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The Secret World of Arrietty

Jason Kottke — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 09:02:32 PDT

The Secret World of Arrietty, the latest film from Studio Ghibli (Ponyo, Princess Mononoke, Howl's Moving Castle), came out in Japan last year and will be in US theaters in February 2012. Here's the English trailer:

The screenplay was adapted from Mary Norton's The Borrowers. (thx, david)

Tags: movies The Secret World of Arrietty trailers

I am the (1000+) #occupyGoogleReader

(author unknown) — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 06:49:19 PDT

I am the (1000+) #occupyGoogleReader

music photography exhibition now @ Powerhouse Arena, Chris La Putt's Crystal Castles pic included (here's the full set)

brooklynvegan — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 21:12:58 PDT

photos by Chris La Putt

Crystal Castles @ Terminal 5 in March

Happening now:

The New York Photo Festival's Fall invitational presents a selection of images that capture the powerful relationship between photography and music in all its forms, be it solo musicians, bands, rock concerts, grand operatic productions, or intimate one-on-one sessions.

From Herman Leonard's jazz portraits, which defined an era of cool, to Pennie Smith's explosive shot of Paul Simonon smashing his bass. From Mapplethorpe's intimate portraits of Patti Smith, to the iconic photography of Anton Corbijn and Laura Levine, photography has long been instrumental in how we experience music.

Strip away the music, and what you have is an image that defines a moment, an emotion. An image that tells a story.

The photographs selected for "Audio/Visual" capture the unique relationship between photography and music - be it solo musicians, bands, rock concerts, grand operatic productions, or intimate one-on-one sessions.

"Audio/Visual: An exhibition of music photography" will feature over 100 photographs by 70 artists - on view at the famed gallery and event space The PowerHouse Arena in Dumbo (Brooklyn), from October 19 to November 3.BV photographer Chris La Putt has two photos in the exhibition, one of Amy Winehouse, and the you one see of Alice Glass from Crystal Castles above. More pictures from that March Terminal 5 show, and the full list of photographers in the exhibition, below...

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False Equivalence Watch: Et Tu, PBS?

James Fallows — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 10:56:06 PDT

From the wrapup last night on the PBS NewsHour, with emphasis added:

Democrats in the U.S. Senate moved on to the next piece of President Obama's jobs bill today. It's a $60 billion investment in infrastructure projects, like roads and bridges. The initial piece of the broken-up jobs bill, a measure to boost the hiring of teachers and first-responders, failed last night. All Republicans and a few moderate Democrats opposed it.

Please see previous items here and here for elaboration on why the story would have been truer to reality if it had indicated:
-- that the bill was blocked from coming to an up-down vote, rather than that it "failed";
-- that it received 50 votes, but that was not enough (even including a potential tie-breaking vote by Vice President Biden) because it was being subjected yet again to a Republican filibuster threat;
-- that the "opposition" from moderate Democrats made no difference, as all Senators understood, since unified GOP opposition ensured that the filibuster could not be broken; and
-- that, as much as a sign of Democratic "failure," this was another sign of success of an explicit Republican strategy to oppose whatever the Administration puts forward.

Obviously this was a telegraphic two-sentence summary that couldn't cover everything. But could it have signaled awareness of those underlying realities within the same space? Sure. Here's something of the same length that, like the original, leaves out nuance but is in my view truer to what is going on.

Old: The initial piece of the broken-up jobs bill, a measure to boost the hiring of teachers and first-responders, failed last night. All Republicans and a few moderate Democrats opposed it.

New: The initial piece of the broken-up jobs bill, to boost hiring of teachers and first-responders, was blocked by filibuster. All Republicans and a few Democrats opposed its coming to a vote.

New: The initial piece of the broken-up jobs bill, for hiring of teachers and first-responders, was blocked by filibuster. 50 Democrats supported it, but that was not enough to bring it to a vote.

Again the point is that the in countless ways the mainstream press has internalized and "normalized" the historically unprecedented idea that the Senate minority will block everything by filibuster. You can celebrate this new strategy if you think the Administration's policy should indeed be blocked and the president thwarted. You can lament it if you feel the reverse or are merely concerned about "dysfunction." But the media should not lose sight of the fact that this is a deliberate strategy, that it is historically unusual, and that it is a change in Senate practice so marked as to represent a de facto amendment to the Constitution.

Let me stipulate, sincerely, that the NewsHour is the best, sanest, and most thorough part of mainstream TV news. So I'm saying that "even" the PBS NewsHour can without realizing it convey the wrong idea. Just as "even" the NY Times had a "jobs bill fails" headline. We look to them both to set the right example.

Updated: RIM stares into abyss as BlackBerry blackout spreads

Bobbie Johnson — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 01:49:25 PDT

When a few of BlackBerry’s European users started losing service earlier this week it was irritating for those affected, but the company was confident that things would be back to normal almost straight away. In the space of just a few days, however, the blackout has done precisely the opposite — and now that it has spread to millions of users around the world, it has become impossible for Research in Motion’s top executives to ignore.

Yesterday the Canadian company trotted out CTO David Yach to talk to the media. He assured everyone that the problem had been identified, that “engineers are working around the clock” to fix it, and that while messages might be delayed, none of them were lost.

“We understand the frustrations our customers are experiencing through the delays with the messaging and browsing…
I’d like to take this opportunity to apologize unreservedly to all those people affected by this situation. We’re taking this situation extremely seriously and we’re doing everything we can to restore normal operation of our service.”

It’s something, at least. But is it enough? It’s not clear how long the problems will take to clear completely, but perhaps the damage has already been done.

This blackout is, obviously, an entirely different sort of problem to the company’s recent struggles with the Playbook tablet, or coming under fire for the way its messaging service was used in this summer’s London riots. But the company’s inability to deal with a glaring error is exposing some of its failings in the most brutal way possible.

For a start, this problem seems to be entirely of its own making. While the company is not immune to security problems, it says the original problem started not with a hack but with a failed server in Britain. That initial flaw was rapidly compounded when backup systems failed as well, pushing the impact of the glitch out to users in the Middle East, Africa and India. But things didn’t stop there, and now the problem is of a different order: the backlog of email that users have been trying to send during service disruptions have led to a cascade of blockages in America and Asia. It’s the domino effect writ large and exposes what must surely be some bad planning at the core of the business.

Secondly, its assurances mean little. Yes, as Yach says, its “engineers are working around the clock to fix the problem”. But so they should be: when your products are unable to perform their core function, you’d better treat your business as if it’s just had a heart attack. In the meantime, the impact is getting more serious day by day: whatever the engineers are doing, it isn’t working.

Third, the damage to the company’s relationship with customers is incalculable. Businesses reliant on the BlackBerry — the core users who propelled it to success — will be counting the cost of lost productivity. And its other big base, youngsters addicted to its messaging service, are having their loyalties tested. What is a phone without the ability to communicate? Why stick with a device that can’t perform the basic function you bought it for?

But over and above all of this, I think the biggest problem is in the company’s response to this crisis. The slow trickle of information from the business has been disappointing, but it’s only because there seems to have been a real leadership gap over how to handle the affair.

Sure, executives have started going on the record to make their apologies, including Yach, CIO Robin Bienfait and UK boss Stephen Bates. But the really big bosses have yet to make an appearance — despite the fact that RIM has not one but two chief executives.

Where are Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis? Why can’t at least one of them take command of this issue? It’s all very well appearing in public to launch a product, and when the wind is in your sails… but when your already-frazzled users are denied service, their fears are something that need to be dealt with at the very top. It would be bad enough if there were one CEO who had gone missing — but the bigger this problem gets, the more the inability of either man to take it on seems like willful neglect.

Sure, crisis management is tough. You don’t always want leadership to be associated with a problem that was caused further down the chain. But if RIM can’t find a way to get either of its top executives to spare subscribers a moment, what message are they sending?

Updated: Shortly after posting, Lazaridis actually issued a video apology in which he says the company let down users but can’t give a promise of when the outages will be resolved. It’s better than some corporate apologies… but is it enough?

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Codeshal: Why is Google squeezing developers?

(author unknown) — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 11:03:14 PDT

Codeshal: Why is Google squeezing developers?:

codeshal:

There have been a lot of crazy prices coming out of Google lately.

App Engine Pricing (since revised to be less insane)

Maps pricing

Analytics (not exactly a developer-focused product, and the prices aren’t that crazy for the target tier)

Here are some things I don’t understand about…

Make Your Pie Crusts Extra Crispy and Delicious by Using Vodka Instead of Water [Food Hacks]

(author unknown) — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 13:10:38 PDT

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mollie, please investigate

Pies are delicious, but that's especially true when you've got a great flakey crust. According to Instructables user scoochmaroo, the secret is replacing water with vodka: More »

Can Obama Save The New York State Pavilion?

(author unknown) — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 12:13:07 PDT

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yes, yes, yes

The New York State Pavilion, once the centerpiece of the 1964 World's Fair, was landmarked by the state (not the city) in 2009, but it's two years later and the thing is still falling apart. Could President Obama be coming to the rescue? According to the Daily News, his top advisers are pushing to rescue not just one, but two Queens landmarks—the other being the West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills (the stadium that has a history of hosting the U.S. Open.). [ more › ]

Nets Fans Get No Assist From Atlantic Yards’ Shrinking Sidewalks

Brad Aaron — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 12:18:58 PDT

In June we wondered whether Forest City Ratner would make the most of the Barclays Center’s potential as a destination for pedestrians, transit riders and cyclists. Recent developments are less than encouraging.

Gib Veconi noted a couple of weeks back on Atlantic Yards Watch that a July proposal from Ratner to NYC DOT regarding bollard placement shows that sidewalks around the arena may be much narrower than what Ratner and the Empire State Development Corporation originally led the public to believe.

“Effective width” refers to the portion of the sidewalk used by pedestrians for travel after a buffer zone (or “shy distance”) on each side of the sidewalk is subtracted from its design width. A 1999 study by the U.S. Department of Transportation describes the shy distance as two feet on each side of the sidewalk.

According to the FCR plans, among the sidewalks other than those next to the pedestrian plaza in front of Barclays Center, three of four have narrower effective widths than were analyzed in the project’s 2006 environmental impact statement.

Veconi notes that the sidewalk on the south side of Atlantic Avenue east of the arena entrance now has an effective width of 5.5 feet, or 40 percent of the 13.5 feet presented in the EIS. “This sidewalk will presumably be traveled by large groups of arena patrons leaving the Atlantic Avenue exit en route to arena parking to the east, and borders busy Atlantic Avenue. No bollards are shown to be installed along this section of sidewalk.”

In addition, Veconi points out that the Dean Street bike lane will be situated between a thru-traffic lane and parking bays designated for pick-ups and drop-offs, putting cyclists in the path of merging vehicles.

Via Atlantic Yards Watch. Click for larger image.

Public comments on the Ratner bollard plan will be accepted through September 22. See Veconi’s post for more info and links to numerous relevant docs.

5Pointz Arts Center, and Its Graffiti, Is on Borrowed Time

By ROBIN FINN — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 16:49:37 PDT

The graffiti mecca 5Pointz, in Long Island City, Queens, is living on borrowed time. It is destined to be replaced by two residential towers.

psuedofolio: anderjak: typette: emmyc: mopinks: pennicandies...

(author unknown) — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 17:58:44 PDT

psuedofolio:

anderjak:

typette:

emmyc:

mopinks:

pennicandies:

Cartoonist draws a political strip criticizing the Syrian government.

Syrian government sends goons to snatch him out of his car, beat him and break his hands, set his beard on fire, put a bag over his head and dump his body in the street.

Cartoonist replies to said thugs with the above image.

http://www.comicsalliance.com/2011/08/26/ali-ferzat-syria-cartoonist-hands-broken/

rad dude alert

Wooaaah

I’m sort of afraid that they’re going to come and kill him now because of this. But even if they do, he’ll still have won. YOU LOSE, SYRIAN GOVERNMENT. YOU LOSE.

Holy hell, this is how to put up a fight.

Get both your hands broken?

KEEP FUCKING DRAWING.

Hell, I should definitely reblog this. As every free thinking illustrator should.

Radiohead to play Saturday Night Live on September 24th

Alex Young — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 13:19:57 PDT

Well, isn’t this something. Zap2it.com reports that Radiohead will serve as the musical guest on Saturday Night Live‘s season premiere. Set for September 24th, the episode will also feature the equally brilliant Alec Baldwin, who will be hosting for his record-setting 16th time.

Radiohead have appeared on SNL once before. Click here to watch them perform “The National Anthem” back in 2000.

$1.5 Billion Star Trek Theme Park Coming To Jordan

samzenpus — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 07:12:00 PDT

MikeChino writes "King Abdullah of Jordan (who was once an extra in an episode of Star Trek: Voyager) has given the green light to a $1.5 billion Star Trek theme park that will boldly take Jordan where no Gulf state has gone before. While the theme park will not be powered by dilithium crystals, it will utilize green technology in order to lower its carbon footprint — all of its electricity will be generated by renewable sources." Just a few weeks ago Sheikh Hamad Bin Hamdan Al Ahyan carved his name in the desert so it could be seen from space. It looks like Sci-fi has finally made it to the Middle East. I can't wait for them to discover Firefly.

then and now #7

(author unknown) — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 12:57:45 PDT

then and now #7

Dutch Subway Slide: An Exercise in Efficiency

Freakonomics — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 11:05:49 PDT

Leave it to the Dutch to turn a playground feature into public-transit innovation. Next time you’re tripping down a set of dirty, crowded subway stairs in your city, just remember that there’s a better way. The Dutch are calling it a “transit accelerator.”

The Pop-Up City blog writes:

It’s officially called a ‘transfer accelerator’ by Dutch railway maintenance company ProRail, but everyone else would say it’s a slide. An awesome slide. Installed next to a stairway at the newly renovated railway station Overvecht in the city of Utrecht, the slide offers travelers the opportunity to quickly reach the railway tracks when they’re in a hurry. But above all, the slide is a great instrument to make the city more playful. The ‘transfer accelerator’ was designed by Utrecht-based firm HIK Ontwerpers, and installed as the final piece of the renovation of the Overvecht railway station.

Chicago’s CTA Tattler blog is already soliciting opinions from Chicagoans on where they would put one in the Windy City.

So what about New York?

Union Square? Grand Central? Wall Street?

Norway attacker was a political Terminator

rss@dailykos.com (David Waldman) — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 14:59:01 PDT

Just a surveyor's symbol.

The truly stomach-turning aspect of the stunning terrorist attacks in Norway yesterday surely had to be the shooting spree that was initially reported—in English language outlets, anyway—to be at a "summer camp."

I had heard through the grapevine that the "camp" had a very distinct political affiliation, but it didn't really register with me, perhaps because we don't really have any cultural analog in the United States to what this "camp" was all about. But I picked up on something on Twitter this morning that changed the nature of the story dramatically, at least for me:

@gusbbaker Gus Baker
BBC needs to stop referring to 'summer camp'- Utoya was political crime and it diminishes the young Labour members deliberately targeted

See, the "camp" event is really more akin to a political retreat and training, it seems. It's an annual event of Norway's "Worker's Youth League," (in Norwegian, the Arbeidaranes Ungdomsfylking, or AUF), which is itself essentially the youth arm of the country's ruling Labour Party. And by "youth arm," I really mean something like a "farm team," to use a sports analogy.

And we're in need of analogies here, because we don't really have anything like this here in the United States, which also makes it difficult to appreciate the scale of the potential losses. Eighty or more lives taken translates anywhere, of course. Eighty or more young people, all the more. But it's more than that. It's 80 or more of the country's most politically engaged young people, self-selected from the ranks of a single political party. In a country of just 4.9 million, that's an enormous loss. Strictly by the numbers, the ratio to the population of the United States suggests it'd be like the wiping out of over 5,000 activists from, say, OFA or DFA. Or, I guess, every single person attending this year's Netroots Nation. Twice.

Only even there the comparison is inadequate. As committed as the activists of OFA or DFA (or pick your favorite group here) are, neither organization has the relationship to the Democratic Party that the AUF did. A quick glance at and a few clicks through the names of the previous AUF leaders illustrates pretty clearly that it's a pretty direct pipeline into national elected office in Norway. And Utoya was where they gathered:

But it was the prime minister, Jens Stoltenberg, who spent childhood holidays on the island as a young Labour party member, who summed up the grief of a nation: "Utoya is my childhood paradise that yesterday was transformed into Hell."

Taking out 80+ of the people committed enough to go to the AUF's Utoya summer retreat? That's like sending a Terminator back in time to take out a future Parliamentary leadership.

The crime was unspeakably heinous to begin with. And telling Americans that the killer targeted a "summer camp," it was no doubt imagined, would only make it sound worse.

It did. But it didn't really describe the magnitude of the loss for Norway. Nor did it convey the calculated sickness—and the very, very intensely political nature—of what the gunman undertook to do.

Firefox 8 20% Faster Than Firefox 5

(author unknown) — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 07:13:54 PDT

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what happened to 6 & 7?

An anonymous reader writes "Thanks to continued improvements to start-up and first paint performance, tweaks to memory footprint and garbage collection, and the addition of a new 2D graphics backend called Azure, Firefox 8 is some 20% faster than Firefox 5 across all major metrics — and actually about equal with Chrome 14 on JavaScript and 2D rendering performance. Azure (which is new with Firefox 7) replaces Cairo, and instead of dealing with Direct2D and Quartz, it allows Firefox to deal directly with the Direct3D and OpenGL subsystems — resulting in a 20% speed boost under Windows, and probably even more under OS X."

Google Maps for Android Adds Transit Navigation, Lets You Know When It's Time to Get Off the Train [Video]

Adam Pash — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 09:49:00 PDT

Android: Google Maps for Android updates today with several improvements, but the most notable is a new Transit Navigation feature that adds GPS-assisted, stop-by-stop navigation for public transit. Launch it, set your destination, and, among other things, it buzzes and tells you when it's time to get off the train. More »

Failing Upward, Version 3,452,227 (aka the Wages of Nearly Bringing Down the Global Economy)

Yves Smith — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 11:55:34 PDT

Corporate American, and apparently important agencies, much prefer to hire people who’ve had Big Jobsno matter how poorly they’ve performed in them, that are very similar to the one at hand, rather than hire someone who relevant skills and experience but for whom a Big Job would be a step up.

You cannot make this up. From the Banking Times, “Ex-Lehman chief risk officer appointed World Bank treasurer,” hat tip Richard Smith:

The World Bank has appointed Madelyn Antoncic as its new vice president and treasurer.

Ms Antoncic served as Lehman Brothers’ chief risk officer from 2002 to 2007 and following the collapse of the bank, stayed on for a year as managing director and senior advisor at the Lehman Estate, helping to maximise value for creditors…

In her new role, Ms Antoncic will be responsible for maintaining the World Bank’s standing in financial markets and for managing an extensive client advisory, transaction, and asset management business.

She will also lead seven Treasury business lines as follows: the Capital Markets Department; Investment Management Department; Pension & Endowments; Quantitative Risk Analytics; Treasury Operations Department; Banking & Debt Management, and Sovereign Investment Partnerships.

Commenting on the appointment, World Bank Group president Robert B Zoellick, says: “Known for her forthrightness, I am delighted Madelyn is taking up this important role.”

Bradley Manning's Army of One

Xeni Jardin — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 21:39:19 PDT

New York Magazine has published "Bradley Manning's Army of One," a feature by Steve Fishman profiling the young soldier accused of serving as a leak source to Wikileaks while serving as an intelligence officer in the Army.

Fishman's article about "one of the most unusual revolutionaries in American history" breaks new ground in exploring some of the experiences that may have shaped Manning's life, and some of what might have been happening for the soldier internally before the alleged leaks. That includes gender and sexual identity issues Manning is believed to have been dealing with while in the Army (more to the point, dealing with the hostility and hate from others around those deeply personal matters).

Those same issues have been previously addressed here on Boing Boing, but Fishman investigation makes clear what reading through the lines on the Lamo chat logs only hinted at— and helps explain why Wired News may have held back some of the log transcripts it did. Manning was going through a lot, it seems, including a crisis of conscience over what the soldier was witnessing in Iraq. But another profound personal change was under way at the time: transitioning gender from male to female. Manning had already shifted to self-identify as female by the time the exchange with Adrian Lamo took place.

For Manning, nothing was okay. In October 2009, he arrived at Forward Operating Base Hammer, a dusty backwater 40 miles from Baghdad. There, Manning felt more isolated than ever-- "it's awfully stressful, lonely." Intel analysts sometimes worked fourteen-to-fifteenhour stretches in "a dimly lit room crowded to the point you cant move an inch without having to quietly say 'excuse me sir,' 'pardon me sergeant major,' " he wrote. "cables trip you up everywhere, papers stacked everywhere ..." Usually, there was a large central TV screen where an analyst could watch the war play in endless loop. You could zoom in on the raw footage from helicopters or even helmet cams. At times it felt like watching nonstop snuff films. "It's groundhog day," Manning wrote: every day the same. Later, his super visors said he displayed dissociative behavior, his mind in one place and his body in another--but that was the nature of the job. An intel analyst sat at his work station and targeted the enemy, reducing a human being to a few salient points. Then he made a quick decision based on imperfect information: kill, capture, exploit, source. Any illusions Manning had about saving lives quickly vanished. At one point, he went to a superior with what he believed to be a mistake. The Iraqi Federal Police had rounded up innocent people, he said. Get back to work, he was told. "I was never noticed," he later said.
Meanwhile, Manning's concerns about his sexual identity were intensifying. In November 2009, he made contact on the web with a gender counselor back in the States. When I met the counselor, he was easygoing and upbeat for someone who'd spent hours talking to servicemen who believed they were inhabiting the wrong body. He knew what he was talking about, though. In person, his gender was difficult to discern--he'd begun his transition as a teenager. "Bradley felt he was female," the counselor told me. "He was very solid on that." Quickly, their conversation shifted to the practicalities: How does someone transition from male to female? "He really wanted to do surgery," the counselor recalled. "He was mostly afraid of being alone, being ostracized or somehow weird." To the counselor, it was clear Manning was in crisis. "I feel like a monster," he'd typed on his computer several times. The statement referred partly to his gender struggles but more to his job. He'd taken an oath not to divulge this type of information. But then it spilled out. He told the counselor about a targeting mission gone bad in Basra. "Two groups of locals were converging in this one area. Manning was trying to figure out why they were meeting," the counselor told me. On Manning's information, the Army moved swiftly, dispatching a unit to hunt them down. Manning had thought all went well, until a superior explained the outcome. "Ultimately, some guy loosely connected to the group got killed," the counselor said. To the counselor, it was clear: Manning felt that there was blood on his hands. "He was very, very distressed."

Read the full piece at nymag.com.

One of the figures in Fishman's story is ZJ Antolak, aka Zinnia Jones, a genderqueer YouTuber in whom "Bradass87" confided over IM from Iraq. New York Magazine provided an extra snippet of chat logs between Manning and ZJ to Boing Boing which were not published in the magazine piece. That log excerpt, which provides a little additional color about their relationship, and what was on Manning's mind, follows below.

2/21/2009
(9:02:45 PM) ZJ: when I get a new computer I might install linux on this one
(9:03:07 PM) bradass87: military is all f'd up... contracts with closed source developers with incompatible software... drives me NUTS
(9:03:29 PM) ZJ: that is ridiculous, it's hard to ensure security when the source is unavailable
(9:03:53 PM) bradass87: yes, even worse its often lowest bidder...
(9:05:03 PM) bradass87: used to be the cream of the crop... now its outdated non-backward compatible suites of buggy software that were originally used for civilian purposes, then modified for military but not exactly thoroughly tested
(9:05:36 PM) bradass87: then they get contractors who dont know anything about computers to teach it...
(9:06:42 PM) bradass87: and its all OKAY, because we cant exactly complain out in the open because the software which bugs out is often times on machines which are stamped with big red SECRET stickers
(9:06:57 PM) ZJ: that's pretty lame
(9:07:12 PM) bradass87: it is, it is

(Photo: Courtesy of the Bradley Manning Support Network, via nymag.com)

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