Banshee doesn't yet support behaving as a DAAP server in 1.0. I have to still use firefly/mt-daapd for that.

What's with the links to a boingboing wiki? That isn't there.

Noen @ #61:

I more or less agree with catbeller, the reason the Dems have caved with FISA and refused to impeach is because Rove, or someone has them blackmailed.

Why not do as Ockham suggests and refrain from multiplying entities needlessly? The obvious answer here is that the Dems don't care about the NetRoots, the progressive agenda, or defending the Constitution. They LIKE this stuff. They think it's a good idea, and they know you (plural) will vote for them anyway and tell folks that won't that they're Throwing Away Their Vote, Thanks Ralph! I mean, what are you gonna do, vote for the other guy ha ha snort, he's crazy!

Believing in this theoretical blackmail permits you to think that the political party you're affiliated with is somehow not responsible for the wholesale destruction of civil rights, continuing to fund a useless war, and so on, despite a mountain of evidence to the contrary. They didn't mean to do it, honest! The other, eerily similar party that also seems to want an imperialist police state drove them to it!

Noen:

Genuine grassroot movents like ActBlue and NetRoots are making a difference.

What difference are the NetRoots making? Failing to hold accountable the Democrats who buckled like belts or even gladly jumped on board with this bill?

Electing Mo-Betta Democrats that will continue to buckle, irrespective of the bloggy noise involved?

Face it folks -- the NetRoots are happy proggy Useful Idiots who will pull the lever for the lesser of two evils when it comes right down to it, time and time again.

I've always taken "The Professional Chef's Knife Kit", a CIA (Culinary Institute of America) textbook, as my 'kitchen knife bible'. I'll check this one out as well.

I concur that the Canon Nifty Fifty is worth every penny. It's got a somewhat cheap-o feel, but shooting at f1.8 is a revelation if you're new to SLRs and used to f4.

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Probably it was a St. Baldrick's thing.

http://www.stbaldricks.org/

If you can't put Linux on it, the hell with it.

Greg London @46: moon said sugar is sugar, which is true.

Sugar Water of the Week is glucose. Orange juice is mostly fructose. So in this case, sugar is not exactly the same as sugar, right?

Drinking whole food smoothies at a thousand calories a pop is calorically as bad as drinking several bottles of soda pop at a thousand calories.

But thinking calorically about it is is the reductionist way to think about it. Your whole food smoothie will (hopefully) have all kinds of other nutritive goodies in it that run your body; your bottles of soda will have HFCS and flavorings.

most nutrition stuff I've read lately says juice isn't the way to go. Eat fruit instead of drinking fruit juice.

I'm with you there, and as much for whatever health benefit as because eating a piece of fruit does more to engage my senses. Yum!

@32 MarkFrei: Maybe we shouldn't blame the foods. Maybe a little bit of just about any food at the right time is ok, but all the time isn't such a good thing.

@34 Moon: I'd like to see some documentation on that. Sugar is sugar. Calories are calories.

So all the other things that are in a glass of orange juice (or whatever), as opposed to a glass of water with fructose flavorings and food coloring, have no physiological effect? We should all just get by drinking pure glucose in the form of HFCS, because we perfectly understand the long-term health effects of nourishing ourselves on what's rapidly turning into a total nutritional monoculture -- that is, corn and soy, plus meat raised eating corn and soy, plus eggs laid by hens eating corn and soy, plus milk produced by cows eating corn and soy?

I've heard some reductionist arguments for nutrition before, but this is getting ridiculous.

Maybe if people exercised enough and learned portion control they wouldn't be so obese.

There is a subtext here: the products that you buy determine who you are. Really it's what you DO that matters.

Maybe what you should DO is feed yourself with as many whole, unprocessed foods that are untainted by industrial production as you can get your hands on, as well as exercising and practicing portion control.

Do you even realize how much effort that takes these days?

(I think it's worth it, though.)

OK, I forgive everything just for 'blog-lo-dites'. That is the best new word I've heard all year.

Hah -- this is already a cube decoration where I work.

God these are just gorgeous. I just don't usually have the need to chop cars in half or cut down trees.

Might just have to get one anyway though!

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Dwarf Fortress, the game pictured in the screenshot above (this is the 'world' view) makes NetHack look like Pong.

Plenty more details at Bay 12 games' website.

I had the first three, and I loved them all. The "special pieces" took over and I've found LEGO much less interesting since then -- it become more of a 3D puzzle and less of a encouragement to tinker.

Yay for Spyderco. They really are superb knives -- I've been carrying around a Delica or a Poliwog for years now.

Street prices: they're often much lower than Spyderco's MSRP. For instance, their MSRP for the Poliwog is $150; I got mine for $80.

I am thinking here of fuligin from Gene Wolfe's "The Book of the New Sun" series. The material darker than black -- the guild of the torturers wear it.

I always hoped someone would get around to creating it someday!

Anyone who says something like "I went to America and drank Coors/Michelob/Miller/etc and it was crap, therefore our beer is better" might as well have come here only to eat at Wendy's and McDonald's and then declare that all food in America is crap.

There are good American breweries out there. Not all of them brew exclusively gigantic IPAs. I love Belgian-style beers, and I'm increasingly running into more and more of them here.

There's the superb Ommegang in NY -- they brew my favorite saison, Hennepin. In my book it stands up to plenty of the imported Belgian saisons like Saison Dupont, though the stuff from Brasserie Fantomas was more intriguing, I have to admit.

Victory also does a great saison, and their Prima Pils is a great flowery pilsener -- I could drink it all night.

Then there's the wonderful Brooklyn brewery, with their Local One bottle-conditioned golden ale -- every bit as good as Duvel in my opinion. They also have a (seasonal) Black Chocolate Stout, which every beerhead I know bought whole cases of. They even have a single-hop draught-only beer I've seen in a couple places now. They must have an amazing brewmaster to do so many different styles so damn well.

You can't get great beers everywhere, but there are now enough beer lovers in the US demanding the good stuff that it's generally available if you look. Even at minor-league ballpark I go to they now have Sierra Nevada and Widmer on tap.

Damn it all, where's the Galvanic Lucipher?

http://www.outpostproject.com/pub/crypto.html

Does it bother nobody else that "Sandy" would have all of your email?