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View Larger Map …according to Google Maps, it is. Zoom in and pan around to the right of the water…

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This is just tragic: http://lovegodsway.org/GayBands One of the most dangerous ways homosexuality invades family life is through popular music. Parents should keep careful watch over their children’s listening habits, especially in this Internet Age of MP3 piracy. Bands to watch out for: Go check out the list of Gay Bands, and then the Safe Bands…

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From Rob Diamond: Leaked Family Guy Star Wars Scene Shows Slight Computer Knowledge There’s at least one guy on Family Guy that’s used a computer in the last five years, as evidenced by this sneak-peek R2-D2 scene from the new season’s first episode airing this Sunday. It’s a nice clip both to entertain you for…

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Martin has found an absolute gem. – I too have suffered through too many of these kinds of presentations, and I haven’t seen this video before…

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It be International Talk Like A Pirate Day, me hearties!

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HAV HAD CATNIP. AM WASTED. Originally uploaded by alecmuffett So I bought a bag of fresh shredded catnip leaves this morning…

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With iTunes 7.4, sync your favorite music and more with the new iPod nano (third generation), iPod classic, and iPod touch, plus create custom ringtones exclusively for iPhone with many of your favorite songs purchased from the iTunes Store. You can now also play purchased videos with closed captioning (when available), easily rate your favorite…

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I suspect that this may be pertinent to followers of the Andrew Keen trolling that the Net makes everything worse… Certainly it ups the quality of debate. 2. Top economists like Greenstone virtually never write papers like this. The simple reason is that this sort of work is not rewarded in our profession. Academic economists…

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The Smiley turns 25 on the 19th! 🙂 Check the date correction on the Wikipedia article, though: 19-Sep-82 11:44 Scott E Fahlman 🙂 From: Scott E Fahlman I propose that the following character sequence for joke markers: 🙂 Read it sideways. Actually, it is probably more economical to mark things that are NOT jokes, given…

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…seen that the TSA & friends have a tendency to ban stuff that upsets them: […] a passenger noticed the white substance in the bathroom of a flight from Tampa to Las Vegas. The pilot thought the threat was enough to land the plane as soon as possible […] All passengers were taken off the…

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And we’re into the home stretch… I just got back from Dr Rossiter: the short version is that the knee is fine. The tender “lumpiness” under the incision is due to bone-regrowth plus scar tissue around a couple of hamstring ligaments which he had to move to one side in order to remove the screws.…

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Via Adriana’s furl, I found a slightly hysterical-in-an-unfunny-way Boing-Boing posting which linked to an original blog post – the latter being a blog with only two postings. The paragraphs below are from the Boing-Boing posting; my mental responses to the paragraphs are infix and bold. The latest iPods have a cryptographic “checksum” in their song…

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