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Florida Wants to Punish TV Shows with Gay Characters

Anita Bryant lives on as Florida vows to officially replace Colorado as “The Hate State”.

anitabryant_pie2Movies and TV shows filmed in the Sunshine State receive a tax credit, except now there is a move to exclude any that are judged as containing “non-traditional family values”.

You know, anything having to do with druggies, prossies, drunks or fags.

Current exclusions include depictions of smoking, sex, nudity and/or profanity, fuck you very very much.

Yet another grassroots attempt by conservative hate-mongers to use laws to solidify their prejudices.

I think I’ll go expose myself to my orange juice now, just to get even!

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Tim Berners-Lee: “Information is Power”

20 years ago, Tim Berners-Lee changed the way we communicate and see the world when he invented the World Wide Web. His next project involves building a web for open, linked data that could do for numbers what the Web did for words, pictures, video: unlock our data and reframe the way we use it together.

At TED2009, Tim challenged governments, scientists and institutions to make their data openly available on the web for “raw data now.”

 

One year later at TED University in 2010, Tim shared a few of the interesting results when the data gets linked up.

 

Tim’s “Semantic Web” vision — an evolved version of the same system that recognizes the meaning of the information it carries — will no doubt add more wattage to the adage: “Information is Power.”

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When Global Warming Pulls the Rug Out From Under You, Literally

Sure, it’s easy to ignore when it’s all happening to some far off iceberg somewhere, but what about when it reaches your own backyard?

New extremes in weather are causing increasing failures of suburban home foundations across the US.

Still think it’s a myth?

You won’t when you go downstairs tomorrow to make some coffee and find the coffee maker has moved 20 feet to the west, along with the kitchen and half your house.

Typical.

Like most crises caused by the government and big business, the middle class is left to sop up the mess!

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How to Make a Quick $ Off of Global Warming

Yes, now that they’ve got the little people all sufficiently worried about doomsday, the evil forces of world domination are back to their mission statement: Greed.

Not content with their role in causing Global Warming, European, North American and now Asian super powers are fixating on how they can turn a profit from all that melting ice.

Lightbulb: Oh, oh, I know! Now that we’ve ruined the environment, let’s take advantage of the warmer weather by raping and plundering the land.

You know that one was Europe’s idea.

China’s bright idea: let’s send people there! Yeah, right, cause we all know the best way to preserve nature is to inhabit it.

What a hot transcontinental mess!

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Laid-off people more likely to die.

It’s the gift that just keeps giving.

As if the unemployed didn’t have enough to worry about in this economy, new studies link losing your job to premature death.

But you didn’t need an Ivy League PHD to figure out the evil villain at the heart of this is the s word: stress.

So, now that you’ve been tossed-out like yesterday’s useless garbage, how do you stay alive? Resist the temptation to smoke, drink and eat more. And give heavy consideration to keeping that costly Cobra.

But hardest of all, chill out. It may seem as if there’ll be no tomorrow, but if you go to bed with that hopeless attitude, it’s less likely there will be.

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