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9,059 participants from 414 companies
via JPMorgan Chase Corporate Challenge ®.
Yesterday was the 2009 Rochester JPMorgan Chase Corporate Challenge, and it poured!
The race series happens all over the world as a way to get companies together outside of work and to “promote fitness and well-being in the work place.”  See their History page for more information [...]

I’ve heard it said before, many times, that if two men or two women are allowed to join into a civil union together, why can’t they be happy with that and why is it so important that they call it marriage? In essence, what’s in a name?
A civil union has to do with death. It’s [...]

Two prominent attorneys who argued on opposite sides of Bush vs. Gore, the legal battle over the 2000 presidential election, announced Tuesday that they will challenge Proposition 8 in federal court and seek to restore gay marriage until the case is decided.
via Bush vs. Gore rivals challenge Prop. 8 in federal court | L.A. Now [...]

Ok, there aren’t any usefull applications we can think of for this one, but we want one really badly.
via Ghost matrix, glow printing – Hack a Day.
I agree with Caleb from Hack A Day on this one, no real use but it looks awesome, especially as the LED light is redirected through the plastic rails.

one [...]

YouTube – ACLU Responds to Prop 8 Loss.

via JMG and Towleroad.
The only way to win this fight is through education (and also, waiting for all the bigots to die, but that takes longer) and Empire State Pride Agenda has a new video calling for equal treatment for all families featuring more real live gay people [...]

We had a busy weekend cleaning and preparing for a suprise birthday / “house warming” / memorial weekend party.
Monday we took Dexter to Mendon Ponds for a nice long walk so he wasn’t so depressed (or whatever) after Kev’s parent’s dog left.  Fritz isn’t really a dog from hell, just hyper dog who is a [...]

FBI director Robert Mueller says marijuana should not be legalized while admitting no adult has been killed by the drug.
Milk: The Gateway Drug – Boing Boing.
Tennessee Congressman Steve Cohen states the obvious, that drinking milk leads to drinking beer and bourbon, because nearly everyone who gets drunk on started out with milk.  If you are [...]

Which mathematical function are you?:
Gaussian: e^(-x^2)

You are centered. You are just where you want to be. Some mistake your quiet nature for mediocrity, but you are anything but ordinary. You don’t show off, you don’t brag, but you have a rich inner life. Few realize how important you are. But that does not bother you. [...]

Pos Bib Name                Gender  Class       Age  City         Time
71 118 Justin Newcomer M61 M20-24 24 Rochester 0:51:40
See Dirt Cheap #2 2009 Results
I am pretty happy with my time, but I could have shaved a bit off had I know the finish line was coming, [...]

Making the world’s knowledge computable
Today’s Wolfram|Alpha is the first step in an ambitious, long-term project to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable by anyone
via Wolfram|Alpha.
I am a huge fan of Google, partially because it is so fast and usually gives me what I am looking for; but also because I can use it for unit [...]

Simon Schubert “draws” by creasing paper.

Awesome, I can’t even imagine the time and patience that goes into each piece, especially the interior “shots”.
via The Daily Dish

Around 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, Waltz said, a receptionist at the Martin’s Point medical center picked up the phone and heard what she thought was: “There’s a bomb nearby.”
The report went to the police, who responded with a bomb-detecting dog and evacuated the building for 45 minutes. Nothing was found.
But as police investigated further, they learned [...]

Translation: we’re doing the bare minimum to make us look no worse than Bush, but we have no real interest in this and are letting the bureaucracy handle it, and we guarantee nothing. On gay servicemembers, the president is writing personal notes to those he has fired and intends to continue firing. Will he write [...]

Senator James S. Alesi, a Republican from Rochester who is considered to be another potential swing vote, has issued only vague statements hinting that he is open to voting yes. But he also said, “My public opinion has not been stated yet, and it probably won’t be for a while.”
via New York State Senators Hedge [...]

YouTube – Miss California Press Conference.
hilarious parody via JMG