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Vegetarians horrified to discover coffee contains beef

It's not a lot of beef, but the process does use some animal products. Here's the link .

If I wasn't already employed...

...then maybe I'd do this: http://dilbert.com/blog/entry/money_making_scheme/

Come work with me at OpenFeint!

This place is trying to hire like crazy . Here's a list of openings: Current Openings Business Development Senior Business Development / Developer Relations Manager Engineering Android Engineers (multiple positions) Big Data Software Engineer Build and Release Manager Javascript Engineer (multiple positions) Lead Platform Engineer MySQL Guru Product Manager - Analytics QA Manager QA Mobile Engineer QA Server Engineer Ruby on Rails Engineers (multiple positions) Senior Product Manager Software Engineering Manager - Mobile Software Engineering Manager - Server Sr. IT Systems Administrator Web Developer Back-End Marketing Graphic/Web Designer Sales and Marketing Intern Visual/UI Designer Web Developer Operations Sales Engineer Lots of good things: friendly people, free food and drink, mobile gaming social networking and e-commerce. And a big kickback to me if you tell them you heard about it through me!

Happy 5th blog anniversary to me!

Celebrating five years of shouting into the ether. Thanks to all my readers an commenters!

Worst codename ever: "Odyssey Dawn"

I don't suppose the folks at the Pentagon remember that Homer's "The Odyssey" takes place over a period of ten years as the hero struggles to get back home after participating in a decade-long war.

Best evidence I've seen that this is all improv theater

Things in Libya are moving so fast, the Pentagon doesn't even have time to deploy its PR hacks : There wasn’t any press briefing Friday at the Pentagon, even though a third simultaneous war is about to commence. That’s a pretty strong indication that the military doesn’t know what the goal is, either. So, what are our objectives again? Protect civilians from Qaddafi, I guess. For how long? At what cost? What happens if Libyan civilians start needing protection from the rebels? How come the leaders of Yemen get to kill their civilians? And Bahrain can import Saudi troops to crack down on their own dissidents? The lesson seems to be that as long as you curry favor with the US, you can oppress your citizens all you want. It seems as though we're attacking Qaddafi because we can, not because he is more evil than other dictators in the world. A little honesty about our actual motives would be refreshing.

An undeclared war

According to this post , we've started firing cruise missiles at Libyan air defense sites. This is an act of war, and since Congress has not declared war, it is clearly unconstitutional and an abuse of executive power. The UN cannot declare war on behalf of the United States. I hate to say it, but there are now clear grounds for impeaching Obama. Would it have been so hard to get authorization from Congress first?