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Musings on assorted geekery by Luke Andrews when he's not writing at attaboy.ca.

    30 August
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    → Does Your Language Shape How You Think?
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    27 August
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    “ Virtually every Fox News/right-wing-talk-radio controversy relies on scaring economically anxious white Americans into ignoring the prime cause of their economic insecurity — plundering by Wall Street bankers, abetted by the government they own — and focusing instead on some manufactured menace from powerless racial and ethnic minorities…
    — Glenn Greenwald can be a bit hysterical at times, but I think he’s bang on here.
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    25 August
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    → A tech autopsy of Google's failed communication platform.
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    20 August
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    → People willing to endure what the Tamils did are just the kind we want
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    19 August
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    “ Vocal opponents of the 25,000-square-foot mosque proposed for 4 acres in the city’s northeastern corner describe Islam not as a religion, but as a political movement bent on taking over the world and squelching freedom in favor of strict religious law.
    — Which makes it different from Christianity how exactly? (From “Temecula mosque plan sparks protest”)
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    18 August
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    From Stormtroopers 365, an outstanding collection of photos by Stéfan Le Dû

    From Stormtroopers 365, an outstanding collection of photos by Stéfan Le Dû

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    17 August
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    Logitech’s Comfort Lapdesk for Notebooks comes with some ingenious instructions. The lapdesk includes four little pads that you are supposed to apply to the top. To make it possible for the customer to apply them straightly and evenly, the instructions themselves are actually a template the same size as the lapdesk with four holes cut out for where the pads go. Brilliant.

    Logitech’s Comfort Lapdesk for Notebooks comes with some ingenious instructions. The lapdesk includes four little pads that you are supposed to apply to the top. To make it possible for the customer to apply them straightly and evenly, the instructions themselves are actually a template the same size as the lapdesk with four holes cut out for where the pads go. Brilliant.

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    13 August
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    “ Scott Pilgrim
    — : The end of the nerd as we know him
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    11 August
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    → Using CSS borders to produce angled shapes

    Not new, but very useful if you need more triangles in your life.

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    28 July
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    → AirSketch for iPad review: a realtime browser whiteboard

    Neat: a sketch app for the iPad that broadcasts in realtime to a web page, so others can follow along as you draw.

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