December 2009
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I, Cringely » Fallon’s Getting a Dell!
We’re up to three hours on the phone with Dell Tech Support four chat sessions, and nine FedEx shipments so far. If everything goes perfectly from here on out the total will be 10 FedEx shipments, but there could be more. The Dell people have been uniformly helpful, friendly, courteous, and kind. I just wonder what the profit picture is for Dell on these $199 systems? via cringely.com ...
New Year's Eve Fireworks at 7pm over Boston Common...
Boston Family Fireworks Celebration on New Year’s Eve Today, Thursday, Dec 31 7:00p at Boston Common, Boston, MA Presented by Boston 4 Productions, The Mugar Foundation, and Mayor Thomas M. Menino. via calendar.boston.com Any idea if this is still happening with snow like we’re having right now? Posted via web from Chris Devers’s linkblog...
Dialog BoxesHave a Way of Growing on You
Forwarded from Thomas Brand. Posted via email from Chris Devers’s linkblog thingy | Comment »
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Buck Rogers and ...a fleet of Colonial Vipers from...
via drewstruzan.com Ok, I’ll stop with these now. Posted via web from Chris Devers’s linkblog thingy | Comment »
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Marty Feldman: The Last Remake of Beau Geste
via drewstruzan.com BEST. EYEBALLS. EVER. Seriously, these Drew Struzan posters are awesome, there must be hundreds of them. Have I mentioned that I have I birthday coming up? I do, you know. I do. Posted via web from Chris Devers’s linkblog thingy | Comment »
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DTO: Quite possibly the greatest illustrations...
via jdarko82.blogspot.com via jdarko82.blogspot.com via jdarko82.blogspot.com via jdarko82.blogspot.com via jdarko82.blogspot.com via jdarko82.blogspot.com I never realized that all these posters were done by the same person. Posted via web from Chris Devers’s linkblog thingy | Comment »
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Sustainable Aliens: A New Theory On Why E.T....
People who think about extraterrestrial life have been bothered for a long time by a rather obvious fact: There isn’t any here. This is sometimes called the Fermi Paradox. It’s an old conundrum (which may have started with physicist Enrico Fermi) that asks “If space-traveling ETs exist, why aren’t they with us already?” The idea is simple. Start with a...
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Who Rules America: Wealth, Income, and Power
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Crayon. Lego. Baseball. Scissors. Fork. Chop...
Crayon. Lego. Baseball. Scissors. Fork. Chop sticks. Toothbrush. Keyboard. Guitar. Coins. Glove. Mitten. Shoelace. Handshake. Wedding ring. 7:55 PM Apr 15th 2009 twitter.com/cdevers Posted via web from Chris Devers’s linkblog thingy | Comment »
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There, I Fixed It: "Train Stop" scene turns into...
Submitted by: dunno source via Submit a Kludge! Favorite Comment(s): Today we have a story for you. Started by Fixer Blackmoore, “Thomas however wasn’t paying attention to the track, and went down the wrong switch and into the poles. “OUCH!” cried Thomas, but it was too late – he had already smashed into the poles, and was hit by the live electric wires.” Then Fixer Josh says, “Bust my...
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The philosopher's hand signals - Roger Ebert's...
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Charles River Winter - a set on Flickr
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Car Talk / XKCD tshirt
via shamelesscommerce.com For those that may have forgotten, my birthday is February 4. So, you know, there’s plenty of time to get those orders in now, right? Right. Posted via web from Chris Devers’s linkblog thingy | Comment »
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notes.husk.org. Free Parking.
Everyone knows - or should know - about the vast gulf in taxes on petrol/gasoline. Petrol in the UK costs about £1.10 a litre at the moment; the fuel excise duty went up by 2p at the beginning of October. That translate to well over $6.50 a gallon; currently the average US gas price is nearer $2.60. The UK isn’t even the most expensive in Europe. However, there’s another difference that’s less...
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James Woods stars in "The Last Supper": YOU HAVE...
via twitpic.com In the spirit of the Star Wars Last Supper, here’s a James Woods themed one, via Roger Ebert. Posted via web from Chris Devers’s linkblog thingy | Comment »
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16 Incredibly Impractical Superhero Costumes: #2,...
Jesus Christ, look at him. If you can’t tell what’s impractical about this costume, you’re either not a guy or don’t live in a place we like to call reality. This bazonkers costume traces back to Codpiece’s even more bazonkers origin story; basically, when this dude was in high school he asked out a girl who rejected him on the grounds that he wasn’t...
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How you can build an eavesdropper for a...
This presentation will show the first experimental implementation of an eavesdropper for quantum cryptosystem. Although quantum cryptography has been proven unconditionally secure, by exploiting physical imperfections (detector vulnerability) we have successfully built an intercept-resend attack and demonstrated eavesdropping under realistic conditions on an installed quantum key distribution...
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"Business card" billboard for "American Psycho"
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Missed Connection of the Week: Apple Genius at...
We thought no one could top the celestial missed connection, but we loved this heartfelt tale of a dysfunctional iPod turned love connection at the Apple Store: You liked my broken iPod: I called her Luna Lovegood. I liked the names of your thumb drives: you called them Pegasus and Galactica. When I told you my nano was called Not A Cylon, we had a moment, Apple Genius David…...
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Odds of airborne terrorism, contextualized &...
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Why we should be eating horses instead of riding...
Why We Should Be Eating Horses Instead of Riding Them I’m not going to dance around the issue: I hate horses. I hate them. Now, I know what you’re thinking. Horses are kind. Horses are beautiful. Nations have been built on the backs of horses. All that. You haven’t seen the things I’ve seen, however. You haven’t suffered at the hands of...
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Is aviation security mostly for show? (Schneier)
Last week’s attempted terror attack on an airplane heading from Amsterdam to Detroit has given rise to a bunch of familiar questions. How did the explosives get past security screening? What steps could be taken to avert similar attacks? Why wasn’t there an air marshal on the flight? And, predictably, government officials have rushed to institute new safety measures to close holes...
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'Romeo And Juliet': Just As You Misremembered It :...
We all know the story of Romeo and Juliet … or do we? A new off-Broadway production tells the story of the star-crossed lovers without bothering with any of Shakespeare’s hallowed words or intricate plot twists. Instead, it relies on the fuzzy recollections of people who read it in high school. The show’s creators called unsuspecting people on the phone and asked them what...
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Stumbling and Mumbling: Cognitive biases in...
Forget that guff about Rage against the Machine vs. X Factor - truly, a herd of independent minds. What’s more worrying is the large number of basic irrationalities contained in popular songs. I was at the gym the other day - this finely chiselled physique doesn’t come naturally - and Alexandra Burke came on the TV, singing “The bad boys are always catching my eye.” Well of course they are....
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Saugus restaurant shuts down once more - The...
The entrance to the elaborate pagoda-style restaurant atop a hill in Saugus was blocked. Jin Asian Cuisine was closed this month by officials who cited unpaid taxes and liquor law violations. (Joanne Rathe/ Globe Staff) via boston.com Posted via web from Chris Devers’s linkblog thingy | Comment »
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If Dad hadn’t shot Walt Disney in the leg, it would have been our best vacation…
Christmas '59 by John Hughes, sequel short story... →
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All in all it was a pretty exciting…
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Vacation '58 by John Hughes
V A C A T I O N ‘5 8 by John Hughes If Dad hadn’t shot Walt Disney in the leg, it would have been our best vacation ever! We were going to Disneyland. It was a dream come true. The rides! The thrills! The Mouseketeers! I was so excited that I spent the whole month of May feeling like I had to go to the bathroom. When school finally let out on a Tuesday, I sprinted home as fast...
Christmas '59 by John Hughes, sequel short story...
Christmas ‘59 by John Hughes All in all it was a pretty exciting Christmas, what with the relatives and the presents and the fun and the cops and Aunt Hazel’s dog blowing up in our living room. Mom and my Aunt Martha wanted to have one of those fun old-fashioned Christmases that people on TV have, where everybody wears ties and sweaters and sits by the fireplace and makes ...
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The C Programming Language: 4.10
The C Programming Language Brian W Kernighan & Dennis M Ritchie & HP Lovecraft 4.10 Recursion C functions may be used recursively; that is, a function may call itself either directly or indirectly. Uninquiring souls may take this as just another peculiarity of those C folk, of whose ways their neighbours speak little to outsiders but much among themselves. Keener...
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Longest row of mailboxes in California
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The Quiet Danger of Non-Inflation-Adjusted Stock...
In today’s Wall Street Journal, E.S. Browning has written a quietly important article (gated) about the fact that stock-market returns are almost never adjusted for inflation. While most shrewd investors factor in this omission, my sense is that a great many people never think about it, and therefore significantly overestimate their investment gains. As with most things in life, this problem...
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Twitter / Matt Jones: Am I wrong to be worried...
Am I wrong to be worried because my mortgage provider has sent me a letter in comic sans? solearther Matt Jones via twitter.com Posted via web from Chris Devers’s linkblog thingy | Comment »
Browse the Artifacts of Geek History in Jay...
From King James to James Bond, Chaucer to Sputnik, a personal library like no other. Photo: Andrew Moore The View From Above Looming over the library is an original Sputnik 1 satellite, one of several backups the Soviets built. At far left is a model of NASA’s experimental X-29 jet, with forward-swept wings. “It’s the first plane that a pilot can’t fly—only...
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Santa Claus Conquers The Martians (1964)
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Happy Life Day! | The Star Wars Holiday Special
It’s the Star Wars Holiday Special! Things to look out for: Carrie Fisher is far from sober, and it’s a little depressing. Harrison Ford doesn’t want to be there. Mark Hamill talks like a kid’s TV presenter. Chewie’s son is called Lumpy. Oh, and it’s so bad even George Lucas, who had little to do with it, disowns it. This is why he became such a control freak and why we ended up with Episode One...
Sweden's bizarre tradition of watching Donald Duck...
Three years ago, I went to Sweden with my then-girlfriend (now-wife), to meet her family and celebrate my first Christmas. As an only partially lapsed Jew, I was not well-versed in Christmas traditions, and I was completely ignorant of Swedish customs and culture. So I was prepared for surprises. I was not prepared for this: Every year on Dec. 24 at 3 p.m., half of Sweden sits down in front of...
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