Author: Dr Wingnut
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Trailblazing
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.Ralph Waldo EmersonUnless you are camping, where this advice is the worst possible; and most environmentally destructive. Instead, try: Leave your camp site cleaner than you found it, and leave no trace of your presence.
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Filmpjes
Lejo theater: click “filmpjes” and have a ball. OK, if you must, click GB for English. (Thanks to Lee Humphreys.)Comparing skylines around the world.Bizarre kid-friendly fun (thanks to KP for the reminder)Another oldie but goodie (note, it’s sort of dark humor) “Transparent” computer backgroundsHow do you spell a raspberry?If you’ve been watching my numerous “numa…
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Strength
Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.Richard Byrd
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Hello, my name is Jeem
Over the weekend, I took in the BBC’s “The Kumars At No. 42”–a hilarious sitcom/talk-show hybrid featuring an extended Indian family that has immigrated to London. To help pay the bills, these fictional Kumars, incongruously, host a chat show from a television studio they’ve bolted onto their modest home in Wembley. Real guest stars appear…
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Gateway drugs
I was reading the CTO Connection in Infoworld on 29 March 2005 where the Chad Dickerson said, “Some call the iPod the ‘gateway drug’ to the OS X platform.” What a great reference. The only other company that comes to mind that has that kind of marketing clout in my mind is Harley Davidson. I…
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Extremism
Extremism is so easy. You’ve got your position, and that’s it. It doesn’t take much thought. And when you go far enough to the right you meet the same idiots coming around from the left.Clint Eastwood, Time, 28 February 2005