February 2008
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Microsoft chops Vista retail prices →
Vista Ultimate: $299 -> $219 Vista Home Premium: $159 -> $129 No, I still wouldn’t pay that much, either…
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1 percent of U.S. adults behind bars →
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Australia moving ahead with plans to erect ISP... →
I haven’t actually read the article; I just thought that the headline was priceless…
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UNIX tips: Learn 10 good UNIX usage habits →
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Arbor Brewing Co. Sacred Cow IPA
Pours murky brown-orange with a small white head and lots of floaties in the glass. This beer isn’t much to look at, but there’s a nice hop bite that lingers in the finish. Overall, this is a solid Michigan IPA (the best there is, if you ask me) and I would buy it again, even though it doesn’t quite stand up to my beloved Two Hearted Ale.
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Drastically Speed up your Linux System with... →
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Hacker-Pschorr Weisse
Pours hazy yellow-orange with a big white head. Malty banana aroma, fruity and spicy flavor. This is exactly what a Hefeweisen should taste like.
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Ubuntu 8.10 Code Name Released - Intrepid Ibex →
Intrepid Ibex? That doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue…
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Macro Photography - It's the Little Things That... →
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Six Degrees of Wikipedia
I was recently challenged to find a path across Wikipedia from Santa Claus, IN to Waterboarding. It took about five minutes:
Santa Claus, IN
Theme Park
World War II
Prisoner-of-war Camp
Hanoi Hilton
John McCain
Waterboarding
Six Hops…that’s it.
Afterwards, I found (unsurprisingly) that other geeks have made this into a quasi-sport. Cool.
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Toshiba to Give Up on HD-DVD Format →
Now I can finally buy a player…I wasn’t willing to get stuck with a 21st century Betamax.
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Fox: '24' on shelf until next January →
NOOOOOOOOOO!
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All News is Local →
Google is releasing a new feature today that will allow you to get a customized news feed by city name or ZIP code. They don’t just look at the byline or source. They actually analyze (imperfectly) the text of the stories to figure out what location the news is about.
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Watch ”well it’s a funny thing to die and feel just fine…”
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Watch Make your own photo mosaic…
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TrueCrypt 5.0 Released →
Among the new features: Entire-partition encryption: you can encrypt the hard disk (or specific partitions thereof) so that it asks for a password at boot time. Companies that let sensitive information walk out the front door on employee laptops would do well to give this a try. Support for Mac OS X A new GUI for the Linux version
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NFL Pulls Plug On Big-Screen Church Parties For... →
Seriously…who benefits from this?
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Microsoft-Yahoo: What Will Stay And What Will Go? →
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Microsoft Bids $44.6 Billion for Yahoo →
Wow. I think we saw it coming, but it still seems unbelievable now that it’s here. At a 62 percent premium over their stick price, and with the trouble Yahoo has been in of late, I can’t imagine that they’ll turn it down. This would also mean that del.icio.us and Flickr will become Microsoft properties. I thought about exporting my links when Yahoo acquired del.icio.us, but...