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Blog writing style debated
Joi Ito’s Web: Blog style review. Joi brings up a good point. What is a blog. Is it like a verbal conversation, like email, like writing a document? Personally, I think it is more like email than a “tight” document most of the time. The thing is that blogs like web sites don’t dictate a…
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Spam, spam, spam
Pdawwg: A Proposal!!!. Pdawwg loves the spam he gets! He should try popinfo at Sourceforge. It is the most active project on Sourceforge and it is amazingly hard to install. On the other hand, it is right now 98% effective and rising in getting rid of spam. BTW, on my rich@tongfamily.com inbox, spam is running…
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North Korea vs. Japan
Pdawwg: Of Course we Believe You!. There must be a good North Korea analysis site somewhere, but it is not encouraging the rhetoric.
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Blogmints
Blogmints.com – What the blogs are talking about. Another interesting way to see what the important entries are. Blogmints looks at weblogs.com and figures out what are the most commented on topics. All of these methods are like higher level forms of what google.com is doing with links. Interesting to spend a day browsing it.
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Sea Monkeys (a.k.a. Brine Shrimp
Sea Monkey Worship Page!. Grace got this at the Ignition Holiday Party. Alex has been doing a great job taking care of them, but now we’ve lost the food. So, here we are in search of how to get Sea Monkey food. Of course, there is a page worshipping them with lots of information. Artemia…
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MPAA Broadcast Flag — Yuck!
Consensus at Lawyerpoint: MPAA FAQ on Broadcast Flag. This is just horrible. They are going to broadcast flag bits so that you can’t record them digitally. What is the MPAA thinking.
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Rechargeable Batteries
Seems like everyhting this christmas needs batteires. Here’s my quick guide to rechargeables: NiMH Batteries – Thomas Distributing. I’ve been ordering from Thomas Distributing at nimhbattery.com for over a year now. They are very reliable and seem to have all the latest stuff. The Great Battery Shootout!. For the really nerdy, there are actually test…
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New Years Eve 2002 Dinner
Connie put me in charge the night before, so I was more than a little nervous. Finally decided to do Southwest as a theme because I just couldn’t get pumped about Greek. We use the Pasqual cookbook. It’s a terrific restaurant in Santa Fe. We had an incredible menu thanks to the efforts of Phil,…
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Internet is part of American Life
Pew Internet & American Life Project. An amazing set of facts about how the Internet is the key to finding information for most users. It is far beyond the geekstream and into the mainstream. A nice study. Thanks to Boingboing for finding it.
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Winter tires
Customer Survey Results. I’m going up into the snow quite a bit this season. Other than borrowing Jennie’s Subaru, I really should get a good set of winter tires. This looks like the best review board. It says, Pirelli Winter 210 Snowsport, Bridgestone LM-22 or the Dunlop Winter Sport M2 are the highest rated by…