On Current Senators Who Voted For, and then Against, 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'
Yes, he did vote for it, though there's no information here as to how grudgingly: http://clerk.house.gov/evs/1993/roll474.xml
And for the record, I too dislike Lieberman but I think this post is unfair in its implications. Like it or not, pro-DADT was the progressive position in 1993 (and no I don't like it).
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On Let's Regulate Facebook!
To be fair, what you inferred about how Facebook's "Connect" system works is wrong. Facebook isn't broadcasting all that info to every site you visit; participating sites can request that Facebook inject that data into pages as you view them. So [random site] has a page on their server with some placeholders where your name and mugshots should be, and then when your browser loads the page, it grabs the info from Facebook's servers to fill in the blanks. Your data doesn't actually get sent back to the third-party site unless you see and click through a dialog asking for your permission to share it.
It's still kind of creepy (because it seems like what you said is happening), and therefore unwelcome IMO, but I thought I'd point out that technically, it's not as awful as it seems.