“Were you at the Web 2.0 conference?” the arriving man asked, by way of thanking the other for saving his place. The kindly schmoe signified in the negative. This was all the encouragement our man needed to launch into an adjective-rich and fact-poor monologue that was loud enough for half the room to hear.It soon…

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Expect a podcast in the next day or two 🙂

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I am deeply indebted to Dr. Preston of SUNY Oswego, who published an exercise at http://www.oswego.edu/~srp/stats/burntime.htm entitled “Burning Matches,” in which he determines that 90% of Ohio Blue tip matches burn for between 55 and 61 seconds. I suspect his study includes the wooden part of the match burning as well. As for the chemical…

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“Two elephants are in two giant bathtubs, side-by-side. One elephant is washing himself down with soap, and the other one is listening to a portable radio. The one with the radio asks the one with the soap to pass the soap over. The one with the soap replies, ‘NO SOAP, RADIO!’” At this point, everyone…

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Lightbox JS is a simple, unobtrusive script used to to overlay images on the current page. It’s a snap to setup and works on all modern browsers. Lightbox JS.

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“One thing I have noticed more and more,” she says of the student scene, “is that girls spend as much time, if not more, dancing provocatively with each other as they do with men. Many girls have made out with each other in front of a group of boys, or for their benefit after having…

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One of Levy’s major points is both vital and extremely well-illustrated. Adolescent girls are under tremendous pressure to adopt an image of sexual willingness and to prove it. Unlike women in their 20s or 30s, they’re unlikely to have a media-savvy filter for the messages they absorb. As a result, they’re in serious danger of…

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kaos.theory’s Anonym.OS LiveCD is a bootable live cd based on OpenBSD that provides a hardened operating environment whereby all ingress traffic is denied and all egress traffic is automatically and transparently encrypted and/or anonymized. SourceForge.net: Anonym.OS LiveCD.

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Women in advertising–why!? There are obviously a lot of problems with this kind of advertising– as I am absolutely certain has been said a million and a half times. It helps objectify women, turn them into sex objects, perpetuate violence and acceptance of violence, causes self esteem issues… bad media does all of this and…

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