July 2009
14 posts
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Obama Chooses Bud Light for "beer" with Gates and... →
Wow, so for a “teachable moment” on race relations, he chooses frat-boy swill.  Good choice.  Geez, man, you’re the leader of the (nominally) Free World…try a beer that’s actually still American and isn’t a symbol of everything that’s gone wrong with the USA.  You’re (kinda) from Chicago; might I suggest a Honker’s Ale?
Jul 29th
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Ron Paul: The Immorality of Taxpayer Funded... →
Dr. Paul makes two very good points here: Forcing pro-life taxpayers to subsidize abortion is evil and tyrannical. When the reach of government steps beyond its proper boundaries, the moral agenda of those in power at the time will be advanced at the expense of the rights of others.
Jul 29th
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Layers of fun in Google Maps for mobile 3.2 →
Jul 28th
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Is the party over for behemoth Microsoft? →
Jul 28th
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Things That Will Never Happen →
Found this as a result of a conversation I had yesterday with a couple of folks (a little older than me) who laughed when I said that we’d live to see the end of sending documents via “snail mail.”
Jul 10th
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Introducing the Google Chrome OS →
Next year, Google will be releasing the Chrome OS.  Chrome OS will be a quick-booting, minimalistic platform that will support running web applications (think Google Apps, etc.) on Chrome.  It will initially be released on netbooks. The cool part?  It runs on a Linux kernel.  This will be great for Linux marketshare (although most folks will probably have no idea that they’re not using...
Jul 8th
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Jul 2nd
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10 Unfortunate Neon Signs →
Jul 2nd
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How to get Transport Tycoon Deluxe to Run in...
Update 16 FEB 2010: I’ve noticed that this post ranks very highly on Google for “Transport Tycoon Deluxe Windows 7” so I decided to write a new post detailing how I actually play Transport Tycoon these days: with the excellent open-source remake OpenTTD, which runs on Windows and Linux.  My new post is available here. If you’re trying to run the classic simulation game...
Jul 2nd
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How to Automount a drive in DOSBOX →
Dosbox is a DOS emulator that lets you play your old games on Linux, Windows, Mac, etc.  This tutorial shows you how to auto-mount your DOS folder so that it’s ready to go each time you fire it up.
Jul 2nd
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CBS, Helen Thomas Challenge Gibbs On "Controlled"... →
Chip Reid and Helen Thomas take Robert Gibbs to task for the prepackaged town-hall propagandathon that the White House was preparing to broadcast on ABC.
Jul 2nd
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VirtualBox 3.0.0 for Linux Brings 3D and OpenGL... →
Jul 1st
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Now Ubuntu doesn't need to reboot even after... →
Wicked.
Jul 1st
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White House Pushes To Keep Visitor Logs Private →
It was a recurring theme of Barack Obama’s presidential campaign — a call for openness: “Transparency and accountability, getting the American people involved, that’s how we’re gonna bring about change,” candidate Obama said. This guy lies just like Bush…he just does it more eloquently. Did anyone actually believe that we’d get Change™ from a Democrat or...
Jul 1st