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Brenthaven: The best computer backpack I've ever seen Filed under: Accessories, Reviews. The TUAW gang have been searching for great holiday gift ideas and I think I've found one that's been right under my nose for five years. When I bought my brand new PowerBook G4 17" in 2004, ... Are subscription game item shops the third Trammel? Filed under: MMO industry, Making money, Opinion. We like to keep our ear to the blogging (under)ground here at Massively because we often find interesting ideas and perspectives on the MMO industry. For instance, Green Armadillo of ... Joe Cirincione: Berlin '89: When the Impossible Became Real I was in Berlin 20 years ago this week. I saw the impossible first hand: the people of Germany taking down the Wall. I was then working on the professional staff of the House Armed Services Committee. We were on a staff tour of NATO ... Wink: Making screencast tutorials Debugmode Wink is a freeware piece of software for both business as well as personal use for doing screencasts and incorporating sound into your screen captures. The main useful format it outputs to is macromedia flash though you can ... Stiglitz and Orszags on Fannie Mae The paper concludes that the probability of default by the GSEs is extremely small. Given this, the expected monetary costs of exposure to GSE insolvency are relatively small even given very large levels of outstanding GSE debt and ... Teabaggers attack Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel The photo below is of Elie Wiesel in the Buchenwald concentration camp. He's in the second row from the bottom, seventh from the left (next to the wood support). Holocaust survivor and Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel criticized a Teabagger ... Long Before Berlin Long before the Berlin Wall came down, there was May Day in New York. Thinking back about the flow of history these last forty years or so, there have been many other signposts. But it is May 1, 1975, that stands out in memory as a ... Mobile Location Is Charting a Quick Path to Growth Location is a core element in mobile applications and smartphones. We take our mobile devices with us everywhere we go. Their location, and the context in which we use them, changes constantly. In the next two years, location will ... Five Best Antivirus Applications Computer viruses are increasingly sophisticated and pervasive. If you can't afford to run your computer without some sort of antivirus software installed, check out these five popular options to protect your PC. ... TechCrunch Japan TokyoCamp: 29 Asian Companies Show Their Wares techccrunch_japan techrunch_japan_tokyo_camp The TechCrunch Japan TokyoCamp 2009, a demo event for web startups that took place this Friday, was a total blast. No less than 350 people came to the demo pit and meetup, ... Real Oklahoma Students Ace Citizenship Exam; Strategic Vision ... In detailing some of the evidence against Strategic Vision LLC, a pollster I am now almost certain is disreputable and fraudulent, I pointed in particular to a poll that they conducted on behalf of the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs ... Cuba: Yoani Sanchez & Other Bloggers Seized Perhaps it was only a matter of time, but Yoan Snchez, Cuba's most famous blogger, who has received countless international awards for her activism, was detained briefly and beaten by Cuban authorities on November 6, along with fellow ... Domenica in tv senza Report. Gianfranco Fini a Che tempo che fa Purtroppo per una domenica dovremo fare a meno del classico appuntamento con Report. Il programma di inchieste condotto da Milena Gabanelli lascia infatti il posto allo Speciale Elisir sulla lotta contro il cancro e torner domenica ... NSFW: After Fort Hood, another example of how 'citizen journalists ... I'd probably feel slightly smug, if I didn't feel so sick. Smug that after two weeks of me suggesting that social media might not be an unequivocally Good Thing in terms of privacy and human decency, the news has delivered the perfect ... Peru: One Hundred Years of Writer Ciro Alegra One hundred years ago, Peruvian writer Ciro Alegra was born in the Northern Department of La Libertad, and who wrote novels such as The Golden Snake (1935) and The Hungry Dogs (1939). Alegra's works often centered on indigenous ... Tribalism and the Destructive Politics of Demonization (I): The ... I. Introductory Remarks My general title indicates that this group of essays easily could appear in my ongoing Tribalism series. While the subject of these essays might argue for including them there, my focus in the Tribalism essays is ... Cuba: Yoani Sanchez & Other Bloggers Seized Perhaps it was only a matter of time, but Yoan Snchez, Cuba's most famous blogger, who has received countless international awards for her activism, was detained briefly and beaten by Cuban authorities on November 6, along with fellow ... The Climate Clock and Copenhagen Bonfire Image credit:Wikipedia For those concerned about global warming, all eyes are on December's UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. The stakes could not be higher. Almost every new report shows that the climate is changing ... Paul Krugman and Scott Sumner -- who is Nominally Misguided or ... |Peter Boettke|. Paul Krugman provides his take on the Beckworth graph showing the collapse of nominal spending and relates it to his 1998 work on Japan. The upshot, monetary policy will not produce the desired effect in our current ... Cats with fraudulent diplomas Skeptics who believe that a university is actually a diploma mill often prove their point by enrolling their cats in the university's program and seeing whether the cat can get a degree. Some enterprising Wikipedians have assembled a ... Pangolin Backpack [Bags] The Pangolin is a spiny anteater covered in razor sharp scales, with razor sharp claws, that can shoot acid out of its anus. This backpack is inspired by the creature. It is made from old truck tires. [wannekes] Iran may have tested advanced warhead explosives, says IAEA report The Guardian: The International Atomic Energy Agency has asked Iran to explain evidence suggesting that Iranian scientists have experimented with an advanced nuclear warhead design, says the Guardian. ... Some east German Protestants feel overlooked as Wall recalled thomaskirche As Germany celebrates the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, some Protestants feel the crucial role their church played in shepharding the democracy movement to success is quietly being overlooked. ... Web Office Suites: Complementary and Coopetive Technologies WebOffice_Logo My recent post 5 Web Office Considerations: Beyond the Buzz garnered some thought provoking comments, which got me pondering on the proper place for the web office suite (whether it is ThinkFree, Zoho or Google Apps) in ... Fake skylight uses solar panels to light LEDs Wish you had a skylight, but don't have the ability to cut a hole in your roof? MAKE subscriber Chris did to, and wrote in to share his solution to the problem: a pv+led based 'fake' skylight. The concept is pretty simple, ... Yankees' Parade The View From ProPublica by Mike Webb and Dan Nguyen, ProPublica . Today, the New York Yankees celebrated their 27th World Series championship with a parade through the Canyon of Heroes. It just so happens that ProPublica's offices are located in the heart of ... Freemasonry, Dan Brown, and the New New Age Freemasonry and the New Age Guestblogger Arthur Goldwag is the author of "Cults, Conspiracies, and Secret Societies: The Straight Scoop on Freemasons, The Illuminati, Skull and Bones, Black Helicopters, The New World Order, and many, ... Was Yesterday Obama's 'Pet Goat' Moment? This morning, President Obama made an appearance in the White House Rose Garden to provide remarks about the new unemployment numbers and the tragedy at Fort Hood. This time, Fort Hood came first. Yesterday, at around 5 pm, ... Cristina Page: Peace and Persuasion Of all the domestic pursuits of Obama's first year, his common ground efforts on abortion have possibly been the most thankless. At some points it appeared the only common ground he had inspired was to unite both sides against it. ... Calculating Risk Over the course of the past year, the MIX Online team has taken some great risks designing and developing our labs. Each lab requires months of effort, and we occasionally have to placate our legal department or internal influencers to ... Nuclear Socialism Brad Plumer has an interesting piece about the American right's strangely passionate love affair with nuclear power and the impact it's having on the climate debate in congress. What I find especially odd about it is that it's so at ... I don't read books anymore That's not precisely true, but my book reading is down to a trickle of what it used to be. Most of my reading happens online for kottke.org and when I'm through with all that, the last thing I want to do is tuck into a book, ... I got a DROID I had to do it. Went down to the Verizon store in El Cerrito and put down $350 and bought the $99 per month unlimited texting plan. Took it home, fell in love. It really is beautiful. I'm an iPhone user who loves the esthetics of the ... Touch This Suzanne Somers is perhaps best known for her role as ditsy Chrissy Snow on Three's Company or Carol Lambert on Step by Step or herself in the Thighmaster infomercial. She's also the author of self help books with lengthy titles like ... Listening in on Twitter This is days past the deadline, completely open and written by a non profit, and has no revenue model associated with it so it isn't intended to be taken seriously as a response to the recent YCombinator Request for Startups. ... Better Angels. Soon after news of the Ft. Hood shooting had reached the airwaves, the Council on American Islamic Relations released a statement saying, "We condemn this cowardly attack in the strongest terms possible. ... Feel That Stimulus! -- By: Jim Geraghty A moment ago, I heard, via XM, some talking head on CNBC insisting that the overall economic picture was "much better than it was six months ago" and repeating "lagging indicator" like he'd been struck with OCD. ... Weekend Project: Making Char Cloth Learn how to make a cheap and effective fire starter made from an old t shirt. To download The Char Cloth video click here and subscribe in iTunes. See Char Cloth in action with the Fire Piston from William Gurstelle. ... Emily Smith on music and food. Last night's trip to the BBC in Glasgow was fun the city was aglow with fireworks exploding all over the sky. When I lived in Glasgow during my student years we had to endure the sound of fireworks most nights for a week either side ... links for 2009-11-06 Menzie Chinn on Why the Hodrick Prescott Filter Is Not a Terribly Interesting Device. Ezra Klein: Congressional Budget Office Thrashes Republican Health Care Plan Congressional Budget Office Thrashes Republican Health Care Plan ... One Voice Means Your LTE Calls Will One Day Be VoIP A large group of carriers and equipment makers yesterday came out in support of a standard called One Voice to provide voice over the next generation Long Term Evolution mobile networks. For those adopting the standard, LTE mobile calls ... Junaio: Will Editable 3D Objects Offer AR-Based Foursquare? Metaio Augmented Reality Solutions is about to announce the release of the company's Junaio iPhone application and ReadWriteWeb has an exclusive pre release review. While other products like Wikitude, Robotvision and Layar allow users ... Guitar Hero, Call of Duty franchises lead Activision's 'better ... Look, just feign surprise, it makes these financial posts so much more exciting: Activision today reported net revenues of $755 million (on a non GAAP basis) in the quarter ending September 30, 2009 that's $55 million more than the ... How crisis leads to progress (aka the Cloud) Here is an admittedly tiny and prosaic example of a big and poetic ideathe idea in Kipling's If and in my book that disaster can be an impostor (as can triumph). The disaster in this case is more of a nuisance, but you will get the ... Venezuela bans violent video games: a first-person guest essay Guido Nez Mujica, a 26 year old Boing Boing reader in Venezuela who is an avid gamer, writes in with this extensive personal observation piece about a new law that widely criminalizes video games in the South American country. ... The Burning Agenda The panel at the event. Me with the panel. Last week I participated in a panel discussion which was part of a premiere launch of the movie 'The Burning Agenda'. This is a film, produced by Dr Owen Day from the Buccoo Reef Trust and ... 11 things to consider before choosing an LMS So you know you want an LMS, good, this article isn't here to tell you why you need one, or why you should use one, this is a guide for anyone who already knows they want an LMS, just wants a guide for what to check for. ... Travel Movie Watch: 'Risk' Photo by hellosputnik via Flickr (Creative Commons). News broke yesterday that a movie version of the classic board game is in the works, with Will Smith as a producer and possible star. Blogger Colin Boyd is excited about the project, ... SDSC gets $20M from NSF for new flash-based super SDSC is following up on its DASH experiment with a full fledged system for data intensive computing supported by flash drives. The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at UC San Diego has been awarded a five year, $20 million grant ... Take out those cell phones in class Most students have cell phones, and more than half of all US undergraduates own an internet capable handheld device and more plan to purchase one in the next 12 months (ECAR Research Study 2009). Why not use them? ... Fiat Lux So I'm learning, by sampling the offerings of other NaBloPoMo participants, that many of them do not write about Major Issues on a daily basis. They write about the little things in life, like what they watch on TV, where they had lunch ... Social Media Policies: Leading Without Bleeding As I continue to discuss government 2.0 with peers across the globe, I am happy to report that progress is being made! Specifically, I have noticed that the content of the dialog is changing. For most of the past year, when I was asked ... How to light the world with Firefox Last week I shared our goal to Light the World with Firefox for the 5th anniversary of Firefox. By popular demand I'm including some more information and inspiration to help you get started. Mobile: Get the Firefox logo on your phone ... Using a Service Delegate to Avoid MVC Controller Bloat begins > 't move sidebars > ends > TOC >. Contents; The Problem; A Solution: The ViewService; Conclusion; Resources. TOC >. One of the key concepts in the software industry is that of separation of concerns: the only way to ... Pakistan, India and 1971 The 1971 war between Pakistan and India crops up so often in comments on this blog that I'd been thinking of creating a South Asian equivalent of Godwin's law that any discussion that goes on for long enough will eventually get back ... New Jersey Virginia New Jersey and Virginia are similar states in many respects. Both are wealthy and suburban. Both live in the shadow of large cities New York, of course, in New Jersey's case, and Washington in Virginia's. Each has its "white ethnic" ... Meet OpenSRS: Change Management (Part 1) [Video] We're accountable to you to provide stable, reliable services. To meet that goal our Technical teams have made significant improvements to our Change Management processes. In our last video, AJ Mirani, Manager of Technical Operations, ... Illuminated Manuscripts: Alexandre Singh's "Assembly Instructions" Image: Alexandre Singh, collage from Assembly Instructions (Tangential Logick), 2009. The metaphor of the brain as a database (or, if you prefer, the database as a brain) flatters and anthropomorphizes the machine more than it explains ... Google celebrates 40 years of Sesame Street Google celebrates 40 years of Sesame Street today by showing different characters of the show in their Google Doodle. Oddly enough they use different characters for different countries. First one is from Belgium and The Netherlands, ... Drop-in Center: Ukrainian Harm Reduction Activists Shared ... Meeting with the Russian Delegation. A few days ago activists from the harm reduction movement in Russia visited Kiev to learn from their Ukrainian colleagues leaders from the community of people living with drug addiction, ... When data and decisions collide Until recently, most of the decisions we were called on to make were based on hunches, insight and a little bit of data. Occasionally, a field like direct marketing would develop into something quite data driven ("I don't care if you ... The whiter the collar and the higher your status, the more the ... Blogging about. Thinking Allowed. Edward Sutherland's original definition of white collar crime still holds resonance: white collar crime is 'a crime committed by a person of high respectability and high social status in the course of ... What Happened and Why? The outcome of all seven contests that we were tracking tonight appears settled, or very nearly so: Virginia Governor: Republican Bob McDonnell wins by 17 points, toward the upper end of the range predicted by the pollsters, ... Formatos de archivo reconocidos por SPIP SPIP reconoce un cierto nmero de formatos de archivo en su bucle DOCUMENTS . La reaccin de SPIP cuando no reconoce una extensin es comprimir ese fichero por razones de seguridad. Por ejemplo, eso evita que el script de un archivo PHP ... Traduzzione di l'imgini Adupr listesse imgini. In teuria, h sempre megliu di ripigli l'imgini di l'artculu iniziale. Per esempiu, per traduce l'artculu 3336, l'imgini seranu tenute tale quale, vale d chjamate c listessu accurtatoghju ( ) di pettu ... The Two Lives of Qian Xuesen Qian Xuesen was twenty four years old in 1935, a fresh graduate of Shanghai Jiaotong University, when he used a scholarship to get to MIT A year later, he moved to Caltech to earn his doctorate, and Theodore von Karman, ... Global Nominal Spending History As someone who believes that stabilizing nominal spending rather than inflation is key to macroeconomic stability, I have taken the liberty in the past to reframe US macroeconomic history according to this perspective. ... Pray for New Orleans... Twice As veteran readers will recall, history was made in the Crescent City over the summer, when New Orleans became the first known local church to boast four living archbishops (above). The latest of the bunch and the first native son ever ... Polish Ministry Creates Incentives for Sharing The Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage (MKiDN) just announced a range of grant programs for the year 2010, including the program Cultural Education. Thanks to the efforts of the Coalition for Open Education (KOED) and ... Halloween cocktail experiments I hope you had a wonderful Halloween. Here is the result of our experiments with Blavod black vodka and strange ice, it was a lot of fun. (See also: my previous entry about creepy ice creations.) The plastic skeleton embedded in an ice ... The Coming Collapse of the Municipal Bond Market A money manager friend showed me an interesting research report by Frederick J. Sheehan titled Dark Vision: The Coming Collapse of the Municipal Bond Market. This is a product of weedenco.com and available only to subscribers, ... On Wings of Eagles The Wall Street Journal reported on a secret US mission that recently extracted most of the remaining Jews from Yemen, where they're coming under increasing pressure from the local Arabs. This completes the work of Operation Magic ... How to Get Your Ideas Across to Clients We know all too well the common and frustrating design scenarios clients present us with, such as wanting us to stretch images disproportionally, cramming as much information as possible in a small space so that you need a magnifying ... Brian Cox, Colbert and TED Brian Cox was on the Colbert Report last Wednesday, and in response to the idea that the future is somehow stopping us from turning on a high energy particle accelerator, Cox ends up saying, The technical term in English is 'Bollocks. ... DVR is TV's New BFF Digital Video Recorders, once considered a mortal threat by the entertainment industry, have now become its new best friend. It's just the latest example of how the industry's constant warnings of the dangers of "piracy" frequently turn ... Toronto's Citizen Lab uses forensics to fight online censors A basement in the gray, Gothic heart of the University of Toronto is home to the CSI of cyberspace. We are doing free expression forensics, says Ronald Deibert, director of the Citizen Lab, based at the Munk Centre for International ... 2009 Elections Preview: New Jersey Governor New Jersey Governor The Candidates: Governor Jon Corzine, Democrat (incumbent) Former US Attorney Chris Christie, Republican Christopher Daggett, independent The Polls: Polling has been all over the place, with nonpartisan polling ... The PIE is not exactly a lie One very interesting misconception related to Gentoo, and especially the hardened sub profile, is related to the PIE (Position Independent Executable) support. This is probably due to the fact that up to now the hardened profile always ... Member of the Week: Clay Williams Clay Williams is Acting Chief Librarian of the Hunter College Libraries in New York, NY. Clay has been an ACRL member since 1992 and is your ACRL member of the week. 1. Describe yourself in three words: Collaborative, fun, curious. ... And together, they fight crime! A Vietnamese immigrant, brought from that war torn country as a tiny child. A baron, the grandson of a princess, who lives in his family's five hundred year old castle. A widow who once worked for the patent office. A paraplegic. ... Using WorldCat lists for Facebook fun I don't use Facebook a ton. Being a GenXer, I tend to live on email and Twitter. I do enjoy it when I have time, and have re connected to a bunch of old high school friends and folks who have moved away over the years. ... The Political Economy of Lobbying Last week, I taught my students about different auction techniques. After I auctioned four books under different rules, I auctioned $1.00 for $3.75. Now before you say "WTF?" (or perhaps I am too late!), let me explain. ... Why are Swedish meatballs so much smaller than their American ... This topic has been knocking around the blogosphere as of late: I am a longtime reader of MR and there is a question I have been wondering about for a long time. I was hoping you could share your thoughts on meatball heterogeneity. ... Bad Behavior 2.0.32 Make a Donation. Bad Behavior 2.0.32 has been released. It is a maintenance release and is recommended for specific users identified below. Please note: As of this release, 2.0 has been branched and development suspended. ... We, the normal: the meaning of 1989 , Anthony Barnett What were the revolutions of 1989? Timothy Garton Ash has a review article in the NYRB on a large clutch of accounts of that year, to mark the twentieth anniversary of the end of the Cold War. We know what they did they led to the end ... Religious diversity & its discontents CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH Over at ScienceBlogs I've put a comment up about tensions in New York City between a mosque & an establishment across the street which serves alcohol. The issues around public displays of religion, and the norms ... OCTOBERRR QUOTE: "MIT is a very good place; I'm not trying to put it down. I was just in love with it. It has developed for itself a spirit, so that every member of the whole place thinks that it's the most wonderful place in the world it's the ... Ukraine: Swine Flu (and Some Election Politics) The past three weeks in Ukraine have been very intense. First, a child sex abuse scandal broke out on Oct. 13, involving, among others, three members of PM Yulia Tymoshenko's parliament faction (to learn more, read this article at ... Halloween Murder Mystery: Who is killing Copenhagen? friday the 13th.jpg. With premature obituary notices popping up all over, it's probably time to ask: who is killing Copenhagen? Who is responsible for the slasher attacks on the United Nations Climate Conference in Copenhagen this ... |
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