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At the suggestion of Computing Minimalists, I’ve been getting used to using the keyboard instead of the mouse in most cases. I was always a Vim person, and started using Vimperator today, and have been using MouseKeys (PDF link) and Windows XP’s shortcuts for a week or two. As you get used to using the [...]

i found some in the fridge thinking “wow! what a great idea!” except after i had some i realized it didn’t really go together.

…actually really really tired. I’m not a morning person, but had to wake up at quarter to 9 for a long-overdue haircut. (Almost all of my haircuts are a week or two overdue.) except I fell asleep at probably 5-5:30 about and only had 3-4 hours sleep then. I am in a mental state now [...]

i was supposed to go to sleep but wound up fixing the youtube issue on my page. i have to mail that thing to the czech republic and i’m listening to great music. i have to go to sleep now that my web site is fixed due to youtube fucking with the resolutions. not that [...]

From YouTube via Lew Rockwell: Classical Harmonica

just watch and read and it might be better

I just came across this children’s toy called “Mattel Mindflex”, which floats a ball depending on your amount of concentration:   Mattel Mindflex Commercial   These guys turned it into the “Most Painful Toy Hack Ever” Electric Shock Machine On a related note, it has come to my attention that YouTube messed with the dimensions [...]

Not familiar with submitting to Failblog, but it says that voting could help it get to the front page (I have managed to get to “the front page” of other sites before): George Washington Win: http://cheezburger.com/View.aspx?aid=3296440576 Intellectual Property Fail: http://cheezburger.com/View.aspx?aid=3296448512 (Post updated 4/20/10 – I must have forgotten to make the links actual links)

You might have heard of computer supplier Newegg accidentally shipping computer builders boxed “processors”. This is no ordinary counterfeit import issue – I found a nice article describing the shipments – the CPU was a piece of lead, with a sticker of a fan attached to a “heatsink” piece of molded plastic. And, of course, [...]

Other than the buttons on the side and some links in the blogroll, I don’t like to discuss politics on this blog, as I’ve run political blogs before and it’s just frustrating and boring after a while. However, I’ve just come across a great article, fully cited, on the 17th Amendment and the damage it [...]