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Republican National Convention Schedule: Revised, July 2004
6:00pm – Opening prayer
6:15pm – Supplementary opening prayer
6:30pm – Prayer in thanks of first two prayers
6:45pm – New energy policy presented by Exxon
7:00pm – Canonization of Reagan
7:15pm – Additional prayers
7:30pm – Opening remarks by Halliburton
8:00pm – Prayer for the safety and [...]

I had been following this iTunes plugin from a while back now. Some guy from the Mac Ach was learning to write visualizers and came up with this plugin called SS Spectrum. Well, the thread fell off the map after a while (or I stopped paying attention) and I forgot about it. [...]

http://www.digave.com/couch
This guy rules! Insane biking through city streets like Boston and NYC that he video tapes with his own hand made video/helmet contraption. Check out the videos and get prepared for a rush.

It's no PSP, but I think it's pretty sweet that someone finally took it upon themselves to create cram the guts of the PS1 into a portable form factor. Check out his story on how he made it as well.
http://www.palmpsone.com

This is way cool. A very hi-res photo of the air show. The image is insanely huge, though and weighs in at around 2.3MB so be prepared.
http://airventure.org/2004/gallery/images/073104_satellite.jpg

If you've got a Linksys WRT54g router/access point, you can upgrade it's firmware to that of an open source version that enables a whole slew of new features. I just applied this yesterday to my dad's, increased the power output and the difference was phenomenal. I would frequently loose connection on my powerbook [...]

This, while being an insanely long read, is an insanely great story. It's about a couple college students playing the online game Eve, pulling off a gigantic well played scam to become the richest inhabitants of its universe.
http://static.circa1984.com/the-big-scam.html
Also, the part about ZZZZ Best is a nice history lesson. I'd never heard of that [...]

I don't know whether to cringe or jump for joy. I've often thought that drugs, technology and the like were just a sorry attempt to fix medical issues, and that a better answer has always been in the organic world around us.
Here is a pretty crazy story about using maggots to heal [...]

While being insanely funny, this is dead serious, indirect GOTV message from Will Ferrell.
http://whitehousewest.com

So I had this dream the other night that was freaky and refreshing. I wake up on the morning of November 3 and read the morning paper. (dead giveaway it's a dream. me up in the morning and have a paper?) The first headline I see is that Feingold lost. My [...]