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Take That Shit To Diagon Alley

'Cause you're not welcome on eBay.

Beginning in September, the site [eBay] is banning the sale of "advice, spells, curses, hexing, conjuring, magic, prayers, blessing services, magic potions, [and] healing sessions," according to a policy update.

The company is also eliminating its category listings for psychic readings and tarot card sessions.

CNN

Round And Round

Mrs. emailed me an image taken with her iPhone, taken with a vertical orientation (taller than wide) - she turned her camera 90 degrees clockwise. Cameras routinely put a little note in the image file (in the image's "EXIF" data) that tells viewers how to rotate the image in order to display as the photographer took it. Very handy. And when I look at her email in gMail, the thumbnail image is rotated correctly. So, gMail pays attention to the rotation flag and generates the thumbnail correctly. Smart!

When I click on the thumbnail image in gMail, Firefox displays the full size image. But, Firefox does not apply the rotation specified by the image's EXIF data, so what I see is rotated 90 deg counter-clockwise from what it should be.

Curious, I Googled to see if there was a Firefox fix for this. Didn't find one. But I found this Bugzilla thread, on which the Firefox developers have been debating whether or not to fix this issue for four seven years.

Jesus. Just fix the fucking thing!!!

Your Own Worst Enemy

As a rising star in Hungary's far-right Jobbik Party, Csanad Szegedi was notorious for his incendiary comments on Jews: He accused them of "buying up" the country, railed about the "Jewishness" of the political elite and claimed Jews were desecrating national symbols.

Then came a revelation that knocked him off his perch as ultra-nationalist standard-bearer: Szegedi himself is a Jew.

Following weeks of Internet rumors, Szegedi acknowledged in June that his grandparents on his mother's side were Jews — making him one too under Jewish law, even though he doesn't practice the faith. His grandmother was an Auschwitz survivor and his grandfather a veteran of forced labor camps.

Since then, the 30-year-old has become a pariah in Jobbik and his political career is on the brink of collapse. He declined to be interviewed for this story.

NYT

Depths Of Depravity

At Breitbart's Big House Of You-Might-Want-To-See-A-Psychiatrist-About-This, John Nolte shrieks at passers-by from the attic window:

Pay special attention to the thoroughly disgusting sound effects. You can laugh and say it's just a joke, but through a war of inches, Hollywood continues its assault to define deviancy down and to normalize destructive behavior.

If you don't think there's an agenda behind this, you haven't been paying attention the last 40 years. And if you don't think that there are those who hold the levers of power in our popular culture that would like to remove the stigma from bestiality, you don't understand the depths of sexual depravity the human animal is capable of.

I used to laugh at loud at the term "slippery slope."

Then I grew up.

But I am at least old enough to remember when our culture wanted to protect a woman's dignity, not degrade women under the guise of "liberation" and "equality."

Oh yeah, baby, you've come a real long way.

Eh... so what's all this about, then?
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