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Your week in Quickies
Mar 02 2005, 18:57 EST
Poach Salmon in Your Dishwasher
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Mar 02 2005, 18:55 EST
But why?
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Who needs the Weather Channel?
Feb 28 2005, 15:06 EST [updated Feb 28 2005, 15:08 EST]
I know it is going to snow because the Somerville PD is rolling up and down in their usual manner.
A Snow Emergency Has Been Declared. If you park on Broadway you will be towed. If you park on the even side of the street you will be towed.
A Snow Emerg
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Fark scores Boston Garden, UFIA remains unsolicited
Feb 28 2005, 14:17 EST
Fark.com the ecclectic news site bought the rights to name the Fleet Center for a day. The current frontpage of the Fleet Center tells the story. After rejecting a list of names including the favored UFIA the Fleet Center settled for "Boston Garden."
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What's your census Cyrus?
Feb 24 2005, 23:22 EST [updated Feb 25 2005, 01:48 EST]
I received a mandatory annual census form from Somerville, MA. Unopened it felt like a few pages so I cursed it as intrusive government-ese. Not so! It is affiliated with the registrar of voters who have been quite reasonable in my experience. I moved
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Your week in Quickies
Feb 22 2005, 09:42 EST
Cheap Wifi Antenna
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Feb 22 2005, 09:42 EST
This little reflector is easy to make and attaches to the standard antenna on your
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Asian Contagion Roundup
Feb 19 2005, 16:16 EST [updated Feb 19 2005, 16:30 EST]
Normally I'd stick these in quickies, but I've saved up a whole bunch.
First off, and this is almost cheating, we have Steven Denbeste's anime page. Everything you ever wanted to know and much, much more. He asks why do these people have napkins on the
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Police Corruption in Canada
Feb 16 2005, 15:47 EST [updated Feb 16 2005, 15:58 EST]
This would be huge news if it happened in the US but it happened in Canada, so feh, eh? The short op-ed version from the Edmonton Sun and a longer news take from the Edmonton Journal. Here is the police version of events
The police received an anonym
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Bruce Schneier's Beyond Fear
Feb 16 2005, 01:31 EST [updated Feb 16 2005, 02:46 EST]
I've been listening to Bruce Schneier's interview on "Beyond Fear" (free, no reg required) where he talks about how badly people judge risk. My favorite example is that more people die from accidents involving pigs each year than sharks. Have you ever h
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Marriage in MA
Feb 14 2005, 22:58 EST [updated Feb 14 2005, 23:00 EST]
The Massachusetts Attorney General has endorsed gay marriage. This is the same AG who fought against gay marriage when it first came before the courts. The difference? He's up for election soon. A particular effrontery to common sense and constitution
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Mixed Mythology Alert
Feb 14 2005, 19:29 EST [updated Feb 14 2005, 22:01 EST]
In his article on the come-uppance the mainstream media is currently gettting from bloggers Prof Bainbridge finishes with this paragraph:
And so the media has reaped what it sowed. The media legitimated and perpetuated the Sixties' radicals critique of
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Your week in Quickies
Feb 14 2005, 08:06 EST
More Bittorrent Sites
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Feb 13 2005, 19:00 EST
Here's a list of the leading torrent sites, for now.
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Bush is teh funny
Feb 10 2005, 21:47 EST [updated Feb 10 2005, 22:01 EST]
From the always valuable Volokh comes a criticism of Slate's "Bushism of the Day." The premise is that they point out Bush's verbal short comings. The problem is not that Bush doesn't slip but that he doesn't do it often enough to feed the feature. Som
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A Sword, A Plow, and a Dead Frenchman
Feb 07 2005, 23:43 EST [updated Feb 08 2005, 00:23 EST]
NB, DRAFT. I still need to dig up links in a bunch of places. But I've been sitting on this since the inaugural and if not now, when.
This is about Bush's Inaugural speech but it will take a trip to get there. I'll start with the Dead Frenchman (one
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MSN Search Loves (or Hates) us
Feb 07 2005, 21:20 EST [updated Feb 14 2005, 18:54 EST]
A few months ago I bitched about MSN's beta web spider hitting thousands of 404s on this site for pages that no longer existed (all from the same cgi-bin). But who is complaining now? We have come up in the top ten for lots of strange referrers even for
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Your week in Quickies
Feb 07 2005, 10:15 EST
Personal USB Microscope
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Feb 07 2005, 10:13 EST
This microscope, available only in Japan(duh), is intended for, errr, persona
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Have Some Biometrics With Your Lunch
Feb 04 2005, 20:05 EST
A low income school district in PA has been using biometric identification
for K-12 students in the lunchroom as a debit card.
You might say "How could installing a computer system in the cafeteria be saving money?" - and I'd be right there with you
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