meehawl all that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned

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Powerpoint Uber Alles

?Stems from late ?70s info delivery systems ?-Prototypes available early ?80s ?Forethought PowerPoint released 1987 ?-Mac-only ?-Mono ?-Laser printer output ?Huge success ?-Microsoft immediately acquires, $14m ?-1990 – Integrates with Office ?-Early ?90s ?...

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The Disappeared

Nice article here looking at some of the (estimated) 2000 people disappeared by the US justice system since September 11th. I note that the LA mass detentions recently spread to the Bay Area when...

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The Real Irish Porn Stars

So my nefarious plan succeeded and now those scary Offaly GAA supporters are now Google’s #1 hit for “Irish Porn Star“. Earlier here.

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Easy $20

So apparently the record companies, in a rare legal defeat concerning price rigging, have agreed to pay to settle a class action suit. So if you swear that you bought recorded music between 1995...

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Regular Movements

Let nobody ever doubt again the wisdom of Regular Movements. My Dad was admitted to hospital in New York with extraordinary abdominal pain. Initially they thought it might be appendicitis, but it turned out...

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Sharon’s Price

I note an interesting article that analyzes how Israel’s Sharon is shaking down the US Treasury for $14 billion to ensure “compliance” with US Middle Eastern policy. How much money in total has the...

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Not A Waste Land

I’ve looked at Gnod before, but I didn’t notice that it also does clustering for writers. I was intrigued to learn that people who read Clark Ashton Smith also tend to read TS Eliot,...

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Ouch, For Real!

So I came up again in this incredibly itchy rash. Last time I thought it was from shrimp, but this time I can’t find any shellfish in my recent dietary past so unless some...

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Ouch!

Every so often I get really annoyed by ritual male genital mutiliation, or male circumscision, and the unthinking way millions of otherwise vanilla parents in the US seem so avid to subject their infant...