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You’ll photograph lots of subjects and reel off tens or even hundreds of thousands of images before you lay down your camera for the last time. Some of those pictures will be memorable; a few will serve as milestones in your life. One or two might even change it.
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“Of course any comparisons between Fidel Castro and RMS are absurd. One’s a bearded, long-winded Communist dictator who tolerates no dissent; the other one speaks Spanish.” — Anonymous Coward, in response to Richard Stallman stepping down as Emacs maintainer

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Kevin Drum writes: A recent study shows that cats help protect us from heart attacks & strokes. Dogs don’t have the same effect.
The study, by researchers at the University of Minnesota, found that feline-less people were 30 to 40 percent more likely to die of cardiovascular disease than those with cats.
Yet dog owners had the [...]

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Differnet
Andy Hertzfeld’s site

Matt Legend Gemmell – MGTwitterEngine - Twitter from Cocoa
MGTwitterEngine is a Objective-C class which lets you integrate Twitter support into your Cocoa application, by making use of the Twitter API. The entire API is covered, and appropriate data is returned as simple native Cocoa objects
(tags: cocoa programming twitter)

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I found this on Flickr a few days ago.
Make your own CD Cover with the following steps and rocket yourself to mulit-platinum status and start fending off the groupies!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
The first article title on the page is the name of your band.

www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
The last four words of the very last quote is the title of [...]

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PHP cheat sheets >> Scott Klarr
A blog that is technology centric where I discuss topics about programming, computers, linux, software, hardware, javascript, php, mysql, ajax, css, w3c standards and more. Come and subscribe today!
(tags: php programming)

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My AppleTV arrived today. The setup was quick and easy, although it took about 20 minutes to sync with my MacBook Pro over 802.11n. The picture quality is excellent, even though I’m using component video rather than HDMI, since the lone HDMI input on my TV is being used for my Comcast HD DVR.

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I tried to take some pictures of the eclipse tonight, but they came out pretty bad. I was using my 18-55mm lens, which is my highest power zoom lens, but it wasn’t sufficient. I shot raw using a tripod with extremely long exposures. Since it was too dark for AF, I had to manually focus. [...]

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Via Craig Newmark:

Recently, I’ve developed the unfortunate habit of reading history,
seeing that now and then there’ve been people who moved entire nations.
They’re usually competent managers, but have some elusive additional
ability that makes then what we call leaders.
That includes JFK, Lincoln, Elizabeth I, Victoria, Gandhi, Churchill, and a short list of others that you know.
We need [...]

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I installed the keyboard firmware update on my MacBook Pro last night and it fixed the annoying keyboard problem I’ve been having since I got this machine.
I didn’t even have to reboot when I ran the updater; it simply required quitting all open applications. It took about 20 seconds to run and the keyboard [...]

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When I got up this morning, I found that the orchid on my tree was gone.

Here’s how it looked a few days ago:

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Minipundit turned 18 today, which means he’ll be able to vote in the most important election of our lifetime. He’s been working for Obama’s campaign. I’ve known Dylan since MacHack 2001 and I’ve known his father, who wrote Fetch, even longer.

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Obsolete Skills is a wiki inspired by Scoble’s recent post listing “things we used to know that no longer are very useful to us”.
One of the “obsolete skills” listed on the wiki is assembly language programming. Although most programmers won’t write an entire application in assembly language, it’s still a very useful skill for several [...]

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Wikileaks
Wikileaks is developing an uncensorable system for untraceable mass document leaking and public analysis. Now available only by IP address.
(tags: censorship)

VectorMagic
Converts bitmap images into vector art.
(tags: graphics)

Obsolete Skils Wiki
Scoble came up with the idea in a recent blog post to make a list of ‘obsolete skills.’ He describes these skills as things we used to [...]

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Florida’s State Board of Education has voted to use the term “scientific theory of evolution” in new science standards, the first time the word “evolution” has been included.

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Wow… just wow! I didn’t expect this. Castro has been in power longer than I’ve been alive. Nothing is going to change, however, since his brother Raul Castro is in charge now.
Raul isn’t as strong and charismatic as Fidel, so his rule probably won’t be popular and is more likely to be overthrown.

Armando Garcia, 67, [...]

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Inspired by a flowering bush and a traveler’s tree, I decided to walk around the condo and take a few pictures. By the time I was finished, I ended up taking 85 shots. I uploaded 33 of them to Flickr.

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I had forgotten about Radio David Byrne since I rarely listen to streams until I saw a link to it today at Cool Tools. It’s available in iTunes Radio under Eclectic. David plays some really wonderful, obscure music. The playlist changes every month. This month it’s African Pop. Right now he’s playing Thomas Mapfumo, following [...]

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This morning I had two kernel panics while my MacBook Pro was sitting idle. In both cases it was caused by backupd (Time Machine). I had it set to back up wirelessly to a drive attached to my Mac Mini, but I shut time machine off for now. I also back up my home directory [...]

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Ashley Maher sent me this article about Magatte Sow, a Senegalese American drummer. Although he grew up in Los Angeles, he plays traditional drums like the Tama (talking drum) and Sabar. Check out the videos - he’s really great!

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