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The blue-tooth in my cell phone died. The headphone jack died a while ago. So I can't legally use it while driving. I'm a flip phone advocate, which narrows the options. I can't get Blackberry's new flip phone unless I move to Canada. Further, at the house I get only two carriers, so I only get to choose from phones they support. I'm seriously considering one of these.
- mark 4-08-2009 2:09 am [link] [6 refs] [3 comments]

phone screener gets fired in 3 ... 2 .... 1 ...

- mark 4-08-2009 12:42 am [link] [add a comment]

Open source machine tools: MultiMachine.
- jim 4-06-2009 3:55 pm [link] [add a comment]

For all those who have doubted the existence of the Snipe…
- alex 4-06-2009 12:25 pm [link] [1 comment]

Louie CK in Baghdad Scroll way down past all the pictures (except the last) to see his description of the comedy routine and aftermath. Awesome.

- mark 4-03-2009 12:46 am [link] [1 ref] [add a comment]

Long and technical, but I think this gets at the heart of it: AIG: before CDS there was Reinsurance. Shorter version: AIG wasn't mismanaged, and they didn't merely "assume too much risk"; AIG was a criminal enterprise.

I am so mad about all of this. I actually feel more helpless now then in the run up to the Iraq war. At least war is something people can sort of understand. Credit default swaps are not going to be groked by the general public. The Obama administration is obviously in the pocket of the financial sector (could it be otherwise?) And nothing is going to be done about the largest theft in the history of the world. The measly two trillion or so we wasted in Iraq is nothing compared to this.
- jim 4-02-2009 3:33 pm [link] [14 comments]

paging Jim B: the future is here
- mark 4-01-2009 6:46 pm [link] [1 comment]

Slime mold photos.
- jim 3-31-2009 7:27 pm [link] [3 comments]

- dave 3-30-2009 1:42 am [link] [3 refs] [1 comment]

proof positive that computer science depts are no longer the domain of asexual geeks.
- dave 3-27-2009 11:37 pm [link] [1 ref] [1 comment]

the final frontier of geekdom
- dave 3-27-2009 8:27 pm [link] [5 comments]

forgot that the famous larry bird v magic johnson 1979 ncaa finals matchup is replaying now on espn classic.
- dave 3-26-2009 10:57 pm [link] [2 comments]

jim, perhaps you need to treat yourself to a 1969 charger for your birthday?
- linda 3-23-2009 3:08 pm [link] [1 ref] [26 comments]

diy bumpersticker reads: all you tailgaters are festered maggots. - erin
- steve 3-23-2009 12:47 am [link] [add a comment]

World's biggest diamond heist.
- jim 3-22-2009 5:09 pm [link] [add a comment]

I need to wash my ears now.
- mark 3-18-2009 1:55 am [link] [add a comment]

google mars, bitches!!
- dave 3-15-2009 12:57 am [link] [1 ref] [add a comment]

YouTube in the UK is to be stripped of its most popular music videos after the site failed to agree a new licensing deal with the Performing Rights Society for Music, the trade body that collects music royalties.
- bill 3-14-2009 8:02 pm [link] [add a comment]

metronatural america

- steve 3-12-2009 4:31 pm [link] [2 refs] [add a comment]

made off


- bill 3-12-2009 1:46 am [link] [2 refs] [2 comments]

Detroit's beautiful horrible decline in pictures.
- jim 3-11-2009 1:02 pm [link] [3 comments]

das boot
- dave 3-06-2009 10:31 pm [link] [add a comment]

Animated engines. I love how he disses jet propulsion.
- jim 3-06-2009 2:35 am [link] [add a comment]

new piece in new yorker on dfw.
- dave 3-04-2009 7:01 pm [link] [1 ref] [add a comment]

Schiff v. Laffer from August 2006.
- mark 3-01-2009 7:41 pm [link] [add a comment]