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Webster is Principal and Founder at Bruce F. Webster & Associates, as well as an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at Brigham Young University. He works with organizations to help them with troubled or failed information technology (IT) projects. He has also worked in several dozen legal cases as a consultant and as a testifying expert, both in the United States and Japan. He can be reached at bwebster@bfwa.com, or you can follow him on Twitter as @bfwebster.

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Domestic terrorism at the GOP convention

Domestic terrorism at the GOP convention

| September 10, 2008 | Reply

The mainstream media gave little or no coverage to the various attempts to disrupt the RNC in St. Paul, but the investigators at Stratfor make it clear just how serious these attempts were: On Sept. 5, two men from Austin, Texas, were charged in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis in connection with a plot to […]

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Hell, yeah!

Hell, yeah!

| September 10, 2008 | Reply

I don’t know if the writers on the Jimmy Kimmel show thought they were mocking Palin; I am pretty sure they simply increased her votes in November: Hat tip to Rand Simberg at Transterrestrial Musings. ..bruce w..

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Idiotic hand-written sign o’ the day

Idiotic hand-written sign o’ the day

| September 10, 2008 | Reply

A plaintive cry for help from the tree-sitters in Berkeley: Hat tip to Little Green Footballs.  ..bruce w..

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Videos o’ the day [updated]

Videos o’ the day [updated]

| September 10, 2008 | Reply

I remember this ad (and remember wanting this gun): On the other hand, my parents did get me both a BB rifle and an air pistol that shot BBs, pellets, and pointed metal darts (I kid you not; I think this is it here). So it all evens out. Hat tip to the Borderline Sociopathic […]

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Sarah Palin images of the day [updated]

Sarah Palin images of the day [updated]

| September 8, 2008 | Reply

Both of these via Rachel Lucas (though hat tip to The Line is Here for pointing me over there): And another take on the same photo: And, shameless stealing from S. Weasel again: Sarah Palin at the October 2nd Debate: Any questions?  (I’ll replace this with the color version when Stoaty releases it.) ..bruce w..

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Video o’ the day

Video o’ the day

| September 8, 2008 | Reply

“As the coin was in the air, Taylor was apparently struck with an existential epiphany and asked the ref, quote, ‘What meaning can life have if the future can be dictated by the random chance of this coin? Existence is a vulgar absurdity.’”: Pre-Game Coin Toss Makes Jacksonville Jaguars Realize Randomness Of Life The Onion […]

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Willie Brown weighs in on Sarah Palin

Willie Brown weighs in on Sarah Palin

| September 7, 2008 | 1 Reply

For those of you who did not live in California at some point during the last 25 years or so, you probably don’t know who Willie Brown is. He is probably the most colorful political figure of that quarter century, beating out Jerry Brown and even the Terminator himself. Willie is about as staunch a […]

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The fall of Fannie Mae

The fall of Fannie Mae

| September 6, 2008 | 1 Reply

Today’s New York Times reports that the US government plans to take over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac: WASHINGTON — Senior officials from the Bush administration and the Federal Reserve on Friday called in top executives of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the mortgage finance giants, and told them that the government was preparing to […]

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Reality or Onion wannabe? You decide

Reality or Onion wannabe? You decide

| September 5, 2008 | Reply

Purple Avenger (at Ace of Spades) posted the following video. Avenger’s not sure if it’s real or a parody, neither am I: This post over at Reason says that “Syndee L’ome Grace” is a real person, and her name certainly does show up via Google. But . . . sheesh.  ..bruce w..

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Daily Palin image

Daily Palin image

| September 5, 2008 | Reply

Courtesy of the ever-wonderful American Digest: As Gerard Van der Leun says, “Any questions?”   ..bruce w..

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