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Knight Rider
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Knight Rider was awesome. NBC, please don't treat it like Fox did Firefly.
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Quick Picks
- Converting from Blogger to Wordpress. For my own edification.
- The Onion hits the mark again. I lol'ed.
- A fascinating look at job loss over the current and previous recessions with highly detailed charts. Very Nice
- Lifehacker: Battle of the Hardware-Boosting Hacks
- More Lifehacker: Most Popular Desktops of 2008
- Last one, I promise: HD Hacker Backs Up Your Master Boot Record - A good utility to have if you're constantly screwing around with different operating systems on one machine.
- SubModal: "A usability technique for web browsers that allows you to show floating content over other content." For my own (future) edification.
- Here's something neat: Kalyway (OSx86 Project) tutorial, a way to install OS X 10.5 on my new Acer Aspire One netbook. Very cool!
- Looks like my favorite new book, World War Z, is being made into a movie.
- Marc Ambinder points out something my coworkers and I have noticed for weeks.
- I really, really love the sign up form at Huffduffer.com!
- From the Washington Post: A simplified chart of the McCain tax cuts vs. Obama tax cuts.
- Matt Damon on Sarah Palin: "You do the actuary tables, there's a one out of three chance, if not more, that McCain doesn't survive his first term, and it'll be President Palin. It's like a really bad Disney movie, "The Hockey Mom.' Oh, I'm just a hockey mom from Alaska, and she's president. "She's facing down Vladimir Putin and using the folksy stuff she learned at the hockey rink. It's absurd." Amen!
- Google's new browser, Chrome, passes the ACID2 test with flying colors. w00t.
- Karl Rove calls Joe Biden a "big blowhard doofus". Yeah, coming from the closest thing to a real-life Emperor Palpatine that really stings. LOL.
- McCain's running mate has a pregnant and unwed 17 year old daughter. Family values indeed!