Infinite Philistinism: Tea Party 8/28
Sarah Palin was billed to speak as the biggest attraction after Beck, though in truth she came and left early without leaving much of a mark. The proceedings were Beck’s to ringmaster, and consciously modeled on a mega-church ceremony: long, with an endless closing sermon, gospel interruptions, would-be-flashy videos and lots [...]
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GoodReads – "popular quotes"
Goodreads is the largest social network for readers in the world. We have more than 3,500,000 members who have added more than 100,000,000 books to their shelves. A place for casual readers and bona-fide bookworms alike, Goodreads members recommend books, compare what they are reading, keep track of what they've read and [...]
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Sarah Palin the Sound and the Fury | Politics | Vanity Fair
Even as Sarah Palin’s public voice grows louder, she has become increasingly secretive, walling herself off from old friends and associates, and attempting to enforce silence from those around her. Following the former Alaska governor’s road show, the author delves into the surreal new [...]
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About motorcycles
The bike arrived at JFK in a beautifully crafted wooden crate and was trucked up to the house of a friend in Vermont. It was made ready, I was ready, and I eased away, blipping the throttle, megaphoning the same tremendous, explosive, baritone four-stroke MV voice, so loud it could be heard miles away, [...]
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10 reasons that the “work for dole” scheme is an odious idea. : John McGuirk
3) Such a scheme can only be fair if all 400,000 unemployed people are expected to partake in it. As is, 10% of unemployed people will be singled out for special treatment, leaving 360,000 lucky lottery winners free to continue as [...]
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Amazon.com: The King of the Sunset Strip: Hangin' With Mickey Cohen And the Hollywood Mob
Stevens traded Mickey Mouse for Mickey Cohen in 1959, after the mob mogul saw him play a "tuff guy" onscreen and sent a fan letter. Only 19, Stevens, who'd worked with Annette Funicello on The Mickey Mouse Club, was making the [...]
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Rethinking the System as N.B.A. Stars Move – NYTimes.com
For years, the league has cultivated a system of superstar inertia, providing players every possible incentive to stay put. A player who re-signs with his team is eligible for longer contracts and bigger raises, amounting to as much as $30 million over a six-year deal. With few [...]
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Build a Lifestream with SimplePie
In this tutorial we’ll build a page that gathers up the RSS feeds of all those little bits of your life and presents them all together in one spot. To do that, we’ll use SimplePie, a feed parsing class written in PHP. It’s powerful, it’s open source, and it’s easy to [...]
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Build a Lifestream with SimplePie
In this tutorial we’ll build a page that gathers up the RSS feeds of all those little bits of your life and presents them all together in one spot. To do that, we’ll use SimplePie, a feed parsing class written in PHP. It’s powerful, it’s open source, and it’s easy to [...]
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Revenue-sharing system gets exposed
We've listened to the explanations from the Pirates' ownership and Marlins' brass of how they spent all this money. Fascinating.
The Pirates — when they weren't distributing millions to their partners to pay their taxes — did use a bunch of it to build a new academy in the Dominican, and they've outspent [...]
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Beneton Software – Beneton Movie GIF
Beneton Movie GIF is a free animated GIF editor. It is very easy to use and has all the features you need.
Features
* Supports 48 file formats such as BMP, GIF, JPG, PNG, and AVI
* Multiple frames selecting
* Drag [...]
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Free Online Image Editor
The Free Online Image Editor lets you edit images ONLINE.
Checkout the EXAMPLE PAGES and get some ideas.
– Resize or Crop your images (also for animated gifs).
– Add Text to your images (also for animated gifs).
– Add Borders, or Overlay your images (also for animated gifs).
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Super Grub Disk | Boot Problems Open Source Tools
Super Grub Disk (SGD) is a specialty rescue CD for emergency repairs on boot sectors. Despite its name, SGD not only manipulates the Grand Unified Bootloader (GRUB), but also works with the content of other master boot records as well.
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Triumph & Tragedy: The 1994 Montreal Expos [...]
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How to Disable Facebook Places
How to Disable Facebook Places UPDATE: As commenter Ryan G. points out, your location can be shared with friends' applications as well. To turn that off, you have to go to a completely different section. Click the "Applications and Settings" link (pictured to the left) and then go to the "Info [...]
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metastatic.org/source/blog/
BLOG is a command line program for maintaining a weblog or journal. It runs anywhere that also runs the Bourne Again Shell, as well as rsync, ssh or rsh, ispell, HTML Tidy, and the gamut of little *BSD utilities. It therefore runs easiest on Unix-like platforms, such as that Linux all the kids seem to [...]
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EconomyCandy Homepage: Candy and Nuts
Economy Candy is an old-fashioned, family-owned candy store that sells hundreds of kinds of chocolates, candies, nuts, dried fruits; including halvah, sugar free candy and of course all the old time candy you had when you were a kid.
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My Killer App Candied Peanut Recipe – David Lebovitz
Let's get right to [...]
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boxee remote for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store
The boxee remote turns your iPhone into a boxee remote control.
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GIF PARTY
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WD TV – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
WD TV Mini – Media Player with DVD quality, upscales to 1080i, Plays back RealVideo and many other popular file formats with no need [...]
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ShamSports.com: Creative Financing in the NBA, 2010
(Incidentally, the wonky up-and-downy contracts the Bulls have handed out are done so entirely deliberately. It is not a coincidence that Carlos Boozer's salary takes a significant upstroke only after that of Luol Deng has expired; similarly, it is not a coincidence that these three unguaranteed contracts all come [...]
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The Comedian's Comedian's Comedian
"I have this very abstract idea in my head," he confides. "I wouldn't even want to call it stand-up, because stand-up conjures in one's mind a comedian with a microphone standing onstage under a spotlight telling jokes to an audience." That kind of comedy is fine, he says, but for him it's [...]
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Dublin City Gallery, The Hugh Lane
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