The short-form week of 30 Jun–6 Jul 2014

07 Jul 2014; last modified 09 Jul 2014

The week in review, 140 characters at a time.

This document was created automatically from my archive of my Twitter stream. Due to limitations in the Twitter API and occasional glitches in my archiving system, it may not be 100% complete.

In a conversation that started on Monday at 03:46pm

Yes, http://t.co/7VkDHvuyzXX, http://t.co/QtPeHMVdVII, http://t.co/oIQZ2WfagBB, and a few other sites are down. Should be back tomorrow.—@ndw
@ndw http://t.co/jB2OMjPDUA is down (used in your flickr1.xsl library). Is this related to the other sites?—@erikespana
@ndw I noticed it today. Do you have an estimate of when that file will be back online?—@erikespana
@ndw What about hosting the file on your github account, until your websites are restored?—@erikespana
@erikespana I'll see what I can do today. Not sure what the story is...—@ndw
@erikespana I didn't think that was down. Other sites still are :-(—@ndw

Monday at 10:10am

So, for those of you keeping score at home, in order of people-ness it's 1. Dudes, 2. Corporations, 3. Fetuses, 4. Women.—@AngerMonkey

Monday at 10:20am

If only there were some connecting thread between the Blackwater, Hobby Lobby, and Facebook stories. And Citizens United.—@kissane

Monday at 05:10pm

I hope we get a bunch of Quaker-owned corporations demanding a religious exemption from taxes that pay for war.—@jacremes

In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 08:01am

@kendall So you could participate more viscerally in boycotting them?—@ndw
@ndw yes—@kendall

In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 09:59am

You make a router. It has an admin page. You make the admin page require JavaScript. You are a moron.—@ndw
@ndw why?—@phidip
@phidip Because it means, for example, that I can't administer the router from a shell window with something like links.—@ndw
@ndw wouldn’t lynx and/or links work? Never had a reason to check js on them, just speculating.—@phidip
@phidip No, because JavaScript.—@ndw

Thursday at 10:49am

Modern society is (largely) about using science & tech to avoid otherwise natural consequences. GOP explicitly rejects modernity for women.—@kendall

Thursday at 11:20am

RT @tomcoates: Unless you contribute, https://t.co/1lebkhIoH6 will miss its $5 million goal by ONE DAY! That would suck! Get on it, interne…—@ndw

Thursday at 11:25am

RT @mdz: You can donate to @MayOneUS, and help end the corrupting influence of money on politics, via credit card, PayPal or bitcoin.—@ndw

Thursday at 05:39pm

If your *home page* requests that I “Connect with {Google,Facebook,Email}” before I see anything about your app, you can rot in Hell.—@pgor

Friday at 08:54am

@jzawodn Never!—@ndw

Friday at 07:52pm

RT @dcm: Its this: no matter what the most important issue is to you... its overshadowed by money in politics. This is why https://t.co/bGO…—@ndw

Friday at 07:55pm

RT @MayOneUS: Never tell me the odds. #PledgeIndependence http://t.co/AIbWYSwRzN —@ndw

Friday at 10:16pm

RT @bsletten: Boom! #MaydayPAC —@ndw

Friday at 10:18pm

RT @neiltyson: Enjoying colorful fireworks tonight? Thank Aluminum Barium Calcium Chlorine Copper Iron Nitrogen Oxygen Sodium & Strontium.—@ndw

Saturday at 08:37am

life wisdom: “Don’t be mean; we don’t have to be mean, because, remember, no matter where you go, there you are” Buckaroo Banzai—@amyvdh

Saturday at 09:38am

Definitely time to resubscribe to Linux Journal and setup a TOR relay server.—@ndw

Saturday at 10:12am

Saturday at 01:16pm

.@MayOneUS @ndw Unless '16 Congress seriously addresses income disparity, money in politics will exist regardless of reform.—@lyda

Sunday at 03:29pm

those who don’t There are two types of people in the world: those who understand asynchronous jokes and—@holman

In a conversation that started on Sunday at 04:49pm

I have visited most but not all these United States. I sincerely hope that I never have cause to visit Mississippi. I might refuse to go.—@ndw
@ndw I grew up next door in Louisiana but there are nice places Mississippi and some very sad places.—@patrickDurusau
@ndw it's incredibly beautiful and the people can be very warm; I hope I never go back.—@kendall

Sunday at 04:51pm

Priority task for the coming week: get my websites back online.—@ndw

In a conversation that started on Sunday at 06:01pm

Note to self: eat more oysters.—@ndw
@ndw Whilst avoiding the bad ones?—@dpawson

Sunday at 06:17pm

There is nothing more patriotic than exposing unjust and unfair government practices through a free press. That is democracy. It works.—@codinghorror