Rants, Raves, and Rhetoric v4

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  • Quotation of the Day

    January 9, 2007
    from LiveJournal, Humor / Weird, News

    Moose from Utah transported to Colorado – Yahoo! News “I’ve never mugged a moose, but I guess they’re pretty wimpy once they’re on the ground,” Dolling said.

  • No More Public Anonymous Photos

    January 7, 2007
    Internet, Philosophy, Photography, Privacy

    Early in the history of the WWW, people thought a document which did not have an inbound link, a link from some external location to the file, was private. Search engines looked for content on web sites in locations for which there was not a link already pointing. To truly respect the privacy of those…

  • Science Mysteries, Explained

    January 6, 2007
    from LiveJournal, Science

    Science Mysteries, Explained – Popular Science The world is full of mysteries, and we at Popular Science strive to do our part to help you make sense of them. What causes Slurpee-induced brain freeze? Will junior1s piano lessons make him smarter? Can men produce breast milk? We’ve covered these important bases and more to help…

  • Mirrormask

    January 6, 2007
    Movies / Films / TV

    Currently watching Neil Gaiman’s MirrorMask. Plot Summary for MirrorMask (2005) (IMDB.com): Helena, a 15-year-old girl in a family of circus entertainers, often wishes she could run off and join real life. After a fight with her parents about her future plans, her mother falls quite ill and Helena is convinced that it is all her…

  • Paging a DBA…

    January 4, 2007
    from LiveJournal, Overheard

    Sitting in Cubeville, all morning long pagers have been going off. Several different kinds of sounds and volumes clues that each is a different person being paged. All of our pagers going off at once? THAT would be scary.

  • Ready to Switch?

    January 4, 2007
    Computers

    I was disappointed the only IE competitor mentioned was Firefox. Opera, Safari, and Netscape are well known enough that it would behoove a more balanced view to mention them as well. My only use of IE lately is replicating a user problem I can’t replicate in Firefox and the very, very infrequent case a web…

  • LMAO

    January 3, 2007
    Fortunes

    “You are known for being kind and courteous.” That almost put me on the floor laughing.

  • Your Themed Restaurant Idea

    January 1, 2007
    Food, from LiveJournal

    shelchan told me about a restaurant called Bed where the customers sit on beds as they eat. Okkkkaaaaay…. What is your idea for a themed restaurant? I suggested Dirt: The dishes are made from worms, mealy bugs, and other creatures from the dirt.

  • Blog Crush: Part II

    December 31, 2006
    from Vox

    Following up on my blog crush post. The Internet is a much bigger place than just the blogosphere. My previous comments were solely about blogs and strictly within the definition of “blog crush” provided in the qotd, not any of the many other forms of communication offered by the Internet. I have made lots of…

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