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Funny notions
Funny convergences: I came across this
Blair’s Law – the ongoing process by which the world’s multiple idiocies are becoming one giant, useless force.
which was part of post that included Ku Klux Klan wins approval to protest Iraq war seemingly, though not explicitly, arguing that the war is bad for white people.
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Saturday round up
- Magnificent photography from Afghanistan
- A guide to chopping foods
- Race, Advertising and the Sony Playstation.
- Big Brother mixes with the cast of Friends to create Dodgeball
- An insightful post on Energy from the Winds of Change; it starts
An optimist says the glass is half full, the pessimist says the glass is half empty and the engineer says the glass is the wrong size.
Read the whole thing.
- Some quite impressive numbers you’re not likely to hear about.
In less than three years, the U.S. economic pie has expanded by $2.2 trillion, an output add-on that is roughly the same size as the total Chinese economy, and much larger than the total economic size of nations like India, Mexico, Ireland, and Belgium.
I think Iraq is keeping the political class occupied, much like the Clinton scandals did in the late 90s, and saving us from grand new ideas.
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Quotes of the moment
Samuel Goldwyn
“You’ve got to take the bitter with the sour.”
The secret to building half a product instead of a half-ass
product is saying no.Each time you say yes to a feature, you’re adopting a child. You
have to take your baby through a whole chain of events (e.g.
design, implementation, testing, etc.). And once that feature’s
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Quote of the moment
This actually dovetails nicely with Bevelry’s adage “Look as busy as possible” theory of retail. From the 37 signals book “Getting Real”
If you want something done, ask the busiest person you know
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Sign ranting
Check out the short rants on a roadside sign in Pennsylvania.
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Not dead
And I did make it to Alabama, just not all the way back under my own power (though I did make it back, thanks Mike and Erin!).
More details later.
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15 million illegal immigrants can’t be wrong
Happy Birthday America!
You’re 230 today! That’s 1,610 in dog years. And over 140 years without a civil war, which isn’t that bad, considering.
I’m off to celebrate the day by riding to Alabama and back. If this site isn’t updated by this time tommorow, would someone please look for me?
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Biz Links
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Quote of the moment
There is scarcely anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse, and sell a little more cheaply. The person who buys on price alone is this man’s lawful prey.
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Sunday round up
- Cool Outlook tool – with mapping
- Flash + AJAX – could be cool, it seem to duplicate Atlas and Ruby on Rails, but could still be useful
- Hansel Minutes – for good taste in code
- A good description of government
The federal government is like a fence around a farm. The fence raises no crops of wheat and no fields of corn. It only protects the farmer while he raises his crops, he giving a good portion of his time to keep the fence in repair. Just so we give a good share of our taxes to keep the great government fence in repair. I beg of you to keep this thought in mind that government has not a dollar to give any man not a bed, not a cow or calf. Nothing but protection while you are at work for yourself. Government has nothing to give anybody.
- Photoshop Plug Ins!
- I think Blurb will be the publisher of my first photo book.
- An interesting history of the John Birch Society
- Online Diagrams! Finally.
- Brain Scanners? I remember this from a GI Joe comic in 1984.
- Possibly a real electric car. I’ll let you know when I find out more.
- Atlas the ever shrill goes to a protest. The interesting point is the mixture of text, photos and video on the page.