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05:33 pm
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106 books meme
ganked from dayo...and then later seen on the LT blog...
What we have here is the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing’s users. As in, they sit on the shelf to make you look smart or well-rounded. Bold the ones you've read, underline the ones you read for school, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish. Here's the twist: add (*) beside the ones you liked and would (or did) read again or recommend. Even if you read them for school in the first place.
I'm gonna add a + next to the ones I actually have on my shelf so you can see what a loser I am :)
( cut for your pleasure )
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12:43 pm
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Dilbert Comic 400x300
( hiding big dilbert widget for those who may not care )
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09:24 pm
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interesting
Though I have to say there were some choices that didn't have any answer I really liked much.
93% Chris Dodd
89% Barack Obama
88% John Edwards
87% Hillary Clinton
84% Joe Biden
79% Dennis Kucinich
79% Mike Gravel
75% Bill Richardson
46% Rudy Giuliani
35% John McCain
27% Tom Tancredo
26% Mitt Romney
25% Mike Huckabee
18% Ron Paul
16% Fred Thompson
2008 Presidential Candidate Matching Quiz
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11:36 pm
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GIP
The source of this image is the amazing Girl Genius webcomic/quarterly comic GN from Phil and Kaja Foglio: http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20071231 (note that this is the intro for a side story, not the typical or main storyline of the comic; for something more representative, you can see http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20071130, though I'd recommend you start at the beginning)
Buy their books!
And to actually link to some science.....sorta :)
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2007/08/steampunk_machine_for_fis.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890
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06:53 pm
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speed typing meme
92 wordsTouchtyping for free
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09:46 pm
[Link] | In the interest of balance (which some folks could learn to try on) here are a couple sites I have come across in the last 24 hours that actually engage with the skeptics arguments instead of waving them away as obviously bogus. Still digesting them.....
http://www.realclimate.org/
http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/dn11462
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08:42 am
[Link] | Yet another take on global warming:
http://www.nzcpr.com/guest76.htm
In another forum I've read reacently it's been noted that the IPCC's estimates for likely temperature change over the next hundred years have gone from the very significant 2.5 deg C to under 1 deg C. They've dropped steadily. Is there any reason to expect that these folks really know as much about what they claim as they want us to believe?
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10:01 pm
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Crichton on Global Warming, Again
http://www.michaelcrichton.net/speech-ourenvironmentalfuture.html
I don't think I've seen his diagrams before, just read his verbage. I still think he tells a pretty compelling story, even if his examples sometimes ring false (comparing building a house to the future of the planet?? What??). I especially like the ending.
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07:38 pm
[Link] | My ISP is FIRED.
During that first three hour outage, I called the tech support line.
83 minutes later with no answer (aside from "your call is important to us and we will be with you shortly"), I finally hung up.
If I were on call this weekend, I would have been soooo screwed.
If the image above is missing, I'm probably offline again.
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07:38 pm
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01:18 pm
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Read and Weep
The attempt by the Senate to restore Habeas Corpus fails by 4 votes:
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=110&session=1&vote=00340
Good to see Lieberman is still a traitor to his party. Maybe the voters who elected him will start feeling some shame for not realizing that he's really a republican. Not that Lieberman alone would have made the difference, but even so.
Tags: politics
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09:50 pm
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GIP!
My very first one.
Not sure how succesful this icon is, I struggled to figure out a way to keep the basic comment legible.
Anyone who does icons and wants to comment, feel free.
Original source is http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/ggmain/strips/ggmain20070917.jpg
which of course you should already be reading at http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php
Current Mood: determined
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03:19 pm
[Link] | ganked from ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) dayo:
Here is how it works. Copy this list. Leave in the bands you've seen perform live. Delete the ones you haven't and add new ones that you have seen until you reach 25. An asterisk means the previous person had it on their list. Two asterisks means the last two people who did this before you had that band on their list.
1. Dan Fogelberg
2. Rush (x)
3. Pink Floyd
4. Psychic TV
5. Cake
6. Brave Combo
7. Webb Wilder
8. Eurythmics
9. Tori Amos
10. The Orb
11. Ani DiFranco
12. Negativland
13. Dave Matthews Band (x)
14. They Might Be Giants
15. Erasure
16. Sarah McLachlan
17. Damien Rice (x)
18. Rufus Wainright (x)
19. Erasure*
20. Soul Coughing
21. The Iguanas (x)
22. The Jackofficers (aka half of the Butthole Surfers)
23. Happy Family
24. Amy Denio
25. Front 242**
That was a lot of work. The bands I chose to mark with (x) I would never have gone to see if it weren't for other people, mostly my wife. If you include opening acts and no-names I find it a hard stretch to think I've seen more than 50 bands live, ever, so it was very hard to come up with this list.
What a bizarre mix of bands :)
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12:38 pm
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LiveJournal auto-post
Gaz // Gaz is a cool chick. She's obsessed withvideo games. Her quote it "Dib drank thelast soda. He will pay!"
Which Invader Zim Character Profiling Quiz EVER!!! brought to you by the ScribeFire firefox extensionPowered by ScribeFire.
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10:43 pm
[Link] | Hey Sterno, curious what you think of this screed:
http://www.disinfo.com/site/displayarticle20254.html
My favorite line: Thank you, Congress, for showing us this superior mode of despotic governance. Thank you, Democrats, for confirming that you are a pack of power-mongering fascists every bit the equal of our Republican nazis.
And you know, if Hillary gets elected, nothing will change except the war in Iraq. And maybe not even that.
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03:55 pm
[Link] | Gabriel Ross was born at 12:17 6 lbs 7 oz. In NICU for slight breathing difficulty. Was nice and pink and LOUD :)
Steph is in recovery with our Doula. Sounds like her uterus did have some additional issues but haven't had a chance to talk with doc for details.
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10:26 pm
[Link] | Hey Sterno:
http://www.crichton-official.com/speeches/speeches_quote05.html
Curious what you think of that.
I know we've had our differences over what Crichton is up to.
I'm skeptical of some of his claims (I'd swear I've heard the DDT claim before, but I'm skeptical of the claim too), but the overall tone rings pretty true to me.
Current Mood:  exhausted
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04:59 pm
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Monsters Love Sushi
And So Do I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvIm6Z3DMIo
This made me smile a little after a rotten day. Maybe it will work for you too.
Current Mood:  frustrated
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11:58 am
[Link] | http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/topheadlines/~3/118929843/nerve
So how much longer before we have a real TASP and have to deal with current addicts?
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03:47 pm
[Link] | Testing vagablog from treo
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