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[Nov. 28th, 2009|08:29 pm] |
I'm trying to add newpost to my journal using curl,
curl -d"mode=postevent&.....&event=[ Error: Irreparable invalid markup ('<img src&eq;http://img_url>') in entry. Owner must fix manually. Raw contents below.] I'm trying to add newpost to my journal using curl, curl -d"mode=postevent&.....&event=<img src&eq;http://img_url>" www.livejournal.com/interface/flat result of this operation is "<img src" i'm understand that problem is in &eq; but show to fix it (? |
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| "Repoman, who is Emilio Estevez's doppelgänger, teaches #34 how to slimjim & hotwire a car." |
[Nov. 28th, 2009|06:00 am] |
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http://www.metafilter.com/87029/Repoman-who-is-Emilio-Estevezs-doppelgnger-teaches-34-how-to-slimjim-and-hotwire-a-car Roger Avary, Oscar-winning screenwriter for Pulp Fiction and many other films, pled guilty to gross vehicular manslaughter and drunken driving, following a crash that killed a passenger in his car in 2008. This September, he began to serve his sentence of one year in jail (followed by five years of probation). Naturally, he also began tweeting about it. The bleak literary quality of his tweets (in which he refers to himself only as "#34") caught the attention of Mark Millan at the LA Times -- and shortly thereafter, of the authorities.
Avary had in fact been serving his time on a work-furlough program, spending nights and weekends in custody; he is now in jail full-time. (via) |
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| How to Think About Science |
[Nov. 27th, 2009|07:35 pm] |
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http://www.metafilter.com/87023/How-to-Think-About-Science "Modern societies have tended to take science for granted as a way of knowing, ordering and controlling the world. Everything was subject to science, but science itself largely escaped scrutiny. This situation has changed dramatically in recent years. Historians, sociologists, philosophers and sometimes scientists themselves have begun to ask fundamental questions about how the institution of science is structured and how it knows what it knows." How to Think About Science is a 24-part series from CBC Radio's Ideas, featuring interviews with Steven Shapin, Ian Hacking, Bruno Latour, and others. The streaming audio links on the show's website seem to be out of commission, but direct links to all of the episodes can be found here.
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| Why I now hate Ted Rall |
[Nov. 27th, 2009|09:32 pm] |
In a recent article "http://news.yahoo.com/s/ucru/riseoftheyoungcodgers;_ylt=Agi54MD_A3LAHVftYGkRz9Zhr7sF;_ylu=X3oDMTJ1dDJycTduBGFzc2V0A3VjcnUvMjAwOTExMjcvcmlzZW9mdGhleW91bmdjb2RnZXJzBHBvcwMzMQRzZWMDeW5fcGFnaW5hdGVfc3VtbWFyeV9saXN0BHNsawNyaXNlb2Z0aGV5b3U-" Rall says:
"Remember the "generation gap"? In the 1960s and 1970s, it described the cultural chasm between rock 'n' roll-loving hippie Baby Boomers and their stodgy Lawrence Welk-watching parents. It came back in the 1990s, when snotty twentysomethings wrote books like "Generation X" and "Revenge of the Latchkey Kids," deriding their Boomer elders as sentimental, selfish and unaware."
Now the book Generation X was written by Douglas Coupland who was born in 1961 and his book Generation X was published in 1991 and this makes him 30, not quite the model of a snotty twentysomething. On top of that, the book "Revenge of the Latchkey kids" was published in 1998 by Rall himself, born in 1963 and thus he was obviously not a 20 something. How is the reader to take any of his supposed facts at face value when his first paragraph has inaccuracies blatant enough to indicate the author was not even trying to be correct as make associations that are in fact non existent?
I swear that Rall used to give a crap about truth, accuracy, about analyzing the world rather than trying to manipulate his readers for no discernible purpose. F-you Ted. F-you for actually making me believe you gave a damn only to slide into incoherent arguments in the age of Obama. What the hell set him off? Did his mind just finally crack, too many drugs, what happened? |
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| "Donald Sterling Continues To Get Away With Being The Most Evil Man In Sports" |
[Nov. 27th, 2009|05:28 pm] |
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http://www.metafilter.com/87019/Donald-Sterling-Continues-To-Get-Away-With-Being-The-Most-Evil-Man-In-Sports The Donald Sterling Rule "Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling lives by his own rules. And the only one that matters, apparently, is this: all bad deeds go unpunished. Over the last six years, nearly two dozen L.A. residents have sued Sterling for engaging in racist housing practices and Jim Crow-style bigotry.</a> In a 2003 deposition, the 76-year-old real estate mogul admitted to paying a former employee to have sex with him in an elevator. Three years ago, the U.S. government charged him with "willful" mistreatment of African-American and Latino tenants, and earlier this month, he agreed to pay the Dept. of Justice nearly $3 million to settle a federal racial-discrimination housing lawsuit, the largest award ever for a case of its kind." So why, asks California's Tenants Together, has the NBA said nothing about Sterling's less than sterling behavior?
Dan Wetzel asks why the landmark settlement has gotten practically no media coverage. Sterling's problems extend to a lawsuit from his former GM, Hall-of-Famer Elgin Baylor.
The landmark lawsuit: United States v. Donald Sterling.
A list of Sterling's misdeeds, from Deadspin. |
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| Need advice/help for PC gaming! |
[Nov. 27th, 2009|08:23 pm] |
Does anyone know if the HP Pavilion p6243w-b desktop computer will work well for gaming? I mostly want to play Sims 3 on it.. if not, is there anything I can do to improve it (add video card,ect) I have no idea about any of that, so need some help! I'v always played console games like ps3 and stuff so not sure about PC gaming.
Oh and the Hard Drive is 320 GB, 3.0 GB of memory and comes with Windows 7. |
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