On Life and Love
Whatever is making or breaking my day.
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Midnight linkage
Youth Gangs (Gotham Gazette. March 5, 2001) » This article points out something that could refute Muscio’s claim about the government’s deliberate influx of cocaine to gangs leading to the current state of gangs: that heroin came first. The Gang Unit » "If a kid is interested in gangs; that’s an interest in drugs; that’s an interest in violence and that’s an interest in victimizing the weak." – Different than Inga Muscio’s take on the matter… Crips and Bloods – Los Angeles Street Gangs » Interesting history of gangs in LA, including information on the Spook Hunters and the formation of black gangs in response to white violence. This is…
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A water fiasco
Or: A day for hating my apartment complex. So this morning I decide to get up and put in the relaxer my hair so desperately needs. (For those who don’t know what a relaxer is, think “perm”, but for straightening instead of making curly.) Relaxers have pretty strict ideas for how long they should be in. I typically leave a strong perm in for just over 20 minutes, which is just about the longest they suggest (for uber-nappy hair, although mine doesn’t really qualify as that). Fifteen minutes into the process–goop still in hair–just after I had rinsed my hands so I could start cleaning up the mess… the water…
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Midnight linkage
DJ Chicken George » His mixes are simply amazing. Listen to the Jazztronica mixes on Properly Chilled or the Dublab mix. I’m in love. Mark’s Sysinternals Blog: More on Sony: Dangerous Decloaking Patch, EULAs and Phoning Home » "But, there?s more to the story, like how Sony?s patch can lead to a crashed system and data loss and how Sony is still making users jump through hoops to get an uninstaller." Mark’s Sysinternals Blog: Sony, Rootkits and Digital Rights Management Gone Too Far »
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Ding dong, the witch is dead.
Pardon the bit of academic-obsession I’m letting show.
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Lunch linkage
krustukles: An antidote to the geek girl calendar » "CALL FOR PAPERS: She’s Such A Geek: An Anthology by and for Women Obsessed with Computers, Science, Comic Books,Gaming, Spaceships, and Revolution" Agent or Program? » “Here we propose a formal definition of an autonomous agent which clearly distinguishes a software agent from just any program.”