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  1. NPR and other radio on Sources of Intelligent Audio for Commute? · · Score: 1

    Here are links to streaming radio shows, many of which you can download

  2. No logical solution on Bill Gates Proclaims US High Schools Obsolete · · Score: 1

    I don't see a logical solution happening anytime soon, mainly because for over 30 years formal classes in Logic have not been taught in public schools.

  3. Re:E-Ink is vaporware on Nanotech Based Display · · Score: 1

    Sony Libre uses E-ink, and looks like it's shipping

  4. Re:can the orbiter make it to the moon? on NASA Prepares Discovery for Launch · · Score: 1

    Homer Hickam, ex-NASA and author best known for "October Sky" thinks so.
    His book Back to the Moon has a senario where a shuttle goes into lunar orbit.
    quote "All the events in this book could happen from an engineering standpoint. It is indeed feasible to outfit a shuttle to the moon "

  5. redirection.net on What Are the Best Web and Email Hosts? · · Score: 1

    while this may not be exactly what you need, redirection.net costs me about $16/year for the domain and redirection service.

    you can have unlimited anyname@yourdomain.com email redirections to a mail account such as yahoo or gmail. different names could be redirected to different accounts, or to the bit bucket.

  6. Re:the us geo survey knew on Arthur C. Clarke Reports From Sri Lanka · · Score: 1

    A station with thoughtful, accurate reporting? thats rare, which station is it? do you have a link to their story?

  7. Firewire boot on New Technologies for Colleges? · · Score: 1

    I think if you get an external firewire disk, and load your bootable OSX and programs onto it, you can hold down a key during powerup which would let you boot into your unrestricted OS.

  8. linkagogo on Online Bookmark Manager Suggestions? · · Score: 2, Informative

    IMHO, linkagogo.com is the best.
    If you go to the download tab, it can export as a bookmark file, which can be automatically opened in a new window, giving you the single page you want.

    A recently added feature is a weekly email of your bookmarks, so if the service does fold, at least you won't lose too many links.

  9. two wrongs don't make it right on EA Games: The Human Story · · Score: 1

    Libby Zion had a problem with a resident who "got to pull back the covers and try and live with it. Or around it, or what not."

  10. Re:That's not offtopic you drunken mods. on Easy On-Line Event Ticketing? · · Score: 1

    Thank You.
    these bozo's have inspired me to do more meta-moderation

  11. Mars and Left Handed Sugar on Easy On-Line Event Ticketing? · · Score: 2, Interesting
    wait, wait, please don't mod this off topic.
    The search for life on mars and developing left-handed or reduced calorie sugar are related to ticket reservations.

    Dr. Gilbert V. Levin's company Spherics does all three.

  12. linkagogo on Cross Platform Browser Bookmark Autosyncing? · · Score: 1

    quoted from the website:
    Linkagogo now provides the server side support for the SyncIt client. This means you don't need to install and configure your own web server for the BookmarkSync server component. With linkaGoGo you can immediately start synchronizing all your linkaGoGo favorites with PCs where you have SyncIt installed.

  13. Junk worth more than gold on Space Station Turning Into a Trash Heap · · Score: 2, Insightful

    We paid $10,000 per pound to get that "junk" up there, making it more valuable than gold. Ditto for the progress supply ships.

    Of course, this is the bureaucracy that junked an entire working space station....

  14. Re:The Guru's Lair on DIY Warriors Saluted And Sought · · Score: 1

    You, sir. are correct.
    He was one of the first to warn and write about the postcript "virus", along with posting some code to innoculate against it.

  15. The Guru's Lair on DIY Warriors Saluted And Sought · · Score: 4, Informative

    Don Lancaster has an awsome site at The Guru's Lair
    He wrote the 555 and ttl cookbook, used to have a Computer Shopper column on writing raw postcript, and has thousands of links and articals on DIY.

  16. Re:Inspiration from movies on Burt Rutan On his Upcoming X-Prize Attempt · · Score: 1

    nope. Homer Hickman left NASA in 98
    see his bio http://www.homerhickam.com/about/bio.shtml

  17. Ironic webfilter on The Underground History of American Education · · Score: 1

    I'm trying to read this (at +1) from inside the NYC public school firewall, and it's getting cut off with the error "This page will not be displayed because it contains prohibited words or it has exceeded its tolerance of questionable words."

  18. dot dash dash dash dash dash dash dash dash on Online Chat in the Year 1903 · · Score: 1

    dot dot dash dash dot dot dot dot dash dot dot dot dot dash dot dash dash dot dash dash dash dot dot dot dash

    first post

  19. Re:black duct tape on How Do I Disable My Gadgets' LEDs? · · Score: 1

    black nail polish

  20. black duct tape on How Do I Disable My Gadgets' LEDs? · · Score: -1, Redundant

    or electrical tape to cover the led

  21. Wrong about Malkin on South Park Creators Have A New Film · · Score: 4, Informative

    >>Or how Malkin can go on TV and say Kerry shot himself for his medals?

    from her site (http://michellemalkin.com/archives/000418.htm)

    Here is how I responded verbatim:

    "Well yeah. Why don't people ask him more specific questions about the shrapnel in his leg? There are legitimate questions about whether or not it was a self-inflicted wound."

    Matthews frantically stuffed words down my mouth when I raised these allegations made in Unfit for Command that Kerry's wounds might have been self-inflicted. In his ill-informed and ideologically warped mind, this transmogrified into me accusing Kerry of "shooting himself on purpose" to get an award.

    I repeated that the allegations involved whether the injuries were "self inflicted wounds." I DID NOT SAY HE SHOT HIMSELF ON PURPOSE and Chris Matthews knows it.

    Only someone who had not read Unfit for Command would interpret what I was saying the way Matthews did. The book raises questions by vets, many of whom were with Kerry, about whether there was or wasn't enemy fire during the Dec. 1968 incident that led to his first Purple Heart (Patrick Runyon is quoted in a Boston Globe account on p. 35 saying "I can't say for sure that we got return fire or how [Kerry] got nicked. I couldn't say one way or the other. I know he did get nicked, a scrape on the arm.") and whether the injury came from a self-inflicted wound after he caught a tiny piece of shrapnel when he fired a grenade from his M-79 grenade launcher too close (p. 36); whether or not there was "intense rocket and rifle fire" during the Feb. 1969 incident that led to his second Purple Heart (Rocky Hildreth, officer of an accompanying boat on Dam Doi Canal that day, says there was no "intense rocket and rifle fire" on p. 78); and whether the shrapnel wound in his buttocks, which Kerry says he sustained in March 1969 and led to the awarding of his third Purple Heart, was the result of a mine explosion while on a mission or from a wound from his own grenade that he set off too close to a stock of rice he was trying to destroy (p. 87). See also pages 30-31. I was trying to get to these points, but Matthews would not let me finish a sentence.

  22. Re:HST cost $2.2B on Canadian Robot Could Rescue Hubble · · Score: 1

    especially since there's a spare mirror.
    However, do we really want to go thru another Hubble Wars ?

  23. Lawyer's Phone number on The Saga of Katie.com · · Score: 1

    From Parry Aftab's website:

    She can be reached via e-mail at parry@aftab.com and for time sensitive issues or for media on a deadline, at 201-463-8663 (her U.S. cell phone).

  24. Start with the Olympics on FCC Looks Into Regulating Violence on TV · · Score: 1

    since archery, shooting, boxing, fencing, judo, taekwondo, and wrestling glorify violence, they should be either banned, or only broadcast after 10 pm.

  25. If the other suggestions don't work... on Preventing/Resolving Interoffice Conflict? · · Score: 1

    then perhaps you should read some of George Hayduke's books.