More Crooked Cops

DC Inymedia gives us the tip-off of an off-duty customs agent who shot and killed an unarmed 19-year old in Cali. The cop wasn't even arrested. There's supposed to be some sort of investigation going on.

There is a website set up for the cause.

US Exports $20 million of Shackles, Electro-Shock Technology

Saddam is bad because he has torture rooms. Or something.

4-Day Work Week

The Green Party needs to be taking the lead on this. It's very doable. Some refs: one, two, three.

BBCode (dKos mod) - Firefox Extension for Daily Kos

Thought I read somewhere on Daily Kos that someone had put together a Firefox extension that would allow for dKos-inspired commenting - specifically, something that would handle dKos's funky 'blockquote' formatting (it doesn't use the traditional <blockquote> tag, but a <div class="blockquote"> tag).

When I couldn't find the extension that I thought I'd read about I started to think about putting one together. I quickly failed in my attempt at starting a new extension from scratch. It should have been fairly simple, but the Javascript just handed me my ass. Need to find a decent Javascript debugger.

Then I found this extension called BBCode which did almost everything we needed it to do. So, I modified it. I believe the author, Jed Brown, is working on a mod that would make it extensible so folks like me don't have to hack any code at all - which would be nice.

It's not the purtiest, but it works, and though I didn't do all that much work (~24 hrs total), I'm still rightly proud of it.

Check the details here.