Monthly Archives: January 2006

Literally Rewriting History: Coleman Goes into Wikipedia

By Robert Fischer | Published: January 31, 2006

Minnesota Republican Watch » Blog Archive » Norm Coleman’s Staff Attempts To Remove Facts From Coleman Biography In Encyclopedia This is a consistant problem with Wikipedia. As a fun experiment, I would suggest going in and changing some insigificant value — adding a middle initial to a name, changing a date by day, changing a [...]

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Experts Claim Official 9/11 Story is a Hoax – Yahoo! News

By Robert Fischer | Published: January 30, 2006

Experts Claim Official 9/11 Story is a Hoax – Yahoo! News Hrm. I recognize none of these “distinguished experts” listed. Then again, I’m not in the field. Anyone have a clue if there’s anything to trust about this kind of stuff? It’s being generated in my backyard over here at the U of MN. Maybe [...]

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Commons-Lang and the equals()/compareTo() Debacle

By Robert Fischer | Published: January 30, 2006

Like most traumatic realizations, I’ve been having trouble getting the fundamental equals/compareTo brokeness of Java out of my head. I decided to take a look at the Commons-Lang library to see how they deal with it. They’ve got a class called EqualsBuilder which is supposed to take care of this stuff for you. So I [...]

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What are they THINKING?

By Robert Fischer | Published: January 30, 2006

Sen. Kennedy and Sen. Kerry are trying to do a last-minute push to fillibuster Alito. What are they trying to accomplish? C’mon, people: it’s too little, too late. All this is going to do is to validate the weakness of the Democratic party and their role as secondary to any real decision-making in Washington. That’s [...]

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Foamy’s Rant

By Robert Fischer | Published: January 27, 2006

Due to my fond affection and angst over their loss, I have cunningly located and now will proceed to host the first three installments of the Foamy’s Rant series. Foamy’s Rant Index Foamy’s Rant 1 Foamy’s Rant 2 Foamy’s Rant 3 I haven’t gotten Mr. Ill Will Press himself to actually respond to my emails [...]

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