Balmer’s The Real Thief

Steve Balmer, Microsoft’s CEO, today slandered millions of upstanding, decent iPod owners by insinuating that most of the music on our iPods is stolen.

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Mount St. Helens

May 18, 1980 – 4:00pm PST Eight months pregnant with my second child, I woke groggy and disoriented from a much-needed nap. The clock

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HEADSTATIC Book Review

HEADSTATIC Official Site $12.00 direct Xeric Award Winner Some opine that graphic novels are the latest evolution of literature. I’m not sure I find

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Viral Infection

So yet another Windows vulnerability has been exploited and turned into a virus infection. You probably have heard about it already, virus that can

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When The Newspaper Is Late

My Morning Routine Recently our local newspaper opened a state-of-the-art newspaper printing plant. Since opening the new facility the newspaper, which before the new

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Star Wars TV Show

So it is official, or at least as official as anything George Lucas actually says. (He has this habit of saying one thing, and

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Presidential Debates

Ah, it happens once every four years: Presidential debates. Every time I tell myself I’m not going to watch yet every four years there

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All about elevators

Elevators have been an essential technology that contributed to the growth of the modern era. And yet it really never got the amount of

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Captain Jame Stottlemeyer

Today’s note of oddness: The guy who plays Captain Stottlemeyer on my current fave show Monk is the same actor that played Jame Gumb.

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More Lost Austin Band MP3s!

You want raw, original string band music? You’ve come to the right place. The importance of these early 70s recordings can’t be underestimated. The

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Election Prognostications

First off: I’m not going to make a presidential prediction, no sir. But I will confidently predict that roughly half the country will be

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