Tag: links

Apple’s product. Google’s product. Your company’s product.

These guys are insane…

“‘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.

What it all boils down to is that none of us outside of the military will be prepared when the robot overlords take over.

“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…”

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.

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

The “sex, drugs, helvetica bold” shirt is funny.

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.

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.

“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.

Nice collection of all user defaults for Mac OS X. Mac geeks only need apply.

My new favorite style for Growl.

Rick Yaeger has a little fun with external hard drive placement.

“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.”

“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.”

A ministry devoted to “rescuing the street children of Latin America”, operating centrally in Guatemala.

Use this link if you need to download Stuffit Expander, without having to go through SmithMicro’s annoying registration process.

Various perspectives on working for the search-engine giant.

Some amazing photos, courtesy of NASA, of a recent mission by the Space Shuttle Endeavor and her crew.

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.

Quite a challenge.