October 2011 Archives

• The official Dilbert website with Scott Adams' color comic strips, animation, mashups and more!

  That's my job described in the middle panel.

  tags: dilbert comic

• More Fun With Siri Dictation « Jim Rhoades / Crush Apps

  After figuring out how to use Siri dictation to quickly add items to a list in Paperless, I discovered some other commands it recognizes – based on this article about Dragon Dictation (a third party app for dictating text). While Siri doesn’t seem to recognize all of the things that Dragon Dictation does, here are the ones that have worked for me (this is not a comprehensive list, if you know of any others please post them in the comments – and I’ll add them in).

  tags: dictation apps iPhone

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• Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying Game Official Home Page - Article (PAX 2011 D&D Game)

  A theatrical (and undoubtedly hilarious!) Dungeons & Dragons experience took place during PAX Prime at the historic Paramount Theater in Seattle. This latest adventure of Acquisitions Incorporated (starring: Wil Wheaton, Jerry Holkins, Mike Krahulik, Scott Kurtz, and Chris Perkins) was originaly broadcast live Saturday, August 27th:

  tags: PAX roleplaying game dungeons_and_dragons paul_and_storm

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• The "very scary" Iranian Terror plot - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com

  To begin with, this episode continues the FBI’s record-setting undefeated streak of heroically saving us from the plots they enable. From all appearances, this is, at best, yet another spectacular “plot” hatched by some hapless loser with delusions of grandeur but without any means to put it into action except with the able assistance of the FBI, which yet again provided it through its own (paid, criminal) sources posing as Terrorist enablers. The Terrorist Mastermind at the center of the plot is a failed used car salesman in Texas with a history of pedestrian money problems. Dive under your bed. “For the entire operation, the government’s confidential sources were monitored and guided by federal law enforcement agents,” explained U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, and “no explosives were actually ever placed anywhere and no one was actually ever in any danger.’”

  tags: Iran security_theatre

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• Food Timeline: food history & vintage recipes

  Ever wonder how the ancient Romans fed their armies? What the pioneers cooked along the Oregon Trail? Who invented the potato chip...and why? So do we!!! Food history presents a fascinating buffet of popular lore and contradictory facts. Some experts say it's impossible to express this topic in exact timeline format. They are correct. Most foods are not invented; they evolve. (via making light)

  tags: food history timeline culture cooking

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• steve on Devour.com

  tags: Devour.com steve jobs video

• Text of Steve Jobs' Commencement address (2005)

  No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true. Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

  tags: steve jobs stanford speech apple inspiration

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