robot_dave: September 2007 Archives
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Here's a big question that I want to start addressing in upcoming posts: what is conservative rule doing to our nation's soul? How is it rewiring our hearts and minds? What kind of damage are they doing to the American character? And can we ever recover?
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So 'merkins can feel secure under their blankie...
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The funny thing about these movies is, we never learn just which two chemicals can be handled safely when separate, yet instantly blow us all to kingdom come when combined. Nevertheless, we maintain a great eagerness to believe in these substances, chiefl
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”If you told me 20 years ago that, in 2007, we would have online worldwide maps/satellite photos and downloadable ringtones, I would have believed you. But if you told me that the former would be free, and the latter would cost money, I would have said
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Even as President Bush stripped away the inalienable rights guaranteed by the Founders in the Constitution, he kept much of the population confused with misdirection, by asserting that he was taking these actions to defend "liberty" and "freedom.
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Work on the light-rail line in Seattle has almost been completed for what officials call the South Lake Union Streetcar (SLUS), but locals have taken to using the word ”Trolley„. According to seattlepi.com, more than 100 people have bought ”Ride
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At Cepstral®, Text-to-Speech is our only focus. We make realistic synthetic voices that can say anything, anywhere, with personality and style. From the smallest device to large installations and high-end interactive media, Cepstral voices can bring fres
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Debunking Bjørn Lomborg — Part I, The Great Polar Bear Irony
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Debunking Bjørn Lomborg — Part II, Misrepresenting Sea Level Rise
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The industry must now with one voice insist that airports look at improving their security processes, as otherwise they will unwittingly deliver to the terrorists the grid lock of travel that they so crave.
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"What I'm selling is a Chinese iPhone. It's not a fake iPhone. It works perfectly fine."
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Carbon Copy Cloner 3. Clone, synchronize, backup. Schedule and forget it. Try it 'til you trust it.
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With the ability to sort and organize your assignments, exams, and projects quickly and easily Schoolhouse is a must have for any student on-the-go. The power of smart notebooks allow you to interact with your work as simply as your iTunes library.
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FORMER Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, in his new book, says the US went to war in Iraq motivated largely by oil.
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Greenspan's damning comments about the war come as a survey of Iraqis, which was released last week, claims that up to 1.2 million people may have died because of the conflict in Iraq - lending weight to a 2006 survey in the Lancet that reported similarly
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So, my friends, I am offering you a very juicy secret, one that will turn an ordinary "Choice" cut of steak into a gucci "Prime" cut. Do you know the joy of buying Choice and eating Prime? It’s like buying a Hyundai and getting a free mail-in rebate fo
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Outrageously cool 3D map of (some parts of) Hong Kong (via the Shaky Kaiser)
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AtomicParsley is a lightweight command line program for reading, parsing and setting metadata into MPEG-4 files supporting these styles of metadata:
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REALbasic 2007 Use REALbasic to create software for Windows, Macintosh and Linux from a single set of source code! It's cross-platform development that really works!
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This is the real deal - unlock your iPhone for use with any SIM in less than an hour. Anyone with some computer experience will be able to follow this tutorial, since i've omitted all techincal details
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CyberNotes: Firefox Extensions cause Memory Leaks and Crashes
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This document describes the various keyboard combinations that you can use with the flight simulator features of Google Earth.
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