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But not for long.

After a month off, I am ready to jump back into it. Unfortunately, I am also heading off for a much deserved vacation for a couple of weeks. I will post a couple of things between now and Friday, but then I am off to Italy for 2+ weeks.

I will be back for real around May 20th.

Thanks for sticking with me, and I will see you all again soon!

-Militantplatypus

The call for submissions for Google Summer of Code 2008 has closed and I’m happy to announce that four students will be working on projects for Creative Commons this summer. In no particular order, they are:

• CC Logger (statistical log analysis), by Ankit Guglani, mentored by Asheesh Laroia
• RDFa Support for Semantic MediaWiki, by David McCabe, mentored by Nathan Kinkade
• License-oriented metadata validator and viewer, by Hugo Dworak, mentored by Nathan R. Yergler
• Creative Commons/Flickr Image Re-Use for OpenOffice.org, by Husleag Mihai, mentored by Nathan R. Yergler

Welcome to all; we’re looking forward to a productive, geeky summer.

Google has supported searching for Creative Commons licensed content through the usage rights portion of the advanced search interface for some time. Last week they took the next logical step by announcing on the Custom Search blog that you can now use the indexed license information to filter results in your own custom search engine.

Custom search engines allow you to create a search for a set of sites and host it on your site. This improvement allows you to further restrict your results to resources marked as under a Creative Commons license. The announcement also enumerates how Google looks for CC licenses, although content creators needn’t worry about that aspect — the HTML generated by the license engine contains all the bits you need; just copy and paste!

Thanks, Google!

Most definitely, Ginnah Muhammad, the woman suing in federal court for the "right" to wear a full-ninja face covering (a "niqab"), and her terrorist lawyer Nabih Ayad (family is in Hezbollah and who openly supports the group), should both spend a few days in jail for contempt.

Not only should she have no "right" to cover her ugly face in a courtroom (the rest of us don't and Islamists don't get special treatment in America - only in Islamic countries), she's lying (see image). Read: Accommodation as an Islamist Political Instrument, by Zuhdi Jasser.

Via Debbie Schlussel:

As I wrote earlier today, yesterday the pair told U.S. District Judge John Feikens that Muhammad has worn the full face veil since she was ten years old and that she only removes it while in the sole company of women. Muhammad is fighting Hamtramck, Michigan Judge Paul Paruk's wise decision only to allow her to testify with her face uncovered.

Related:
The Judge vs. The Niqab: How Will Fed Judge Rule on Ginnah Muhammad? UPDATE: Muslim Woman Who Says She Must Wear Niqab Exposed Face to Public

Veil can come off, Muslim shows

Also: Remember the NSA lawsuit? Nabih Ayad was involved in that case as well.

Most definitely, Ginnah Muhammad, the woman suing in federal court for the "right" to wear a full-ninja face covering (a "niqab"), and her terrorist lawyer Nabih Ayad (family is in Hezbollah and who openly supports the group), should both spend a few days in jail for contempt.

Not only should she have no "right" to cover her ugly face in a courtroom (the rest of us don't and Islamists don't get special treatment in America - only in Islamic countries), she's lying (see image). Read: Accommodation as an Islamist Political Instrument, by Zuhdi Jasser.

Via Debbie Schlussel:

As I wrote earlier today, yesterday the pair told U.S. District Judge John Feikens that Muhammad has worn the full face veil since she was ten years old and that she only removes it while in the sole company of women. Muhammad is fighting Hamtramck, Michigan Judge Paul Paruk's wise decision only to allow her to testify with her face uncovered.

Related:
The Judge vs. The Niqab: How Will Fed Judge Rule on Ginnah Muhammad? UPDATE: Muslim Woman Who Says She Must Wear Niqab Exposed Face to Public

Veil can come off, Muslim shows

Also: Remember the NSA lawsuit? Nabih Ayad was involved in that case as well.

Phil Orenstein's piece at FrontPageMag is my suggestion for today's must read. Here's a few excerpts:

[... ] At no other time in our nation's history, other than the period of the Civil War when Democrats supported secession and slavery and Republicans championed freedom, have we been so politically divided. Political unity in wartime has always been an article of faith as rival political parties during the Cold War era upheld the axiom "politics stops at the water's edge." Bipartisan unity prevailed even during the Vietnam War as both parties supported the war effort for over a decade and were in accord on military withdrawal when victory seemed no longer possible. Whether we are for the war or against it, we can all agree that it should not be used as a political football for the advantage of one political party over another.

Yet for the first time, opposition to the War in Iraq has become an obsessive partisan effort to lose the war and discredit our Commander in Chief. Wartime bipartisanship has been thrown under the bus. The Democratic Party leadership has crossed the line from constitutionally protected dissent and opposition to willful sabotage. The antiwar opposition is not just the radical fringe and loony leftists marching in the streets burning effigies of President Bush, but has now morphed into the Democratic Party in toto.

[...] It is apparent that the war is being won in Iraq by our brave men and women soldiers in the United States Military. But the war on the home front that has divided our nation, sabotaged the war effort and undermined our Commander in Chief and America's moral, rages on and on. These are the great battles to be fought here on the home front by American patriots who dare to challenge the conventional wisdom that the war in Iraq has been lost. This is our challenge to the Democratic Party - the Party of Defeat.

Continue reading: Phil Orenstein's The Party of Defeat

The object of war is to break an enemy's will and destroy his capacity to fight. Therefore, a nation divided in wartime is a nation that invites its own defeat. Yet that is precisely how Americans are facing the global war that radical Islamists have declared on them.
The enemies who confront us are religious barbarians, armed with the technologies of modern warfare but guided by morals that are medieval and grotesque. Their stated goal is the obliteration of America and the conquest of the West. They have assembled a coalition that includes sovereign states such as Iran and Syria, Muslim armies such as al-Qaeda, Hezbollah, and Hamas, and terrorist cells that are globally dispersed and beyond counting.

This jihad has access to biological, chemical, and possibly nuclear weapons. It actively threatens the regimes in Lebanon, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, Turkey, and Egypt. Among its allies are non-Muslim states such as the Communist regimes in North Korea, Venezuela, and China. Its enablers include Saudi Arabia, Russia, and the vast political networks of the international Left.[1] Its pool of sympathizers and supporters can be counted in the hundreds of millions, and its political fronts are embedded in almost every nation and every continent, including Europe and the United States.

Phil Orenstein's piece at FrontPageMag is my suggestion for today's must read. Here's a few excerpts:

[... ] At no other time in our nation's history, other than the period of the Civil War when Democrats supported secession and slavery and Republicans championed freedom, have we been so politically divided. Political unity in wartime has always been an article of faith as rival political parties during the Cold War era upheld the axiom "politics stops at the water's edge." Bipartisan unity prevailed even during the Vietnam War as both parties supported the war effort for over a decade and were in accord on military withdrawal when victory seemed no longer possible. Whether we are for the war or against it, we can all agree that it should not be used as a political football for the advantage of one political party over another.

Yet for the first time, opposition to the War in Iraq has become an obsessive partisan effort to lose the war and discredit our Commander in Chief. Wartime bipartisanship has been thrown under the bus. The Democratic Party leadership has crossed the line from constitutionally protected dissent and opposition to willful sabotage. The antiwar opposition is not just the radical fringe and loony leftists marching in the streets burning effigies of President Bush, but has now morphed into the Democratic Party in toto.

[...] It is apparent that the war is being won in Iraq by our brave men and women soldiers in the United States Military. But the war on the home front that has divided our nation, sabotaged the war effort and undermined our Commander in Chief and America's moral, rages on and on. These are the great battles to be fought here on the home front by American patriots who dare to challenge the conventional wisdom that the war in Iraq has been lost. This is our challenge to the Democratic Party - the Party of Defeat.

Continue reading: Phil Orenstein's The Party of Defeat

The object of war is to break an enemy's will and destroy his capacity to fight. Therefore, a nation divided in wartime is a nation that invites its own defeat. Yet that is precisely how Americans are facing the global war that radical Islamists have declared on them.
The enemies who confront us are religious barbarians, armed with the technologies of modern warfare but guided by morals that are medieval and grotesque. Their stated goal is the obliteration of America and the conquest of the West. They have assembled a coalition that includes sovereign states such as Iran and Syria, Muslim armies such as al-Qaeda, Hezbollah, and Hamas, and terrorist cells that are globally dispersed and beyond counting.

This jihad has access to biological, chemical, and possibly nuclear weapons. It actively threatens the regimes in Lebanon, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, Turkey, and Egypt. Among its allies are non-Muslim states such as the Communist regimes in North Korea, Venezuela, and China. Its enablers include Saudi Arabia, Russia, and the vast political networks of the international Left.[1] Its pool of sympathizers and supporters can be counted in the hundreds of millions, and its political fronts are embedded in almost every nation and every continent, including Europe and the United States.

Electronic Arts is finally terminating The Sims Online, more recently known as EA-Land.

According to posts on the game's official blog, "On August 1, 2008, the game EA-Land/TSO will no longer be in service and EA will focus these resources on future games."

Billing is ending immediately, so until the game dies, play is free and paying subscribers are being given a three-month subscription to Club Pogo and a $15-off coupon for any game at the EA store.

(see original source)

Fanatec has launched its Porsche 911 Turbo Racing Wheel for the PC and PlayStation 3.

The wheel may cost $350, but is a force-feedback wheel with shift, illuminated buttons, wireless pedals, a 900-degree turning angle and a tuning display that lets racers customize settings while using the wheel. The unit even comes with a 1 GB flash drive in the shape of a Porsche key that includes the drivers and manual.

(see original source)