A local Yemeni official said on Sunday that 49 civilians, among them 23 children and 17 women, were killed in air strikes against Al-Qaeda, which he said were carried out "indiscriminately."

Saturday Night:

Unfortunately all the people I went to high school with are very religious and republican. I don't know why I became the only liberal out of all of them but I know I never fit in with those people and wonder why they even added me on facebook. I didn't add them, they added me first. There are a few cool people on my facebook but they are artists or people I met at Outland, they aren't from my past. The people from my past I don't find interesting, none of them are artists and all they talk about is god bless this and god bless that. Sometimes I wonder if a lot of people are sneezing or something. So I am wondering if I should put this on my facebook just to piss them all off except the cool people. It is not like I am ever going to get together with those people. I despised my high school and the people there, I ended up at the vocational school just to get away from them. Maybe I am the wacko but I just don't fit in with them and don't even like facebook too much. I like livejournal better because you can write a blog and not just about what you're doing at the moment. And sorry to anyone that leaves me comments here, I do read them in my email and mean to reply but of course I forget, I tend to be lazy about replies but I do read your comments. Well here is the button which is weird because I was thinking about this exact issue last night.

• 17:01 Annalee explains why Avatar is just like Different Strokes: io9.com/5422666/when-will-white-people-stop-making-movies-like-avatar #

Many people may remember Dan O'bannon as the writer of the original Alien movie, or the writer of Total Recall.  For me, he will always be most remembered as the writer and director of the seminal zombie movie Return of the Living Dead.

Tonight, I will be watching this this classic movie once more...  Thanks Dan, for all the memories. "Send more cops."

• 16:37 @paolobacigalupi avatar is a movie that leaves me cold. A couple billion on fx tech... written by james "dark angel" cameron. Ill pass. #
• 10:01 twitpic.com/u1iyi. Livetwitting the opening day of the borderlands cafe. 870 valencia. Come down and say hi. #

If you are in San Francisco, be sure to come by only cafe attached to a Science Fiction book store in the United States:  Borderlands Cafe:  Opening Today.

Just when I thought Facebook was becoming a little dull, I discovered the most gratifying thing ever:  
 
HIDE ALL OSU FOOTBALL FANS  
  
Now if we could get a version of this for the real world, I'll be set for life.    

I'm running Lucid as of last night and I'm having the same problem i had in karmic, which is my linksys wireless usb card.

It's a WUSB54GC. Anyone have a good workaround or fix for karmic? If so, I might be able to duplicate it in lucid (though no promises since it's in beta, but the box it's in isn't important, so I figured I might as well do something useful while upgrading and submit bug reports and the like).

As for details, the card is showing is iwconfig as wlan0, but is not associated with any access point (which seems to be the main sticking point for others as well, after googling). lsusb shows the device listed and recognized.