Monthly Archives: September 2006

Typical

You have to wonder if any of our comrades on the left of the blogosphere have ever seen the Arab media. It’s striking how quickly they’ve jumped on the Pope for his comments a few days ago. In fact, they … Continue reading

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links for 2006-09-17

Meromac mini How you can easily slip a Core 2 Duo into your Mac Mini. COOL! (tags: computer DIY hack hardware macmini osx Mac mini Intel)

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links for 2006-09-16

Unable to write or update application data – where’s the issue? – BlackBerryForums.com : Your Number One BlackBerry Community A stupid Blackberry Bug. Basically, if you get this message, make sure your contacts all have First and Last names. (tags: … Continue reading

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links for 2006-09-15

Plame Sues Armitage – Wizbang Follow the bouncing ball, folks. Armitage admits giving up the name… Everyone else still getting sued… (tags: plame cia wilson valerie joe)

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links for 2006-09-14

Cingular bans the word “engadget” from its customer forums – Engadget Wow… 19 19 1984… (tags: engadget cingular ban) Ten Must-Read Details on the New iPods Everything you need to know about yesterday’s apple announcements. (tags: ipod ilounge apple music … Continue reading

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Daring Fireball Not Letting Up

John Gruber will not let this MacBook WiFi hack thing die. Good on him. Too many people accepted it before vetting it. Rich Mogull makes several good points in his criticism of my challenge, and continues to present the most … Continue reading

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Josh may be on his way back to jail.

DAMMIT. His appeal was rejected… The appeal rejection means the 24-year-old activist and freelance internet journalist may soon headed back to federal prison, unless he provides the video as required by subpoena. Time to fork over a few more bucks … Continue reading

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Nosy Bitch

DEAR MARGO: I’ve been living with a guy for nine months, and it’s fair to say I am the nosy type. Past relationships have made me not trust anyone. My guy and I are very serious and discussing marriage. But … Continue reading

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AOL Still Clinging To Customers By Toenails

So much for the end of the Retention Department. Apparently they’ve just changed the name of the call from a retention call to a “Member Relationship Management” call. Yawn. How Ben keeps getting this stuff is beyond me… [tags]consumerist, aol, … Continue reading

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Happiness Is…

Seeing your dad, who whips your ass at chess have to admit that you made a great move. Happiness is amplified by the fact that your grandfather, who’s also an amazing chess player thinks you made the wrong move. Happiness … Continue reading

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Damn I’m fast…

This is cool. My internet connection SMOKES. The most amazing part of this is that that’s the standard Cablevision offering in my neck of the woods. No extra fees or add ons. With the extra, my connection would be up … Continue reading

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NY Post Sucks Balls Redux

The NY Post had yet another suck-ass cover today… Kudos for Gothamist for continually calling that rag on the carpet. I can’t help but notice that the right, who are ultimately hypersensitive to any blogger who dares not wave a … Continue reading

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links for 2006-09-13

CNN.com – Air Force chief: Test weapons on testy U.S. mobs – Sep 12, 2006 How quaint. (tags: weapons military airforce) Layered Desktop with a Wallpaper – lifehack.org Interesting idea, but not for me. Maybe it’ll work for you. (tags: … Continue reading

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Sometimes it takes a Canadian…

Amen to Cannuckistan. Stageleft talking about the media bombardment that was the 9/11 morbidity parade yesterday… I couldn’t listen or watch and ended up taking refuge in my Cinderella, Black Crowes, Pat Savage, Judas Priest, and Black Sabbath collection….. with … Continue reading

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Big Performance Bump = 10%?!?!?

Wow… So much for all that hype… As usual, Macworld is among the first to spar with the new hardware. The lab concluded that compared to the previous iMac Core Duo models, the new models hit a 10 percent improvement … Continue reading

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Maybe Next Time, We’ll Leave The Plug In

Sophisticated brain-imaging techniques suggest that a young woman in a vegetative state five months after a traffic accident has some mental functioning, even though she is unable to physically respond to her environment, British researchers report today. The woman’s brain … Continue reading

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Interesting Side By Side

Windows Vista is massively disappointing. Windows Vista impresses critics. Same build, for those of you keeping score at home. [tags]windows vista, strange, ironic[/tags]

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links for 2006-09-12

When Will TO Blow? Enter at SportsTalk950.com. SportsTalk 950 wants to know when TO is finally gonna blow his top. I’d say this could be measured in minutes, but they wanna know what you think anyway (tags: owens terrell TO … Continue reading

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The Post Sucks Balls

F you, New York Post. Here’s how the local papers commemorated 9/11 today… See if you can figure out why the post can kiss my alabaster white ass (click to embiggen)… They couldn’t leave Uncle Pennybags off the cover for … Continue reading

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