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1. Well Mr. Big Brother IRS man... take my pound of flesh and sleep well.
(News/Liberty)

... California, so they were closed; just like that. The result was economic devastation in the region that rivaled the widely publicized Texas S&L fiasco. However, because the government caused it, no one ...

2. Linux: Wrapper to Copy Files from STDIN
(Software/Linux)

... to be copied from STDIN.  The GNU `find' command can be used do this, if you want to filter by the info available from stat(1).  But what if you want to filter by other info?  In my case I want to filter ...

3. The Price of Liberty is...Hot Dog Gruel?
(News/Liberty)

... ever been, a member of the communist party? Answer truthfully, and perhaps have your answer used against you later (regardless of whether the answer was yes or no). Refuse to answer, and you have just ...

4. Quick & Dirty Prototype
(News/College)

Today we built a prototype of our design for the 2009 Quick & Dirty Boat Race.  The build was more physical labor than I'm used to, but it was fun nonetheless. I don't have any photos of us building ...

5. Will The DC City Council Ever Learn Their Lesson?
(News/Gun Rights)

... but her bi-tone version is supposedly ‘unsafe’.” Added SAF founder Alan Gottlieb, “The Supreme Court’s decision is crystal clear: Handguns that are used by people for self-defense and other lawful purposes ...

6. NTSB Confirms Flight 1549 Crash Caused by Foreign Terrorists
(News/Uncategorized)

According to CNN, the NTSB has confirmed that Flight 1549, piloted by Sullenberger, was attacked by suicidal foreign terrorists, forcing the emergency landing in the Hudson River. These terrorists ...

7. Jury Duty
(News/Liberty)

... combat veteran, I am always ready to do my duty to uphold and defend liberty.  As such, I cannot, in good conscience, permit myself to be used to destroy the very liberty I swore to defend. As I have ...

8. Pacifica First Impressions
(News/Computers)

... Utility" partition, a 10 GB "Recovery" partition, and a 223 GB "OS" partition.  While openSUSE's much maligned new expert partitioner takes some getting used to, and could use a few usability tweaks, I ...

9. Flashlight
(Meta/Quotes, Aphorisms & Epigrams)

flash•light (flăsh′ līt′)  n. A highly specialized container, typically used to store dead batteries.  ...

10. GeSHi Extreme
(Software/Joomla!)

... not going to actually display this 700-line C++ file I wrote for KDE here. Attributes lang="<language>" Used to specify which language highlighting file should be used.  <language> may ...

11. Portfolio
(Portfolio/Source Code)

... Lander code docs Perl SVG Visual Basic This is a function I wrote extending a legacy application to somewhat optimize the bandwidth used for mass emailing alerts ...

12. Morris Embarrasses U.S.
(News/Gun Rights)

... because statistics, together with weasel words and junk science, can be used to mislead people. The CDC published a report in Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report in October 2003.  The study, after ...