Title pretty much says it all.
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National Weather Service has RSS
It’s officially a Good Thing (TM). Just choose your state and get a list of RSS weather feeds. Looks like it only gives current conditions right now.
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I knew I didn't like Garfield for a reason
Ug, the character really is a marketing scheme, not a labor of love.
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Lions and Tigers… Only in Kenya. Not Norway…
I know, internet cliche; but it still cracks me up.
Link [via plasticbag]
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Googling for fun and profit
As part of my job (seriously), I had to compose an image of someone stretching. So, I hit Google Image Search and type in my keyword: stretch.
What I found was that you probably don’t want to put “stretch” into GIS; it’s not a pretty world. Well, it kind of is, until you get to the fourth row of results. And this is with SafeSearch on
(NOTE The following link, while to Google, is most likely the reason my internet account is now under review by Corporate IT. In other words, it is NSFW.
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Information wants to be free
In my continuing struggle to wake up into the current world around me, I stumbled across a little utility called Hymn that strips the draconian DRM from music purchased via iTunes so you can play them on non-authorized computers (you know, the other machines you use in the course of the day).
This is great because now, if I want to, I can play music I purchased on iTunes on my work computer, since I can’t a)download iTunes here and even if I could b) the site is blocked by other draconian measures such as site blocking (*gasp* He wants to look at SPORTS?!?!? On his LUNCH?!? NEVER!).
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The New Defeatism
We do have a grave problem in this country, but it is not the plan for Iraq, the neoconservatives, or targeting Saddam. Face it: This present generation of leaders at home would never have made it to Normandy Beach. They would instead have called off the advance to hold hearings on Pearl Harbor, cast around blame for the Japanese internment, sued over the light armor and guns of Sherman tanks, apologized for bombing German civilians, and recalled General Eisenhower to Washington to explain the rough treatment of Axis prisoners.
We are becoming a crazed culture of cheap criticism and pious moralizing, and in our self-absorption may well lose what we inherited from a better generation. Our groaning and hissing elite indulges itself, while better but forgotten folks risk their lives on our behalf in pretty horrible places.
Judging from our newspapers, we seem to care little about the soldiers while they are alive and fighting, but we suddenly put their names on our screens and speak up when a dozen err or die. And, in the latter case, our concern is not out of respect for their sacrifice but more likely a protest against what we don’t like done in our name. So ABC’s Nightline reads the names of the fallen from Iraq, but not those from the less controversial Afghanistan, because ideological purity — not remembering the departed per se — is once again the real aim.
The rest of the article is equally offensive and crass. Awesome stuff.
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June is Homeownership month?
Who knew? So, when is Two-Left Feet Month? Or Bad Taste in Music Month? (Wait, that might be December.)