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Why can't you remember any voting during the primaries?

I never buy meat at Wal-mart. They don't have any local butchers. The story I heard was that one store's meat cutters were attempting to unionize so Wal-mart fired all of it's meat…

It has other uses like verifying file integrity.

Right. It's almost as if F5 forgot that the infrastructure isn't a means to it's own end for application owners.

"The fake bogeyman lets people avoid talking about the real issues." Oh good. I'm glad we can avoid addressing who we actually are and can instead continue pretending the world wor…

Make sure to read up on Robert Anton Wilson, the guy who defined it as such. His books are especially enlightening. Prometheus Rising and Quantum Psychology are my favorites. http:…

Wow, AdBlock makes Google better. I didn't know this was going on.

What if higher education were free?

Practicing yoga is the only requirement to be a yogi. Hacking is much the same way. We all share similar goals but our practices are always intensely personal. If you're practiced …

Whoa whoa... The solvency issues of Social Security are primarily due to the Government of my parents "borrowing" money from the system that they paid into it. There are of course …

How about using GUID as another namespace on top of registry's key value?

Start with Wubi http://wubi-installer.org/

I think that the benefits of price (free) and availability (theater comes to you) are only likely to increase movies watched via YouTube. Once a movie does have 165M page views in …

I like Bill Hicks take on Marijuana: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSH6ofHbeUw

Hmm...I think eating five or six times a day is generally considered good advice because it assumes you've selected food that are whole grain/have a low glycemic index so that your…

I haven't had a chance to use this library but I have used boto: http://code.google.com/p/boto/wiki/SimpleDbIntro I had some unicode issues the last time I used it and since replac…

I'll post the same comment here as I did at the article: Excusing reporting sources (newspaper or otherwise) from taxes isn't the right thing to do. Non-profit organizations are al…

Agreed. Additionally, I found meditation was useful for increasing my self-control. Many types of yoga are focused on meditative practices but not all. I think these are just mind …

Jef doesn't think you should have to save. It should be automatic. I've been thinking about a system that version controlled a file after every keystroke. It would be a little heav…

Everyone should read Jef Raskin's The Humane Interface. He expresses many of his interface ideas used with the Canon Cat and Archy in the book. I now consider thoughtful interface …

I have found few things more pleasurable than learning only for my personal enlightenment

Is this the first swipe at Wolfram Alpha?

Does it include the Trac hosting as well? I couldn't tell with certainty.