@ACB, just a side note: CNET didn't junk the mp3.com stuff - vivendi did that: http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/11/21/14616/561

Hey Ken,

Is there any way you guys can let us get RSS of our favorites?

also I know that the new route wouldn't destroy any inhabited homes. There are some old, decrepit shacks scattered here and there in that whole are and I have no idea about stuff like that.

Hmmm. I don't have a map of the route my father worked out with the planning office. If you look at the google map of the area you can see that there aren't that many houses out there. You'd almost have to TRY and hit a house. The change we want would move the route about one half mile to the east.

I got some photos of the house from my sister:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nutron/2197077659/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nutron/2197079519/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nutron/2197077663/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nutron/2197079519/

I searched around for petition sites and this one seemed the most legit. Others just seemed less focused on the importance of privacy. On this site, you can show your name as "anonymous" and still sign the petition. Their privacy policy is pretty clear. I, personally, don't get your addresses. Things like that.

I'm a BoingBoing reader! I'm all hopped up about privacy and I donate to EFF. This site seemed the most likely to NOT rip off all the info, but who can say for sure?

The house is in South Carolina. It's about 2 miles south of the line.

Hi everyone, this is Aaron here (thank you BoingBoing for the help!).

I get all the points that you guys make that a) we need roads and b) my grandfather's house isn't really more special than anyone else's.

Couple of things:

1) Surrounding this house is lots and lots of farmland. They're going to bulldoze a lot of this stuff anyway along with thousands of other peoples' homes, too, and it is a shame but that's life. I get that. The thing that my family is asking for is for the state to move it to a route that's about 1/2 mile away. This route doesn't destroy any building that are inhabited and isn't any longer or more expensive. They just need some justification of why they chose this alternate route to cover their asses politically.

2) Why doesn't the house have historical significance enough to get noted by the historical registry? The historical society people said it was because my grandfather remodeled it. There's a lot more detail on the petition itself, but basically it's because it doesn't look like a shack and people, you know, live in it.

3) Is it ethical for me to use Boingboing? Well, if it were YOUR house (or the house your great, great grandfather built in the 1800s) what lengths would you go to to gather support to save it? My Dad has spent hours and hours at the Governor's office and going to the public meetings. Is it ethical for him to do that? What about other people's homes - what if those people can't take time off work or don't have cars or whatever.

I'm not crying social injustice here and I'm not asking them to NOT build the road. But we plotted an alternate route that is acceptable to the state, and the ONLY thing stopping it is that they need signatures to justify them actually taking action with something they agree with? That's just crappy. So yeah, I posted the petition and I asked BoingBoing to help.

Cory, Xeni, Mark, David, John, and Joel, and all you Boingboingers - thank you!

Aaron

Yet another proof of rule 34.

I always thought it was a derivative of "root". This is from UrbanDictionary, which is by no means a reliable source...

> One such milestone was gaining root access, but the term rooted or "gained root access" was easily understood so the term was changed to w00t to help disguise. Because of the difficulty of "rooting" many times the term w00t would be much in a celebratory tone. It later evolved to simply be a celebratory remark rather than a hacking milestone.

Can we PLEASE get an RSS feed of the stuff we've favorited?

1) I favorited this post and it didn't show up on my account page. Perhaps there's a lag? That's fine, but if not, then there's a bug, so I'm tellin' ya.

2) RSS! I WANT RSS! Please, please, please give me rss of my comments and of what I "favorited". Please! Please! Please!

Might I add that Valve's games run in Linux? You can install steam and run any of the HL2 based games...