Ironic Sans: In a political campaign far, far away... Love the "A New Hope" poster. I would've already bought one if not for the fact that Lucasfilm is such a corporate copyright nazi that they don't let fans make a few bucks off of brilliant stuff like this. Tags: fun, parody, politics, star wars View all my bookmarks on Ma.gnolia

Has the Large Hadron Collider destroyed the world yet? Um....yeah. Like we'd ever see any other answer. Tags: fun, science .- THE CHANGERING Obama 2008 - Home -. My friend Tiffany accurately summed this up in her tweet where I saw this link: "I bet this idea made a lot more sense while the pot was still being smoked." Tags: meaningless symbolism, politics, stupidity MoreCowbell.dj Upload a MP3. Add more cowbell to the song. Oh dear God. Tags: fun, music View all my bookmarks on Ma.gnolia

Diamond Insider: A Mervis Blog » Tell Us Your Stories » We Interview Tom Bridge of WeLoveDC. Because We Also Love DC. My friend Tom is interviewed about his relationship, proposal, and marriage to my friend Tiffany. I'm still pleased to have been somewhat on the inside track regarding Tom's purchasing the ring, planning the proposal, etc. Politely ignore that the last two paragraphs of the post are a none-too-thinly veiled advertisement for the blog's corporate parent. Tags: friends, love, marriage DiscCloud - Home "With DiscCloud, you can transform a PC, Workstation, or other x86 based machine into a powerful Leopard Desktop Server. Once your desktop is in the DiscCloud, you can scale and manage it with VMware on standard x86 servers." Not that I plan on doing anything like this, I just found it intriguing. Tags: cloud computing, leopard, mac, virtual machine Police Get Geeky with Twitter | PSFK - Trends, Ideas & Inspiration "Police in Scottsdale, Arizona are using the micro blogging service to send out alerts on pertinent town information such as road closings, traffic problems, power outages and severe weather warnings." Tags: police, twitter View all my bookmarks on Ma.gnolia

(New) HD TiVo Coming to DirecTV! Pretty excited, technology-wise. I believe this answers our question of whether to stay with DirecTV or move to Verizon FiOS TV when we're ready to step up to HD. We love our TiVo... Tags: directv, hd, fios, tivo, tv View all my bookmarks on Ma.gnolia

Finishing Well: Strange responses to "pain"
Great piece from my friend Mike. "We will do whatever is needed to keep from feeling pain in the moment. It doesn't really matter to us whether the solution has actually changed anything, but in the moment we 'feel' better. Our whole culture has done that in our response to God. [...] But we do....we will do whatever it takes to 'be happy' and avoid pain in the moment. We divorce our mates to 'be happy.' We hurt others so we can 'be happy.' We make a big change to get a little result in the moment so we feel like we have solved our problem without really changing anything at all. We have yet to resolve the problem, but we feel better."
Tags: god, pain The Tshirt and Tee Search Engine - PleaseDressMe
Pretty nifty. I discovered a new Star Wars t-shirt while playing around with it.
Tags: search, t-shirt The curse word 'Battlestar Galactica' created - CNN.com
Humorous look at the fake curse word "frak". Yes, it's intended as a replacement for exactly the word you're thinking of. I had no idea Glen Larson had coined it during the original Galactica series I watched religiously as a boy. I did, however, remember "feldergarb".
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D90 | D-MOVIE
"Special site for Nikon's next-generation D-SLR, the D90. This features detailed product information and a variety of sample images, as well as movies captured with the D90's new innovative movie function, D-Movie." The first digital SLR to shoot movies. And they're pretty impressive movies, considering it's a dSLR and not a dedicated video camera.
Tags: camera, nikon, movies, photography, video bradandgeo: 'cognitive surplus' and the church...
"And when people come out of this stupor, what you find is people not wanting a passive, received religion, but a spirituality that they are a part of, or as the article says, an 'architecture of participation'. And this is ironic because this is exactly the same shift that needed to happen 2000 years ago - the shift from one priest to the 'priesthood of all believers'; the shift from a few select leaders to a plurality of 'gifts' making up the body as a whole." This certainly engaged my gray matter...
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China's totalitarian games - The Boston Globe
Jeff Jacoby sums up why I did my best to boycott watching this year's Olympic Games. (I confess I failed due to having nowhere else to go while the missus watched the various sporting contests. (Sheesh, as if "rhythmic gymnastics", aka, dancing with a hula hoop, is really a sport.) )
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The Eternal Value of Privacy
"Supporters of wholesale government surveillance are fond of saying that only the guilty should be worried about spying. Let's put that spurious argument out to pasture once and for all. Commentary by Bruce Schneier." Definite food for thought. This stood out to me: "A future in which privacy would face constant assault was so alien to the framers of the Constitution that it never occurred to them to call out privacy as an explicit right. Privacy was inherent to the nobility of their being and their cause. Of course being watched in your own home was unreasonable. Watching at all was an act so unseemly as to be inconceivable among gentlemen in their day. You watched convicted criminals, not free citizens. You ruled your own home. It's intrinsic to the concept of liberty."
Tags: liberty, politics, privacy Glassdoor.com - Company Ratings, Reviews, and Salaries
Employees can post reviews of the companies they work for, as well as salary histories. The thought is that you can research places you may want to go work to get a realistic expectation of what it's like. I haven't delved in to Glassdoor.com, but I can see the potential for it to become one massive bitch session for unhappy employees.
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Doc Searls Weblog · Is Yahoo a better search engine than Google?
Doc Searls runs some search tests on his old blog, and learns that Yahoo's consistently coming up with better results than Google.
Tags: google, search, yahoo Breaking Bad Spending Habits
Good common sense advice that too many of us these days don't use. One way I've changed my book buying habit is to buy books when they hit the sale rack at Barnes & Noble, or if new, at Costco where they're deeply discounted. I'm also utilizing BookMooch a lot more.
Tags: finance, money The myth of the white minority - The Boston Globe
Jeff Jacoby's latest. As our impending adoption of a "Hispanic" baby looms closer (truthfully, any moment now), my wife and I found this fascinating.
Tags: opinion, politics, race i.engadget.com - Engadget for your iPhone or iPod touch - Engadget
"So far in 2008, the iPhone, iPhone 3G, and iPod touch account for some 95.8% of all mobile views on the site. We're not even kidding." So they decided to optimize the popular gadget/technology web site for the iPhone/iPod touch.
Tags: gadget, iphone, ipod, technology, web site Commuter Flights Grounded Thanks To Bumbling TSA Inspector - Aero-News Network: The Aviation and Aerospace World's Daily/Real-Time News and Information Service
"This was an extraordinarily dangerous incident, folks. The TSA has neither the mandate nor the knowledge to inspect any aircraft for any reason." Craig Hockenberry sums it up pretty well on Twitter: "So when the TSA actually causes a plane to crash, will we still put up with their s**t?"
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Death Star over San Francisco // Current
"Imperial Fleet Week SF." Pretty nifty video splicing, especially of the scenes with the Death Star just hanging in the sky.
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Tweet Scan
Real-time search of the Twitter public timeline.
Tags: search, twitter TapeDeck. ▸▸ The tape recorder...fast-forwarded to Mac OS X.
"TapeDeck is a powerful and fun new audio recorder for Mac OS X Leopard. It’s just like your old analog tape recorder, only better. A lot better."
Tags: audio, mac, recording, software Don’t Check Your Valuables — Matt Mullenweg
I always carry my camera and computer gear on to the plane. Always.
Tags: travel, tips Dissolving Paper Shampoo | Uncrate
"Forget packing the tiny travel bottle on your next trip and instead opt for some Dissolving Paper Shampoo ($13). The mint-scented paper shampoo comes in packs of 30 inside a convenient plastic travel case..."
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BustedTees - Schematics of the Death Star Poster
Made me laugh out loud. I'm open to someone gifting this to me...
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iChat's contact list goes on an iChat Pro diet
A just-in-case link, should I decide to switch from Adium back to iChat. (Easy, built-in chat transcript viewing is what keeps me on Adium. I use it at once a week...)
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MyFox Atlanta | 'Cheesus?': Woman Finds Jesus In Bag of Cheetos
Two things I found telling from the article: "The pastor of Kirkwood United Methodist Church does not see anything theologically special about the Cheeto, but thinks some good could come from it. Pastor David Bennett says, 'If people can find Jesus, somehow, in each of us like she's found in this object, that would be a wonderful thing.' "Kelly doesn't plan to sell the Cheeto and will keep it in a safe deposit box." The pastor calls it. And if I were Kelly, I'd have eaten it. Photographed it, sure. Shared the photo with my friends, posted it to Flickr, whatever. But I'd have eaten "Cheesus". It's just a Cheeto. And Cheetos are yummy...
Tags: cheeto, food, jesus Neuromarketing » Please Your Guests by Fooling Them
The gist: more expensive wine isn't necessarily better. Unlike, say, a real drink like scotch...
Tags: wine The 10 Best Kitchen Implements For Fighting Off a Ninja
I think I'd go with the cutting board and the frying pan. Those just seem the best way to go all melee on that sneaky little ninja's hide.
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Number of Men In the United States Who Will Die In 2008 As A Result Of...
Interesting graphic.
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Leopard savaging a crocodile caught on camera - Telegraph
Wow.
Tags: animal, crocodile, leopard, photo, photography Tor.com / After the Coup by John Scalzi
Short story set in the Old Man's War universe. My favorite part: "Jazz hands."
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Audiko
"audiko is a simple service which helps you to make a ringtone of your favorite song!" Plus there's quite the selection of ringtones there already, in MP3 format, as well as m4r for your iPhone. Totally free. (Until the RIAA overlords come crashing down upon it, that is...)
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Billy Graham on technology, faith and suffering | Video on TED.com
"Speaking at TED in 1998, Rev. Billy Graham marvels at technology's power to improve lives and change the world -- but says the end of evil, suffering and death will come only after the world accepts Christ." Set aside half an hour of your time and watch this.
Tags: bible, billy graham, god, technology, ted, video An Enduring Measure of Fitness: The Simple Push-Up - New York Times
"The push-up is the ultimate barometer of fitness. It tests the whole body, engaging muscle groups in the arms, chest, abdomen, hips and legs. It requires the body to be taut like a plank with toes and palms on the floor. The act of lifting and lowering one's entire weight is taxing even for the very fit."
Tags: exercise, fitness, push-up Practical tips from a long time cafe warrior
My friend Michael has some advice for those who call coffee shops their office.
Tags: business, gtd, tips Editorial Observer - Losing Private Dwyer, War Hero - Editorial - NYTimes.com
"Pfc. Joseph Dwyer was a model of the strength and selflessness of the American soldier fighting in Iraq. But it was post-traumatic stress disorder and addiction that eventually killed him." Please, please, please, servicemen and women: seek help if you need to. You've certainly earned it.
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Hey Raena » Dear journalists
Gal pal Raena A., from Down Under, offers some helpful tips to journalists covering the goings-on of the Internet. Heed, Columbia J. school grads...
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On The Edge 2-Stroke Gas-Powered Party Blender, Model# 900108 | Party Blenders | Northern Tool + Equipment
"The On The Edge 2-Stroke Gas-Powered Party Blender brings power to your festivities. Crank the handlebar throttle to create delicious blender beverages." Now that's a blender...
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