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In the continuing assault on your rights, SCOTUS ruled today that local governments can seize private land (read: your home) for private development.
I love this little tidbit.
Local officials, not federal judges, know best in deciding whether a development project will benefit the community, justices said.
The test was whether city officials know better than federal [...]

This is an interesting dilemma. If I subscribed to the a magazine with an ethics column, I’d suggest this as a topic.
Joe Welinske (who, in full disclosure, I am not a big fan), has started a Yahoo! Group called Reform STC. The group is a place where STC members past and present can discuss how [...]

Is Firefox the greatest browser or what? The extensions are the best part of the browser, making it a real tool, and an ever-adpatable one at that.
Take this extension for instance, ScrapBook. Highlight a section of a page, right-click and save the clipping locally. Never loose that snipet of information or the source. Very [...]

Despite my penchant for bad music, I do occasionally listen to good music and consider myself appreciative of music I may not listen to all the time. So, it’s always a good laugh when some magazine/newspaper/webzine/blog comes out with their Top $QUANTITY Albums of the Last $TIMESPAN.
Toady’s entry is SPIN magazine, who I thought [...]

Some days, I really, really want to hate someone over this.
If you use your debit card at a pump that does not require a PIN, the station regularly will block out an amount — often $50 or $75 — on your card.
From the great minds that brought you “Anyone who listens to music is [...]

So, J– and I are moving to Chelsea in a few weeks, depending on the affordability of certain moving companies or the availability of anyone we can scam of kind family members to help us.
In doing so, I hope to focus more on my new adopted hometown. Since I don’t have an original thought in [...]

Someone (warped23) posting on this story on Slashdot left a killer comment. The poster will probably get modded down since this thread has turned into a “my distro is better than your distro” and fact-checking free-for-all, but it sums up nicely what Linux maniacs are unwilling to acknowledge: Linux, to the average user, in inaccessible.
Hi [...]