Wednesday, July 31, 2013

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"The fact neither CENTCOM or Multi National Forces Iraq or MNF-I would not voluntarily release the video troubled me further. It was clear to me that the event happened because the aerial weapons team mistakenly identified Reuters employees as a potential threat and that the people in the bongo truck were merely attempting to assist the wounded. The people in the van were not a threat but merely "good samaritans". The most alarming aspect of the video to me, however, was the seemly delightful bloodlust they appeared to have.

"They dehumanized the individuals they were engaging and seemed to not value human life by referring to them as quote "dead bastards" unquote and congratulating each other on the ability to kill in large numbers. At one point in the video there is an individual on the ground attempting to crawl to safety. The individual is seriously wounded. Instead of calling for medical attention to the location, one of the aerial weapons team crew members verbally asks for the wounded person to pick up a weapon so that he can have a reason to engage. For me, this seems similar to a child torturing ants with a magnifying glass."

- Bradley Manning, U.S. Army Private and whistleblower, from a statement presented at his court-martial for releasing secret documents to the Wikileaks organization. Manning was referring to a lethal U.S. helicopter attack on a number of civilians and journalists in Iraq. Manning was convicted of a number of charges on July 30, 2013.

[http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/mar/01/bradley-manning-wikileaks-statement-full-text]

Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk
Jul. 31, 2013

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Tuesday, July 30, 2013

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I was gonna love you till the end of all daytime
and I was gonna keep all our secret signs and our lullabies
I was made to believe that our love would grow old
we were gonna live in a treehouse and make babies
and we were gonna bury our ex-lovers and their ghosts
baby we were made of gold

- Ane Brun, from The Treehouse Song.

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Jul. 26, 2013

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Sunday, July 28, 2013

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If you got bad news
You want to kick them blues
Cocaine

- J.J. Cale, from his song Cocaine. Cale died on July 26, 2013, at age 74.

Submitted by: Terry Labach
Jul. 27, 2013

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Saturday, July 27, 2013

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"The thing about those things is that it's just too bad they don't have any good music anymore to play on those formats. Maybe they ought to have a moratorium on someone inventing new formats until someone invents good music."

- Donald Fagen, singer and keyboardist for Steely Dan, when asked about new hi-resolution audio formats.

[http://www.cleveland.com/popmusic/index.ssf/2013/07/steely_dans_donald_fagen_and_w.html]

Submitted by: Terry Labach
Jul. 26, 2013

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Friday, July 26, 2013

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"There's no central method to search an email at this time with the way our records are set up, unfortunately."

- Cindy Blacker, U.S. National Security Agency Freedom of Information Act officer, explaining that the spy agency has no way to search its own employees' email.

[http://www.propublica.org/article/nsa-says-it-cant-search-own-emails]

Submitted by: Terry Labach
Jul. 24, 2013

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Wednesday, July 24, 2013

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"I sometimes feel that my work over the past 20 or so years has been a failure. I have not been able to get funding and I have not been able to engage anybody in a dialogue."

- Doug Engelbart, computer pioneer, in a 2005 interview. Engelbart, who died recently, has been praised for his contributions to computing, but was ignored by Silicon Valley in recent years.

[http://www.zdnet.com/the-shocking-truth-about-silicon-valley-genius-doug-engelbart-7000017660/]

Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk
Jul. 9, 2013

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Tuesday, July 23, 2013

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"Will it be a boy? Will it be a girl? For reasons that are largely mystical, the presumption -- backed by the bookmakers -- appears to be that Kate will deliver a girl, though given the history of the House of Windsor, animal, vegetable, or mineral seems about as probable as either a male or female Homo sapiens."

- Alex Massie, in "Musings on the impending Royal Birth".

[http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/07/17/it_s_a_boy_is_this_insufferable_kate_royal_baby?page=0,1]

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Jul. 19, 2013

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Monday, July 22, 2013

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"Our national sport is, for lack of a better term, ass-watching."

- Cecile Doo-Kingue, New York-born singer-songwriter, on her roots in Cameroon. She made the comment during a workshop at the 2013 Mariposa Folk Festival.

[www.cdkmusik.com]

Submitted by: Terry Labach
Jul. 10, 2013

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Sunday, July 21, 2013

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"Yet children's role in home security and privacy goes beyond that of hapless victim, as they often have a surprising knack for mischief of their own. Children exploit door locks to isolate themselves or others, sometimes locking parents out of the parents' own rooms or even the entire house. Children find innovative and potentially-damaging applications for household objects, such as using crayons to write on walls or using the antennas of wireless routers as goalposts in games of miniaturized football. They adjust thermostats to extremes. They knowingly and intentionally invite into the household guests that would not be welcomed by their parents, not all of which may be human and some of which may carry contagion, filth, or other sources of environmental contamination. They escape the household and assist in the escape of both pets and of objects intended for indoor-only use. Many children perform surveillance operations which are invasive to the privacy of parents, siblings, or other members of the household."

- Stuart Schechter, from the paper "The User IS the Enemy, and (S)he Keeps Reaching for that Bright Shiny Power Button!"

[http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/?id=194484]

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Jul. 4, 2013

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Saturday, July 20, 2013

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I've got a new lover now, I know that she's not mine,
I only want to hold her, I don't need to read her mind,
And she only looks like you when she's in a certain light.

I got a new lover now, she knows just what I need.
When I wake up in the night, she can read me back my dreams,
And she loves them, though she never needs to tell me what they mean.

I hope you've got a lover now, hope you've got somebody who
Can give you what you need like I couldn't seem to do.
But if you're sad and you are lonesome and you've got nobody true,
I'd be lying if I said that didn't make me happy too.

- Josh Ritter, from his song New Lover.

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Jul. 4, 2013

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Friday, July 19, 2013

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"Kitchen gizmos can offer a fascinating glimpse into the preoccupations of any given society. The Georgians loved roasted bone marrow and devised a special silver spoon for eating it. The Mayans lavished great artistry on the gourds from which chocolate was drunk. If you walk around our own kitchenware shops, you would think that the things we are really obsessed with in the West right now are espresso, panini, and cupcakes."

- Bee Wilson, in her history of kitchen tools, Consider the Fork.

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Jul. 11, 2013

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Thursday, July 18, 2013

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"Man's population and gross product are increasing at a considerable rate, but the complexity of his problems grows still faster, and the urgency with which solutions must be found becomes steadily greater in response to the increased rate of activity and the increasingly global nature of that activity. Augmenting man's intellect, in the sense defined above, would warrant full pursuit by an enlightened society if there could be shown a reasonable approach and some plausible benefits."

- Douglas Engelbart, computer pioneer, writing in 1962. Engelbart died on July 2, 2013.

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Jul. 4, 2013

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Wednesday, July 17, 2013

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"So is this job for liars? Is this what you're saying? Because, clearly, you're not able to give us forthright answers. I mean, given the way the NSA has behaved, given the fact that we've been lied to as Americans, given the fact that factsheets have been pulled down because they clearly had untruths in them, given the fact that Clapper and Alexander lied to Congress - is that a qualification for being in the NSA? Do you have to be a good liar?"

- Madiha R Tahir, student and journalist, asking questions of National Security Agency recruiters holding a recruitment drive at the University of Wisconsin on July 2, 2013.

[http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/shortcuts/2013/jul/05/national-security-agency-recruitment-drive]

Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk
Jul. 9, 2013

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Tuesday, July 16, 2013

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So, call me when you're single.
Call me when you're stoned.
Call me on your birthday when I'm not at home.
Call me when you're sober.
Call me when you're broke.
Call me when you're crying to tell me a joke.

- Cowpuncher, from the band's song Call Me When You're Single.

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Jul. 4, 2013

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Monday, July 15, 2013

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I have wrought my simple plan
If I give one hour of joy
To the boy who's half a man,
Or the man who's half a boy.

- Arthur Conan Doyle, in his epigraph for his novel The Lost World.

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Jul. 10, 2013

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Sunday, July 14, 2013

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"O father, the pig, the pig, do come and taste how nice the burnt pig eats."

- Charles Lamb (1775-1834), A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig, on the legend of how cooking meat was discovered.

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Jul. 11, 2013

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Saturday, July 13, 2013

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"Now that we have made the Internet work, the next task is to stop it from being a platform for massive surveillance, and make it work in a way that respects human rights, including privacy."

- Richard Stallman, computing pioneer, on being inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame.

[https://www.fsf.org/news/richard-stallman-inducted-into-the-2013-internet-hall-of-fame]

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Jul. 2, 2013

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