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Bacon Explosion: The BBQ Sausage Recipe of all Recipes |
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1:12 pm EST, Feb 4, 2009 |
The other day the guys from BaconToday.com contacted me in search for some barbecue bacon recipes. Of course I have plenty of great uses for bacon in a barbecue pit, but the longer I thought about it, the more I wanted to step it up a notch and clog a few arteries for those guys. Behold, BACON EXPLOSION!!! Here’s what you’ll need… 2 pounds thick cut bacon
2 pounds Italian sausage
1 jar of your favorite barbeque sauce
1 jar of your favorite barbeque rub
--timball Bacon Explosion: The BBQ Sausage Recipe of all Recipes |
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Minnesota Independent » Did Coleman campaign fake Web site crash? |
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8:08 am EST, Jan 29, 2009 |
[Updated] Former Sen. Norm Coleman’s Web site is down, and the campaign says a flood of info-seeking disenfranchised voters overwhelmed it. A press release posted at the GOP blog Minnesota Democrats Exposed reports that the site was “inundated by tens of thousands of hits today – temporarily crashing the website.” MDE’s Ryan Flynn then quotes Coleman campaign manager Cullen Sheehan (Fox 9 also published the release). “Minnesotans and folks across the country are fed up with Al Franken’s efforts to disenfranchise thousands of Minnesota voters, and the overwhelming response we received to making this information public is proof positive of that fact,” he says. But not so fast, says Aaron Landry, an MN Publius blogger (and Franken fan) who works as IT Manager at a St. Paul design firm by day. He commented at MDE that there’s “no way that the amount of traffic they got was the cause of the website being down.” Then he did some digging. His conclusion: “This stunt is a completely fabricated lie.“ Two of the four points Landry makes in his post:
THE SITE IS NOT DOWN! The snip-snip session below shows how i brought (fmr) senator coleman's website back to the tubes. after you add those entries to your own /etc/hosts (more info on hosts file) you too can read about how senator coleman needs 5 more yrs to balance a budget. or how the power of FUD will get you re-elected! --snip--snip--snip--
timball@thompson {1}$ host colemanforsenate.com
colemanforsenate.com has address 1.1.1.1
colemanforsenate.com mail is handled by 10 mail.colemanforsenate.com.
timball@thompson {2}$ date
Thu Jan 29 07:56:04 EST 2009
timball@thompson {3}$ tail -n 1 /etc/hosts
208.42.168.197 colemanforsenate.com www.colemanforsenate.com
--snip--snip--snip-- Share and enjoy! --timball Minnesota Independent » Did Coleman campaign fake Web site crash? |
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president obama's first memo |
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4:50 pm EST, Jan 21, 2009 |
THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release January 21, 2009 January 21, 2009 MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES SUBJECT: Freedom of Information Act A democracy requires accountability, and accountability requires transparency. As Justice Louis Brandeis wrote, "sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants." In our democracy, the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), which encourages accountability through transparency, is the most prominent expression of a profound national commitment to ensuring an open Government. At the heart of that commitment is the idea that accountability is in the interest of the Government and the citizenry alike. The Freedom of Information Act should be administered with a clear presumption: In the face of doubt, openness prevails. The Government should not keep information confidential merely because public officials might be embarrassed by disclosure, because errors and failures might be revealed, or because of speculative or abstract fears. Nondisclosure should never be based on an effort to protect the personal interests of Government officials at the expense of those they are supposed to serve. In responding to requests under the FOIA, executive branch agencies (agencies) should act promptly and in a spirit of cooperation, recognizing that such agencies are servants of the public. All agencies should adopt a presumption in favor of disclosure, in order to renew their commitment to the principles embodied in FOIA, and to usher in a new era of open Government. The presumption of disclosure should be applied to all decisions involving FOIA. The presumption of disclosure also means that agencies should take affirmative steps to make information public. They should not wait for specific requests from the public. All agencies should use modern technology to inform citizens about what is known and done by their Government. Disclosure should be timely. I direct the Attorney General to issue new guidelines governing the FOIA to the heads of executive departments and agencies, reaffirming the commitment to accountability and transparency, and to publish such guidelines in the Federal Register. In doing so, the Attorney General should review FOIA reports produced by the agencies under Executive Order 13392 of December 14, 2005. I also direct the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to update guidance to the agencies to increase and improve information dissemination to the public, including through the use of new technologies, and to publish such guidance in the Federal Register. This memorandum does not create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departm... [ Read More (0.2k in body) ] president obama's first memo
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PolicyBeta - Blog Archive - A New Cookie Policy for E-Gov 2.0: Part 2 |
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| Topic: Politics and Law |
7:30 pm EST, Jan 10, 2009 |
While privacy controls in browsers are improving, industry could be much more innovative than it has been to date in developing state management mechanisms that make privacy controls easier to use. Meanwhile, the government should be creating policies to encourage this innovation, rather than railroading the issue with an inflexible mandate (i.e., the current policy) or eliminating the government-wide policy altogether (a possible alternative). There are a couple of other areas where more study may be needed: 1) There are a growing number of cases where information about an individual may not be directly personally identifiable, but where the individual has a privacy interest based on the use of the information. IDs of all kinds (including those used in state management mechanisms) and location information are two prominent examples. Today, there are few privacy rules in government to cover these kinds of information. 2) There are clearly some instances where federal Web sites could be greatly improved through the use of monitoring aggregate and individual usage for diagnostic and analytical use. The feasibility of conducting such analysis in a privacy-protective manner deserves further exploration. A study panel should consider what the appropriate policy guidelines should be for these situations. This panel should assess how policies specific to federal Web sites can allow beneficial uses of cookies and other state management mechanisms while protecting privacy, taking the differences between the types of data commonly collected online into account. We’d like to thank the Sunlight Labs Team for allowing us to bounce these ideas off of them. Let us know what you think.
w00t! the team grouped thought and *I* helped! --timball PolicyBeta - Blog Archive - A New Cookie Policy for E-Gov 2.0: Part 2 |
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Ben Smith's Blog: An attack on the blogosphere - Politico.com |
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3:32 pm EST, Jan 7, 2009 |
The last post on the Soapblox homepage reads: All these hackers messing with our stuff, and we here at SoapBlox have no clue what to do. We don't have enough knowledge, time, money, or care to fix it. So I hope the Hackers are happy. If you want the data from your blog, we will get it. But we are not going to try and restore anything. Consider this the "We're Out of Business" post. The attack is a reminder of how little redundancy there is in big portions of the rapidly-expanding Internet, and how fragile the systems that manage content can be.
my favorite post from the soapblox site is this: Please pay your bills
by: pacified
December 28, 2008 at 22:21:14 MST
50% of you NEVER pay your bills on time. Half of you must figure "might as well not pay my bill". How am I supposed to provide this service if you folks never pay your bills? If your site is more then 2 months behind when I do billing in January your site is going to be SHUT DOWN and all the data destroyed. I provide you with 100% uptime, an awesome blog framework, and have been nice to let you keep running your sites when you haven't paid for 2 months, three months. Well, so long Mr. Nice Guy. After four years of dealing with this nonsense, and having to track which of you are unable to keep your end of the agreement, a line has to be drawn. This is your warning.
apperently someone took the threat seriously. --timball Ben Smith's Blog: An attack on the blogosphere - Politico.com |
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