walt crawford

In case the link didn't work: http://whatever.scalzi.com/2014... - walt crawford

And if you want a clear example of why I stopped calling myself a feminist for a while, I give you this comment on Scalzi's post (which a number of women quickly disagreed with): http://whatever.scalzi.com/2014... - walt crawford

Women who say men can't be feminists are unclear on the concept, in my opinion. - Spidra Webster

In that stream of comments, she was a minority of one. - walt crawford

And the Blu-ray leading off with a promo for Hobbit 1 EXTENDED EDITION! on Blu-ray.... nah, not going there. - walt crawford

So Saturday we watched the rest of the movie, and I can add to my memories of the plot and especially the nature of its "ending" with "...and Benedict CumberSmaug." - walt crawford

I edited the one Facebook made quite a bit. - Katy S

Mine had two (count 'em, 2) pictures, one identical to the one I use here and one posted by my brother with me tagged in it. This accurately represents my photo activity in Facebook, but is even less interesting than 2014 actually was. - walt crawford

Best guess: Somebody reused a previous illustration template and replaced the data but didn't even look at the text. - walt crawford

Most Catholics I've known have been very reasonable but I guess there are crazies everywhere - Christina Pikas

Christina: I agree--this was about an extremist law center, not Catholics in general (except that virtually all of the mail that still comes for her--all bulk rate, of course--is from Catholic groups or publishing houses). My wife was library director at a Catholic college, and loved the nuns.... - walt crawford

I suppose it's good to know what the extremists think. but: ick. - Stephan!e•CogSc!L!brar!an

I'm pretty sure the malicious code was in an OA journal site, both times--this time, if I'm right, one from Eastern Europe--an .sk domain. (Slovakia, but I could be wrong about which journal it was.) - walt crawford

Oh, and I figured out *why* the Trojan was doing something seemingly stupid--slowing down the browser and displaying fixed ads. Namely, two of the ads were always warnings that I had outdated DLLs or that something was wrong with Windows, naturally offering to fix it. - walt crawford

If I had clicked on any of them, I'm sure I would have gotten *serious* malware--but, y'know, Microsoft doesn't alert you to outdated DLLs with flashing multicolored boxes, in my experience. - walt crawford

Opera! - Meg VMeg

I guess I think of Netscape as having disappeared (or at least stopped having any support) so long ago that it wouldn't show up in something like that. Essentially, Netscape has become Firefox, right? - walt crawford

[Not a majority, to be sure, but a significant number of them.] - walt crawford

Brush first, then floss. Never occurred to me to do it any other way. Likely indoctrinated in that order by my Mom, because I don't remember getting specific instructions from a dentist? - WebGoddess

I floss then brush. My sister does the opposite because her friend's dad is a dentist, and that's what he told her. - Meg VMeg

And, for us, I think the always-present "will we keep power?"--PG&E says they're as ready as they can be and have been trimming trees back from power lines like crazy. The problem with warm is that it might mean less snow, and while most of us don't want a lot more rain, we do want a LOT of snow. In the mountains. To stay snow until April. - walt crawford

Of course, by Midwest/Northeast/Plains standards, none of this is anything--but it's what passes for excitement hereabouts. (If predictions pan out, the storm will yield about 3.5" rain lower altitudes, 8" higher, 3' snow in Sierras. But the topography around here is so strange that an area-wide forecast is meaningless.) - walt crawford

Any attempt to deal with one of the idiot windows just brings up a new blank tab. Oh, that's Vostran, not Vosran. - walt crawford

Side-effect of fixes: Malwarebytes is more aggressive/cautious about web pages than either FF itself or Security Essentials. Just had two Ivy Publisher pages flagged/excluded as malicious. Perhaps not ideal for even a predatory OA publisher to have malicious pages. - walt crawford

Which raises the musical question: Why, exactly, would we want to do that? Because we thought we'd entered a time machine? - walt crawford

My wife remembered that last year's Holidays in the Vineyards, at the same time, was high 30s or low 40s. The only bad thing about the clement weather: apparently the storms are too warm to cause enough sticking snow where we need it most. (In the Sierra Nevadas, that is.) - walt crawford

Sunday followup: overcast. Also much less crowded (some kind of game between a mediocre Bay Area team and a really bad Bay Area team?). And encountered a really nice, balanced Livermore Valley chardonnay...at 14.6% alcohol, but no trace of heat. Occasio, but with 100 cases made, I don't think it leaves the valley. - walt crawford

[Occasio is the winery, not my leaving an "n" off a word. Also $28, but once in a while we'll splurge. The other best wine of the day, Nottingham's Supremacy red blend...my wife liked it, but at $65 it was a little splurgier than we get.] - walt crawford

["Sound reason" does not include "three years ago it was slow," for example.] - walt crawford

Sigh. That was a nice three days. Flashcrash is back. I dunno why I need Flash for FF anyway, but... - walt crawford

Or, of course, you can go directly to http://citesandinsights.info/civ15i1... (print-oriented version, 28 pages) or http://citesandinsights.info/civ15i1... (online-oriented version, 57 pages). - walt crawford

A little FriendFeed-specific sidebar: I actually uploaded the issues yesterday morning (12/1) but held off on any publicity other than the C&I home page. Over the first day, 6 copies of the print-oriented and 5 of the two-column were downloaded. - walt crawford

I remember seeing it, FWIW. - Jaclyn aka spamgirl

I am bumping that which might not exist. It's like doing the nasty with a ghost. - Steve C, Team Marina

Apparently the bumps restored it. Maybe I have myself hidden? Sigh; the answer seems to be "no such option without a lot of work." Maybe I'll try this IE thingy I've heard of: I *know* that has the setting. - walt crawford

I read your request but I have no answer. Just posting for the Bump. - m9m, Crone of FriendFeed

In basics, no - not from what I can see. Users can specify their own stylesheet, but that might be more fuss than you want to go to: https://productforums.google.com/forum... They've got decent directions for how to accomplish that, but as the original poster says, that seems like an awful lot of bother for something so simple in other browsers. - Jennifer Dittrich

Or, I suppose, only people, not companies. Admittedly, the implications of NC (noncommercial) have always been/will always be iffy, but BY itself should be pretty clear. I guess not. - walt crawford

And here's where an attempt to engage on Twitter is, I think, failing/making me seem harsher than I wish. To me, "commercial use allowed" (how Flickr abbreviates CC-BY and how CC uses yes/no for license choice) would seem to say SO CLEARLY that commercial use is allowed that I'm hard-put to buy "but not COMMERCIAL use" as a complaint. Although, as I say there, maybe CC should think about a CC BY-NP option ("use allowed by individuals and nonprofit organizations, but not for-profit corporations"). - walt crawford

Yeah, I'm with you. I have always used BY-NC-SA. But I don't find non-commercial to be a particularly confusing notion. - laura x

The confusing part of NC is all the edge cases--e.g., I use your image in a talk for which I'm being paid or for which my costs are being covered, or I use your text in C&I, which has received donations at times, or... (and, of course, if it's SA, I can't quote freely because C&I is *not* SA.) Still, BY-NC is what I use when I'm not using BY. - walt crawford

... (1979, still five years earlier than Sam Adams) is just some little nobody barely worth mentioning. Of course, both of them suffer because (a) they're in California, not the East Coast and (b) they actually make their beer on premises, rather than contracting it out. And apparently their spokespeople aren't as charming as Jim Koch (the woman who cofounded the brewery is mentioned in the article. Once.) - walt crawford

WarLord: Yep. In my mind, contract beers done to a special recipe aren't in the same league as breweries devoted to full-flavored beers. (Of course, I'm old enough to remember when Miller's High Life was a medium-bodied beer with some actual taste, before it was transformed into another BudCoorsLucky clone. I'm *old.*) - walt crawford

What I *did* find out: licenses--either beer & wine licenses or full liquor licenses--are different and probably cheaper if the establishment is a "bona fide eating establishment," which means a majority of its revenue comes from food rather than alcoholic beverages. - walt crawford

For many years in my town you could get into bars when you were 19, though in theory you had to be 21 to drink. That was changed a few years ago, but you can still get an exemption if you are an entertainment venue. - laura x

You can have kids in a place that serves food. You can't have them in a pure bar. - Spidra Webster

When I first got to Wyoming, you could still get a mixed drink to go at the drive up window of the bar. Those were the days. - laura x

Here's the link: http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2014... - walt crawford

And...now I'll go back to avoiding skitch commenting and doing my bit to bring actual facts to the discussion of access to scholarly articles, which apparently is an entirely different discussion. (I'd guess skitch and Beall both getsmany times the readership of C&I, but I'd like to be wrong on that.) - walt crawford