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NASA Photos
A friend at work sent me this link to some nice NASA photos from the shuttle Endeavour, no idea what the source is though. I swear the third one looks like a model though.
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Churchill dropped from English curriculum
Not Their Finest Hour is an interesting read on the state of education in England, albeit with a conservative American bias. I stumbled across the article while doing a search for the etymology of the phrase “can’t win for losing” … Continue reading
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So long, and thanks for all the Fish(man)
Hal Fishman passed away at age 75 today, just one week after being diagnosed with colon cancer. While I didn’t watch him all that often I always stopped channel surfing if he came on. I knew he was the model … Continue reading
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Terry Jones’ take on the Scooter Libby sentence
This was a great satirical article by Terry Jones (yes, from Python) about Bush commuting Scooter Libby’s sentence. Article here on the Guardian Unlimited. Here’s a nice quote from the middle of the article: Mind you, Bush’s softening of heart … Continue reading
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MS throws a billion dollars at the 360
This story at Financial Times says that Microsoft will write off $1 billion on extending the warranty to three years due to hardware errors on the XBox 360. The estimated pre-tax charge of between $1.05bn-$1.15bn would cover extended warranties for … Continue reading
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Robot Chicken: Star Wars
As if Robot Chicken weren’t funny enough already there’s a 22 minute Star Wars homage up on Super Deluxe. Here’s the RC:SW page with a link to the full video and extra stuff like wallpaper. You can find the video … Continue reading
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Damn you Desktop Tower Defense!
Somebody recently turned me on to Desktop Tower Defense at Hand Drawn Games and now I’m addicted. It’s one of those “simple enough to learn but hard to master” games. It’s one of the best Flash-based games I’ve played and … Continue reading
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Pessimists
A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists That was Don Marquis’ response to the classic half full/half empty glass description of optimists and pessimists.
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Historical quote of the day: Taxation
From the Old Farmer’s Almanac: If Patrick Henry thought that taxation without representation was bad, he should see how bad it is with representation.
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Terry’s quote of the day: Proactive
Here’s Terry’s memorable (if obvious) quote of the day: Proactive is proactive until it is reactive.
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Holy download speed!
It’s been a while since I did a speed test at DSL Reports and I was happy to see just over 6Mb to Los Angeles but surprised to see this to Palo Alto:
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And another thing: stealing Asian movies & TV
I almost forgot, why do American studios have to rip off good Asian material? For instance, we recently saw The Eye in its original Mandarin with subtitles and it was great! Now I hear that someone in the States is … Continue reading
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Yeah, well why don’t you come up with an original movie idea?
After reading my previous post some folks might say to me “Yeah, well why don’t you come up with an original movie idea?” Guess what, I can’t! That’s right, I really don’t have a creative bone in my body. I … Continue reading
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Why is the movie industry stuck repeating history?
For the past several years I’ve been annoyed at how the movie industry constantly takes the easy way out and copies history rather then coming up with something new. Actually my annoyance probably dates back to when the cheesy CG … Continue reading
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Damn Illegal Aliens!
This guy has got style. Bonus picture of the Governator included at no extra charge.
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