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Kerry Haters for Kerry
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Author: ryanvis
Brilliant. Love the stickers. Link [via Micahel Totten]
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Court Halts Sale of September 11 Coins
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Author: ryanvis
About damn time, too. Fricken vultures. New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer on Wednesday obtained a court order to temporarily suspend the sale of commemorative Sept. 11 coins heavily advertised as being minted from silver recovered at ground zero. Link
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I can't keep up anymore
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Author: ryanvis
To the Christian right, “Dred Scott” turns out to be a code word for “Roe v. Wade.” I can’t keep all this crap straight anymore. Can we just get rid of Ashcroft and make some of us conservatives feeel a hell of a lot better about voting based on other issues? By the way, I […]
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Page-addressable PDF
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Author: ryanvis
Awesome tip.. thanks to Jon for the info! I’m putting this here so I don’t lose it. In yesterday’s item I complained about the opaqueness of PDF files. As Mark Kunzmann pointed out (in email), the situation is less dire than I suggested. He illustrated by pointing me to page 100 of the government’s energy […]
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Fake text generator
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Author: ryanvis
No more lorem ipsum for those test layouts. Link [via TinyApps]
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SpaceShipOne Captures the X Prize!
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Author: ryanvis
It has begun… Awesome for the team and a real tribute to ingenuity and good ole elbow greese. I can’t wait for the announcement that they’ve achieved orbit.Link to Slashdot Link to CNN
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X Prize Launch – SpaceShipOne
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Author: ryanvis
SpaceShipOne started its pursuit of the X-Prize today by launching from the Mojave Spaceport today. While the flight appeared to have some issues (the rolling post ignition reared its ugly head once more), the flight was successful. Rutan and Co. have two weeks from today at 11:34 AM EDT to make a second flight to […]
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The interrobang‽
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Author: ryanvis
We need to bring this back! In 1962, the interrobang (‽), was introduced by the New York publishing establishment as “a twentieth century punctuation mark”. The interrobang combined the functions of a question mark and an exclamation point. It received some attention at first, but never caught on, although for a brief period during the […]
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Oh please, oh please, oh please
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Author: ryanvis
How bloody cool would this be? A (Virgin-themed) space hotel. Sure, Richard Branson is a loud, arrogant, blowhard, but he’s got the track record and accumen to, if not pull something like this off, at least give it a good gooes in the right direction. It’s getting closer to reality. Sounds like Branson is going […]
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Bashing the McMasses
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Author: ryanvis
Another great article from what is becoming one of my favorite sites, Spiked. In her article/critique “Bashing the McMasses”, Josie Appleton takes filmmaker Morgan Spurlock, who made the “docu-blockbuster-cum-human-experiment Super Size Me,” to task. It’s good to see people who watch movies for the techniques used to sway your opinion and not get caught up […]