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Discussing the various game/book bundles available:

So you can get the Bible, or cheat codes, or a book by people who think they’ve figured out the cheat codes to the Bible.

(Via slacktivist.)

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After watching the President’s candid camera moment at the G8 summit, I’ve decided to rank what was most embarrassing about it, from least to most:

The fact that the President uses profanity in what he thinks is private conversation. The fact that the President didn’t know that St. Petersburg, Russia is a long way from Beijing, China. The [...]

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Last week at work we were having a discussion about reporting, and I shared one of my principles when it comes to data collection, which is that logging is nearly always preferable to counting.

Let’s say I’m required to produce reports that show how often every entry on a weblog has been viewed. There are two [...]

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The Al Jazeera documentary Control Room finally came up in the Netflix queue and I got a chance to watch it tonight. The documentary follows Al Jazeera through the beginning of the Iraq war, from March to May 2003.

There’s no overarching theme of the documentary, it mainly just follows the reaction of Al Jazeera’s personnel [...]

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I am once again trying to keep up with too many feeds, and it’s time to pare down. This time, I’m removing most of my few remaining feeds from sites about politics. It’s not that I don’t care, but rather that I just don’t have any more energy for more of the same every day. [...]

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An executive with Royal Dutch Shell (an oil company) says that it’s morally inappropriate to use food crops to create fuels because there are hungry people in the world. I hope he doesn’t leave any food on his plate when he dines out.

More to the point, currently the world produces more calories of food than [...]

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In a weird turn of events, last week the New York Times ran an article about my home town, Orange, Texas. As I’ve mentioned before, the town sustained a lot of damage from Hurricane Rita last October. Times writer Dan Barry was dispatched to write a feature about the losses the town has suffered, both [...]

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This week I have to look into ways to get filter out more comment spam here. I dutifully mark things as junk, but that doesn’t actually do anything other than get rid of the junk comments I’ve marked. Looks like it’s time to dig into what’s available for comment spam prevention with Movable Type.

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