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Harrisburg is a pretty spiffy place to live. I mean it. Those of you who know me personally have already heard most of this, but we’ve got so much to do around here. There’s decent biking on the Greenbelt, dog-walking in

This scares me:
TMI Guard Playing Videogame Fails To See Inspector
It appears that TMI’s official response is that because this type of behavior is allowed, no harm was done. Technically correct, but missing a gigantic punch-you-in-the-face-repeatedly point. I guess we’re too busy monitoring our own citizens to monitor the occasional nuclear facility.

Generally, I stay out of politics on this site. It draws out the fringe fanaticists and doesn’t really jive with what the site is about. But when I read this, I absolutely, positively, without any doubt, had to point it out:

Here in Harrisburg, our landline telephone service is provided by Verizon. Technically, they’re not a monopoly — you have several alternative service providers to choose from if you live in the city — but given their practice of having higher wholesale than retail rates, this means that alternative providers are forced to charge more for [...]

So Craigslist has been accused of violating fair housing laws. If you’ve ever read CL (as Craigslist is often referred to), you’ve probably seen the ads they’re talking about. “3br/2ba to share in Linglestown for devout Baptist only. Must be white.” It’s not like every post is that bad, but they are fairly common. The [...]

The best collection of the SuperBowl ads is on Google:  http://video.google.com/superbowl.html.  Unlike other sites that charge you to view the ads, or that show you ads before the ads, Google is completely free.  In addition, most of them can be downloaded to your ‘pod.  Enjoy!
Also, there’s a bit of commotion going on over at the [...]

Daniel Biechele, the Great White manager who torched that Rhode Island nightclub back in 2003, has just pled guilty to 200 counts of manslaughter.  His sentence?  10 years.
Yep.  10 years.
100 people died in that fire.  Quite a few more received severe burns.  Each defendant was charged with two counts of involuntary manslaughter for each death.  [...]