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New All-In-One IM Swiss Army Knife Does Twitter

Digsby shows up just at the right time for me. I like Pidgin fine, but it’s not a Windows version of Adium and it feels clunky. While Digsby’s Twitter/Facebook/Email integration is nice and I appreciate being able to …

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Burying the Hatchet

In the interest of patching up, E from the eels has invited the President to a concert (or three). No word from W’s Read the full piece

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Holden+ C64 = Love

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No More of That Then

As part of my personal Moratorium Project, I’m asking all respected, older male authors to immediately cease publication of erotic passages in their works. Future Mailers, I can’t have it, you greying literary lions with pot bellies and your remaining hair in the …

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There Are No New Stories

The ancient Greeks wrote them all. For example:

“Mr. Spitzer’s suspicious financial transactions at North Fork might never have been discovered were it not for a Suspicious Activity Report filed by HSBC about the shell companies linked to Emperor’s C…
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Celtics Coverage: Now with More Scat!

Tommy (re: injury reports): “Now I am told by the truck that good old Greg had the poop!”

Mike: “He did.”

Tommy: “He had the poop! But he didn’t give it to me!”

Mike: “He’s got to share that stuff.”

Tommy: “That …

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SXSW Music Torrent

Literally. Somehow in the course of a year, the online music sampler from SXSW went from 60 songs to 48 hours of songs, so I’d given up hope of finding anything new from this year’s SXSW. Fortunately for me, Paul Ford was wi…

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New Gnarls Barkley

Two videos, second one is just ?uestlove doing his best teenage girl on MySpace act while the song plays. Not that I’d know, but the album might be on Soulseek

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VM Development

I do my Windows development on a beast* of a Bootcamp’d Mac Pro tower and that works just fine, or it would if every project I worked on were virgin territory, untouched by human hands. Unfortunately, some of what I work on has been touched by human …

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Nothing Says “Quality You Can Rely On”

Quite like the SQL Server 2008 beta program’s header image

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