October 2007
24 posts
VIDEO: Ron Paul Gets Massive Applause on the... →
Highlights from the show:- Jay asked all the right questions. Did his research.- Had Ron on for 2 segments. Brought him back after the commercial break.- Plugged his book A Foreign Policy of Freedom.- A woman who has gone to every Jay Leno taping for the past 3 years said, “the only guests to have this many people outside hoping to get…
Chops City Grill (Naples, Bonita Springs & Estero,... →
For our vacation date this time, my nose brought us to the best restaurant in Naples. I had a peppercorn-encrusted filet, my wife had grilled chicken with vinegar-teriyaki sauce. Everything was superlative… My wife even said that their Caesar salad was the best she’d ever had. We dropped some serious change but we can strongly recommend this place if you’re in the Fort...
Cult of Mac » Flock 1.0 Public Beta is the Best... →
I’m glad someone else came out and said this because I’ve been beginning to think the same thing. This is the first time I’ve seriously considered replacing OmniWeb as my main browser in years. [Note: Flock is available for Windows and Linux as well!]
“Basically, what Hitchens was proposing is genocide. Or, at least, wholesale...”
– Christopher Hitchens and Genocide.
Neocons and other pro-war “conservatives” have been implying genocide against Muslims with Rich Lowry’s chilling discussion of “nuking Mecca” perhaps getting the closest to being explicit. But it looks like Christopher Hitchens is...
WatchPoll: Bullshit Is Most Important Issue For 2008 Voters
“I object to socialized children, just like I object to socialized medicine.”
– B.K. Marcus
CONFIRMED: Real iPhone SDK in February 2008 →
Steve Jobs: “Let me just say it: We want native third party applications on the iPhone, and we plan to have an SDK in developers’ hands in February.”
Alexander Cockburn: Al Gore's Peace Prize →
The leftist Cockburn rips into what a travesty it was to give the Nobel Peace Prize to Al Gore:When Gore goes to get the prize he shares with the pr hucksters and falsifiers at the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Gore should be forced to march through a gauntlet of widows and orphans, Serbs, Iraqis, Palestinians, Colombians, and other victims of the...
Photo Scanning, Negative Scanning, Slide Scanning,... →
19 cents per photo to do a color corrected scan. This is just the sort of thing that I’ll never get around to but really want done with old family photos.
LewRockwell.com Blog: "We Need to Stand Up for... →
The editing pass →
Once you get a piece of code to the point where you believe it works - it’s passing its tests - go back over it and edit it. That is, go back and edit it for clarity, flow, and style. Just as if it were an essay.
[Thanks Daring Fireball]
Do we need NASA? →
“Rutan and his fellow pilots, venture capitalists and entrepreneurs have undertaken a formidable task: To demonstrate to the public that space travel need not be synonymous with government programs. In fact, many of them say NASA has become more of a hindrance than a help.”
WatchVista Sucks. I love the “Bataan Death March” line in particular. Previous Funny.
Ron Paul raises 5 million in 3rd quarter, up 114% →
Ron Paul’s 114 percent increase is in stark contrast to the decrease suffered by Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani, and John McCain. Romney’s fundraising was down 29 percent. Giuliani was down 40 percent. McCain was down 55 percent.
Nisus Thesaurus →
Why it is cool:
It is free.
It not only shows you words that are Similar or Opposite, but also “More General” and “More Specific” words as well as things that are parts of the word (“bed” has the part “mattress”) and things of which the word is a part (“leg” is a part of “human body”, “chair” and...
