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best arc welder, ever – ah chew
I’m catching up on the photos in my cellphone.
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Chromatic
Currently testing out Google’s new browser (the rollout is Windows-only for now). It seems pretty cool, but the absolute coolest thing so far has been the comic strip documentation. Google quote: “We realized that the Web had evolved from mainly simple text pages to rich, interactive applications and that we needed to completely rethink the browser.” So far I’m digging the fact that they ripped a little bit of goodness from each existing browsing platform – I immediately appreciated Opera’s Speeddial function. It apparently uses Safari rendering. There’s a lot of rough edges and missing essentials, but it’s a solid first release… And most importantly it’s SUPER FAST. UPDATE: The…
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Thai Superheroes
Among other subjects, I teach writing at my university. Writing is a subject that really helps identify certain types of students… like the girl who just today turned in a paper about Wonder Woman’s daily schedule, which included eating somtam every morning and helping people in need from 2 to 4PM everyday because “doing too much every day good causes stress and also acne.” Reading her paper brought back the days of learning to put together rudimentary sentences in hot Japanese classrooms… And it inspired me to challenge her class with more assignments that can be properly exploited by the clever ones. UPDATE: I’m grading papers at home and just…
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cyr
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nealsteph update
There’s a new article on Neal Stephenson and his new book, Anathem, up at Wired: LINK
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Airline Fee Chart
Here’s a handy little chart of fees charged by the airlines: LINK
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Korean Goat Party
AKA North Korean Propaganda Posters Go check out the whole gallery
