Yearly Archives: 2013


I gave thousands of dollars to help elect +Barak Obama  and voted for him twice,… 1

Reshared post from +Leo Laporte

I gave thousands of dollars to help elect +Barak Obama  and voted for him twice, but it's becoming clear that he has betrayed our trust and tarnished the liberal principles of openness and freedom that he pretended to espouse.

Mr. President, you owe us an explanation, at least, of why your administration has chosen to become the most paranoid since Nixon's. 

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How much do you want to bet there are identical orders for every other phone company…

How much do you want to bet there are identical orders for every other phone company operating in the US?

It's long past time to completely repeal the USA Patriot act and every other bit of security legislation passed in the last 12 years

Reshared post from +The Verge

Forced to turn over records on a daily basis

Secret court order reportedly forces Verizon to hand over call records to NSA
The Guardian is reporting that a recent order is forcing Verizon to turn over all records of calls originating in the United States over to the US National Security Agency. According to a copy of…

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Listening to these two speak, you might think there has never been a bicycle in New… 2

Listening to these two speak, you might think there has never been a bicycle in New York City before and no cyclist was ever hit by a car

Reshared post from +Dan Gillmor

Amazingly, this video insanity from the Wall Street Journal editorial page is not satire. The Onion couldn't have done it better, though.

Video – Opinion Journal: Death by Bicycle — Dorothy Rabinowitz on New York City’s new bike-share program – WSJ.com
Editorial board member Dorothy Rabinowitz on New York Citys new bike-share program. Photo: Associated Press

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hmm, interesting read 1

hmm, interesting read

Reshared post from +Road & Track

Self-driving cars, standardized tests, and gaming the EPA mileage system. It's all interconnected. http://Roadandtra.ac/6267kwNz

Self-driving tech, standardized tests, and gaming the EPA mileage system
The technology that will eventually deliver driverless cars has also helped engineers program vehicles to ace standardized tests and game the EPA’s mileage system for years.

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Did you know that between 1965 and 1969, Pontiac produced an OHC inline six-cylinder… 1

Did you know that between 1965 and 1969, Pontiac produced an OHC inline six-cylinder engine?

I've only ever seen one of these, and that was way back in the 1980s when I was in auto shop and someone brought in a first-gen Firebird powered by one. 

John Z. DeLorean’s high-performance, high-tech inline six
Back when the pushrod V8 ruled American highways, the unconventially-minded John Z. DeLorean championed a high-performance overhead cam inline six patterned after the Mercedes 300SL motor. This is the story of the Pontiac “Cammer.”

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