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So from now on, all of my outgoing email will be signed with my brand-spankin'-new GnuPG key...

If you're at all interested in the future of, well, the world, you should definitely check Fast Company out.

001: Hello, world! from Becky Blitch on Vimeo.

Want more? Bookmark my vimeo channel. This weekend I'll add a sidebar to this blog listing the most recent videos, too.

Headers and screencap after the jump.

The Spies Who Love You! by Mark Fiore

Show Your Support: Obama Pride

In a remark that sparked controversy, [Obama] said he would not rule out a unilateral strike in Pakistan.

"If we have actionable intelligence about high-value terrorist targets and President Musharraf won't act, we will," he said in a Washington speech last August.

McCain later highlighted the statement as a sign of Obama's lack of foreign-policy experience. "You don't broadcast that you are going to bomb a country that is a sovereign nation," McCain, who has endorsed a cooperative approach with Mr. Musharraf, said in February. "It's just fundamentals of the conduct of national security policy."

Unless you're George W. Bush. In that case, you publicly announce that Saddam Hussein & Co. has 48 hours to turn over the reigns of their (apparently un-sovereign) country or else you'll bomb the living daylights out of it; you then start firing missiles in targeted attacks even before he 48-hour deadline is reached; after the 48-hour warning period, you treat the citizens of Baghdad to a special fireworks show, eliciting shouts of "shocking!" and "awesome!" /smirk/

Since John McCain clearly has a strong grasp of the "fundamentals of the conduct of national security policy," as evidenced by his stellar academic background and ability to crash fighter jets, we can only infer that Iraq never was a sovereign nation, making Mr. Bush's actions perfectly legitimate and even worth emulating for another four years. Ha.

Charlie Crist is a dickhead.

The man's political ambitions have always been transparent, but in the past two weeks he has crossed the line.

*Obama! '08! Be a part of something great!

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The data was collected on a Friday (recycling day) 6-8 weeks ago (neighbor's construction) around 1 PM (sun position & cloud patterns). All of that, plus the fact that I can now give you a virtual tour of my daily walk with Sydney (but won't)... it's cool, yes, but very, very creepy.

The context wars rage on...

Via CNN

(BTW, if for some reason, you want the real Barack Obama ringtones, they're available at the official BarackObama.com downloads site, along with some other really neat stuff. All free to download & distribute.)

A-fucking-men.

FDA warns of harmful nipple cream

SPOILER ALERT: If you're waiting till this weekend to get caught up on this week's season finales, skip this post.

The AP reports:

"In a monumental victory for the gay rights movement, the California Supreme Court overturned a voter-approved ban on gay marriage Thursday in a ruling that would allow same-sex couples in the nation's biggest state to tie the knot," AP reports.

Domestic partnerships are not a good enough substitute for marriage, the justices ruled 4-3 in striking down the ban.

A key passage from the decision:

"Furthermore, in contrast to earlier times, our state now recognizes that an individual's capacity to establish a loving and long-term committed relationship with another person and responsibly to care for and raise children does not depend upon the individual's sexual orientation, and, more generally, that an individual's sexual orientation -- like a person's race or gender -- does not constitute a legitimate basis upon which to deny or withhold legal rights.

"We therefore conclude that in view of the substance and significance of the fundamental constitutional right to form a family relationship, the California Constitution properly must be interpreted to guarantee this basic civil right to all Californians, whether gay or heterosexual, and to same-sex couples as well as to opposite-sex couples."

Maybe there's reason to have hope, yet!

Let's look at some key figures from the exit polling, according to CNN's summary:

Clinton's largest margins, as expected, were registered among voters at the lower end of the socioeconomic ladder. Among white voters without a college degree, Clinton defeated Obama by 50 points. Among white voters making less than $30,000 a year, Clinton's margin of victory was more than 60 points.

Voters supported the gas tax suspension by an almost 2-to-1 margin. Those voters who supported suspending the gas tax broke for Clinton, 74 to 19 percent.

Only 38 percent of Clinton's voters said they would vote for Obama in a general election matchup against presumptive GOP nominee Sen. John McCain.

President Bush was able to win the socially conservative state twice largely on the basis of hot button issues such as abortion, gay rights and gun control.

What I'm about to say will probably offend a lot of people, so if you want to keep your image of me being an idealistic egalitarian unblemished, you'll probably want to stop reading.