The Mewl

Yes I am on Twitter

It's not that I'm behind the times.  I've known about Twitter since it first started.  I just have never had a mobile phone that was worth texting from.  I used to be a cutting edge buyer, but I realized that I'd rather have it cheaper and more stable by waiting a little while longer.  That and it's not worth being cutting edge when cutting edge really isn't doing anything that could be called cutting edge. 

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Simone de Beauvoir: Ada Lovelace Day, The Weekend Edition

Yes, I know that Ada Lovelace day was Tuesday, March 24.  I know what I was going to write about, I just didn't have words in me the past few days.  I had known who I was going to choose a while ago.

Simone de Beauvoir

Technology is defined by Webster: a manner of accomplishing a task especially using technical processes, methods, or knowledge.

I am not going to defend my choice.  Simone de Beauvoir accomplished the task of establishing her thought and mind among the crowd of men, which is no easy task.  She stood with Sartre and Algren as peer and contemporary, not as student or associate

So I apologize for not writing this on the day itself.  I think today, March 28, 2009 is a better day to remember her and acknowledge her reach.  I mean, it is Nelson Algren's 100th birthday today, and I would rather write about her. 

Abeama and Where Have I Been?

Ok ok ok ok.  I know I have been horribly horribly horribly silent here at The Mewl.  It's just been a crazy winter what with a new relationship and moving on to a new phase in my life.  It's been a fun little ride that keeps on going. 

I'm glad the Superbowl Shuffle got a lot of attention the past few weeks.  Too bad it stopped.  Oh well.

Anyways, I promise more content!  I do I do I do.  Why?  Cuz sping is in the air again!

Enjoy the animation from Old Abe!  Happy Birthday Abie Baby!

Dateline NBC: To Catch A Congressional Predator

Now, I generally don't make this a political blog.  There's quite a bit of that out there and I'd like to create my own little niche, hence you won't find only videos here, or only music.  I try to keep it original.

AT&T Whistle-Blower's Evidence

This entry is a copy of this story of off Wired News.  AT&T is trying to get the Electronic Frontier Foundation to take this out of circulation.

Former AT&T technician Mark Klein is the key witness in the Electronic Frontier Foundation's class-action lawsuit against the company, which alleges that AT&T illegally cooperated in an illegal National Security Agency domestic-surveillance program.

In this recently surfaced statement, Klein details his discovery of an alleged surveillance operation in an AT&T office in San Francisco, and offers his interpretation of company documents that he believes support his case.

For its part, AT&T is asking a federal judge to keep those documents out of court, and to order the EFF to return them to the company. Here Wired News presents Klein's statement in its entirety, along with select pages from the AT&T documents.

More after the jump.

This is not a political blog

but just in case you haven't figured it out yet.  No one is in charge.  Even the Illuminati stopped caring.

Crisis of Novelty

Moments like this are made for Kodak...

Who says science and religion aren't connected?  When will he even finish grade school?