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flash drives in laptops, replacing hard drives, are coming. You wait and see.
Month: May 2007
quote of the day
The Carpetbagger Report » Blog Archive » A side of Rice in the oil-for-food scandal?:
The axis of sanctions busters:
Rummy – on the Board of ABB that sold nuclear technology to North Korea.
Cheney – on the Board of Halliburton that did business (through KBR) in Iran.
Condi – on the Board of Chevron that did business with Saddam’s Iraq.
links for 2007-05-10
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I would have made reference to the Confederacy, be it display of the flag, birthday observances, any allusion of the Lost Cause as anything but a rebellion, treason.
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More like “Annals of Entitled Cretins”
WPPD2007
It’s my world, you just live on it.
what would you choose?
What do you think is the Twentieth Century’s most iconic piece of design; write in your answer and an explanation.
I’m thinking about this one. The Coke bottle?
links for 2007-05-09
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“Today, it is an accepted fact that the kindest thing you can say about the Bush administration is that it is completely incompetent, which is the line now taken by hard-line Bush supporters”
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can you live well and stay thrifty? eat organics and stay within the USDA’s “thrifty” budget?
go get your own
Freedom to Tinker » Blog Archive » You Can Own an Integer Too — Get Yours Here:
Here is your very own 128-bit integer, which we hereby deed to you:
C3 67 86 EA CD F1 A1 DC 1E 84 6B 27 CC 74 FA 3D
If we didn’t have Ed Felten, we would have to invent him.
You’re not allowed to know that number. It’s mine.
the facts are biased: see here for proof
Oregon State University: The History of the US Minimum Wage, in graphs. Very interesting. (via dm)
Feel free to superimpose the party of the president at each point in the graph and see how it relates to real wages.
Calculated in real 2006 dollars, the 1968 minimum wage was the highest at $9.27.
And it’s never been as good since.
quote of the day
Newsweek poll — a new low for Bush:
When it comes to Democratic hopes, Bush is the gift that keeps on giving.
The whole piece is worth reading. The bottom-line is that when you are care more about your party than your country or its institutions, everyone loses.