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Clearing the Browser Tabs – Overly Geeky Sunday Edition Posted: 16 Jan 2011 03:10 AM PST I’ve been holding a bunch of links that are geekier than the usual political stuff about which I write. I don’t want to hold on to them much longer, lest they expire, so I’m going to dump a bunch of them here for your enjoyment. To be perfectly honest, I never quite know what to do with the geek-related articles I come across. I know that most folks visit The Shack for my political stuff, but there is far more to me than just politics and I really would like to write more about gaming and computer tech and space news but I don’t because I’m afraid I’ll lose what little readership I already have. Maybe you all can give me guidance. Do you want to see more from me on those subjects or should I just keep on the way I am? I’ll let your opinions inform my decision, since you’re the ones who give your time to read what I write and who share my links to your friends and family. Leave me something in the comments and we’ll go from there, okay? And now, links! If you want to learn how to program in Ruby, there’s an open source program that’s just for you. It looks like it might be handy for anyone who wants to program, whether Ruby is your language of choice or not. I had a fairly involved Twitter conversation with my friends Kerry Picket and Pamela Gorman today over exactly how to pronounce new RNC Chair Reince Prebus’ name. I don’t think we came up with a consensus answer, though I think Pamela had the most definitive answer. Arnold Schwartenegger told a newspaper in his native Austria that his term as Governor cost him 200 million dollars. Unfortunately, it cost the citizens of his state a whole hell of a lot more. (via memeorandum) I admit I’m not entirely conservative when it comes to space exploration. I don’t think anyone can, or should try to, put a price tag on the value we get from pushing back our frontiers. And we do need frontiers to keep us from falling into stagnation. Imagination invigorates us. Danger Patrol looks like a very good pulp-action role-playing game and it’s entirely free. Jump on it and let me know what you think. Do you want to get from Endor to Tattoine? Well now you can…umm, so long as you have a space ship with a hyperdrive. Artist Jason Thompson has been drawing a comic adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s story “The Strange High House in the Mist” that you really should see He’s been taking his time with it, a bit, but if you check out what he’s done thus far, you can understand why. It’s beautiful and captures the imagery of the story wonderfully. He has one more panel to go before he’s done to get caught up now. A new Kindle Lending Club? Heck, sign me right up! This is a fantastic idea. I’m a bit surprised that Amazon didn’t think of it first.

We Now Have Proof that Heated Rhetoric Breeds Violence…From the Left. Posted: 15 Jan 2011 10:25 PM PST Well, the self-fulfilling prophesy the left ginned up this week after the shooting of 19 people in Tucson, AZ has come true. One of the victims, himself a progressive activist named James Fuller, openly threatened to kill the head of the Tucson Tea Parties at an ABC News event designed to “heal” the rifts allegedly caused by heated rhetoric. The Tea Party member, Trent Humphries, has been getting death threats all week, some of them so serious that the local police department (hopefully not the department headed by unstrung left-wing media whore Sheriff Dupnik) has been investigating them. Now we see the fruit of the malicious tree planted by the left-wing blogs, Congressional Democrats, and the MSM. No one with a lick of sense could reasonably believe that speech, heated or otherwise, had anything to do with Jared Loughner’s mass murder, yet we see respected newspapers like the Guardian making ridiculous statements about how free speech isn’t all that great. The truth of the matter is that the only heated rhetoric that generated any tangible threats was the rhetoric from the left. Fuller had given a statement to the left-wing extremists at Democracy Now earlier this week wherein he blamed such folks as Sarah Palin and Sharon Angle for the shooting and spewed back almost perfectly the same ridiculous accusations the left has been hurling at the right all week. His statement were so on point that they got glowing reviews from from the Sorosmonkey Eric Boehlert at Media Matters. But while there was no proof at all that anything Palin or anyone else on the right said or did influenced Jared Loughner, we do have rather conclusive evidence that left-wing hate speech did contribute directly to this death threat. Will Eric Boehlert and those who raised Fuller up just a couple days ago recant their praise, condemn their earlier behavior, and apologize in full to Mr. Humphries. Don’t hold your breath. Such actions would require integrity and some semblance of shame. The left in America these days have precious little of either one.

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