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	<title>Armed and Dangerous</title>
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	<description> Sex, software, politics, and firearms. Life's simple pleasures...</description>
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		<title>Hiding  the Decline: Prologue</title>
		<description>According to the summaries I've seen, the 61 megabytes of email and documents net-jacked from the Climate Research Unit a few days ago do not -- quite -- reify conservatives' darkest fantasies about "the team" (as the network of professional anthropogenic-global-warming alarmists communicating through CRU likes to style itself). To ...</description>
		<link>http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=1431</link>
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		<title>Barbecue kings!</title>
		<description>John Birmingham writes from Australia:


Even, and this is gonna hurt, the Americans have it all over us when it comes to cooking with fire, iron and tongs. In fact it's arguable the American barbecue, or rather its plethora of regional variations on barbecue, set the gold standard worldwide for applying ...</description>
		<link>http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=1426</link>
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		<title>The pragmatics of webscraping</title>
		<description>Here's an amplification of my previous post, Structure Is Not Meaning.  It's an except from the ForgePlucker HOWTO on writing code to web-scrape project data out of forge systems.


Your handler class's job is to extract project data.  If you are lucky, your target forge already has an export ...</description>
		<link>http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=1411</link>
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		<title>Ego is for little people</title>
		<description>When I got really famous and started to hang out with people at the top of the game in computer science and other fields, one of the first things I noticed is that the real A-list types almost never have a major territorial/ego thing going on in their behavior.  ...</description>
		<link>http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=1404</link>
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		<title>Maybe if moral cowardice cost money, it would be less common?</title>
		<description>Heh.  State representative Fred Maslack of Vermont has proposed a bill under which non-gun-owners would have to register and pay a fee. Entertainingly enough, there is actual justification for this in a careful reading of the Vermont state constitution.

The Hon. Rep. Maslack is joking.  I think.  And ...</description>
		<link>http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=1398</link>
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		<title>Structure Is Not Meaning</title>
		<description>So, I announce ForgePlucker, and within a day I've got some guy from Y Combinator sneering at me for using regular expressions to parse HTML.  Says it's "crappy code".  The poor fool...he has fallen victim to a conceptual trap which I, fortunately, learned to avoid decades ago.  ...</description>
		<link>http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=1387</link>
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		<title>Announcing ForgePlucker</title>
		<description>I've been strongly hinting in recent blog entries that I planned to do something concrete about the data-jail problems of present open-source hosting sites.  Because I believe in underpromising and overperforming, I decided at the outset not to announce a project until I could not only show working code, ...</description>
		<link>http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=1369</link>
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		<title>The future of software forges</title>
		<description>I'm still not going to talk about my attack on the forge infrastructure problems quite yet; the software is coming along nicely, but I intend to announce only after it handles its fourth forge type (yes, that was a tease).  But I will say this: I now think I ...</description>
		<link>http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=1359</link>
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		<title>Hacker superstitions about software licensing</title>
		<description>Hackers have a lot of odd superstitions about software licensing.  I was reminded of this recently when a project maintainer asked me whether he needed to get a sign-off from each and every one of his contributors before switching from Apache v1 to Apache v2.  Here's  what ...</description>
		<link>http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=1350</link>
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		<title>Fearing what might be true</title>
		<description>I am not generally unhappy with my model of how the universe works.  Yes, it would be pleasant if there really were a beneficient creator-god and an afterlife; it would be nice if "good government" were actually a sustainable possibility rather than a fond but deluded hope in the ...</description>
		<link>http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=1337</link>
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