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It's been a while since I last posted my webcomics list. A friend asked me to update it, so here it is. The order is very roughly the order in which I'd be willing to stop reading the strips, but I wouldn't rely on it…

I have talked to a couple of friends in the last couple of days—smart, generally right-thinking people—who want to and maybe even plan to vote against Oregon's Ballot Measure 67. A major argument I've heard is that raising Oregon's corporate minimum tax from $10 to $150 would have a huge impact on small entrepreneurs, causing some to fail and some to not start…

A Junior-High friend of mine recently posted on Facebook a link to Oprah Winfrey pleading to "stop distracted driving." On the face of it, a noble goal. But I'm afraid that it prompts me to respond a bit negatively here. That's just the kind of guy I am, I guess…

I ran across this photo:

on the Facebook site of one of my grade-school friends recently. In the comments, another friend asked what the t-shirt said…

For reasons detailed in Debian Bug #559961 the cryptoloop module has been dropped from the Debian kernel as of the 2.6.32-trunk binary packages. I've filed a complaint at that bug. I know what I'm doing, and am unhappy that the Debian kernel maintainers have taken it upon themselves to gratuitously delete functionality from the Linux kernel image…