March 2009
35 posts
Wouldn’t you like to be a pepper too?
Old-School Keyboard Makes Comeback Of Sorts →
Almost all keyboards made since the early 1990s are, frankly, no good. A tiny group of writers and hackers know better. They use vintage IBM keyboards. Ugly, built like tanks, and, most importantly, with a spring under each key, and which clicks when you press it.
Awesome! I’ve used a few of these back in the day - who knew they were still being made?!
“Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don’t know and I...”
– William Safire
The Pope Goes to Africa and Says Condoms Don't...
Pope Benedict XVI went to Cameroon and told reporters that condoms will not “overcome” AIDS.
343. Keep a scrapbook.
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Mine’s online! Woohoo!
“I was barely seventeen, and I once killed a...
9 Cool Pictures of the Time President Truman...
^ clicky ^
Some Seamus Kennedy for ye on St. Pat’s day....
“It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be...”
– Havelock Ellis
183. Be quick with a 'good morning.'
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1000 Days
Can you imagine doing anything for 1000 days straight? I’m not talking about the bodily functions that come naturally, like breathing or blinking. Not even the abstract things like love can be included. I’m talking about doing something, an activity, for 1000 days straight. For many of us, the five-day work week is long enough; we can’t imagine doing something for much longer.
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Obama Reversing Stem Cell Limits Imposed by Bush -... →
President Obama will announce Monday that he is reversing Bush administration limits on federal financing for embryonic stem cell research as part of a pledge to separate science and politics, White House officials said Friday.
“In a digital age, data about money is worth more than money.”
– Nicholas Negroponte
310. Make time for your mom on your birthday. It's...
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Slashdot | Calif. Politican Thinks Blurred Online... →
‘Bank robbers have long used cars and motorcycles as getaway vehicles, and horses before then. I haven’t seen it talked about yet, but the Mumbai terrorists used boats as well. They also wore boots. They ate lunch at restaurants, drank bottled water and breathed the air,’ wrote Schneier. ‘Society survives all of this because the good uses of infrastructure far outweigh the...
Bible Quote of the Day
From everyone’s favorite book, Leviticus Chapter 21:16-23:
The LORD said to Moses, “Say to Aaron: ‘For the generations to come none of your descendants who has a defect may come near to offer the food of his God. No man who has any defect may come near: no man who is blind or lame, disfigured or deformed; no man with a crippled foot or hand, or who is hunchbacked or dwarfed, or...
