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By Dave, July 15, 2005 4:17 pm

Scientists reverse memory loss in mice

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Hope they found a key that works on humans.

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By Dave, July 15, 2005 4:16 pm

edgeblur’s surfACE

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Cool product. In a couple of senses…

Out of box thinking on the design. Not sure about the materials. The wings (side supports?) look like they are bending quite a bit in the picture.

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By Dave, July 15, 2005 4:14 pm

ScrapHouse – Gallery

Interesting house!

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By Dave, July 15, 2005 3:18 pm

WIL WHEATON dot NET: Where is my mind?: karl vs. carl

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AMEN, Brother Wil!

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By Dave, July 15, 2005 2:15 pm

ABC News: Shopping for Dates at Wal-Mart

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And yet another reason to NEVER shop at a walfart

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By Dave, July 15, 2005 12:55 pm

Had all the sites go down again this morning. Same database problem as yesterday. Went to the mySQL site and looked it up and was throwing a device out of space code. The host got back to me a bit later and said that the /tmp directory was full as they were doing an account restore. I’ll buy that once in a while. Twice in two days is a bit much. Especially as the outage today was over an hour and closer to two. Do not like that. Especially as I am working on adding another 2 sites to the group…

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By Dave, July 15, 2005 7:40 am

PBS | I, Cringely . July 14, 2005 – More Shoes

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And his new shoes make a lot of sense too I might add. Go read, ponder, then hit that Ahhhhhhh moment…

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By Dave, July 15, 2005 1:37 am

The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
Matias intros new USB 2.0 keyboard with integrated iPod shuffle dock

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This is cool and I don’t own an iPod of any description…

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By Dave, July 15, 2005 1:35 am

The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
Did Apple change the signal strength scale with AirPort 4.2?

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I’d like to know this too before I install this update. Getting more and more skittish about apple updates that turn into downgrades that add more drm restrictions…

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By Dave, July 15, 2005 12:55 am

Slashdot | Unsealed SCO Email Reveals Linux Code is Clean

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So they knew all along. I had suspected that but am very surprised to find it in unsealed court documents. Guess we now know why they were sealed…

I hope this puts Daryl’s ass in a sling. Maybe there will be a cozy cell waiting somewhere for this SOB that has put on this media circus and wasted all the courts time and taxpayers money on this frivolous lawsuit that they knew was bullshit! As did most of the linux community but I just kept waiting for them to produce something anyway.

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By Dave, July 15, 2005 12:05 am

Brain stimulants may become popular

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I want an expresso! Make it a double!

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By Dave, July 14, 2005 11:59 pm

Linux Today – The Inquirer: IBM Officially Kills OS/2, Suggests Switch to Linux

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God, I thought this thing died years ago! Had no idea they were still supporting it…

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By Dave, July 14, 2005 9:35 pm

Nero Wolfe and The Toff

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This site is devoted to french covers of various mystery writers including several Nero Wolfe books that were translated into french. The series was abandoned in 1950 after 19 Nero Wolfes had been published.

Well worth a browse!

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By Dave, July 14, 2005 9:29 pm

Using DarwinPorts

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Personal note here. Just installed it to try to get gimp installed on this mac. Been fighting fink and apt-get all day. So wanted to be able to remember where to look to find the link to the docs… never mind. nothing to see here. just move along folks…

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By Dave, July 14, 2005 9:23 pm

Boing Boing: Plan 9 From Outer Space available on Internet Archive

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This is cool!

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By Dave, July 14, 2005 9:19 pm

Boing Boing: Vintage radio PCs

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and yet another way to destroy old vintage radios… That hurts!

But it might be a lucrative business too!

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By Dave, July 14, 2005 7:31 pm

Boing Boing: Decrypt this book, says Chinese code-novelist

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The above is the whole of his novel. About two young lovers that do something. Horizontal mambo or something is what it looks like from that last section. First part looks like they aren’t real sure of their sexual orientation. Then they get eyebrows or something.

Don’t think this kind of thing is gonna catch on. And he claims it took a year to write.

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By Dave, July 14, 2005 3:06 pm

Woodland Yurts

Here is a free copy of my book Build your own yurt, written in 1998, It has been used by a great many people who have built their own yurts. Our designs have progressed somewhat since 1998. For a much more comprehensive guide see The Complete Yurt Handbook

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Some good info here. For those yurt minded amongst us… 😉

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By Dave, July 14, 2005 11:18 am

Slashdot | Doctorow and Stross Release Latest Novels for Free

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And their sales keep climbing. Free advertising is hard to beat. Shows once again that there are positive aspects to giving things away.

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By Dave, July 14, 2005 11:11 am

The Huffington Post | Latest News
Two days before he was sworn into office, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger accepted a consulting job paying an estimated $8 million over five years to “further the business objectives” of a national publisher of health and bodybuilding magazines.

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Read on a bit for the conflict of interest part. This is the kind of thing that we have to eliminate. Don’t know how or if it’s even possible but somehow if we are to survive as a people instead of as producer/consumers in a corporate work force.

The early verges of this are on us now as auto makers put employees parking further away that drive other brand cars. Coke firing employees for drinking Pepsi. Walmart touting how much it does for the communities it infests while it instructs its employees to apply for food stamps and federal aid. Tis old news and not new news but it illustrates how our society as a whole is going.

Trademarks everywhere. I’m not immune. I’m typing this on an Apple iBook that I tried to talk myself out of getting. But I got it from a small business. They pissed me off and I may never go back there again but that’s another story.

Ramble, ramble. It all ties together in my head and probably nowhere else.

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