Waldo Jaquith

Archive for September 2010

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In Virginia Politics on 30 September 2010 tagged abc, mcdonnell with 7 comments

Good news for the governor: “The Simplification and Operations Committee of the Commission on Government Reform and Restructuring today officially approved adoption of the governor’s ABC privatization plan.” I’m sure that getting his plan through the committee comes as a great relief to him. Wait, the what committee? Oh. The Commission will consist of up [...]

links for 2010-09-29

In ShortLinks on 29 September 2010 with 10 comments

The Plum Line: Another Christine O'Donnell Embellishment The Republican Senate candidate claimed that she attended Oxford. Turns out she went to one course run by a private group that was renting space from Oxford. But this isn't new to O'Donnell. She's also claimed to have been in a Master's program at Princeton (she wasn't) and [...]

links for 2010-09-27

In ShortLinks on 27 September 2010 with 3 comments

YouTube: Scratching many capybaras Well, that's just adorable. (tags: animals cute) Twitter: Kanye Jordan All of Kanye West's tweets are better if prepended with "Liz Lemon," and read in Tracy Jordan's voice. Somebody set up a Twitter feed to do that. (tags: humor twitter kanyewest 30rock) New York Times: An Ex-Convict, a Hit Album, An [...]

links for 2010-09-23

In ShortLinks on 23 September 2010 with 6 comments

U.S. Senate: Senate Considers Banning Dial Phones In 1930, Virginia's own Sen. Carter Glass introduced a resolution opposing dial telephones in congress, complaining that it was too much work to dial numbers. He also once said of the importance of disenfranchising black voters: "Discrimination! Why that is exactly what we propose. To remove every negro [...]

links for 2010-09-22

In ShortLinks on 22 September 2010 with 2 comments

Evercookie Samy Kamkar has written this brilliant bit of JavaScript that sets a cookie that is totally implausible to delete. Via eight different storage mechanisms (including a cached PNG with embedded data read back via HTML Canvas and brute-forcing fake URLs stored in the history) that can repopulate one another, this is both evil and [...]

Virginia Laws.

In Geek, Politics on 15 September 2010 with 3 comments

I’ve been working on this for the last few months. There’s really nothing to see just yet, but, as when I was developing Richmond Sunlight, I think it’s better for me to spend time coding than bloviating. I just spent twenty minutes writing about the Delaware Senate race, realized that I’d said nothing original or [...]

Gone metaphorically fishin’.

In Photo on 5 September 2010 tagged beach, vacation with 5 comments

Sometimes, a man’s just got to get away from it all. Eight days and change in Florida should do it.