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frugality
I did my taxes this weekend and learned I would be getting an $800 refund. I felt so good I went and bought a whole mess of compact fluorescent lamps to replace all of our incandescent bulbs. All of them. I found a place online that sells them at damn near wholesale cost ($2 for a 13w spring lamp, for instance) and has more varieties that you can ( Read more... ) -
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Look upon this, weep, and know that it is true for this is the reality of massively multi-player online games today:
http://www.raphkoster.com/2006/02/24/what-are-the-lessons-of-mmorpgs-today/ -
Doesn't surprise me, really...
DisorderRatingParanoid Personality Disorder:LowSchizoid Personality Disorder:LowSchizotypal Personality Disorder:LowAntisocial Personality Disorder:LowBorderline Personality Disorder:LowHistrionic Personality Disorder:LowNarcissistic Personality Disorder:ModerateAvoidant Personality Disorder:LowDependent Personality Disorder:LowObsessive-Compulsive ( Read more... ) -
Ooh.. La la!
Get ready for the wackiest amv mashup you've seen since Tainted Doughnuts. From Istiv Stuido, I give you The Race! -
Something...
Persistant vegetative state patients recovered through the use of a sleeping pill. Some pretty amazing stories there. -
Oh hells yes!
Reading this brought a tear to my eye:
Apple Courting Ex-Be, Inc. And Palm Employees?
One of the best parts of the BeOS was exactly how pervasively multi-threaded it was. Thousands of threads all over the place. If you coded a Hello World application, you ended up with a program that had no less than 3 threads... automatically. The entire system ( Read more... ) -
Man Of The Year
This upcoming movie stars Robin Williams as an anchor of a fake news show (think Jon Stewart of the Daily Show) who decides to run for president as a publicity stunt... And wins.
Hell, I'd vote for him.
Man Of The Year (video) via Boing Boing -
OH NOES IM DYINGS!!
Been sick for the past couple of days. Nasty sore throat that's just been getting worse, sinus congestion... Eh, I'll spare you all the details.
Here's what I've been reading in my spare time this morning, however. Enjoy!
Anime - Television Tropes & Idioms -
The Sky Is Falling: Part 2
Makezine has an article on bumpkeys and how they can be used to open locks without a trace. Take a key, any key, and cut it to the maximum depth. Insert the key into a lock, give it a bump, turn and you're in. Works on almost any kind of mechanical lock, even the crazy insane 15-pin multi-sided divot keys that are "unpickable". A thief could easily ( Read more... )
