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links for 2008-03-11
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Apple's product. Google's product. Your company's product.
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These guys are insane...
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"'Parents do not have a constitutional right to home school their children,' Justice H. Walter Croskey wrote in a Feb. 28 opinion..." Funny, I can't find anything in the Constitution expressly prohibiting parents from homeschooling their children.
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What it all boils down to is that none of us outside of the military will be prepared when the robot overlords take over.
links for 2008-03-10
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"Every election period the media mention, usually in ominous terms, Evangelicals. This year is no exception. And just as frequently, Evangelicals are identified with Fundamentalists and the Religious Right. This identification is false and harmful..."
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My only quibble with Schneier's strategy, as it pertains to the Mac, is that PGP's Whole Disk Encryption specs state it only works on the Mac's non-boot drive. Which, if I'm understanding correctly, rules out every Mac.
links for 2008-03-08
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Jason Calacanis, Mahalo's CEO, with some bootstrapping tips. My favorites: Buy Macs (shocker, I know); Buy 2d monitors (I miss having a 2d monitor since mine died); Chairs matter, tables don't; Don't buy a phone system; outsource to middle America
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The "sex, drugs, helvetica bold" shirt is funny.
links for 2008-03-03
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Great ways to utilize your RSS feed reader to increase your Bible knowledge. There are verse of the day feeds, a weekly memorization feed, a daily devotional, and 8 different read-the-Bible-in-a-year feeds. A great resource.
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What are the Top 10 web apps? I'm using 6 of the 10: Gmail, Flickr, Twitter, Facebook, Mint, & Last.fm, though I'm using Gmail less these days. Surprising to see Twitter so high on the list at #3, but pleasantly so.
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"What I hear from politicians who have worked with Obama, both in Illinois state politics and here in Washington, gives me pause. [...] Indeed, the trait people remember best about Obama, in addition to his intellect, is his ambition." Well worth a read.
links for 2008-03-02
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Nice collection of all user defaults for Mac OS X. Mac geeks only need apply.
links for 2008-03-01
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My new favorite style for Growl.
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Rick Yaeger has a little fun with external hard drive placement.
links for 2008-02-29
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"Obama literalists may read back chapter and verse on his policy initiatives, but let's be real here. Those aren't the reasons for his success. Morover, they were never intended to be the underpinnings of the Obama candidacy."
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"Let's be honest. Barack Obama is not on the verge of clinching the Democratic nomination because of his policy positions--whatever his most evangelical supporters might tell you."
links for 2008-02-27
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A ministry devoted to "rescuing the street children of Latin America", operating centrally in Guatemala.
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Use this link if you need to download Stuffit Expander, without having to go through SmithMicro's annoying registration process.
links for 2008-02-25
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Some amazing photos, courtesy of NASA, of a recent mission by the Space Shuttle Endeavor and her crew.
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Human-powered search engine Mahalo has a nice round-up of all the news relating to the first-ever crash of America's most technologically-advanced bomber, the B-2. Thankfully, both pilots ejected safely.
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Quite a challenge.
links for 2008-02-22
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Still 2 years from release, a massively multiplayer online game where everything is LEGO. Targeted at 8-12 year-olds, but plenty of adults who grew up with LEGOs, including yours truly, are more excited about the game at this point.
links for 2008-02-20
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"Truly you have a dizzying intellect."
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Homer as a Rembrandt.
links for 2008-02-19
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Andy's review of the Drobo backup mechanism is the kind of tech review I can get my wife to read. (And I hope she'll read it, as I think this is our solution for a home network backup system.)
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Forget the Linux requirement of LAMP, Mac users. Now there's MAMP: Mac, Apache, MySQL, and PHP, the latter three in one handy distribution for Mac OS X.
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Science fiction and fantasy author Steven Brust has written a fan fiction Firefly novel, posting it for free. All you Browncoats, put your bibs on, okay?
links for 2008-02-18
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"This little beauty fires 12 rounds of 10 mm steel balls in under 2 seconds..."
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Coming June 4th. I may have to get the Jango Fett, since I have son Boba. I like the Yoda, too. I wonder if the right hand of Empire Strikes Back Luke comes off...
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We love the Heroes-style figures in our home, and this line-up threatens to send me over the edge. Sail Barge Leia, Gree, Shaak Ti, Ewoks, the Millenium Falcon, AT-RT, Vader's TIE Fighter, a Sandtrooper on a Dewback!
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Indiana Jones comes to the Mighty Muggs line. Yes!
links for 2008-02-16
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Flash-based game featuring the LEGO version of Indiana Jones.
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Shrink your Windows XP folder at your own risk.
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Neat little piece from The Economist on Twitter. You are on Twitter, aren't you?
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If you're looking for something new to decorate your computer's desktop with, there's a ton of great wallpaper linked to here.
links for 2008-02-15
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After eight years of marriage, the first collaboration between singer-songwriters Derek Webb and Sandra McCracken. Great stuff.
links for 2008-02-14
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A recap of LSU's first baseball national championship year. I can tell you exactly where I was and what I was doing when they got that last out to win it all in Omaha. The Tigers were the team of the '90s in college baseball.
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No movie in 2008, Trekkies. But we Star Wars fans still get our new one. :-P
links for 2008-02-13
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Tips from Kirk McElhearn on getting song lyrics in to iTunes and on to your iPod.
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The good news: new animated Star Wars movie and television series. The bad news: it's not done in the animation style of the previous Clone Wars television series.
links for 2008-02-12
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If your iPhone camera is going wonky, and shooting blank squares, this is a possible fix.
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Now if only AT&T would give its mobile users the option of adding wifi access to their accounts.
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Walk for one minute, generate enough power for thirty minutes of mobile phone usage. They just need to get the size of the thing smaller for it to really be commercially viable.
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Bust of the Predator alien, sans helmet, in LEGO.
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Set of over 700 16x16 pixel icons in PNG format, for free.
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Yes, it's a real firearm. Yes, this guy really loves his lady to go to this length.
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For my fellow Star Wars nerds, grab high-resolution images of the Star Wars stamps released last year.