May 2011
28 posts
Superheroes: Given our current technology and with... →
The EULA for Nook for Mac is over 21,000 words long. Does B&N expect me to read a book in order to read books on my mac? @nookBN
Wireless Carriers
Suffice it to say that there are a lot of problems with wireless carriers today. Like the phone company of yesteryear, pretty much everyone hates or strongly dislikes their cell phone carrier. This stems from a long train of practices that were anti-consumer and monopolistic at best. In the last few years this has gotten markedly better, but there is still a ways to go. While there are hyperbolic...
“Many choose to find their hope in the thoughts of afterlife, when there is none...”
– As I Lay Dying - Upside Down Kingdom
“I need to know that feelings of discontent are stronger than indifference for...”
– As I Lay Dying - Anger And Apathy
Pawlenty: Real change is about telling hard truths... →
The Twilight Of Our Literacy, Part 3 →
“How can I learn more about Katy Perry? Only resource I found is everywhere...”
– @Merlin Mann
“When people in Washington start creating fancy new phrases, instead of using...”
– Fed Up with the Fed? - Page 1 - Thomas Sowell - Townhall Conservative
“You can buy a daily planner and a to-do list application for your phone. You can...”
– Procrastination « You Are Not So Smart
The Cure for the Modern Male Malaise: The 5... →
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Comic for May 11, 2011 →
It Must Have Been A New Moon →
What we’ve learned about Obama (and power) →
“Facebook is designed (and free for you to use because of it) to be a...”
– Goodbye, Facebook | Simple. Organized. Life.
Understanding CPU caching and performance →
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Texting and the turnpike: notes from a road trip →
Amen to this. I’m glad I never got on the texting bandwagon.
“Only voluntary, inspired self-restraint can raise man above the world stream of...”
– Solzhenitsyn’s Harvard Address
“If humanism were right in declaring that man is born to be happy, he would not...”
– Solzhenitsyn’s Harvard Address
“In spite of the abundance of information, or maybe because of it, the West has...”
– Solzhenitsyn’s Harvard Address
“But the fight for our planet, physical and spiritual, a fight of cosmic...”
– Solzhenitsyn’s Harvard Address
“The ideas of economist and political philosophers, both when they are right and...”
– John Maynard Keynes
As an atheist, I truly believe Africa needs God |... →
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Russell, Bertrand →