Federal shredding budget soars

Van sez, "Nice bar-chart showing skyrocketing increase in federal contracts for shredding services. In 2000, the government spent a little over $450k to dispose of pesky documents; by 2006, the cost of keeping secrets had risen to $2.9. And 2007? At midpoint, $2,7 million and rising..."

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(Via Boing Boing.)

Wizards of Winter House II - New Music

Twitter Updates for 2007-12-16

• @blankbaby congrats :) #


• watching rome #


• Webguy2k I thought they did that last thursday #


• @webguy2k yeah, I agree #


• @jackhodgson which game jack? #


• @gruber Hehe, John made a funny. #

Twitter Updates for 2007-12-15

• heading into the city shortly to partake in activities of the mind and later on to partake in the activities of the drink #

Twitter Updates for 2007-12-14

• Decisions, decisions, #


• @webguy2k I'll tell you later. #


• @bigepaz Oh snap! #


• Waiting on the yellow line at Huntington. Slightly behind schedule. Long day ahead. #


• @webguy2k because they're stupid #


• Getting tipsy at office xmas party. Hope food comes soon. #


• Score! I won a gift card at the raffle. #


• Best Salmon ever. #


• Back in the office....slightly drunk. Out of office reply is now up in outlook. Weeeeeeee- im outa here until the 26th! #

Twitter Updates for 2007-12-13

• morning #


• Wonderful commute this morning. Saw Mike. Saw Alessandra. Read my book. Hit Starbucks for donut & iced grande peppermint mocha. Excellent. #


• ...and thus begins the coding. ::dives into dreamweaver:: #


• @ejacqui @siracusa Gah - that really pisses me off. You'd think Digg would be slightly more savvy. #


• @Ihnatko @ejacqui Oh yeah - I'm listening to my dreamweaver css coding playlist. I like to think of it as theme music that plays whenever... #


• ...I'm being awesome. I'm sorry? What was that? I can't hear you over my awesomeness. #


• @jackhodgson totally jealous of your snow #


• @theresamac I've been fearing that I was getting something like that for several days now but it hasn't arrived yet. #


• @jackhodgson daaaaaaaaaaamn son #


• Hurrah beer! #

Flickr adds Stats Tracking Pro Accounts - WOOT!

Flickr has added tracking statistics for photo views, referrers & a few other tracking categories for pro account holders. You must go there & turn it on manually for them to show up and Flickr says there will be a 24 delay after doing so (although I caught it early and it only took a few minutes for me). Scott Beale at Laughing Squid has a nice but short writeup about this as well w/ some accompanying screenshots. See the Flickr Stats FAQ for more info.

Ron Paul is Still Nuts, That's Why

Ron Paul has been attracting support from some unlikely quarters, mainly due to ignorance of his positions on anything much but Iraq. You may know the man is crazy, but convincing others is the task.

So, without further ado, here (greatly condensed from the definitive take-down at Orcinus) are some concrete positions he's taken to cite when you want to push back against your Paul-bot in-laws, co-workers, and assorted acquaintances:

• Ron Paul wants the US to withdraw from the UN or at least from UNESCO.


• Ron Paul has authored legislation saying that life begins at conception, to prevent federal money from being spent on family planning (that would include contraception), and has tried to amend the Constitution to "guarantee the right to life."


• Ron Paul has tried to repeal the Occupational Health and Safety Act, to abolish the minimum wage, and to eviscerate Social Security.


• Ron Paul wants guns in schools.


• Ron Paul has tried to repeal the Davis-Bacon Act to guarantee employees of federal contractors the prevailing wage and wants to make it easier to decertify a union.


• Ron Paul wants to amend the Constitution to end birthright citizenship.


• Ron Paul wants to dismantle the Federal Reserve and prepare for a return to the Gold Standard, which would destroy the economy.

This is just the tip of a very big, very crazy iceberg. See the rest at Orcinus.

(Update: Also see this post at Orcinus.)

By MissLaura via DailyKOS

Oh and, CrazyEyes™ is back: