September 2010
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How To Buy A Surge Protector
This has been one of the most popular posts on my old blog for years. I thought it was worth updating a bit, so here’s a slightly revised version.
A lot of people have their computers and other electronics into devices they think are surge protectors. Often, they’re just glorified extension cords. I once had a power surge fry my cable box while sparing other devices plugged into the...
August 2010
WatchJust how bad is Flash on Android?
Laughably bad.
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“You don’t realize that when you make something and give it to people, it becomes...”
– Joe Wilson, writer/director of Vampire Mob
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“And there’s a huge, I think, lack of support throughout the country for...”
– Orrin Hatch
via TPM
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“‘Cause I am tired of working for candidates who make me think I should be...”
– Bruno. The West Wing “Gone Quiet”
via priyapp
Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross – Hand Covers...
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Howard Kurtz and the WashPost's contempt for its... →
kateoplis:
The Washington Post’s media critic Howard Kurtz today uses his Post column to send a gushing love letter to Time Magazine and its executives. Entitled “Thinner Time magazine still manages to stand out,” it reads like a Time Warner Press Release heaping praise on its magazine for great success. The first sentence crowns Time Editor-in-Chief Rick Stengel as “the last man...
“Moral Majority, Christian Right, Tea Party, tomato tomahto.”
– Tea Party Sheds the Libertarian Fig Leaf, Goes Full Fundie | Firedoglake (via robot-heart-politics)
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The Simpsons.
Kodos (as Bob Dole): Abortions for all.
Crowd: (boos, hisses)
Kodos (as Bob Dole): Very well. No abortions for anyone!
Crowd: (boos, hisses)
Kodos (as Bob Dole): Hmm. Abortions for some, miniature American flags for others!
Crowd: Yay!
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“They said they’d pay me $320 a day – and I thought, ‘Hey, I’d have done it for...”
– Danny Trejo, on his first job in film
Fire at Murfreesboro,Tennessee Mosque Building... →
The arsonists were no doubt egged on by bigots like Evy Summers and Bob Shelton, who don’t understand how America works.
Dumb:
“They are not a religion. They are a political, militaristic group.”
- Bob Shelton, a 76 year old retiree who wears a “Vote for Jesus” and carries a sign that says, “No Sharia law for USA!”
and dumber:
“No mosque in...
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Watchdapperapps:
TapCritic takes a look at Almost DSLR for iPhone. Some very handy functions for those looking to make the most of the iPhone’s photo and video functionality.
Very cool! Photographers and filmmakers are going to eat this up. Among other things, you can set and lock a lot of stuff like exposure, focus, white balance, etc. instead of having Apple automatically adjust it for you. Are...
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WatchClassic Beatles vs. Guns N’ Roses mashup by DJ Jimmi James.
More Great Beatles Mashups:
The Beatles vs. Queens of the Stone Age
The Beatles vs. Seeed
The Beatles vs. James Brown
The Beatles vs LCD Soundsystem vs The Kinks
The Beatles vs. The Black Eyed Peas vs. Ludacris vs. Kelis
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