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State Court Recognizes Gay Marriages From Elsewhere - New York Times
Even though gay couples may not legally marry in New York, the appellate court in Rochester held that a gay couple’s 2004 marriage in Canada must be respected under the state’s longstanding “marriage recognition rule,” and that an employer’s denial of health benefits had discriminated [...]

If Light bulbs were Automobiles, you’d be driving a Compact Fluorescent.
I recommend counting all of the regular (incandescent) light bulbs in your house and immediately buying new replacement CFL bulbs for all of them. Then I recommend unscrewing the old bulbs and throwing them away. I recommend doing it right now.
I agree with Rob’s recommendations. [...]

World Community Grid - Statistics By Projects
Run Time (y:d:h:m:s) 69,020:226:18:57:20
69,020 YEARS of processing time has been allocated by members of the World Community Grid to help study AIDS.
a quick comparison shows
20 years for African Climate@Home.
7,069 years for the Cancer projects
45,344 years for the Human Proteome Folding projects
Total Run Time 136,898 [...]

DesMoinesRegister.com | Des Moines News | The Des Moines Register
Carol Jontz of Baxter holds a sign Wednesday while joining several hundred supporters of the Iowa Marriage Amendment during a rally outside the Iowa Statehouse.
The Des Moines Register has a gallery of bigots that were protesting equality for all in Iowa.  Carl Jontz was joined by [...]

World AIDS Day - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Joe. My. God. has reposted and linked to some memories of friends who have died of AIDS.
Google has a link on their homepage
I run the FightsAIDS@Home project on the World Community Grid.  World Community Grid - Research - FightAIDS@Home.  I think it is disappointing to see how many [...]

Children’s book outrages parents — themorningcall.com
”That’s what a public library does, and you make the choice,” Rhode said. ”We certainly want parents to make that decision for their children — not one parent making that decision for all children.”
Maybe the parents will go after “AOL” next for “allowing such bad things to be on the [...]

Human Rights Campaign | Buying for Equality 2008 | Food & Beverages
Clorox
Hidden Valley; KC Masterpiece; Kitchen Bouquet
The 2008 Buying for Equality guide is out from the HRC.  I wish it had more information, like what exactly Exxon Mobile did to get.
Engages in corporate action that would undermine the goal of equal rights GLBT people
Y
The other [...]

Amazon’s MP3 store rips off your fair use rights - Boing Boing
The problem with DRM is that it tries to enforce a physical-world ruleset of scarcity on infinitely replicable data. One purchase, one copy, pretending to be physical goods. Which sucks, because data should be much more flexible than physical goods.
So then we get rid [...]

Consumer Reports corrects “restless leg” drug TV ad - Boing Boing
Consumer Reports explains that Requip reduces symptoms in up to 73% of people (with scary potential side effects) , while a placebo is effective on 57% of people with RLS (”restless leg syndrome”).
That doesn’t seem like that great of a success rate. More than [...]

We Love The Environment: Borders Forces Customer To Take Plastic Bag, Claims It Is “Proof Of Purchase”
BY NAMILIA AT 07/31/07 11:50 AM
I think the whole thing is petty. She’s taking environmentalism too far for blowing this so out of proportion, and the cashier was bogus for her responses as well. A plastic bag isn’t the [...]

abc7.com: Strike Is On: Talks End, Writers Guild Walks Picket Lines
The big fight is over money — the writers want more of it, and the producers don’t want to give it up. Writers specifically want a bigger piece of DVD sales, as well as TV shows and movies sold over the Internet.
Meanwhile many of the [...]

Joe. My. God.: CCA Calls For Potter Ban
The “nation’s largest” conservative organization, the Christian Coalition of America, has called for a ban of Harry Potter books and movies after author J.K. Rowling’s revelation last week that Hogwarts head wizard Albus Dumbledore is gay. CCA chairman Roberta Combs: “It’s not a good example for our children, [...]

Video: Wherein Dan Abrams can’t even fake objectivity: Good As You
The absurdity of anti-gay rhetoric: The world is finally starting to catch on.
The video is pretty funny, I don’t even know who Dan Abrams is, but he mopped the floor with the crazy Robert Knight guy.  The best part was the Knight just kept repeating [...]

Jerks With Authority: TSA Breaks Your Laptop, Threatens You With Arrest
Reader Jake says a TSA agent dropped his laptop, smashing it in several places, then threatened him with arrest when he asked about filing a damage claim.
That would definitely suck.  I know everyone gets kinda off ease when around TSA, or at least I do.  [...]

Grand Jury: No Criminal Charges in Rochester Gay Bashing — Towleroad for modern gay men,
A grand jury has decided to file no criminal charges in a gay bashing incident in June in Rochester, New York, in which two groups of people were assaulted in attacks that took place separately. A total of eight people were [...]