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<Alanna> Saying that Java is nice because it works on all OS’s is like saying that anal sex is nice because it works on all genders

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They say "knowledge is power," but "they" seem to forget that most of our knowledge is devoted to subjects that are completely useless and retarded. On Wikipedia, even the most obscure topics get propped up on enormous blocks of text. Here are the most depressing - and somewhat frightening - examples.

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This Onion Network News piece tells the truth through humor as they so often do over there.
 

For a majority of likely voters, meaningless bullshit will be the most important factor in deciding who they will vote for in 2008.

Poll: Bullshit Is Most Important Issue For 2008 Voters

Way back in February of 2006, Time Magazine featured an article titled The Lobbying Game: Why the Revolving Door Won’t Close explaining Jeffrey Shockey’s back and forth movements between Capitol Hill and K Street.
This year, Congress passed and Bush signed into law the Honest Leadership and Open Government Act of 2007. This law was [...]

I found an excellent customization guide for Ubuntu 7.10.  Check it out…

Ubuntu Customization Guide v2 (http://tuxenclave.wordpress.com)
Changes are part of Nature so as with Technology.. Though this cannot be True for Windows and Mac cause the life cycle of a single Version is too much which is not the case with Linux.. Open Source evolve at [...]

I would think that conservatives, who so often claim to have the Truth with a capital T, would take their self appointed spokespeople to task for some of the stuff that comes out of their mouths.  Pat Robertson’s suggestion regarding the assassination of Hugo Chavez and Bill O’Reilly’s long history of pulling stats out of [...]

I decided to take a quick break from cooking Thanksgiving dinner to remind people to get out and vote for this years Falsies.
The Center for Media and Democracy releases an end of year list of the "most heinous polluters of the information environment over the past year".  These are people who take spin and propaganda [...]

{en:Scott McClellan}’s new book, titled WHAT HAPPENED - Inside the Bush White House and What’s Wrong with Washington, due out in April from PublicAffairs Books should have some interesting tidbits about what was going on in the white House during {en:Patrick Fitzgerald|Fitzgerald’s} investigation of the {en:Plame affair|Valerie Plame leak}.  The publishers have included this excerpt [...]

Chris Matthews has repeated lies about Gore for so long he seems to actually believe them despite their having been debunked for almost a decade. 
Media Matters - Ignoring own history of smearing Gore, Matthews claimed "Gore got himself in those problem areas" and repeated smears:

On the November 19 edition of MSNBC’s Hardball, New [...]

In the war in Afghanistan there are heroes walking around without guns and without armored Humvees.  This little piece from the English language Al Jazeera International lets a 13 year old boy tell about a normal day in his life as he works hard to support his large family.