Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
Kuro5hin has a brilliant, if lazy, eulogy for George Carlin - who would undoubtedly have loved it.
Pope John Paul II George Carlin embraced the harsh realities of suffering head-on, and showed that they are an integral and unavoidable part of our pilgrimage here on earth, not to be feared but ...
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Thursday, May 29th, 2008
Now that Firefox 3 Release Candidate 1 is out, I've decided to give it a proper trial.
I had tried running Firefox 2 and 3 in parallel on my macbook, but found that 3 would always try and become the default browser, which annoyed me enough to get rid of it. ...
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
ReadWriteWeb has an interesting but not exactly deeply thought-out piece on Link Journalism. I think the point they miss is to question how much journalism done for mainstream media channels is nothing more than repitition of the day's news agenda - it's not a coincidence that most journalists' bosses are ...
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Thursday, July 26th, 2007
Along the lines of my recent post about car-related deaths versus terrorism-related deaths, see this graph representing the amounts of deaths related to different issues.
I may have to steal the 'Saint Pete for Peace' moniker.
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Monday, April 16th, 2007
For years now I've heard tell of 'Sparkle', Microsoft's supposed alternative to the Flash player / platform. At the time of this writing you can find search results on mcrosoft.com about sparkle, but few of those pages exist, and none of the actual product links. I'm guessing, but I ...
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Monday, April 16th, 2007
If you're interested in taking a breakdance course in London you might want to check out the following dance schools:
Basement Dance Studio - York Way
PS2 Breakstation - Kingsland Road
Pineapple Dance Studios - Covent Garden
Most of these studios offer courses for adults and younger learners and other related courses as well, ...
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Friday, April 13th, 2007
I laughed. I know, I'm a geek.
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Thursday, April 12th, 2007
Engadget reports on DARPA developing peril sensitive sunglasses. Oh wait, I mean threat sensitive binoculars. Sorry, my other head is really hungover from a few too many pan galactic gargle blasters.
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Thursday, April 5th, 2007
This looks like it might have passed it's sell by date, but it sure is a beefy font from Robert Bolesta.
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Tuesday, March 6th, 2007
These cartograms of the world give a fantastic perspective on global trends such as military spending, toy imports and hiv infection.
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