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Day after Christmas rapid fire
As my hard drive is changing itself over, I thought I would share some stuff
- Jetpacks!
- Sin City Photoshop
- Digital Monochrome, absolutely beautiful photos
- Digital Monochrome forums
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Three good links
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One liners and things that caught my eye
- Good one liner –
If there is a motto for the Bush Administration’s war policy, it is, “Doing the Right Thing Wrongly.”
The argument on the neo-right these days resembles the 30s debates between Stalinist and Trotskyist on the nature of communism, i.e. can one separate the theory and practice.
- The nature of motion sickness
- From an article about the Skyhook (sort of a reverse parachute) –
The first live test was conducted with a pig as the target. Due to some stability issues, the pig spun in the 125 mph wind, and arrived on the plane dizzy and discombobulated. It recovered, however, and promptly attacked the crew.
- Good one liner –
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Friday rapid fire
- A quick review of video hosting services
- DIY public hotspot
- SQL Refactoring and formatting – a bit pricey, but it seems interesting
- Yet another electric car – due sometime next year
- Revealed: Why understanding economics is hard
- What economists agree on
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Quick Wednsday rapid fire
- Free Fusion Razors
- Folk Alley seems cool
- Photoshop Tutorials
- Microsoft launches an html editor called Expressions. I’m quite curious.
- Republican uses animals, mariachi band to critique border security
- Google goes solar
- Crunching the Numbers on Hydrogen
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Still uploading
Pesky large files. Anyway, here is some lovely reading material for you.
- This is the strangest article you will read this week. By a lot.
- Profanity across languages– the Dutch “May you get the measles” is my favorite
- Deadweight Loss / Excess Burden – if more people understood this, the world would be improved remarkably. Short version, it’s a cost to someone with no benefit to anyone.
- Human Powered Vehicles – a bike that goes over 40 miles per hour
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Photo composition round up
If it weren’t for long uploads, I don’t think I would ever post anything. Here are the good sites I found while looking for info on photographic composition
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Tuesday round up
- Liberal attitudes about Islamist terror by Sam Harris – not terribly relevent since they control little, but it is not good for one side to drop out of contention
- More on the Atlanta Path Foundation
- DIY home photo studio setup
- The Beltline crashes – the enthusiasm of some people for real estate scams is an enduring mystery.
- Greshams law and criminal investigation
- John Robb on what’s next in Iraq – very interesting. One thing that goes unmentioned is that the more chaotic Iraq gets, the more valuable Kurdistan gets. Also, after a certain point, a volatile Iraq becomes a liability to Iran, particularly with American troops withdrawn.
- Headshaver – mine is on it’s way.
- Investing the fun way, in vice and sin. “…
- Fatwa Friday!
- Steve Tyler has Hepatitis C
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Quick Sunday rapid fire
- An hourly motel in the sky, more info here.
- The funniest quote I read yesterday is from this blog, to wit
Every adult must at some point have paused during some slapstick piece of debauchery and thought, “Christ, this is ridiculous“. Having testicles is like being chained to the village idiot. Sad, but there it is.
- The famous “What year is it?” essay. What year you compare our modern times to determines your current outlook, pretty interesting. Personally I think it’s 1905, and Radical Islam is best compared to the Bolshevism of that period, but all comparisons are, by definition, imperfect.
- The Seventh Seal was an incredible movie
- This is an incredibly cool time lapse movie, regrettably, in QuickTime, but still good.
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Quick rapid fire
- A company that makes secret passageways
- Electoral-Vote.com is back!
- Slate has an interesting article on survival in emergencies
- This is a very cool OSX simulator
- The American Scene is quite interesting sometimes
- Ultramarathoners