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Masing for Congress?
I’m not ready to throw my massive political machine behind him yet, but Hans Masing is running for Congress. There are several things that I like about him, he’s an underdog and so I immediately have sympathy. He supports small business, his technology platform is close to mine (he supports the repeal of the DMCA…
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Marvin’s!
The Metro Times has an article about Marvin’s Marvelous Mechanical Museum in their latest issue. Anyone in southeast Michigan who hasn’t been owes it to themselves to check it out. The place has a bunch of recent video games, but it also has a lot of very old amusements from the pre-video game era. After…
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TA as in Thomas Alva
The Octodog Frankfurter Converter (via Bri) is making my feel very uncomfortable in a Freudian way. This, uh, device is another Michigan original, straight out of Livonia. How can that be appetizing? Do kids really shy away from lips and assholes hot dogs, whereas they flock to all things octopus? If that’s not enough Michigan…
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Oakland County Police State
Apparently the Woodward Dream Cruise is a hotbed of terrorist activity. Why else would police make a power grab to get spy cameras installed (more info and comments here)? A company called GigaTrans set it up for them, who happens to have a visually stunning website. Undersheriff McCabe also dismissed the privacy concerns. “Quite frankly,…
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WDET Resumes Webcasting… Kind of
WDET-FM is webcasting again after running afoul of the new RIAA webcasting rules in February. It seems that the RIAA has convinced Congress to make the webcasting rules even more restrictive than the FCC’s broadcast regulations. The examples cited include not being able to broadcast more than 2 songs by the same artist in a…