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Okay, so it's advertising one of the worst Star Wars movies. It's hard not to like a yogurt lightsaber though.

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When Marxists are complaining that your party’s candidates are disconnected from today’s global realities, it’s generally not a good sign. But they’re not alone.
There is today an enormous gap between the way many C.E.O.’s in America — not Wall Street-types, but the people [...]

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Excellent infographic from Techdirt on how all of our favorite mediums are continuing to grow in our brave new technological era, despite the caterwauling of those who insist on being left behind.

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An Updated Analysis: Why SOPA & PIPA Are A Bad Idea, Dangerous & Unnecessary
from the enough-of-the-bull dept
Okay. A few months back, I wrote up what I called “the definitive” post on why SOPA & PIPA were very bad bills. Some things have changed since then, so I thought it might be useful to [...]

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I wrote this article up a while back, and since then, I’ve switched to OpenELEC, which really is the way to go for an XBMC-only computer setup. However, in case it helps anybody, here’s what I was doing last fall.

It can be tough when you’re trying to get something working under a specific set of [...]

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This is great – note how everybody on every side opposes it, making you wonder who exactly ol’ Lamar is representing.

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Over Christmas I acquired some excellent new headphones, Audio Technica’s HM50. I picked these out thanks to a recommendation by Thomas Frank of College Info Geek. These days I spend a lot more time listening to headphones than my speaker system, so I wanted to move away from the “stock earbuds” and get [...]

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I've been relatively quiet of late due to the looming deadline of the paper I'm writing for my lab. I've spent a number of afternoons working form home, where I find myself utilizing a comical amount of different tools simultaneously, from duel-wielding Windows and OS X systems to handwritten notes.
For no particular reason, I'm [...]

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Wow, Five Guys has the soda fountain we have been collectively imagining for generations. Dial up one of dozens of choices with the touchscreen and push the button to dispense. Yes!

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…I am rather proud of myself. Yesterday I spent a number of hours hacking on the computers comprising our home theater setup. When Rachel came home that night and wanted to watch TV, it “just worked.”

Over the course of those hours I tweaked some motherboard settings to significantly reduce the fan noise (and hopefully power [...]

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