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Resembling a "wall-wart" power adapter, the SheevaPlug draws 5 Watts, comes with Linux, and boasts completely open hardware and software designs
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Branding is not for people. Branding is for cattle. Branding is for slaves. Do you imagine itâs a coincidence that branding is for property?
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Sir, this is naught but rank linksmanship.
The delicious crossposter broke for me today so here’s the best of today’s, some of which I thought were worth manually putting in here:
- The Trashout Squad Something few people ever see – the dirty work of contractors hired by banks and mortgage companies to empty out foreclosed homes of whatever the former owners leave behind so the property can be readied for re-sale. Short KCET local video.
- The Singularics Corporation starring Mr. Jeffrey N. Cook brings you the finest in postscientific “new physics,” impossible encryption, and synthetic creation of life. Bees. In. Head.
- Your boss, the motivational speaker, and some dude with a blog all say you should “brand yourself.” Don’t do it literally, but more importantly, don’t do it at all.
- Social networking, like everything else fun, is totally going to kill you in the head. Only, no, it isn’t. The usual self-identified experts are alarmed and useless.
- This Turkish synth duo plays neo New Wave songs that recall Young Marble Giants, Pixies, early Human League, and Fad Gadget. I love them. Two downloadable albums.
- The great Orange County Mortgage Collapse has another unforeseen risk: Your financial records in some miscellaneous dumpster.
- Wired magazine had a bad fact-checking failure and their victim wrote it up.
- The Interactive 8-Track Tape: Foghat/Atari 2600 Double Ender is so close to plausible that it had me going for a few minutes. Yes, 1977 was that weird a time.
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The low-power XBee 802.15.4 and extended-range XBee-PRO 802.15.4 use the IEEE 802.15.4 networking protocol for fast point-to-multipoint or peer-to-peer networking.
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"Joe six-pack has a sense something is happening," Pastor Hitchcock said at the prophecy meeting. "You don’t have to be politically astute."
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For five years, Li’s formula, known as a Gaussian copula function, looked like an unambiguously positive breakthrough, a piece of financial technology that allowed hugely complex risks to be modeled with more ease and accuracy than ever before
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the top ten most important incidents regarding removable devices, including hardware keystroke loggers, USB thumb drives, and MP3 players
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Scientists believe they have found a way to grow teeth in the laboratory, a discovery that could put an end to fillings and dentures.
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Insufferable poetic wankery, cold cut platters, and recreational drug use will only get you so far with your beat-style hootenanny, however.
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"There is not a terrorist organization in the world that has not adopted LTTE tactics or at least aspired to do so." The Tamil Tigers are the Velvet Underground of terrorism
I still think this is Far Ghambowl’s best record.
1 – Go to “wikipedia.” Hit “random… Read More” or click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random The first random wikipedia article you get is the name of your band.
2 – Go to “Random quotations” or click http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
The last four or five words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album.
3 – Go to flickr and click on “explore the last seven days” or click http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days Third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.
4 – Use photoshop or similar to put it all together.
5 – Post it to LJ with this text in the “caption” and TAG the friends you want to join in.
In which I totally say “I told you so”
kniwt was kind enough to point out that I was right in March 2007, and others have been kind to point out that I was right in July 2003 about the oncoming subprime mortgage tsunami.
I’d love to call myself a prophet, but most of us in Newport saw that one coming. Too bad the financial journalists didn’t get to reporting on it until it was too late. Wonder why that happened?
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I spent an afternoon with two photographers. It was mostly like this.
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TRIUMPHAL BOX PROCEEDS
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I use Google Reader to track a number of feeds for around 10 sites. Here’s how the monitoring tends to go.
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the sandwich under its many names with its many varieties
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basic list of all those internet things. you know, the things.
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By next year, 10 Reaper unmanned aircraft should have a Gorgon Stare sensor, which will film an area, two-and-a-half miles around, from 12 different angles.
mortgage bro’s (slight return)
Finally pushed over the limit by this asshole (youtube video):
The talk radio mouths and the right-wing press have locked on to their version of the financial crash, and why foreclosed homeowners should not receive help.
The problem, they say, is that “political pressure” forced lenders to make bad loans to those who didn’t deserve them qualify. Many of these people were clearly n… ni… ne… NE’ER-DO-WELLS. Everyone knows those people can’t keep a mortage. If the government had let these experienced bankers use their own judgment, none of this would have happened. So we definitely don’t want to spend money—OUR money—helping these people out any more!
The subprime and alt-A mortgages were largely written by people I saw daily over the last decade, our famous local “Mortgage Bros.” These guys bought leads from cold-call telemarketers and sold refinancing to anything with a pulse, lying constantly about the risks. They upsold every potential loan, pushed the limit with interest-only ARM on subprime and alt-A garbage loans. They had no reason to care if the bank ever got the money or if their customers kept their houses. They used the system as it was presented.
The idea that these were stolid, cautious men in pinstriped suits, sworn to the fiduciary duties of their banks, who were somehow forced by dashiki’d oppressors in the Federal bureaucracy into giving money away to the NE’ER-DO-WELLS would be funny were it not such a repulsive lie.
Make no mistake. The financial industry made loans that could not be paid, knowing they were bad loans. They pushed those loans hard on their customers. And they knowingly mislead their customers into taking on impossible obligations. Thousands of these brokers committed criminal fraud.
If this was an attempt to redistribute wealth to the NE’ER-DO-WELLS, it backfired. The result was a lot of Harleys and speedboats and cocaine and blowjobs provided to the grinning, empty-souled asshole Fonzies of Orange County. If you don’t want their customers to be saved from eviction, let’s use the money to build them a very unpleasant jail.
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f.lux is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. it makes your computer’s lighting adapt to the time of day, warm at night and like sunlight during the day.
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