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Flogging Blogger

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Will Google become the Wal-Mart of the web? Hopefully not! They have a we will do no evil motto!
In a taste of what may be coming Google owned Blogger is starting to censor blogspot sites based on readers saying the site has objectionable content. Read about the flag button.
This would be an excellent idea if restricted to spam. But your hot topic might be objectionable to me or Sally, or w, or, well, just about anyone. Heck, there are plenty of folks out there who will click on people’s Flag Button just for no reason at all…like vandalism.
It looks like blogger users might be able to remove the Navigation Bar and the offensive Flag button by removing this statement:

@import url(http://www.blogger.com/css/navbar/3.css);

from their templates.
Update: Tegan says you can’t remove this. Maybe if buy a pay service. I do see some blogger sites without the navbar.
By the way, have you ever contemplated the possibility of Google’s vast database of people’s search activities in the hands of some future thought police. Oh yea, the Patriot Act. Perhaps the future is not so far away.
Via A Stitch In Haste.

Left Lane Campers

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It really is time to exterminate them. You know the ones:

In the course of years of freeway driving, it has become increasingly clear to me that the largest single source of clogging of America’s interstate arterials is not the highway system itself.
It’s pilot stupor.
Somewhere along the line, America either forgot � or failed to learn � how to drive on the freeway. It’s that simple. And that infuriating.
You know exactly what I mean: You’re driving along somewhere outside the normal clog zones, exulting in the rare opportunity to approach the actual speed limit, when you come up on the imbecile in question.
Driving a minivan, an SUV or a vintage K-Car. In the left lane. At or below the speed limit, beady eyes fixed dead ahead, hands at 10 and 2 o’clock. Refusing to move over. Not now. Not ever. Period. End of discussion. Stop flashing your lights � or get a brake-slam return message.

Read the rest and enjoy the chuckles but, remember, these folks need to be taken off the road!

Leavin’ New Orleans

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A few days ago I was one of the smug ones mentioned below but from what I’ve seen, heard and learned since Katrina wreaked its destruction this is about right:

Look at the reporters who are “incensed” by the rampant looting. Look at the smugness from those distant from the situation who chastise the dumb southerners for not evacuating when they had the chance. It blows their minds how many idiots stayed to wait it out. It makes them shake their heads and make “tsk-tsk” noises into their shiny microphones.
Well, fuck the lot of them.
New Orleans and Biloxi are not rich cities. They are poor southern cities disproportionately filled with poor southern people — people who may not have reliable transportation, people who live hand-to-mouth, people who have nowhere else to go, even if they had the means to get there.

Read the rest.
Via Making Light.

Lie Yourself Thin?

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This may work but it sure doesn’t seem right:

In their battle against the bulge, desperate dieters have tried drugs, surgery, exercise, counseling, creams and even electrical fat-burning belts. Now some psychologists have a new idea: Lying.

Hell, this is no new idea. Cheaters, thieves and politicians lie all the time. It still does not make it acceptable.
Via Morford.