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[Signal boosts are awesome! --L.] Using Ubuntu One Cloud Storage: From Basic to Creative [InformIT - Matthew Helmke] Ubuntu One is a cloud storage solution created by Canonical, and a desktop client is included in the Ubuntu distribution by default. Most people have heard about using Ubuntu One to store and share files, but many [...]

[Signal boosts are awesome! --L.] What Obama Could Have Done Instead of Berating His Voters: Suspend DADT politics lgbt Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof Blog: Political Issues Surrounding the Estate Tax [Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof Blog] Dalton Conley (University Professor and Dean for the Social Sciences, New York University) recently published his commentary entitled [...]

[Signal boosts are awesome! --L.] Dogs in Elk [warning: elk harm] I'm not sure the deeper horror of all this was fully borne in upon me till I saw that little phrase…. I did call my vet. He laughed until he was gagging and breathless. …It was my dogs, having an attack of teamwork unprecedented [...]

[Signal boosts are awesome! --L.] Introducing Subscriptions — Blog — WordPress.com [What strikes me about this feature is that it makes wp.com into a LiveJournal-alike. Their "subscriptions" equate to LJ's "friends", with a similar walled-garden effect. Their integrated email and jabber notifications actually improve upon LJ, though the feature-for-feature competition won't get hot until they allow [...]

[Signal boosts are awesome! --L.] Tea Party Fakers? Dems Blamed For Co-Opting ‘Tea Party’ Label To Split Conservative Vote | TPMDC It all made a lot of sense at the start. Back at the beginning of 2010, the tea party movement was showing real signs of splitting off into a separate political party. This was [...]

[Signal boosts are awesome! --L.] Media Matters: How Fox News helps its own employees run for office media corruption New Documents Show Bush Administration Planned War in Iraq Well Before 9/11/2001 Newly declassified documents published at the National Security Archive prove beyond all reasonable doubt that the Bush administration planned to topple Saddam Hussein and [...]

[Signal boosts are awesome! --L.] Emmanuel Jal: My Journey from Lost Boy to Activist [YES! Magazine - aabdallah] Video: Emmanuel Jal, a former Sudanese child soldier, uses hip-hop to help African children and raise awareness for his cause. war_what_is_it_good_for Some Practical Geology: How To Escape From A Pyroclastic Flow I should also point out that [...]

[Signal boosts are awesome! --L.] Florida appellate court: homosexual adoption ban unconstitutional [Constitutional Law Prof Blog] lgbt Dimensions vanish in quantum gravity [New Scientist] On tiny scales, 3D space may give way to mere lines. So say quantum gravity researchers, who aim to unite quantum mechanics with general relativity physics Fair Pay Isn’t Always Equal [...]

[Signal boosts are awesome! --L.] Republicans Blocked More than the DREAM Act and DADT Repeal When John McCain led the filibuster of the Defense Appropriations Act yesterday, he blocked far more than the DREAM Act and repeal of DADT. Here are just a few of the other blocked provisions… This was a mean-spirited, cut-off-your-nose-to-spite-your-face exercise [...]

[Signal boosts are awesome! --L.] On the Web, Children Face Intensive Tracking – WSJ.com privacy Syncing your BlackBerry on Ubuntu | Ubuntu Geek linux Dan Savage Creates YouTube Channel to Help Gay Teens lgbt California’s largest labor union backs pot legalization initiative – latimes.com war_on_inanimate_objects CrimProf Blog: "As Hours Tick Away, Lawyers Plead Case of Woman Set [...]