Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Bloggers (3)
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The first thing I upon reading the letter below (reproduced exactly as sent, including the awesome captions) did was to write back and tell them I AM A BAD ROLE MODEL. If anyone should be looked up to, it's these girls. Just as an example of how far ahead of me they are, btw? When I was in high school, my friends and I had a similar fan club, but we were just really into ...
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Anna said:
This is adorable.
Planets Converging Like Your Thanksgiving Yams and Peas This Weekend (1)
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Reader Mike Eisenhut sent us this photo yesterday (knowing this writer's predilection for space stuff) of Jupiter and Venus glowing brightly behind the Washington Monument. That's Venus just to the left, about halfway up the Monument, and Jupiter to its upper left. But this is more than just a neat photo for space nerds. While you're taking a break from your raucous family gatherings this weekend, we encourage you to look up to the sky ...
Music Has the Right to Children by Boards of Canada (djempirical Music Review) (1)
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My used copy had a Braille sticker on the front, previously own by a blind person. Makes sense, though -- this is music you FEEL.
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dj empirical said:
musebin is a twitter-style music review site with digg-style review ratings. me likey.
Atlantic Records Says Digital Sales Surpass CDs - NYTimes.com (1)
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Digital Sales Surpass CDs at Atlantic John Shearer/Wireimage.ComThe rapper T.I., left, with Julie Greenwald, the president of Atlantic Records, and Craig Kallman, Atlantic’s chairman. E-MailPrintReprints Save ShareLinkedinDiggFacebookMixxYahoo! BuzzPermalink By TIM ARANGOPublished: November 25, 2008 Since MP3s first became popular a decade ago, music industry executives have obsessed over this question: when would digital music revenue finally surpass compact disc sales? Skip to next paragraph MultimediaGraphicMusic Downloads Increase, but Not Enough For Atlantic Records, the label ...
Conceptually simple hack turns VGA port into power-only USB socket (15)
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Seriously, it should be a Class 1 felony that there's no way to buy this. Okay, so maybe that's a stretch, but we can't get over how genius this is. As the old adage asserts, the best solutions are spawned from the most perplexing quandaries, and when one hacker determined that two USB ports on his laptop simply weren't enough, he figured out a way around it. Essentially, he utilized a VGA gender changer, a ...
bmv reverses license plate policy (1)
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good news! getting an "in god we trust" vanity license plate that reads MARS or BAAL just got a lot easier: Indiana is ending a short-lived policy which had barred God from being used on personalized license plates.this is great, if for no other reason than because the policy was an unconstitutional prior restraint. Today, Stiver said the BMV is returning to the original policy, in which a committee of BMV employees decides whether to ...
Boast love of obsolete technology with T-shirt (3)
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To be proud of one's status as a has-been is a smug pleasure we should all look forward to. Signals' T-Shirt, "Traveling 33 RPM in an iPod world," could even be purchased now and then stored until about 2040. Finally worn, it will by that time be completely baffling to everyone, even oneself. "Traveling celluloid cylinders in a punchcard world," anyone? Product Page [Signals]
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dj empirical said:
that trademark sign on the ipod just irks me for some reason...
Salt Lake Tribune: Prop 8 become a PR Disaster for Mormons (4)
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When your biggest negatives are that people think you're pushy, rich, secretive, weird, and hell-bent on imposing your seemingly-cultish way of life on them, the last thing you should do is use gobs of money to force your views on millions of others. It's not clear what the Mormons were thinking, but in the process, they may have made a few friends on the religious right - friends who still think the Mormons are a ...
NICE: Florida court sides with common sense (1)
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WOW: BREAKING NEWS: Florida Adoption Ban Ruled Unconstitutional [Family Equality Council] Florida ban on gay adoptions ruled unconstitutional [Miami Herald] That's two pro-equality rulings in the past three months. So get ready, those Floridians who have adopted bias. It looks like your unruly baby is soon to be taken away from you. **EARLIER: Florida: Will state (f)law continue its fall? [G-A-Y]
Vote Much? (1)
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I'm not sure how I got on their list, but one of my morning news spam emails is the "Family Security Newsletter," which I swear to God I assumed had to do with, you know, security, until I read it and realized it was about protecting the family from GODLESS HEATHEN LIBERALS and not burglars or whatever. It's a round up of links to conservative columnists and whatnot and I mostly just delete without reading ...
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