update Looking through the Decision Document, given as an attachment to the court filing mentioned earlier, I found that the wastewater treatment plant that the USDA based its environmental review on is located in Gallatin, Tennessee, not Gallatin, Missouri. Oopsie. Earlier Last Friday, the USDA filed a motion in the Front Range Equine Rescue et al v. Vilsack […]
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I just published two new stories related to the Front Range Equine Rescue et al v. Vilsack et al horse meat lawsuit. In Cages at Burningbird I write that the USDA is not the enemy in this case and they aren’t. If we’re going to fight for the welfare of horses in this country, we need to […]
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There’s an echo with Echo
Joe Shelby, in the comments associated with my last posting made a good point about “Echo” as name of this weblogging initiative: Echo is already a name for a product, a Java web application framework, that just released its 1.0 earlier this month, and very nicely under the LGPL license. By choosing “Echo”, the Wiki participants have […]
Thanks for well wishing. The suggestion of tea was a good one, but unfortunately I can’t drink any acidic juice such as OJ, as it hurts my throat more than a little. Doing a bit of catch up. There were a couple of items of RDF I had to respond to over at Practical RDF, both […]
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Domain for sale
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. A quick note — Tim Hadley wrote a very detailed careful analysis of the Creative Commons license from the perspective of webloggers in general, Movable Type specifically. In particular the section that relates to the permanence of a CC license is worth extremely careful perusal if you’re thinking of pushing the button […]