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• Homophobia at the University of North Texas

  —Eric Stoller's Blog

  University of North Texas students, voting in an online referendum, have rejected the possibility of same-sex couples running for homecoming court in 2010. The measure was defeated, 58 percent to 42...
  
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  Posted: November 29, 2009, 12:53am EST
  by Eric Stoller

• How rich are you?

  —Eric Stoller's Blog

  How rich are you? When we consider how well we are doing financially, we must choose a referent. That is, when we ask the question (”How well am I doing?”), we are also, simultaneously choosing a...
  
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  Posted: November 29, 2009, 12:04am EST
  by Eric Stoller

• Bridge to Somewhere

  —Cat Eyes---A Cat Woman's Photos

  Yesterday, boredom I guess, drove me into project mode. I had some scraps of this and that and decided to create a bridge. For the cats. I fastened clips to two ends of two pieces of equal length wire rope and attached four eye hooks to hook each end of [...]
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  Posted: November 28, 2009, 11:17pm EST
  by Strayer

• A bad day for the OSU web

  —Eric Stoller's Blog

  I almost forgot to post this… A few weeks ago, I was meeting with one of my advisees. I wanted to show them something on the OSU Registrar’s web site. When I arrived on the...
  
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  Posted: November 28, 2009, 11:00pm EST
  by Eric Stoller

• Cowardly Losers Get No Condolences

  —piglipstick

  Number of comments: 1
  No sympathy to warriors who can't take being the bad guys.
  
  White House policy: No letter to families of military suicides
  
  "Washington (CNN) -- Gregg Keesling chooses his words carefully when he talks about the death of his son, Spc. Chancellor Keesling.
  As far as he's concerned,'" [...]
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  Posted: November 28, 2009, 10:32pm EST
  by nolocontendere

• Google adds auto-captioning to YouTube

  —Eric Stoller's Blog

  Google does not always create accessible products (GoogleWave). However, sometimes they do a good job of increasing the accessibility of an existing service. I hope that Vimeo gets the message that...
  
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  Posted: November 28, 2009, 10:11pm EST
  by Eric Stoller

• Hoosier Daddy

  —piglipstick

  Number of comments: 0
  World Wide Military Expenditures
  
  Rest-of-World [all but USA]
  $500 billion
  
  Empire
  $623 billion
  
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  Posted: November 28, 2009, 10:00pm EST
  by nolocontendere

• Epidemics

  —piglipstick

  Number of comments: 0
  We tend to think about outbreaks of disease in straight allopathic medicine terms. Pathogens can all of a sudden spread rapidly through otherwise healthy populations because that's the way of the universe, it's natural, and that's the way it's always been. We shrug it off to Darwinism, survival of the [...]
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  Posted: November 28, 2009, 7:44pm EST
  by nolocontendere

• Pays Handsomely To Be Israel's Bitch

  —piglipstick

  Number of comments: 1
  Congressmen Denouncing U.N. Inquiry Receive Handsome Donations from Pro-Israel Lobby
  
  "Domestic policies such as health care reform and financial regulation are dominating Congress’ legislative agenda this year.
  But on Wednesday, the House of Representatives approved a non-binding measure denouncing a United Nations inquiry that found that Israel committed" [...]
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  Posted: November 28, 2009, 7:08pm EST
  by nolocontendere