Archive for May, 2006
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The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case on punitive damages. The case in question is against Phillip Morris, where their punitive damages were influenced in their Oregon case by the masses of Oregonians EVIL PHILLIP MORRIS has injured that WEREN'T INVOLVED IN THE CASE.
This is entirely unacceptable for a judge to do. [...]
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Talks: Ruby on Rails at IPSA
UPDATE: IPSA = Internet Professionals Society of Alabama
I'm going to list a bunch of potential topics, and let's say any visitor gets 10 points to distribute among the topics. Whichever topics come out on top will probably get talked about, unless I find myself inadequate to the task. Or I don't feel like giving [...]
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So this girl neighbor of mine was over here hanging out with me and another buddy, and I referred to something as 'gay' in a pejorative sense (i.e. "Jimmy's gay"). She of course put up the typical "nothing inherently wrong with homosexuality" argument that I swear 90% of college kids will put up in [...]
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Begin Utilizing Gutenberg…
There's the Project Gutenberg book library out there, and I'm not using it right now. What kind of geek do I purport to be? If I can get a decent system set up to read them from the mirror structure, then I can have an app that can either browse and display them [...]
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I was reading an article in MAKE magazine this month about sensory implants, in the form of a magnet that is surgically inserted into a muscle in the hand. The claim is that the patients that undergo this surgery begin to feel electricity, at first via a sensation of feeling, but ultimately by a sensation [...]
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My favorite new thing…
#!/bin/bash
ssh -X lifenik 'rhythmbox'
hello, iHomeTheaterMassiveShuffle…
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