Archive for July, 2005

Pope vs Potter

This is a little dated, but Pope Benedict isn’t a fan of Harry Potter. Go figure, eh?
“It is good, that you enlighten people about Harry Potter, because those are subtle seductions, which act unnoticed and by this deeply distort Christianity in the soul, before it can grow properly,” wrote Cardinal Ratzinger.
I’m sure sales will [...]

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Torrent of all the BBC Beethoven MP3s

Fire up your BitTorrent client before the nasty classical music companies invoke copyright somehow on these public domain works which none of their artists performed.
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Dude, you got a Dell (and it sucks)

I can think of a few University departments that subscribe to the same customer service manual that Michael Dell does.
Dell has closed their public support forums because of the rising anti-Dell rhetoric going on on the boards. They even gave notice with this little re-history:
The Customer Service boards on the Dell Community Forum will [...]

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How to make Chai

And you can make it at work, if someone doesn’t steal your milk.
Hob’s zeitgeist

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Live 8 videos

Some guy has posted direct links to many of the AOL-hosted Live 8 performances. The Pink Floyd clips are excellent, as is the R.E.M. performance.
Check it out and sign the list at the Live 8 website.

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Cold Press Mass Quantities of Coffee

Blogging has been (and will continue to be) light due to the overwhelming nature of buying a house.
Since sleep is one of the first things sacrificed in the rush to move, I present a recipe to make 9 cups of concentrated, cold-press coffee.
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