Gene Lewis Perry

Oklahoma creating new felonies and increasing sentences even as corrections budget is slashed

genelewis — Tue, 11 May 2010 19:45:59 +0000

Oklahoma’s prison population has grown 10 percent in the last 10 years. Fifty-three percent of the inmates were convicted of nonviolent crimes. Budget cuts threaten to eliminate 15 percent of the prison work force, and inmates are already sleeping in dining halls and exercise rooms.

What’s Republican Senate Leader Glenn Coffee’s response?

“It’s not a dollars and cents issue with me.”

The problem with Facebook

genelewis — Sat, 08 May 2010 00:08:19 +0000

Exhibit A: Facebook was letting friends spy on each others’ chats

Facebook chat is now down as the social network races to close a security hole that let people see their friends’ live chats. The security bug was exploited, ironically enough, by fiddling one’s privacy settings, as this TechCrunch video demonstrates.

Exhibit B: Facebook’s Gone Rogue; It’s Time for an Open Alternative

Facebook has gone rogue, drunk on founder Mark Zuckerberg’s dreams of world domination. It’s time the rest of the web ecosystem recognizes this and works to replace it with something open and distributed.

What I really dislike about Facebook is that you can’t export your own posts to your hard drive or another site. Facebook doesn’t respect our rights to our own content, so we get the worst of both worlds: neither privacy nor ownership. I’m still there because that is where friends are, but if there was a popular open alternative I would jump ship in a second.

Interfaith Dialogue of the Day, part XVIII

genelewis — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 21:16:44 +0000

hate mail from third graders

genelewis — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 19:11:33 +0000

“It’s tough being called a heartless Pluto-hater, particularly by a dismayed eight-year-old.”

the perils of social networking

genelewis — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 14:37:02 +0000

Watch what you say on Facebook! Your terrible puns will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.

Lawton man arrested for Facebook jokes
According to the affidavit filed by Det. Ken Parsons, Chaston posted the following online threat: “thinking about shooting up an old folks home … could call it youthenasia ….lol someone has to put them out of their misery.” He then added another comment to the post: “…well thought about doing a drive-by at a daycare, but that didn’t sound as cool …. lol”

awesome

genelewis — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 20:27:52 +0000

Barack Obama Looking at Awesome Things
Call me a whistleblower if you want, but the truth is the truth. President Obama spends most of his time looking at awesome things.

Not to be confused with Obama feigning interest in mundane things.

beautiful

genelewis — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 03:01:23 +0000

SolarBeat
Musical Solar System – based on real orbital frequencies

Via Inky Circus.

every bit helps

genelewis — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 18:58:32 +0000

My friend Isaiah McCaslin will be a great Representative for Oklahoma, but he needs your help to get there. If you’re sick of what’s going on with our current legislature, this is how you change it! Please donate whatever you can.

Contribute now to Isaiah McCaslin (OK-HD-44)
Join us! So far, 15 supporters have contributed $1,360.

quote of the day

genelewis — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 16:39:20 +0000

“”if one is trying to harvest a truffle wood discreetly without alerting the locals, it’s generally a mistake to show up walking a pig on a leash”

Unearthing the Sex Secrets of the Périgord Black Truffle – NYTimes.com
The cynosure of every foodie’s dreams is about to yield its most intimate secrets to a team of French and Italian researchers who have decoded its genome.

Zombie Bitches Kickin Peoples Ass

genelewis — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 16:32:24 +0000

Via Oklahoma Rock Newsblog.