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Not Tickled Pink About Girlish Pink Guns

I wish I were making this up but, alas, I’m not — pink guns for girls. Firearms shops in the US are stocking pink rifles and shotguns to encourage girls to get into shooting. … They include a Remington 20-gauge shotgun with a pink and black stock emblazoned with the slogan: “Shoot like a girl if you can!” … “Females want to shoot guns, but they want them to look pretty, too,” he said. “Guys could give a rat’s butt what their gun looks like.” I think it’s time to take aim at those guns with a limerick: Not Tickled Pink About Girlish Pink Guns By Madeleine Begun Kane Would you like your young daughter to shoot? Simply buy her a shotgun that’s cute. But be sure that it’s pink. It’s so pretty, she’ll think. Breeding killers—a stylish pursuit. (You can find more of my feminist humor here. [lien] [EN]

Afternoon Delight

Afternoon Delight David Beckham Loves His Gay Fans Britney Spears is Mad at Jamie Lynn Nicollette Sheridan's Bikini Pictures Nicky Hilton,The Lesser of Two Evils Hugh Jackman is Wolverine Ready Another Hilton Making Headlines Kelly Osbourne Parties with Duffs Madge Plans To Take Down Elvis Topless In The Caribbean (nsfw) Texas Doesn’t Mess With Jessica Clooney, Always The Prankster Laura Vandervoort Has A Cure Petra Nemcova Does DirectTV Mischa Barton Topless (nsfw) Jenna Jameson & Her Gorilla Top 10 Mug Shots of 2007 Barren Nude Year Ahead A Country For Kept Men Nicole & Joel Are Givers Celebreality Awards Jon-Jon Bon Jovi? The 2007 Jesties Reality Calls In A Flash [lien] [EN]

Patterico’s Los Angeles Dog Trainer Year in Review 2007

It is time for this blog’s fifth annual review of the performance of the Los Angeles Times, which long-time Patterico readers know as the Los Angeles Dog Trainer. Previous annual reviews can be found at these links: · 2003 · 2004 — Part One · 2004 — Part Two · 2005 · 2006 This year’s installment covers a number of topics, including the 2008 election, the U.S. Attorney scandal, and many others. It summarizes an entire year’s worth of work documenting omissions, distortions, and misrepresentations by this newspaper. The evidence is voluminous, but hopefully entertaining. If you have half as much fun reading this as I did writing it, you’ll enjoy this post considerably. I hope every new reader who reads this post will bookmark the main page and return often. Bloggers: please blogroll the site if you like it. [lien] [EN]

The Best of 2007

Food bloggers from around the world are sharing their best moments of the year 2007, and you are invited to take a look! 28 Cooks: Fiber rounds up the best snacks, bites and nibbles of each month in two awesome posts- a snack addict's idea of heaven, for sure! Read her post to get some great ideas for your own parties this year. Ahaar: Mandira ponders over the big changes in her life over the year and highlights some favorite dishes that gave her "something new - a new taste, a new recipe, a new grain, a new flavor..." and were delicious as well. A Mad Tea Party: Anita round up her favorite posts of the year, starting with the post that led to a poori-frying frenzy in the Indian food blog world with its timely reminder of moderation and common sense. Anali's First Amendment: Anali writes a recap of the renovations on her blog/cooking life during 2007. [lien] [EN]

December 2007 Roundup

December 2007 Roundup I’m really late getting this roundup out, but the past month has been chaotic, to say the least. The past week or so since I’ve been home has been all about trying to find a doctor to treat a minor surgical complication (no luck yet), and figuring out what is OK and what isn’t OK to eat (ah, self-discovery! very scary!). Sushi goes down really well, as does lentil rice with chicken/gyro meat and sandwiches from Cosi. Not so well received? Bread that isn’t toasted or put through a panini press. It’ll be a while before I try that again, LOL. I’m looking forward to seeing some of you next week at the meetup at Anna’s on the 10th. If you’d like to go, follow the link and RSVP. And if you’re still undecided, could you let me know as soon as possible so I can give Anna’s an accurate head count? Thanks. [lien] [EN]

2007-2008 NBA Playoff Bracketology

It's time for the pretenders to go fishing and the NBA's finest (not counting the Atlanta Hawks, Philadelphia 76ers, and Toronto Raptors) to show us what it's all about. IT'S PLAYOFF TIME BABY! And that of course means it's time to fill out your playoff brackets over at BallHype for a chance to win an iPod Touch. Make sure you're a member of the GSoM Community. We'll also give out a tee of your choice from the GSoM Store 2.0 to the GSoMer who has the most points at the end of it all in mid-June. * You must to be a member of the GSoM Community group on Ballhype before the playoffs start to qualify * Here's my bracket: A quick rundown of what should be a fun, fun 1st Round of the 2008 NBA Playoffs after the jump! Western Conference LA Lakers (1) vs Denver Nuggets (8) The Nuggets have been a strong home team. [lien] [EN]

A week of symfony #48 (26 november->2 december 2007)

Calm week for symfony: moderate development activity, several new plugins and websites and a new open source application developed with symfony called Motilee Development highlights · r6173:deprecated sfAction::getRequestMethods() and sfAction::getDefaultView() methods · r6174: added form support for Propel objects · r6176: removed sfView::isAttributeHolderEscaped() and added isEscaped() method to view attribute holder classes · r6196, r6197: replaced sfException exceptions to SPL exceptions · r6202: removed the loading of the Form helper when compat_10 is false · r6203, r6211: fixed typo in the submit_tag() of the UrlHelper?.php (closes #2493) · Milestone 1.0.9 completed · r6215: fixed typo in sfXCacheCache::clean + getTimeout · r6217: added hasOption + the ability to set preferred state in sfPearEnvironment · r6218. [lien] [EN]

A week of symfony #47 (19->25 november 2007)

Symfony has completed the last piece of the new form mechanism so the release of the 1.1 version could be inminent. Development mailing list · Discussions about Widgets! and run tests from browser instead of cli Development highlights · r6113: added a always_render_empty option to sfWidgetFormInputPassword · r6114: added sfForm and sfFormField classes (yep, the new form framework is now available for general consumption) · r6115: added unit tests for sfFormField · r6116, r6119: updated package.xml with the new symfony-project domain name · r6117: (doc) updated symfony project domain name and trac URL · r6120, r6121: updated URLs in the symfony default module and for error pages · r6125, r6126: allow numeric parameters in sfRouting · r6127, r6128: added a commented relative_url_root with its default value in settings. [lien] [EN]

A week of symfony #46 (12->18 november 2007)

Great week for symfony: inminent symfony 1.1 relase, 6000th changeset milestone, new symfony planet feed with all the blog feeds related with symfony and new Fabien Potencier blog (powered with symfony 1.1) Development mailing list · Discussions about widgets! Development highlights · r5995, r5996: added method to sfWidgetFormSchema to manage help messages + added a way to format help messages in formatter classes · r5997, r5998: fixed admin generator filters HTML defect (closes #1891 - patch from Pascal Borreli) · r6003, r6005: merged bug fixes from creole 1.1 + propel 1.2.1 (partially reverted in r6010 and r6011) · r6004, r6006, r6007: fixed Creole and fixed DSN when using an empty password with a colon before like in mysql://root:@localhost · r6012, r6013: fixed templates of login & secure actions of default module are exchanged (closes #2536) · r6019. [lien] [EN]

A week of symfony #45 (5->11 november 2007)

Symfony 1.1 still keeps some surprises before its launch, like form widgets and revamped form validation mechanism. Meanwhile, symfony developers are more and more desired with job offers blooming all around the world. Development mailing list · Proposal to standardize localized documentation locations Development highlights · r5868: fixed sfPropel initialization · r5882: (validators) fixed API docs, added addOption() and addMessage() methods to register options and messages · r5883: added getNodes() and getNode() methods to the sfDomCssSelector class · r5902: removed unused variable · r5937: added widget classes · r5949: fixed sfValidatorSchema when the input array does not contain values for all fields (needed to be able to validate checkboxes for example) · r5950: added date as an array as a supported format for date/time widgets · r5952. [lien] [EN]

A week of symfony #44 (29 October -> 4 November 2007)

After several calm weeks, symfony development returns to its normal pace with updates and lots of bugfixes. Meanwhile, plugins maintain their furious development activity. Development mailing list · Discussions about constructors vs. initialize() in symfony objects and how to deal with symlinks pointing outside of the project root and "symfony sync" command Development highlights · r5735: fixed typo in sfWebResponse · r5743: added some unit tests to sfYamlInside · r5744, 5745: fixed short syntax for unique index in YAML schemas resulting in non-unique index in XML · r5749, r5750: reverted YAML schema confusion · r5757: renamed expected option to choices for sfValidatorChoice · r5761: added a getI18nModel() static method to the Peer builder · r5767: added an optional culture parameter to getCurrentXXX() methods + fixed save() method for i18n objects · r5770. [lien] [EN]

A week of symfony #43 (22->28 October 2007)

The highlight of this symfony week is the huge plugin activity. Symfony developers have bugfixed and updated 25 plugins in just 7 days, producing a colossal 120 changeset list. Development mailing list · Discussions about Plugin branches and tags, Plugins dependencies and new validation system documentation Development highlights · r5632: added the possibility to return a sfValidatorError instead of a sfValidatorErrorSchema for sfValidatorAll and sfValidatorAny if the invalid error message is not empty · r5633: fixed default error message for sfValidatorInteger · r5634: fixed sfValidatorBoolean · r5635: added some methods to sfValidator base class · r5638: added a new sfValidatorSchemaFilter validator (useful for _post_validator) · r5641: added a new sfValidatorDecorator class · r5642. [lien] [EN]

A week of symfony #49 (3->9 december 2007)

Symfony continues polishing its components before the long-awaited launch of 1.1 version. During this week, 45 defects and 37 enhancements have been closed and the cache framework has been refactored. New milestone for symfony: more than 300 websites around the world publicly declare that they use symfony. Development mailing list · Discussions about Symfony and bad coding habits and Symfony should support PDO_sqlite Development highlights · r6326: added option support to sfForm · r6327: refactored date widgets (removed the separator option, added a format option, added can_be_empty and empty_values options) · r6334: added country and language validators and widgets · r6336: added default date and time format for BC in propel.ini + added an upgrade task for existing projects · r6337. [lien] [EN]

A week of symfony #50 (10->16 december 2007)

Symfony 1.1 development activity continues at fast pace. Some new pages about the upcoming features of symfony 1.1 have been published on the wiki. Next week, the first symfony code sprint will take place. Development mailing list · Discussions about i18n - the new form widgets - and labels! Development highlights · r6432: fixed sfFileLogger typo · r6456, r6458: removed required categories in sfYamlConfigHandler (not used), removed empty required categories in sfCacheConfigHanlder · r6459: added a default contructor to the sfBrowser class · r6463: moved test sessions directory · r6466, r6467: fixed sfPropelPager causes an "undefined offset" notice on empty result set (closes #2500) · r6468, r6469: fixed sfOutputEscaperObjectDecorator::toString() as PHP 5.2.5 does not allow exception in toString() methods (closes #2630) · r6481. [lien] [EN]