End of Silence

The Spies of Texas by Thorne Dreyer – The Texas Observer
Found this on infobong.com. Very interesting. Allen Hamilton, UTPD police chief during the 60’s, died in 2005. Some of his archives related to the Whitman shooting were recently released, but there was a lot of other stuff. I’m fascinated by the early-mid
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This classic airs tonight at 7pm CST on ABC. Morning Edition had a story this morning focusing on Vince Guaraldi, the pianist and composer behind the music in the special. From the “Related NPR Stories” section, it looks like they do some sort of story related to this special every December. It’s certainly a prominent [...]

The newsfeed laugh of the day for today goes to Scott Adams, whose blog may be funnier than his strip:
Anyway, I know I feel more comfortable with the Pope in Turkey. When it comes to handling delicate matters affecting the survival of the planet, you want to send in the 79-year old German guy with [...]

TUAW Tip: hold ctrl-cmd-d while mousing for live definitions – The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
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That’s LOL to you kids on the Internets:
State Department asks Bush twins to withdraw from Argentina. Twins opt to stay the course.
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Hacking Email: 99 Email Security and Productivity Tips
It’s true. Everyone should know this stuff by now…but they don’t. I’ll just save this off so I can forward it to the most grevious offenders.
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I wrote part of this post several weeks ago, meaning to finish it then, but ended up just adding to it.
I’ve mentioned this before, but these days, I almost never watch network television. I could care less that the “new fall season” has begun. Does that even mean anything anymore? With the shows being produced [...]

Five blogging apps I’m thankful for – The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
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OS X Daily » Ten OS X Command Line Utilities you might not know about – Mac Apps, Tips, Tricks, and everything else related to Mac OS X
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After nearly a year on WordPress, I finally moved all of the photo albums that had been in Gallery to Flickr. I also corrected all of the internal links that were based on my old content management system. Of course, this won’t fix all of the external links that have also been bad for the [...]

oxid.it – Cain & Abel
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