I am concerned that Basil might be in with a chance.

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Someone at last.fm has been reading a bit too much Asimov - this is the contents of their robots.txt file.

For anyone confused, a robots.txt file tells search engines that respect it what they shouldn’t index, preventing excessive load, giving the search engines cleaner results and otherwise sanitising their behaviour.

From: AFA Action Alert <contact@afa.net>
Subject: AFA makes it official: Don’t shop at The Home Depot
To: PZB
Date: Sunday, July 25, 2010, 3:11 PM

AFA makes it official: Don’t shop at The Home Depot

Sign the Boycott Pledge at BoycottTheHomeDepot.com now!

July 23, 2010

Dear Poppy,

For several years, The Home Depot has given its financial and corporate support to open displays of homosexual activism on main streets in America’s towns. And, it says it will continue to do so!
“At the end of the day here, we’re not going to…forbid our associates to be involved in these pride festivals in any way.” - Stephen Holmes, company spokesman. (Note: The associates participating in these parades were clearly doing so as representatives of the company.)
Rejecting several requests by AFA to remain neutral in the culture war, The Home Depot has chosen to sponsor and participate in numerous gay pride parades and festivals. Most grievous is The Home Depot’s deliberately exposing small children to lascivious displays of sexual conduct by homosexuals and cross-dressers, which are a common occurrence at these events.
The goal of every homosexual organization supported by The Home Depot is to get homosexual marriage legalized. BoycottTheHomeDepot provides just a glimpse of how broad its support for the homosexual movement is. The Home Depot says it is committed to furthering the homosexual agenda.
“The bottom line is, it (remaining neutral) just runs counter to our inclusive culture…and that’s where we stand.” - Stephen Holmes, company spokesman.
See it for yourself. Photos at BoycottTheHomeDepot.com, taken during recent homosexual events sponsored by The Home Depot, show:
Children being encouraged to visit gay sex websites.
Employees using company property to push gay marriage.
The Home Depot employees riding and marching in homosexual parades.
TAKE ACTION
1. Sign the Boycott Pledge at BoycottTheHomeDepot.com.
2. Call your local store manager. Let him know that you will not be shopping in his store until the company stops supporting the homosexual agenda. You can find his number here. (click “Store Finder”).
3. Print the paper petition and distribute it at Sunday School and church.
4. Extremely important! Post this alert to your facebook page (link above) and encourage others to join the boycott!
It is very important that you forward this alert to your friends and family members.

Sincerely,

Tim Wildmon, President
American Family Association
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From: Dave Williams  Date: Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 21:00 Subject: Home Depot and homosexuality To: contact@afa.net Cc: public_relations@homedepot.com   After seeing the reasons behind this boycott and Home Depot's wanton embrace of homosexual, transgendered and similar deviant lifestyles, I have been deeply affected.  I have forwarded this communication on to each and every one of my friends and family so that they understand quite how important it is that companies like Home Depot get our business, so that disgusting, small-minded, isolationist agendas such as the AFA's can be quashed.  Home Depot, you have won customers for this.  You should thank the AFA for bringing such in-depth information about your policies to light so that people know what a progressive and supportive company you are.  Dave Williams

If I were a cow, this is how I would spend my days.

…righto.

Excellent.

Damn right.

Arguing with a passive-aggressive note writer will never, ever work. Let them whine - but make sure they do so in a typographically sound manner.

Avo

Pure Reason Revolution

Amor Vincit Omnia

If you’re not listening to this RIGHT THIS VERY MOMENT, you’re doing it wrong.

Two major enhancements to CouchDB make it 1.0-worthy, said Chris Anderson, the chief financial officer and a founder of Couchio. One is the fact that performance of the software has been greatly improved. The other is its ability to work on Microsoft Windows machines. A lot of work was also put into stabilization of the software.

Performance-wise, the new version has demonstrated a 300 percent increase in speed in reads and writes, as judged by internal benchmarking tests done by Couchio. The performance improvements were gained by optimizing the code, Anderson said.

This is also the first release of CouchDB that can fully run on Windows computers, either the servers or desktops, Anderson said. Previous versions could run on Linux, and there is a version being developed for the Google Android smartphone operating system.

Very cool. This has been coming for a while and it’s great to see it hit 1.0!