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While working on my taxes, I just came across this little gem in the IRS instructions for itemized deductions:

Certain whaling captains may be able to claim a charitable deduction for whale hunting expenses. See Gifts to Charity on page A-6 for more details.

WTF???

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I so gotta get me one of these Human-Animal Hybrids T-Shirts!

Thanks to BoingBoing for the link, and thanks to George Bush for making this possible.

In my spare time I’ve been playing with Rails for a while now. This week I tried using SwitchTower and ActiveRecord Migrations for the first time, and I’m very impressed.

Migrations provide a way for versioning and applying database changes. A simple call to script/generate migration MigrationName generates a new blank migration file with the appropriate [...]