If George had hired Saul
Opening credits of Star Wars, Saul Bass-style:
[Wave of the phin to Laughing Squid.]
links for 2008-03-03
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Great ways to utilize your RSS feed reader to increase your Bible knowledge. There are verse of the day feeds, a weekly memorization feed, a daily devotional, and 8 different read-the-Bible-in-a-year feeds. A great resource.
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What are the Top 10 web apps? I'm using 6 of the 10: Gmail, Flickr, Twitter, Facebook, Mint, & Last.fm, though I'm using Gmail less these days. Surprising to see Twitter so high on the list at #3, but pleasantly so.
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"What I hear from politicians who have worked with Obama, both in Illinois state politics and here in Washington, gives me pause. [...] Indeed, the trait people remember best about Obama, in addition to his intellect, is his ambition." Well worth a read.
ATPM 14.03
The March issue of About This Particular Macintosh is now available for your reading pleasure. Wes has analysis and the roundup from the blogosphere on Microsoft's attempts thus far to acquire Yahoo!, as well as bits on the MacBook Air, a disastrous HP PC (is "disastrous" redundant there?), the iPhone, and Aperture. Mark notes Apple's approach to design, compared to others. Chuck takes a break from the normal workflow of Filemaking to look at what's new in FileMaker 9. Time warp with us back to the 1950s and 60s with ATPM reader Jennifer Curry's shots of automobiles in and around Havana, Cuba, from a trip she took there in 2006. Sorry, Marty, no De Loreans. Meanwhile, Lisa is history, and the Mudrix code dissolves to nothing as Cortland makes a huge sacrifice to save the woman he loves. But is that sacrifice enough to save Angie from Cortland's enemies in meatspace? Lee puts Microtek's ArtixScan M1 Dual Media Scanner through its paces, while Eric sees if LicenseKeeper can keep track of all those pesky software serial numbers every computer user tends to accumulate. Ellyn shoots a little pool with her Mac, but after finding it really hard to get the chalk off its case, she elected to shoot pool on her Mac, with MacPool. Chris tries to extend the wireless range of his PowerBook with Wi-Fire, while Linus reclaims some space on his hard drive with Xslimmer. As always, we get to the nitty-gritty of Mac and technology products so you don't have to! Every month, About This Particular Macintosh is available in a wide variety of formats for your reading pleasure, and this month is no exception: on the web; as an offline webzine; a PDF optimized for reading on your computer screen; or a PDF optimized for printing. On behalf of the entire staff, I hope you enjoy our work.
links for 2008-03-02
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Nice collection of all user defaults for Mac OS X. Mac geeks only need apply.
links for 2008-03-01
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My new favorite style for Growl.
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Rick Yaeger has a little fun with external hard drive placement.
links for 2008-02-29
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"Obama literalists may read back chapter and verse on his policy initiatives, but let's be real here. Those aren't the reasons for his success. Morover, they were never intended to be the underpinnings of the Obama candidacy."
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"Let's be honest. Barack Obama is not on the verge of clinching the Democratic nomination because of his policy positions--whatever his most evangelical supporters might tell you."
links for 2008-02-27
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A ministry devoted to "rescuing the street children of Latin America", operating centrally in Guatemala.
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Use this link if you need to download Stuffit Expander, without having to go through SmithMicro's annoying registration process.
links for 2008-02-25
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Some amazing photos, courtesy of NASA, of a recent mission by the Space Shuttle Endeavor and her crew.
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Human-powered search engine Mahalo has a nice round-up of all the news relating to the first-ever crash of America's most technologically-advanced bomber, the B-2. Thankfully, both pilots ejected safely.
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Quite a challenge.
links for 2008-02-22
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Still 2 years from release, a massively multiplayer online game where everything is LEGO. Targeted at 8-12 year-olds, but plenty of adults who grew up with LEGOs, including yours truly, are more excited about the game at this point.
links for 2008-02-20
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"Truly you have a dizzying intellect."
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Homer as a Rembrandt.
links for 2008-02-19
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Andy's review of the Drobo backup mechanism is the kind of tech review I can get my wife to read. (And I hope she'll read it, as I think this is our solution for a home network backup system.)
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Forget the Linux requirement of LAMP, Mac users. Now there's MAMP: Mac, Apache, MySQL, and PHP, the latter three in one handy distribution for Mac OS X.
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Science fiction and fantasy author Steven Brust has written a fan fiction Firefly novel, posting it for free. All you Browncoats, put your bibs on, okay?
links for 2008-02-18
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"This little beauty fires 12 rounds of 10 mm steel balls in under 2 seconds..."
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Coming June 4th. I may have to get the Jango Fett, since I have son Boba. I like the Yoda, too. I wonder if the right hand of Empire Strikes Back Luke comes off...
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We love the Heroes-style figures in our home, and this line-up threatens to send me over the edge. Sail Barge Leia, Gree, Shaak Ti, Ewoks, the Millenium Falcon, AT-RT, Vader's TIE Fighter, a Sandtrooper on a Dewback!
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Indiana Jones comes to the Mighty Muggs line. Yes!
He exists and loves us
[A]nother way I'm convinced He exists and loves us -- on the most base of levels -- is that He hasn't simply wiped us off the face of the earth. I don't struggle with the whole "why does God let bad things happen" -- that's simple to dismiss, and maybe I will here one day. What I'm getting at is that He has such enormous self-control -- if I were Him, there would only be a scant few humans left on the planet.
It's one of two things: He loves as much as He says He does, or He doesn't give a rat's behind about us. With much thanks I know wholeheartedly that the latter isn't true, so once again I'm amazed at how patient God is with us, and how He loves us, though we pain Him so.
links for 2008-02-16
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Flash-based game featuring the LEGO version of Indiana Jones.
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Shrink your Windows XP folder at your own risk.
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Neat little piece from The Economist on Twitter. You are on Twitter, aren't you?
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If you're looking for something new to decorate your computer's desktop with, there's a ton of great wallpaper linked to here.
Swedish Sushi
My pal Heather sent me a great recipe for sushi that nearly anyone will eat. I know what you might be thinking: Not me, I'll never eat raw fish. I've had that thought, too, but I love this sushi!
Here's the recipe:
Swedish Fish/Rice Crispy Sushi Treats
Ingredients:
- 1 package Swedish fish
- 1/4 cup butter
- 1 (10.5 oz.) package of marshmallows
- 5 cups crispy rice cereal
- 1 box fruit by the foot (blue or green)
Directions:
1. In a large microwave safe bowl, combine butter and marshmallows. Microwave on high for 1 to 2 minutes, stirring every 30 seconds, until smooth.
2. Remove from the oven and stir in the cereal.
3. Working with the mixture while it is still warm, shape into small ovals in the palm of your hand. It helps to put a little butter on your hands before working with it.
4. Cut strips of fruit by the foot to fit around each ball. Place one Swedish fish on each ball and wrap fruit strip around it. Let cool and serve!
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As the chef, I, of course, had to sample the product, for quality assurance purposes. Two enthusiastic thumbs up!
New hat
The Disney Store online outlet was blowing out these green knit hats for three bucks each. They happened to have both boy and adult sizes, and I couldn't resist...
Extreme Close-up!!!
A couple of weeks ago, I got in close on the little phisch for some camera shots.
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