End of Silence

Essentials, 2006 edition [dive into mark]
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Rockridge Institute – Bush Is Not Incompetent
Read this now (but I still can’t get past nookular).
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overplot: Overheard in New York meets Google Maps
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Eat The Press | Murray Waas: A Reporter’s Bias | The Huffington Post
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ESPN.com: Page 2 : The YouTube Hall of Fame
Bill Simmons goes nuts on YouTube. Enjoy it while you can because YouTube is sure to [...]

SoonR client for the Mac
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Top ten reasons I’m glad I am a Mac “switcher”
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Not Actually Made From Bugs
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Identifying different iPod models
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How-To: Wiring VoIP to your phone jacks
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Matasano Chargen » Matasano Interviews IE Lead PM Christopher Vaughan
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Tale of a Lost Cellphone, and Untold Static – New York Times
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I saw a blurb on Defamer several months ago that Michael Eisner is hosting a talk show on CNBC (Channel 50 or 360 on Time Warner Austin, depending if you’re analog or digital), an interesting choice for a channel that’s essentially a glorified stock ticker. Anyway, the episode that airs tonight has Eisner laying the [...]

University of Oklahoma College of Law: A Chronology of US Historical Documents: The Federalist No. 69
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YouTube – Make: How to open a bottle of beer the Scandinavian way
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Time and Again
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Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall: June 18, 2006 – June 24, 2006 [...]

I ran across three sites with either a photo or a social component today that I’ve flagged for further investigation:

Riya – appears to promise private advanced photo searching. I’ll need to see what I have to give up to use it.
Zooomr – a rival to flickr, plugged by Thomas Hawk, photographer rights activist and flickr [...]

We took the kids to see Cars yesterday at the greatest movie chain on the planet. Marrit’s review pretty much nailed it. I’d rank it the lowest of the Pixar films to date. I haven’t seen The Incredibles, but I’m guessing that’s better. Monsters Inc. held that spot until this one. My three-and-a-half-year-old couldn’t make [...]

Crooks and Liars
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From the Embassy, a Grim Report
Apparent memo from Iraq gov. to US about worsening security situation outside the green zone.
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The Top 10 Conservative Idiots – The Top 10 Conservative Idiots, No. 248
Weekly feature from democratic underground.
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