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Sadly No lays out the connection between this al Qaeda and that other al Qaeda. I love a good simile, and this one made me laugh out loud. The Devo part that is. Especially the thing with the accordion.

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Michael Clayton

March 9th, 2008 | 0 Comments | Movies |

Good. Very good. Probably not great, but worth a watch. It’s been compared with “The Verdict,” the1982 Paul Newman courtroom drama, with good reason. George Clooney has become a Newman kind of actor, a guy comfortable in his skin who takes roles in which he doesn’t seem to be acting so much as just playing [...]

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New Laptop Diary Part 7

March 9th, 2008 | 3 Comments | Tech Stuff |

Making Ubuntu Linux Do Its Thing The pleasantly surprising: setting up printers is so easy, I didn’t even realize I’d set one up. Earlier I’d whinged about the difficulties in getting Vista to connect to my Canon Pro9000, which is attached to my Mac via a USB connection. Ubuntu just found it without being asked, [...]

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Photoshop Tutorials

March 8th, 2008 | 0 Comments | Strange Sites, Tech Stuff |

You might be tempted to blow this post off because it’s about Photoshop and you don’t use Photoshop and probably never will. That would be a mistake, because in the “You Suck At Photoshop” series building technical skills is only tangential to the story. The series starts like this: All eight episodes are playing right [...]

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A Modest Proposal for the W3C

March 7th, 2008 | 3 Comments | Tech Stuff |

A new top-level domain, to go with .com, .net, .org, .us, .biz etc. .sux. You know, www.ie.sux; www.redsox.sux. This afternoon I was pondering www.dspace.sux (don’t ask). And this evening it was www.eventhoughitsonlysixminutesridingmybikehomeinthepouringrain.sux.

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New Laptop Diary Part 6

March 5th, 2008 | 1 Comment | Tech Stuff |

For a change, something doesn’t suck.
Ubuntu

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Kind of Makes Me Ashamed…

March 4th, 2008 | 0 Comments | Entertainment |

…to be a sci-fi fan. The things some of these geeks say… I caught up with the season finale of the new Terminator series on Fox this evening, and there was one scene I thought was exceptionally creative for a TV show of this kind. The setup: A deadly robot posing as an FBI agent. [...]

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