August 2009
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Another slow news day
For you journalists out there, there’s a reason everyday is a slow news day, even when a building has been blown up. (that is, of course unless it was an American building, because apparently Americans are interested in what happens to them.)
It didn’t used to be that news stations had 12 hrs each day of broadcasts to fill. As TV network empires flourished, news did not....
Just to be clear...
hunsonisgroovy:
When I type “lol” on AIM, I am not actually laughing out loud. It’s just a reflex.
Kind of like how I say “thank you” to things when I don’t really mean it.
Update: When I type “hahaha” … I am actually “hahaha-ing”
World Community Grid
There’s a great project going on right now that I encourage everyone to look into. It’s the World Community Grid research project. A program on each of the participating computers runs the client which takes spare, otherwise unused CPU cycles to make calculations for the different projects that are being worked on. These calculations go to solve equations for projects like...
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“My husband and I are poster children for what’s wrong with the current...”
– Mauigirl The Daily Show - An Interview with Bill Kristol
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So in case there was any confusion...
If I ever come across you on the road and you’re driving drunk; I will not hesitate to call the police and report your location and description. I don’t enjoy it when I’m driving at 4am, and just happen to come across someone driving 15mph, coming around a corner, headed right towards me in my lane. I really don’t even care that much about you; if you hit a tree...
“You eventually learn that true priorities are like arms; if you think you have...”
– Merlin Mann
