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Shadegg On 9/11 Trials: What If Bloomberg's Daughter Gets Kidnapped? | TPM LiveWire
Lovely. Glad that we're bravely facing adversity.
(tags: gop terrorism )
Star Wars: Trench Run game released for iPhone | The Loop
Looks like I've found my next time waster.
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One of the more evocative notes in the
official history of the Virginia Glee Club is this,
from Philip Alexander Bruce’s centennial review of the University : In January, 1915, Professor Hall-Quest , who, during six years, had been in charge of the Princeton Glee Club, undertook to ...
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Glee Club history: The mysterious A. L. Hall-Quest
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Conservatives Say Gitmo Detainees Would Be Fine In IL Prison, Warn GOP Of 'Scaremongering' | TPMDC
As John Gruber wrote, I never thought I'd say it but I agree with Grover Norquist.
(tags: terrorism law )
Two cheers for Google Books | Digital Media – CNET News
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I could have sworn that I wrote something else about our addition project since the foundation was completed in mid-October , but it seems I didn’t. It’s really astonishing what you can do in a month:
First floor framing
Moved utilities
Cut a door in the basement wall
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Ad Hoc Fried Chicken Recipe! (inuyaki.com)
Awesome sounding fried chicken recipe including some fancy-schmancy sous vide.
(tags: cucina recipes friedchicken )
Ultimate mobile deathmatch: iPhone vs. BlackBerry vs. Droid vs. Pre
Mobile deathmatch calls out the iPhone on ...
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Evan Williams | evhead: Why Retweet works the way it does
Good explanation of the evolution of Twitter's official retweet feature. My takeaway: RT in Twitter should now only be used as an amplifier. If you want to comment on someone's tweet, comment on it and point to the original with ...
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It’s been an interesting few days. While I was tied up at work, home, and a class, a lot of debate raged about my open letter to Peter Vadala , both here and where it was replicated on Facebook. (Side note: the major difference between this blog and Facebook was that here a bunch of total ...
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Save some features for later : How To Be A Good Product Manager: Product management tips
Interesting advice for how to stage features across multiple releases rather than going for the big bang. In my book the last point is the best–if you don't get customer feedback before making ...
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I was watching the evening news tonight, something I do rarely, when my attention was caught by a local item about a man named Peter Vadala being fired from his job because he “expressed his opinions” about gay marriage.
The story went on to clarify: a coworker mentioned that she ...
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First iPhone worm discovered – ikee changes wallpaper to Rick Astley photo | Graham Cluley's blog
On the one hand: "hey, mobile phone vulnerability!" On the other hand, if you're jailbreaking and installing ssh, but not changing your root password… maybe you ...
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Nine Worthies (4): Maazel’s Metronome | Classical Music
"Here’s what Beethoven’s Ninth felt like on Friday, with Lorin Maazel conducting the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Imagine that you gave someone a fancy sports car, and they drove it around for a while without realizing that it ...
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Feeling "grumpy" makes you think more clearly, study says – Boing Boing
Explains a lot about how I work.
(tags: psychology )
Crash potatoes recipe
I like this — looks nice and background-tasky, which is how I like my vegetables. Plus: rosemary.
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iPhone game dev accused of stealing players' phone numbers – Boing Boing
Best comment: "Apple doesn't look at the source code, they only have access to the binaries. It can be extremely tricky to guess what a program does based on the binaries."
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It wasn’t supposed to be this way. This was supposed to be Maestro Levine’s first complete Beethoven symphony cycle (he’s never conducted the 4th). But he ruptured a disc, is still out following surgery, and so the entire cycle has been taken by guest conductors. For the ...
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October 2009 browser stats: Firefox finally passes IE6 – Ars Technica
When IE6 withers away to nothingness, I hope I'm still alive to dance on its grave.
(tags: ie6 firefox )
LEGO Millennium Falcon Scheduled for Termination | GeekDad | Wired.com
I wouldn't mind having ...
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The story so far, in one picture (Paul Krugman Blog – NYTimes.com)
It's not definitive, but Krugman's chart of world industrial production gives some intellectual support to the idea that we've pulled back from the brink.
(tags: economy )
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Derek Perez – Call To Action; You need to have me at hello.
Interesting notes about signup pages (customer acquisition via conversion forms).
(tags: design marketing usability user )
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A reminder that addons, extensions, and other bolt-on software capabilities aren’t free:
It was a maddening bug. On my machine, and mine alone, our web based application slowed to a crawl when I chose a particular option. No one else could recreate the bug.
As I was showing the bug to ...
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Wondermark » Archive » #566; Supernatural Collective Nouns.
Favorites: "a lamentation of Morlocks," "a murmur of the possessed," and "a delectation of nymphs."
(tags: kommix )
Colorjive – Home
Oh yeah. Digital paint for easy home renovation ...
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Color design in It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
Brilliant review of how color design conveys mood, emotion, and story through a classic children's show–just in time for Halloween. Good read for designers.
(tags: color design peanuts television )
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