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More on the Madone 5.9
:: Lance Armstrong Official 2003 Tour de France Website: Close look at the Trek Madone 5.9. Some moe details, but not the price which will be amazing I’m sure. Coming this fall to a bike store near you. Will have the new Dura-Ace 10, new ultralight fork from Bontrager. Although it is slightly lighter, the…
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Guns, Germs and Steel
Amazon.com: Books: Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. Been looking for books to get for my brother’s birthday. I think I already got him this one, but if you don’t have it you should get a copy. It explains one of lifes biggest questions, “Why do the White men have all the…
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Great summary of a great Tour de France
News: Chris Carmichael on the Tour de France. _A great summary by Chris. Here are some excerpts_ There are always heroic performances in the Tour de France, but in 2003 we saw more than usual. Tyler Hamilton surprised everyone, including himself, by finishing the second stage of the race after breaking his collarbone inside the…
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Tide Charts
NOAA Tidal Data. When sailing, its important to know what the tides are doing. This is the official NOAA site for this. Says that tomorrow at noon will be slack tide in Seattle at -2 feet below mean low/low tide. So, at 1PM or so, the tide is going to rising or surging.
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wadamb's blog
Adam Bosworth’s Weblog: More on the same. hard to imagine adam with writers block, some good comments on dusconnected apps. hat tip to satoshi.
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Clausewitz Study Guide.
Bibliomania: Free Online Literature and Study Guides. Bibliomania is a great free study guide. Don’t understand the business model, but am sure glad it is there. Here’s useful quote for someone defending their turf: Not only reason but experience, in hundreds and thousands of instances, show that a well-traced, sufficiently manned, and well-defended entrenchment is,…
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Quotes from Sun Tzu, Clauswitz and others
Like Zagula, I’ve been collecting quotes and thoughts like mad. Here are some good sources: * Library Sun Tzu The Art of War and Strategy Site by Sonshi.com.. . Besides Sun Tzu, he’s got most of the other classic military thinkers like “Clausewitz’:http://www.sonshi.com/clausewitz.html * “Web Wargaming”:http://www.webwargaming.com/. While doing this, I found someone who wrote a…
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Awesome Headphones
Well, I’ve tried lots of headphones and have been married to my 20 year old Sennheiser 424s, but I have to say after three hours of writing a “book” (that’s another story), I’m completely hooked on the Ekymotics ER-6. Not their most expensive, but simply awesome in sound, I can hear things I never thought…
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Lance Wins #5 and new fans
The Seattle Times: My take: Tour works wonders to rejuvenate biking interest. He did it! And, in the course of winning made lots of new biking fans including me of course. Interesting that at the two parties we went to last night, the Tour de France came up. Folks were interested and even the average…
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Mini-PC Recommendations
Tom’s Hardware Guide PCs & HowTo: The Mailman Has Arrived: Four Mini-PCs on the Test Bench – The First Car: A Motorized Carriage. Jennie and Adrian asked me about updating their computer “brain”. They have a five year old Northwest Computers machine that I recommended, but it won’t run the latest Apple MP3 player software…