Tech
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Quick round up
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Cool C#/AJAX things
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A warning to all
Read this article: Visa Says ATM Breach May Have Exposed Data and then check your bank statements. I found a $461 dollar charge I didn’t make. I just called Bank of America and started an investigation about it. They reversed the charge pending the outcome of the investigation. Scary stuff really. I’m not legally liable for the charge, but still….
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Sunday rapid fire
- Create Visio diagrams programatically
- An interesting interview with Frank Miller
- Creepy pictures from North Korea
- A new studio album from Ramblin’ Jack Elliot!
- I rode past this last week.
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Friday round up
- Batwings! No, really, those look very cool.
- The physics and biology of Superman’s possible reproduction
- Possible cheap hyrodgen to fuel cars.
- Why women have fat thighs.
- Amazing RC Plane Demo
- Get rid of the Thumbs.db file that Windows creates in every folder.
- Julian Sanchez and the conflicts that a pro-drug legalization citizen (like myself) faces when called for Jury Duty. I had a similar internal conversation with myself last year when I was called.
Quotes That Caught My Eye
Eric Hoffer- The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility.
- We lie the loudest when we lie to ourselves.
- It is thus with most of us; we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay.
- Acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
- There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don’t know.
- To be positive: To be mistaken at the top of one’s voice.
- An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
- Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.
- Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
- Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
- I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
- It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
- Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.
- The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.
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Science Tuesday
In further effort to drive the biking in darkness post farther down the page I bring you Popular Mechanics interesting article comparing alternative fuels, as well as their article on souping up the human body.
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A masterpiece
The Phillips/Norelco Bodygroom site. Absolutely perfect use of Flash, video and cleverness. A rare meeting of high tech and high concept.
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Anniversaries of no consequence
- I recently went three and a half weeks without rebooting my workstation, which is possibly an all time record for me. (I usually average two weeks).
- It has been 12 years since I’ve seen a doctor. Three more years and I’m a common-law Christian Scientist!
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Web video is on it’s way
In particular there is Video Egg. Very cool.
I stumbled across it via Pamela of Atlas Shrugs. I do have to say that pro-Bush apparachiks with strong New York accents give life a new horror. Hot Air does a better job with both the video and the vitriol.
Granted, I think partisan bickering is a sign of strength and self-esteem, but at some point it gets silly.
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Monday round up
- Catch and release attention
- Google Earth now tracks flights.
- Michael Yon is in Afghanistan, with some stunning photography.
- A massive list of free utility software.
- Positive imaging.