So last night I was browsing around doing god-know's-what, and I had this urge to figure out how people were coming up with forum signatures that showed their WoW stats. They were really simplistic (name/server/level/race/class) and figured they were just scraping some page somewhere, perhaps even a service provided by someone so long as they [...]
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I think I've posted something akin to this before, but this site, which I have no idea what it's about, is having this contest to post photo recreations of yourself as a kid. Basically, find a photo of yourself as a kid in any situation, and recreate it now and take a new photo. [...]
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I knew this day would be coming: in vitro meat. The latest in the X Prize type realm is to create lab grown meat fit for consumption with a slight measly reward of 1 million US dollars. Even with a low payout, someone will take that challenge up because I guarantee you that [...]
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defaults write com.apple.Safari TargetedClicksCreateTabs -bool true
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Well, looking at the forecast as of last week, it was looking like today would be the day. The forecast continued to hold, so I got up a little bit earlier, strapped the kayak to the car (which was flippin' smoooooth…) and went to work. Got done, changed and dropped into the Yahara [...]
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I have often wondered if the world really is decaying into a cesspool of violent tendencies, non stop war and an ever increasing crime rate, or if for some sick reason that's all the news likes to report to us. I love listening to NPR/WPR, but damn if I can't predict what the news [...]
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I almost forgot, but I heard an amazing piece of news from the Cubs yesterday that I had to pass along. During batting practice, the pitching machine threw a no-hitter.
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So get this… We get to bowling tonight and somehow don't have a table to sit at. This alley has one table down at the lanes and one behind it for the two lanes to sit at for each pairing. Then there's another table to the right of it before starting into the [...]
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So, during the many parties this weekend when it was revealed by Mr. Bass that he bought a psp finally, he claimed to be doing things I didn't know was possible. Namely ripping ps1 games and playing them on the psp. I thought at first he was talking about the handful of downloads [...]
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Ok, driving down the interstate with that rack on was a different story altogether. While I didn't notice any perceptible loss in mpg, maybe a mile or so, the noise and random shaking of the entire car that it caused was quite a different story. It's one of those “just turn the stereo [...]
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