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F-16 pilot was ready to give her life on Sept. 11
Seeded on Sat Sep 10, 2011 10:05 AM EDT (The Washington Post)
Although I'm not a fan of the USA (forgive the bluntness, my North American friends), I deeply admire and respect acts of courage and bravery like the one presented in this article.
How thieves can track down your address ONE MINUTE after you update Facebook
Seeded on Thu Apr 28, 2011 10:13 AM EDT (the Mail online)
An interesting and troubling report about the dangers of sharing too much information on social networking sites.
Satellite Photos - Japan Before and After Tsunami
Seeded on Fri Mar 18, 2011 9:03 AM EDT (The New York Times)
Impressive, terrible photos. Click on left and right sides of photos to see complete pictures. Sobering to say the least ...
Journalism Warning Labels
Seeded on Sat Aug 14, 2010 11:03 AM EDT (tomscott.com)
It seems a bit strange to me that the media carefully warn about and label any content that involves sex, violence or strong language — but there's no similar labelling system for, say, sloppy journalism and other questionable content.
New Sharpie Liquid Pencil
Seeded on Mon Aug 9, 2010 2:29 PM EDT (blog.sharpie.com)
Writes like a pen, erases like a pencil, and becomes permanent after three days. Cool, or what? :-)
Freeware Coolness Crushes iCal Shortcoming
Seeded on Thu Aug 5, 2010 11:56 AM EDT (db.tidbits.com)
An interesting way to have your future events displayed permanently on your Mac OSX screen, updated at regular intervals, using free software.
Service: Open URLs in Safari Tabs
Seeded on Thu Aug 5, 2010 11:28 AM EDT (Daring Fireball)
Using a clever regex pattern of his, which identifies URL's in text, John Grubber offers a Snow Leopard service that will find any URL's in user-selected text and open them in Safari, each in its own tab. An extremely useful little bit of code.
Doing the Math on Android vs. Apple
Seeded on Tue Aug 3, 2010 11:38 AM EDT (Wired News)
Another perspective on the current reports of Android's progress. The trouble with this horse race, however, is that one horse's progress is being measured in meters while the other is being measured in yards. The comparison between Android and the iPhone is meaningless.
A rich man
Mon Jul 26, 2010 10:14 AM EDT
A couple of decades ago, in the most prosperous state of Brazil, a young man in his early twenties seemed to be doing well (by most standards), with a very bright and promising future. Then he turned his back on everything to follow the path his faith desired.
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Betraying J.D. Salinger
Seeded on Fri Apr 9, 2010 11:37 AM EDT (New York Magazine)
How a Book Publisher Failed to Get J.D. Salinger's Final Book 'Hapworth 16, 1924' Into Print. I scored the publishing coup of the decade: his final book. And then I blew it. A fascinating insight on Salinger's mind.
Playing Chess With Kubrick
Seeded on Tue Apr 6, 2010 9:13 AM EDT (blogs.nybooks.com)
If you like chess and/or Stanley Kubrick, you'll enjoy this lovely account of Jeremy Bernstein's acquaintance with Kubrick.
The photograph that defined the class divide
Seeded on Wed Mar 31, 2010 12:52 PM EDT (Guardian Unlimited)
In 1937, five boys were famously snapped standing outside Lord's. But who were they, what were they doing there – and what happened to them? The answer is surprising . . .
My Head is in the Cloud
Seeded on Thu Mar 18, 2010 2:06 PM EDT (tweetagewasteland.com)
An interesting essay on how we are becoming dependent on technology for our memories. My head is in the cloud.
A letter to my friend [fiction]
Tue Feb 9, 2010 1:13 PM EST
Paddy, I think I'm dying. I don't mean "dying" in the generic, fate-of-all-mankind way; not as in "we're-all-going-to-die-some-day" type of statement. I really think I'm getting to the end of the race, so to speak.
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MacBook Pros (07-08) with defective graphics card
Seeded on Sat May 9, 2009 9:08 AM EDT (Apple)
If you own a Macbook Pro manufactured between May 2007 and September 2008 with the GeForce 8600M GT graphics processor, and you are having video problems, get in touch with Apple.
If You Don't Matter to God, You Don't Matter to Anyone - Answers in Genesis
Seeded on Fri Apr 24, 2009 1:32 PM EDT (Answers in Genesis Articles)
if we are just "all animals, descendants of a vast lineage of replicators sprung from primordial pond scum," as stated in a Scientific American article on social Darwinism in 1995—then what one bag of biological chemicals does to another bag of biological chemicals is ethic …
Species survives without genetic variation
Wed Mar 18, 2009 10:20 PM EDT
A Brazilian daily newspaper (Folha de Sao Paulo) has an article today about the discovery of a small population of preas (a small mammal of the Cavia intermedia species) in an island in Santa Catarina, a Southern state of Brazil.
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Convert picture to text
Seeded on Wed Mar 11, 2009 8:21 AM EDT (photo2text.com)
Upload a picture from your computer (photo, clip-art, etc.), and have it converted to ascii-art. Brilliant :-)
Beauty and Joy from Sorrow
Sun Mar 8, 2009 5:09 PM EDT
"There is a joy that lies where pearls lie, deep, too deep for those who have no heart to weep" (I. Y. Ewan). I enjoy so much the beauty that is born from sorrow.
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Readability - An Arc90 Lab Experiment
Seeded on Thu Mar 5, 2009 4:35 PM EST (lab.arc90.com)
A brilliant free bookmarklet that removes all the junk from a web page, allowing you to read the main text without distraction. If you like to read on the web, and not only surf, you'll enjoy this.
Two-egg diet cracks cholesterol issue
Seeded on Mon Mar 2, 2009 10:00 AM EST (www2.surrey.ac.uk)
For those of you who like eggs, this is wonderful news. Eat as many as you like, as often as you like, with no guilty conscience. Hard to beat :-)
In Defense of Readers
Seeded on Tue Feb 17, 2009 9:22 PM EST (A List Apart)
An interesting look at how you can design your web-page in such a way as to attract readers, not just skimmers. A must-read for those who must read.
A Brief History of Intolerance in Modern Cosmology
Seeded on Fri Feb 13, 2009 6:25 AM EST (Answers in Genesis Articles)
A look at scientific orthodoxy's intolerance in relation to alternative theories to the Big Bang. Very interesting reading, whatever your views on the subject. Some quotes:
The great Atlantic Ocean swimming hoax
Seeded on Thu Feb 12, 2009 1:04 PM EST (Yahoo! Sports)
Chris Chase writes about "a story that seemed almost too good to be true. That's because it was".
Anti-Bootlegging Measures and the iPhone App Store
Seeded on Thu Feb 12, 2009 5:37 AM EST (Daring Fireball)
Interesting comments by John Grubber on bootlegging, and what developers can do to counter it.
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