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Poinography!

• How did Legislator X vote? Perl to the rescue!

  No, not my dog, Perl, but my preferred scripting language, perl. As I mentioned a few days back, I thought it would be useful to be able to have a record of every vote cast by each legislator. The data are available now, but they are organized by bill, i.e. the [...]
  
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  Posted: May 12, 2008, 2:20pm Eastern Daylight Time by Doug

Got Windmills?

• NEVER PROPERLY WEANED

  NEVER PROPERLY WEANED:
  
  M is for the many times she told us
  O is for the other times she told us
  T is for the thousand times she told us
  H is for the hundred times she told us
  E is for every times she told us
  R is [...]
  
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  Posted: May 11, 2008, 1:18pm Eastern Daylight Time

Planet Kaua`i

• The worthlessness of self-selected online polling...

  ...usually goes without saying. Nevertheless, Free Hawaii helps illustrate why that's so. On Saturday the not-local, not-Kauai blog invites its readers, no matter where they might reside to:
  
  

  VOTE "NO!" IN THE KAUA`I GARDEN ISLAND NEWS SUPERFERRY POLL

  
  and helpfully includes a link to the poll.
  
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  Posted: May 11, 2008, 7:14am Eastern Daylight Time by Charley Foster

hunterbishop.com

• Singer out to save strawberry guava

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  Strawberry Guava Opihikao resident Syd Singer has had thoughtful and provocative insights on coqui frog eradication in the past and now he’s weighing in against the DOA’s plan to introduce new insects to Hawaii to stop the spread of strawberry guava trees.

  I've [...]

  
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  Posted: May 11, 2008, 5:35am Eastern Daylight Time by Hunter Bishop

Planet Kaua`i

• Kilauea lava flowing into the ocean

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  Posted: May 11, 2008, 4:56am Eastern Daylight Time by Charley Foster

KauaiEclectic

• Musings: Bearing the Burden

  Birds provide such delightful bookends to the day, as I observed this morning, lying in bed and listening to their pre-dawn songs and calls fill the valley below my house with music, and yesterday at sunset, when Koko and I went deep mauka, accompanied by a traveling bird symphony, to [...]
  
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  Posted: May 11, 2008, 4:47am Eastern Daylight Time

Free Hawai`i

• WHO'S IN CHARGE? THE ANSWER MAY SURPRISE ...

  WHO'S IN CHARGE? THE ANSWER MAY SURPRISE YOU ON VOICES OF TRUTH - ONE-ON-ONE WITH HAWAI`I'S FUTURE
  
  The Superferry's new CEO, Retired US Navy Admiral Thomas Fargo has attempted to put up a new public relations face stating it’s up to the people of Kaua`i to decide [...]
  
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  Posted: May 11, 2008, 4:20am Eastern Daylight Time by The Koani Foundation

Kauai Politics

• HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY

  Happy Mother's Day to all the mothers out there. I want to send SPECIAL wishes to my mother, Jessie Sam-Fong, my mother-in-law, Etsuko Yoshii, and of course my wife, Patsy. Mothers are special, and we love you all!! [...]
  
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  Posted: May 11, 2008, 3:57am Eastern Daylight Time

Hawaii Superferry

• HI Superferry: Reviewing a Simple Statisticians Trick

  One way to compare numbers to show an increase is to quote first for a day, then 4 days, and then 7 days or a week. For example when daily numbers are only slightly increasing, first quote the following:
  
  From PBN: "Over the past Friday through Monday we moved [...]
  
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  Posted: May 11, 2008, 3:50am Eastern Daylight Time

i L i n d . n e t

• Sunday…KHON story hit for promoting pseudo-scientific debate on global warming

  A press release announcing the University of Hawaii has signed on to The Climate Registry prompted several stories this past week, with the Star-Bulletin and all the local television news broadcasts covering the issue. Only KHON’s Andrew Pereira also spotlighted a climate change skeptic. While carbon footprint measurements have become a popular [...]
  
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  Posted: May 11, 2008, 3:48am Eastern Daylight Time by Ian Lind