Posted on August 26, 2007 by Steve
Here’s a tip that makes composing a Gmail email very fast:
First, log in to Gmail. (Be sure to tell Gmail to remember your password.) Now open http://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&fs=1 in your browser. When the “Compose Mail” page opens, create a bookmark for it, either on your browser toolbar or, better yet, on your taskbar.
In the future, instead [...]
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Posted on August 24, 2007 by Steve
Found over at Breitbart.com:
Astronomers have stumbled upon a tremendous hole in the universe. The cosmic blank spot has no stray stars, no galaxies, no sucking black holes, not even mysterious dark matter. It’s an expanse of nearly 6 billion trillion miles of emptiness.
If you find stuff like this interesting, I’d like to suggest a fantastic [...]
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Posted on August 23, 2007 by Steve
If you’re a runner you’ve probably heard of Road I.D., but why don’t more part-time athletes wear it? Runners, walkers, roller-bladers, bicyclists — in an age when a text-messaging driver can put out your lights, it’s probably a good idea that all of us to have Road I.D. on our shoes.
Oh yeah, and there’s the [...]
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Posted on August 22, 2007 by Steve
From the Chicago Sun-Times:
The prospect of hunting live game over cyberspace is dead in Illinois. Gov. Blagojevich signed a law banning so-called remote-control hunting, in which a computer user maneuvers a camera-equipped rifle, tracks an animal on-screen, and fires the weapon with the click of a mouse. [...]
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Posted on August 9, 2007 by Steve
Steven Levitt (Freakonomics) tossed out a silly blog post titled “If You Were A Terrorst, How Would You Attack?” I won’t fall into the trap of slamming him for giving terrorists ideas; after 9/11 it’s apparent they’re pretty creative. Quite simply, Levitt’s post was designed for one thing and one thing only: to generate page [...]
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Posted on August 7, 2007 by Steve
A dozen or so years ago I had a job interview halfway across the country. On the flight home, as our trusty pilot took us around a thunderstorm, the plane hit some nasty turbulence. It was night, the plane was jumping all around, and I could see lightning out my window. Oh, I’m certain today [...]
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Posted on August 6, 2007 by Steve
Associated Press: “Bloggers Consider Forming Labor Union”
What the…?
Yeah, it’s true.
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Posted on August 3, 2007 by Steve
The wife and I just got back from seeing The Bourne Ultimatum and we both loved it. More of what makes the Bourne movies so good, and then some.
My Bourne Trilogy ratings:
Identity - 4 stars
Supremacy - 3-1/2 stars
Ultimatum - 4-1/2 stars
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Posted on August 3, 2007 by Steve
It’s hard to imagine you’d ever need tips for escaping from a sinking card, but the Minneapolis bridge collapse got me thinking, and searching. Some tips…
Get out quickly. Unbuckle your seat belt and make sure you don’t get tangled up in it. Many victims of this sort of accident drown with the car doors open [...]
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Posted on August 2, 2007 by Steve
My buddy Tim emailed me:
With the “Underdog” movie opening tomorrow I decided to go to YouTube and watch a complete old “Underdog” cartoon from 1967. Sometimes things are best left in the past. Although I fondly remember watching them as a kid, that was quite possibly the worst cartoon I’ve ever watched.
Thanks for the tip, [...]
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