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Odd Lots
- Somebody over at USA Today seems to think that Colorado is just a little too high... (Thanks to Sarah Hoyt for the link.)
- Not new news, but startling: They're still digging up live, century-old ordnance in France and Belgium. I suspect they'll still be digging it up a century from now.
- Here's an overview of how to write custom components for the ( Read more... )
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LED Bulbs, RF Noise, and a Crazy Idea
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Odd Lots
- Google is banning Flash-based advertising. About damned time. Flash is and has always been a malware farm. Die, monster, die!
- Flash is the biggest risk but not the only one in terms on online ads. AdBlock Plus is very good, but makes its money by selling whitelist positions to advertisers like Taboola. Here's how to turn off the whitelist.
- Although ( Read more... )
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Odd Lots
- The Army Corps of Engineers turned off Niagara Falls in 1969. It was surprisingly easy to do.
- One of the reasons Americans got so fat starting about 1980 may be the explosion in the use of vegetable oils from about that time. It's not simply solvents left over from ( Read more... )
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Odd Lots
- I posted The Cunning Blood on the Kindle Store 61 days ago, and in those two months it's earned just a hair over $3,600. 46% of that came from KU page turns. Fellow indie authors, I think we have us a business model.
- Tom Roderick sent me a link to a very nice graphical COSMAC ELF emulator, designed to look as much like Joe Weisbecker's unit from ( Read more... )
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Odd Lots
- This may explain a certain amount of the drama coming out of the anti-Puppies camp...or, for that matter, a great deal of modern politics: Histrionic Personality Disorder (HPD). (Thanks to Adam Baldwin for the link.)
- OMG! Global warming may mean stronger weed! (That makes it all better, right?) Colorado's on it.
- BitTorrent recently released Bleep, a ( Read more... )
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Odd Lots
- I'm less sure of this than the author, but it's something to think about: Apple may not always rule; look at IBM.
- Researchers who were testing Android apps to see what-all they ( Read more... )
