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A Church’s Lethal Contract This is a must read for anyone who wants to know anything about the evil, underhanded way the Church of Scientology handles itself. Kate Ceberano, I want you to read this.

Boing Boing: More from Evil Elmo This woman is a tool. It clearly (or as clearly as Elmo talks) says:

You can SHOUT with Elmo. Woah-oah-oah-aoh. You make Elmo want to shout! Be like Elmo, and Shake your fur out, and Throw your hands up, and Come on now.

I just spent the last week listening to this over and over, but the whole thing. It clearly says “Shake your fur out”, not “Shoot your foot off”. Sheesh. Some people need to get a life.

I have a CD, Talkie-Walkie, by Air, that has a sticker on it labelled:

Copy Controlled: See reverse for details.

On the back is a largish label, which says (amongst other things, including system requirements):

On some equipment, for example car CD players playback problems may be encountered.

(This is also repeated in several languages). This is an EMI CD, and with some trepidation, I put it into my iMac, to rip to my iTunes library. It gave me no problems at all. Ripped perfectly. Pretty effective copy control system, EMI.

USATODAY.com - Pastor who preached against gays arrested on lewdness charge Ah, the irony.

While starting several applications, the following happened to my Menubar: Eventually it came back to normal.

Bitter Brew - I opened a charming neighborhood coffee shop. Then it destroyed my life. By Michael Idov Damn. There goes my Summer plan for a Coffee Shop at Robe…

Some time ago, I wrote a replacement script for the Quicktags that are present in the Blogsome backend. It seems that they have been implemented! You now have the ability to put <abbr> and <acronym> tags into a post, quickly and easily. Also, it’s possible to get the characters < and >, without having to remember what they look like. Try it out!

I’ve been looking for a halfway decent textbook to use in my High School Electronics classes, and as yet haven’t come up with anything that even comes close. However, I’ve just discovered a couple of sites that might have some pretty good info on them:

• All About Circuits
• Electronics Tutorial

I’ll have to examine them a bit - one of them looks like it might be pretty good to use for the whole course outline for the Year 11/12 courses.

We were just about to head off to Robe - literally, we were just packing bags ready to go, when Jaq came across some termites in the linen press. It’s a little too hard to tell how widespread the infestation is: the house had been damaged in the past, some time ago (long before we bought it), but we weren’t expecting to find any more. So, this has put the holiday on hold for a couple of days - we are having a guy come out for a quote tomorrow at lunchtime, and hopefully will be able to head off shortly after he has been here.

Tauquil’s Blog | The Bugs are Haunting Me Scary stuff going on here!