, perhaps just a few years ago) who’s also in to open source technology, and overall a sharp guy.  He interviewed me for a podcast he produces, and it’s finally ‘up’ for listening.  We chatted some time ago - September I think, so I’d nearly forgotten [...]

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About all I can *really* say is ‘wow!’. But to expand on that just a little, I’ll try to draft up a bit more of my experiences and some of the inspiring/interesting people I met.
The conference as a whole was great, but just a little short in my mind - I think we could [...]

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