August 2009
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Aug 1st
July 2009
26 posts
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Sustain Spartanburg: My Favorite Things →
Local blogger Tammy lists some of her favorite things. Local eggs: OMG. I love you local eggs. So much. I never had a local egg until about two years ago and I haven’t looked back since. Have you ever seen a local egg? The yolk is a beautiful golden orange and the quality … unbelievable. Once, I tried to talk my hubby into us getting some chickens in our backyard because I love them so much....
Jul 30th
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Jul 28th
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Congressman Rick Steves? →
Please let this happen. Rick is awesome. Word is that noted travel writer and TV and radio personality Rick Steves is seriously considering giving up his globetrotting ways for an extended stay in the other Washington, and is already working the local Democratic circuit in preparation for a potential run. The latest evidence? Steves jumped at the offer to be the keynote speaker at the...
Jul 27th
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Crows Are Freakin' Smart
A few months ago I watched this TED talk on Crows: Crows are pretty amazing! Here’s more (from the new npr.org site): Here’s a surprise: Wild crows can recognize individual people. They can pick a person out of a crowd, follow them, and remember them — apparently for years. But people — even people who love crows — usually can’t tell them apart. So what we have for you...
Jul 27th
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Jul 24th
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Jul 23rd
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“Today is a big day in Zappos history. This morning, our board approved and we...”
– CEO Letter | Zappos.com
Jul 22nd
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Jul 22nd
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Jul 21st
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Jul 21st
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Jul 21st
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It Must Be Nice to Be Verizon  →
It must be nice to brag about having visual voice mail on some phones, while quietly hiding that it’s an extra $3 a month. It must be nice to not allow convenient syncing of data, media, bookmarks, etc, via the excellent iTunes environment, instead using clumsier tools if anything is allowed at all, and have your customers just take it in stride. The Apple Blog has a good overview of...
Jul 20th
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Jul 20th
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The giant Apollo 11 post →
Yesterday was the 40th anniversary of the launch of Apollo 11 and Monday is the same for both the first Moon landing and the first walk on the surface. In this entry, I’ve collected some of the best resources on the web related to the anniversary…articles, historical documents, audio, video, transcripts, photos, and the like. Enjoy. Kottke has collected a bunch of cool facts and...
Jul 17th
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Jul 17th
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BBC America - Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares →
Lookit: If you haven’t watched this guy, you totally should.
Jul 17th
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Jul 16th
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Jul 16th
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Jul 15th
Laptop Security while Crossing Borders →
There’s another solution, one that works with whole-disk encryption products like PGP Disk (I’m on PGP’s advisory board), TrueCrypt, and BitLocker: Encrypt the data to a key you don’t know. It sounds crazy, but stay with me. Caveat: Don’t try this at home if you’re not very familiar with whatever encryption product you’re using. Failure results in...
Jul 15th
Sting nabs sticky-fingered JFK airport workers... →
Freakin’ amazing. Thanks for keeping us safe robbing us blind!
Jul 15th
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Ruby Flippin' Hoedown →
Two thousand flippin’ nine! I’ll be there – will you?
Jul 13th
“If you talk, you tell what you know, but if you listen, you learn 1000 times...”
– Confucius
Jul 10th
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“Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike; each has their suffering....”
– Buddha
Jul 2nd
Dude, Where's My Cap-And-Trade Primer? : NPR →
NPR does an excellent job of describing cap-and-trade in, um, lay-person’s terms.
Jul 1st