Sunday, May 08, 2005

From Dave Barry to James Lileks - an eclectic local web site

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LILEKS (James) Welcome! I came here via Dave Barry. To my surprise Lileks is James Lileks, a local strib hack stuck with a mildly annoyi...
Saturday, May 07, 2005

Vonage -- don't use it quite yet

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evhead: Vonage is from hell Abysmal customer service, poor quality. Voice over IP has a way to go still. Strictly for those with more ti...

Nic Wolff's site-specific password generator

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Password generator I blogged on this some months ago, but it's worth noting that Nic has updated his utility. Instead of using a disposa...

Focusing techniques for distractable folk

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Concentrating while studying This is part of a study guide site for students. Works for adult knowledge workers too. For me the iPod and...

Germany and the tyranny of the banks - Gunter Grass

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The Gravest Generation - New York Times, GÜNTER GRASS May 7, 2005 I hope this sounded better in the original German (emphases mine): TOMORRO...
Friday, May 06, 2005

Stories from Mosul

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Michael Yon : Online Magazine: The Battle For Mosul LTC Kurilla ran to the burning Stryker, threw off his protective gear and helmet, leadi...

AP photo of the dying girl in the arms of Major Bieger

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Michael Yon : Online Magazine: Little Girl The Associated Press has featured a photo of an Iraqi girl being cradled in the arms of an Am...

Autism and the Corbett blood chemistry study

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Be the Best You can Be: Autism and the Corbett blood chemistry study Applying mass analysis to develop a statistic signature predictive ...

Awakenings - all too short

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CNN.com - 'Miracle' firefighter received experimental drug treatment - May 5, 2005 Oliver Sacks wrote once of a miracle treatment f...
Thursday, May 05, 2005

The key moment in Graner mistrial

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Judge Rejects Abuse Plea After Ringleader Testifies - New York Times Then he turned to Private England. 'Maybe you think we forgot about...

Tiger and Missing Sync for PalmOS

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Brighthand %u2014 What Mac OS X Tiger Means for Handheld Users The Missing Sync for Palm OS 4.0.4 is generally compatible with Tiger. How...

The evitability of Stalin

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Salon.com Books | The human monster As he told numerous people after Nadya's death, Stalin had been a bad husband. Husband and wife were...

The paradoxical gladness of suffering

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Newsday.com: Doctor who treated herself at South Pole describes ordeal The physician, now healty and a motivational speaker, concludes: ...

The battle for Kansas has been lost

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The evolution of a fight to the end - U.S. News - MSNBC.com The battle for Kansas has been lost. Defenders of Charles Darwin’s theory of...
Wednesday, May 04, 2005

Google Web Accelerator for XP and Firefox (ok, for IE too)

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Google Web Accelerator Google's latest toy. Others have shipped similar bits of software, but this one uses Google's infrastructure ...