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Your Friday links
As the implications of the Bhutto assassination are too scary to think about, here’s some links for you.
- Via ZenPundit, check out this time lapse mural
- Jack Nicholson on Politics, he usually doesn’t talk about it, and judging from the statements in this interview, he knows very little. It’s nice when that happens.
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X-Sql, welcome to the Blogroll
I have recently discovered that my friend Naim has recently started blogging about software matters and such at http://xsqlsoftware.blogspot.com/
Welcome to the blogsphere!
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Tuesday links
- Iraq vets take lemons and make…. something.
- Delphine LaLurie – very creepy
- Time management
- I do believe I’ll be building these bookshelves
- Ron Paul – comic book president
- Putting Bush on Mt Rushmore – be sure to read this one from Scott Adams
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Friday morning rapid fire
- The rules on using the names Mohamed and Jesus
- How to hold a digital camera
- This collection of anti-drug commercials. It certainly makes me never want to cook.
- Film Noir Lighting
- The marines and laser guns, it has the memorable line – “Photoshop can quickly solve all engineering challenges.”
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Thursday rapid fire
- The Ron Paul Blimp – really!
- Chet Richards on Decision Cycle Speed
- An online chat with Reason Magazine editors about Ron Paul, notable ending quote
And remember as we go into that dark night that is the American election season that you can’t abort a fetus with nuclear arms
- An ergonomic way to set up your computer desk
- Ottok Photography
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Tuesday link roundup
- Advice from your public defender (best of Craig’s List)
- Why we should hang out: a mathematical proof, this sounds like something I would do actually
- Interesting post on academic taboos from David Friedman
- Another blog post about Sarah Stever, from one of my realtors actually
- Ron Paul Facts, my favorite –
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Friday link round up
- Intown Coyotes – They’re in Oakhurst, which while wooded, is certainly not a suburban area in the traditional sense. I wonder if they make fun of the country coyotes and get weird tattoos…
- A profile of the last remaining WW I veteran, here is one who passed away last year at the age of 113. To quote from the article
“Census records show that Mr. Hardy’s father was born in the 1830s and that both his parents were slaves, Mr. Young said.”
It’s amazing that the past is that close in the human chain.
- Michael Yon reviews the combat cameras
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Friday recommended reading
- On a funny note, the Ladder theory
- On a serious note, a short bio of James Stockdale
When Collins asked who didn’t make it out, Stockdale replied:
“Oh, that’s easy, the optimists”
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What I’m reading while uploading file…
- Monkey Attack!
- A long profile of David Simon, creator of the Wire, and Homicide, Life on the Streets
- This article and this one got a student newspaper pulled, maybe there’s hope for this new generation.
- Advanced Flash techniques
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Tuesday morning rapid fire
- Lincoln and the Jews – from the Federation of American Scientists
- The Solitude of Alexander Selkirk – the inspiration for Robinson Crusoe
- Two from Charlie Rose, specifically this interview with Petraus’ main counter insurgency adviser David Kilcullenm and also with Erik Prince, the founder of Blackwater.