The constitution continues to recede

The first amendment to the United States constitution reads:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

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Corner Brewery

If you’re in the Ypsilanti area, don’t forget that the Corner Brewery is opening up on Thursday. It’s a new micro-brewery pub located in the old Motor Wheel plant just north of Depot Town. It’s owned and operated by the owners of the Arbor Brewing in Ann Arbor. Support your locally owned businesses. We [...]

Gerry’s music

My friend Gerry has recorded some his songs and put them up on his Myspace page. He has some great songs and is a really good guitar player. Gerry always brings his guitar along to parties and it’s to L. Ron, Ron. His music has kind of Steve Earle feel to it and I [...]

Memorial Day

Monday is Memorial Day in the United States. It is a day when people are supposed to take time to honor those who have fought and died to defend America. What did they fight for? Do defend American freedom and the United States Constitution. The Constitution includes 27 amendments, the first 10 of which [...]

Jpeg is saved

JPEG is the image compression standard that is used in almost all digital cameras, scanners and across the web. It is a very efficient format and provides high levels of compression and with high quality. The format is approved by the international standards organization. Today the US Patent and Trademark Office invalidated the main [...]

Open source in schools

I’ve always thought that the premise of using windows and MS Office in schools because that is what they will use in the workplace is a crock. First of all it is not the job of the public schools to train kids how to use specific proprietary software packages. Any software tools that are [...]

Quote of the day

When I am King, If you are one of those people that feels that The DaVinci Code threatens the teachings of your precious Bible, then you just have to buck and remember it’s just a stupid book full of fiction! And so is The DaVinci Code

Mark Yoshimoto Nemcoff on the Pacific Coast Hellway/

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Smoking workers

Over the years my workplace has become more and more hostile to smokers. Smokers are definitely in the minority around here but there are nonetheless a fair number of them around here. Seven or eight years ago there used to be one break room in the building where people could smoke while drinking their [...]

Squirrel

Jules was at her desk this morning and spotted this squirrel In the tree right outside the window. The squirrel was only about 8 feet away and this shot is uncropped.

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Mashups are good!

One of the great things about digital media and the internet in recent years is the remix culture. One of the best I have seen is the 10 Things I Hate About Commandments which I found via Sivacracy.net

Of course if the big media companies had their way, no one could create works [...]