links for 2009-11-27

How To Download All Your Twitter Updates
(tags: blogging technology twitter)

links for 2009-11-26

China, gold, and the civilization shift – Telegraph Blogs
Gold: Buy or Sell? My inclination is to sell.
(tags: economics)

Reliable Source: Tareq and Michaele Salahi crash Obamas' state dinner for India
Awesome
(tags: martyemail obama politicalhackery)

links for 2009-11-25

Shot in the Dark » Blog Archive » SITD Redux: How To Save Public Schools
(tags: MOB education)

Turbaconducken (Turducken Wrapped in Bacon) | Bacon Today
Recipe for a duck-stuffed turkey wrapped in bacon. Hmmmmmmm. (Via KDeA)
(tags: food humor recipes cooking turkey thanksgiving martyemail)

Sweet Success Antiques: How to Soak Cards out of a Victorian Scrapbook | Notes From the Lane
Technique [...]

From the Notebook

Couple of quick notes:
-The Christmas Gift Guide will be a little different this year. I’ll be posting gift ideas singly. Posts won’t be forced together by theme and I doubt I’ll do too many. Sorry. This year has been a real bummer for the blog and things aren’t getting any better.
-Read Pursuit of Honor, the [...]

links for 2009-11-24

Climategate: the final nail in the coffin of ‘Anthropogenic Global Warming’? – Telegraph Blogs
It will be interesting to see the reactions of AGW proponents to these revalations.
(tags: globalwarming environment climate science)

EDITORIAL: Hiding evidence of global cooling – Washington Times
So, is our Al Gore learning?
(tags: globalwarming environment climate ethics science)

Laptop Reliability; Full Study
(tags: Computer laptops numbersandstudies)

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links for 2009-11-23

Pope tells artists beauty can be a path to God | Lifestyle | Reuters
The hard part is going to be getting traditional Catholics back into art. In America especially, this is going to difficult.
(tags: faith Catholicism art)

Star Trek, 5th Edition–Revised

Still sucks.
From RiffTrax:
Like the odometer on your 1984 Plymouth Reliant rolling back over to zero, the Star Trek series gets a reset! The previous thirty-eight films had barely begun to scratch the surface of these fascinating characters, and so Star Trek is back to answer all your burning questions: What’s Scotty’s favorite brand of bacon? [...]

From the Notebook

-Another MBA class down, just a few more to go. My final grade isn’t in quite yet, but assuming I got at least a 33% on the final test, I’ll have at least a “B” in the class. (Update: got an “A”) I’d prefer to Ace out from here, but it won’t really matter. I’ll [...]

Δ Liberal-Conservative

This email forward is from Captain Bogs:
If a conservative doesn’t like guns, he doesn’t buy one. If a liberal doesn’t like guns, he wants all guns outlawed.
If a conservative is a vegetarian, he doesn’t` eat meat. If a liberal is a vegetarian, he wants all meat products banned for everyone.
If a conservative sees [...]

For Captain Bogs

Rec’d via an email from Dick.M.:
A C-130 was lumbering along when a cocky F-16 flashed by.
The jet jockey decided to show off.
The fighter jock told the C-130 pilot, ‘watch this!’ and promptly went into a barrel roll followed by a steep climb. He then finished with a sonic boom as he broke the [...]