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Mar 14, 2005
Personal Life

Circumstance

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance. Bruce Barton I’ve seen this many times before, but it really caught me for the first time just now. Words to l...

Mar 10, 2005
iRooster

iRooster Now Known by World+Dog

The talented Josh Pigford from the The Apple Blog just posted his review of iRooster today: iRooster is one of those apps that makes you say “Ahh…now THIS is why I own a Mac.” It’s just so practical. I look forward to what this program could evolv...

Mar 01, 2005
Miscellaneous

AvP

I just finished watching Alien vs. Predator, and I seriously think it’s in the running for <Comic Book Guy>Worst Movie Ever</Comic Book Guy>. This movie seriously transcends normal concepts of badness. God forbid that it would have any continuity ...

Feb 25, 2005
Technology

Feature Creep

“Shipping is a feature.” – Attributed to Software Developers Everywhere

Feb 21, 2005
Miscellaneous

Hunter S. Thompson

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. – Hunter S. Thompson 1937-2005 The odd thing is that I was just thinking about this phrase yesterday, I never knew who coined it. Little did I know I’d see it splashed over a thousand weblogs 24 hou...

Feb 16, 2005
Zoon Politikon

Hillary Clinton and Pragmatism

From NewDonkey today: Hillary Clinton has just given us all a textbook case of what it really means to “seize the center”: it does not mean “moving to the right,” it means moving to higher and stronger ground.

Feb 12, 2005
Video Games

Final Fantasy Games - How to Find/Buy

I’ve been thinking about buying a Super Nintendo for a while, just so I could play Final Fantasy 3/VI. Yesterday, though, I was at a Best Buy in Bellevue where I ran into a copy of Final Fantasy Anthology for Playstation that contains FF5 and FF6....

Feb 09, 2005
Technology

Interview with Neal Stephenson in Reason

Mike Godwin (best known from the EFF) with Neal Stephenson: It has been the case for quite a while that the cultural left distrusted geeks and their works; the depiction of technical sorts in popular culture has been overwhelmingly negative for at...