The Lockdown: Locked, but not secure (Part I) – Engadget More on bump keying (tags: locks lockpicking) Download of the Day: Internet Explorer 7 Release Candidate (Windows) – Lifehacker IE7 is available if you are interested. I’ll stick with Firefox. (tags: microsoft)
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Peter Hamilton writes bricks. I first encountered Hamilton from the Science Fiction Book Club. They were selling the first four books of the Night’s Dawn series as two volumes: The Neutronium Alchemist and The Reality Dysfunction. Later, The Naked God (two books again in one volume) came along to finish off the series, which is [...]
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Megadeath is mad at the UN. Heavy metal maven Dave Mustaine is so angry with the United Nations that he is naming his group Megadeth’s next album “United Abominations.” “I was watching TV and saw the trucks that said ‘UN’ on them and said, ‘Man, you are so uncool, ineffective, anything,” the singer/guitarist said in [...]
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CNN runs a story on the web site today under a headline. But before we get to the headline, let’s check out the first two paragraphs. Less than half of Americans believe the United States is now safer from terrorism than it was before September 11, 2001, according to a CNN poll released Wednesday. Forty-three [...]
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Hot Library Smut Not what you think. Gives me ideas for home improvement projects. (tags: photography library)
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Employees are thinking twice about working for companies that restrict net access. Microsoft says that many employers need to free up their Internet access policies in order to appear more attractive to potential hires. That’s the message coming from the Microsoft Tech.Ed 2006 conference in Sydney, where Microsoft Senior Design Anthropologist Anne Kirah recently spoke. [...]
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Thanks to frequent commenter Paul Williams for the link here. Journalism has been taking a lot of hits lately. We’ve had the Reuters photojournalism scandal. We had Rathergate. Awhile back we had a Pew poll that revealed a serious erosion in public trust of the media. I personally can’t get through ten minutes of CNN [...]
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While nothing remarkable happened on the 22nd, it looks as if Iran still has some plans for later in the month. The Iranian news service Al-Borz, which is known to have access to sources in the Iranian government, predicted that on the first anniversary of Iranian President Ahmadinejad’s government, in late August 2006, Ahmadinejad is [...]
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Israel is forced to sit idly by while Syria and Iran violate the Hezbo deal. Iran treats the UN like an annoying neighborhood child ringing your doorbell once a week to sell you asparagus flavored candy. North Korea keeps right on launching missiles and are actively digging large holes to test their nuclear weapons. Kofi [...]
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Go over to LGF and watch a native Englishman praise murder after his conversion to Islam. Stunning.
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FSI Language Courses Free language courses. Just in case you really wanted to know Serbo-Croatian. (tags: language learning) anti-telemarketing EGBG counterscript Heh (tags: telemarketing humor)
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Now that the UN has solved the Israeli-Hezbollah problem, what happens next? What does Hezbollah stand for? Hezbollah’s founding primary aim is resistance against the occupation of Lebanon by Israel, which Lebanon government claims it continuous up to now. From the inception of the organization to the present the elimination of the state of Israel [...]
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August 22nd has come and gone and we’re all still here. I guess the Hidden Imam took a look at the state of the Islamic world and decided he really wasn’t interested in returning to lead it into the future. Who can blame him? Iran finally gave an answer about the Great Nuclear Question. Iran [...]
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Guess who is coming to the US next month? Despite a diplomatic standoff over nuclear weapons and other difficult issues, a former Iranian president is making plans to speak next month at the Washington National Cathedral. The former president, Mohammad Khatami, would be the most senior Iranian official to visit Washington since Islamic fundamentalists seized [...]
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I’m not what to say here…other than ‘wtf’.
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Sometimes, having a higher expectation of human character leads one down a difficult path. At times, it would be a lot easier to naturally assume all Men are scoundrels and treat them as such until proven otherwise.On the surface, those sentiments seem opposed to what you might expect out of me; a conservative hawk who [...]
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If you have ever read my blog and thought “I can do better than that” (and who hasn’t, honestly?), here is a really nice screencast tutorial on installing WordPress and getting things configured for your very own blog. I’ve been on Blogger, Movable Type and now WordPress. When it come to ease of use and [...]
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How To Write Unmaintainable Code I’m sure some readers can attest to this. (tags: humor code) Designrific : How I (color blind person) see the world! For my brother (tags: colorblind)
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When I left Atlanta to move closer to my family, I left a lot of good things behind. One of them was my writing group. I was lucky to have a very strong group providing a great deal of mutual support and valuable criticism. Something like that is hard to replace. Recently, I heard some [...]
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