tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85155612011-12-14T19:52:54.493-07:00A man, a canal, Panama<a href="http://goyishekop.blogspot.com/2005/04/palindromedaries-one-hump-or-two.html"> *</a> :‫דער גױיִשעקאָפּgoyishekophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18016285119774805016noreply@blogger.comBlogger7781100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515561.post-48984442134875502392007-04-20T12:00:00.000-06:002007-04-20T12:00:40.615-06:00

Google Embeddable Calendar Helper

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Jeff helps Kristine with her iMac

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I was going to pick some quote from this article about legal aspects of calendars, but it's too hard to pick just one.

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2008 is shaping up as the YouTube campaign. If Fred Thompson doesn't run, I'm writing in Scott.

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Well, maybe not "perfectly."

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Is Baumol's cost-disease responsible for the increasing cost of the education industry? Are teachers just performers?

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Shades of the hydra: when one head is cut off, two more grow to take its place.Sounds like they got lucky: in Mark Twain's version, the good citizens of Pikeville tarred and feathered The King and The Duke.

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Sister Jo says, regarding art cars, "It's cheaper to glue than to paint."Magnets are more flexible than glue. Score another victory for Diet Smith.

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The seldom-mealy-mouthed Ron Coleman correctly labels this thug a payaso, here.Good word, "payaso." Not only is "Pagliacci" a cognate, so is פאיאץ . At least the Cat left, and cleaned up after himself, too.Perhaps he could get the dazzlingly pentatonic William Robinson to write and record a new Venezuelan national anthem. Oh, no, wait. He'd probably have to pay. How savage.

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Klezmer post of the ... well okay, a klezmer post.Courtesy of BA.

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Nan will like this. Uncle George would have, too. "Childhood cancer? Celine Dion? ..."

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Instapundit, where I got this, would say "Heh."

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Google maps now provides traffic information for Denver.

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The News Buckit answers to an InstaPunk question: how often to blogs on the left and right use George Carlin's "7 Dirty Words"?By joining the left, you can learn to swear like a sailor. Without ever, you know, actually having to sign up to be a sailor.

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I've given to Heifer, International on several occasions. I like the idea of giving poor people a way out instead of a handout.It is pleasing to me, therefore, to see, in a big press release, that the new 94,000-square-foot Heifer, International headquarters showcases a variety of ecologically aware features, such as a 25,000-gallon, rainwater/graywater collecting tank. That this merely echoes

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We have Glenn Reynolds to thank for this link to an article about Toxoplasmosis.Take-home: the parasite that causes this disease, which you get from changing your cat's litter box, changes your behavior in ways that spread the parasite.(If you have trouble with that idea, consider rabies, which turns a reclusive fox into an aggressive animal whose bite transmits the disease. Or as a longtime

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Reading material for Lyn, who came home to sheets of ice in her toilet and thousands of dollars worth of water damage, from the American Red Cross.If anyone cares, she's a pretty good house guest, even after a month.

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The last few Hollywood movies we've seen in have been pretty awful: expensive, depressing, and narcissistic. Added to that, even the least preachy seems embarrassingly leftist, in that parochial way that the Bernard Goldberg talks about in Bias (He's talking about the MSM, but I suspect the sociology is the same.) Producers and directors and writers make capitalism and America and the military

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Here's an inspired idea, but what will awaken Reb Ron? Perhaps a clock that produces a shmaltz breakfast fritatta.

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Not as much fun as the RMBB was, but maybe still a nice way to start Sunday morning.Video pointer hanks to Instapundit. RMBB was thanks to Zombyboy, and everyone else who came. You should come next time, too. After all, a community exists mostly because of the time the people in it take to show up.

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Weird Al proves he's the man with the plan, canal or no.Thanks to Amazon Lori, the only person at dinner who laughed when I confessed I'd given Candy for Valentine's Day: "... the book."

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Courtesy of Wheels, this quiz.It appears that I, too, have completely mastered high school. That should take a load off your mind, since I'm the dropout your mother warned you against associating with.Oh and Wheels -- if you want to know about things like banjo workshops, send me email. There's no contact info on your blog.

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Following links from Glenn Reynolds, I got to Of Arms and the Law: Happiness is a warm gun...: "Especially in the bands of a 10 year old. This is Nathaniel, my youngest, burning off bursts from my full-auto Thompson.By the time we put 250 rounds thru it, it was more than warm -- the barrel was quite hot!Yes, indeedy. Back when I was smoking cigarettes from USMC-supplied C-rations, I remember

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Before we had the Internet, we had to rely on friends and family to teach us things like this.

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There continues to be much reaction to William Arkin's urging American soldiers just to shut the hell up and mind their betters. Kipling still says it better than anyone. Tommy I went into a public-'ouse to get a pint o'beer, The publican 'e up an' sez, "We serve no red-coats here." The girls be'ind the bar they laughed an' giggled fit to die, I outs into the street

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This from Jo.

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Publicola says the accent in his name's on the penultimate syllable.This is now called "hyper-local blogging." As opposed to "local blogging"? Nicely-written, though.Support Publicola by giving him a pack of cigarettes at the upcomingRocky Mountain Blogger Bash.

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I spent some time searching for videos of Jo Haemer at this sitewhich I got from Jed, at Freedomsight but haven't found her yet.Next, I'll look for Jay, whom both Jed and I recommend.

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This page brought to you courtesy of Jed, at Freedom Sight.I'm hosting a brunch and clawhammer-banjo workshop on Sunday, Feb 11, with Evi Ladin. from the Stairwell Sisters. If you want to come, drop me a line.

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How about Sandpiper T's? TimothyWGreen T's? Grouchy Geezers T's?

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The Geezers do this tune. You can dance to it.We have a dance coming up that we need a guitar player for -- Ron already has another gig. Maybe we shouldn't invite this guy.

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But Senator Byrd doesn't approve.

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Here's a site to see whether your identity has been stolen.But if someone else has your identity, how can you look for it? Maybe they're looking for it. No, that doesn't make sense ....

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Communist China still enforces political correctness.Don't be shocked or anything.

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Olympia regulates dating.

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This site may be useful for Lyn's clients.I look forward to a review.

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It can enlarge your vocabulary. Do you know what a Suplex is? Did you know before you looked? Hmmm?

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Like shibboleths, there are jokes that test whether you're in a group. Geeks this cartoon is funny. Take my word for it. I'm a geek. My sister Jo, the tattooed lady, tells me that only men laugh at the Three Stooges. Women don't get it.Canadians?Q: How do you get fifty Canadians out of a pool?A: Okay, guys, out of the pool.They roll on the floor. It addresses Canadians' embarrassment at

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How to search Amazon for Deals, here, and a related site, here.Nice toys.

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Great literature is timeless because it tells the story of the human condition. Then there's the literature that tells the story of mine.

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"Everyone talks about the weather, but nobody seems to do anything about it." -- Mark TwainWell, now at least you can bet on it.

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A project for Lyn's clients."So what should I put in the window?"This is only useful for folks who can still tell time from analogue timepieces, of course.

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Putting my "5 things" entry into The Gender Genie reveals ... I'm female. Both Stephe Walli and Ron Coleman are male.

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For Lyn and her clients.

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Or, you could try getting something from Good Santa.

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Stephe demands I participate in a "5 things you don't know about me"social experiment.I can't imagine there are 5 things anybody doesn't know about me. My life isan open book, and I bore strangers with its intimate details. The casualbystander would mistake me for a bum at a bus stop.In case you've never met me, here are five things that everyone else alreadyknows. Now you don't have to feel

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I am tempted to say divinely inpired, but that would be gilding the lily; Scott Ott appears to do this sort of work effortlessly, neither toiling nor spinning.

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Weather Bonk - Live Weather, Forecasts, WebCams, and more on a Google Map

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Here's a free, temporary, anonymous, disposable phone number for call forwarding. If you're worried they'll do something odd with the phone number you give them to forward to, give them your ex-girlfriend's phone number instead. I'm sure she'll appreciate having someone more interesting to talk to.

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The first product I ever worked on had a meeting planner in it. Our marketing people told us two things:(1) Having a meeting planner was a checklist item for calendar/email applications.(2) It didn't really have to be any good. Nobody ever actually uses them.Here's another.At least now they're web services.

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Google Starts Selling Domains For $10 Per YearI've used "Google Apps for Your Domain," and it's nice.

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It is a search company, I suppose.

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This is stupid. I like it.

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Cell phones are great. Email reminders are great. Email reminders via text messages suck.Here's an alternative worth a try.

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Wurapingu paperu.

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An ongoing story.To destroy the Iraqi Marsh Arabs, Saddam just eliminated the marshes. He succeeded. It's amazing that we can restore the marshes, but he killed off the Marsh Arab culture as surely as Hitler destroyed Eastern European Jewry.On the other hand, restoring the marshes is something. Their destruction was one of the biggest ecological catastrophes of the 20th century.I've blogged

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"Whenever you can, count." -- Sir Francis Galton

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Some of my best friends are headless.

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I hang out with musicians. Some of them are alcoholics, the rest are just heavy drinkers.If you're a musician, concerned about your alcohol consumption, consider better living through chemistry.

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Snap looks like an interesting little search site.

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As a rule, men are notorious last-minute shoppers. One of my sisters goes to gem shows, picks up tons of inexpensive but tasteful jewelry and sells it off, as last-minute Christmas gifts to her male friends.How can software compete? Well, not only are Ubuntu CDs free, there's an Ubuntu-based distro for everybody.Shopping on a budget for geeks? Your problems are over.

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Too cold in Colorado, I expect. I wonder if these grow in Oregon. Are you listening, Nan?

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A put-up job, but still funny.

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Educational articles for schools collected from Wikipedia, on a CD.

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Lyn Mead thinks it's interesting that you can't tell what someone who's reading an eBook is reading. There's no jacket.Yup. I never thought about it, but it is fun to walk by and look at what folks are reading.The link is to Google's entry into the field.

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Art Face Off

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The Star-Trek Alphabet Song.

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We're sitting at a table, next to a giant pile of pennies. We play a game.First, you put a penny on the table. Anywhere's fine, but it can't stick out over the edge. Next, I put one on, somewhere else. I can, if I want, even touch your penny with mine, but they can't overlap.We keep doing this until there's no place to put another penny. Last person to be able to put a penny down,

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BA grew up in a little town in rural California. His father taught high-school math. One day, his father found himself substitute-teaching the geometry class for the nearby, more affluent town.Trying to see what the kids knew, so he'd know where to start, his dad asked them if they knew how to find the area of a triangle. "One-half the base times the height," the class said, in unison.It

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Here's the first of a pair of birthday presents for BA, the Marine Corps, and all you other Scorpios, both courtesy of George Polya. The second comes in a following post.First, a proof of the Pythagorean theorem that I'd never seen before:(1) Instead of drawing squares on the sides of the triangle, draw regular hexagons.(2) Even though the area of the hexagon isn't the square of the side, it's

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I recognize that on-line maps are way cool, though they don't really get me excited. Telephony, in contrast, I get. Google -- smarter than I -- gets both.

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Dang. This actually works.I thought it was a trick.

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Who else would you turn to for martial arts expertise?

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Alan Haemer would be smiling at this.My father, while an Air Force Colonel, taught painting and drawing classes, in his spare time, at night, to servicemen.Often, the classes were University of Maryland extension courses.After he retired, he went back to school, got an M.F.A. on the GI Bill, and taught painting and drawing at the University of Oregon.

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William McKinley just went up in my estimation: he named his parrot "Washington Post."(Here are the full lyrics for the song linked to above.)

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Well, newspapers continue to tank. ("Dog bites man.") But one's growing. ("Man bites dog.)

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At least this cartoon doesn't actually depict Mohammed.

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My parents would laugh about the fact that they'd used the line, "Stop crying or I'll spank you," and it worked. Now comes research that spanking cures depression:”The whipping therapy becomes much more efficient when a patients receives the punishment from a person of the opposite sex. The effect is astounding: the patient starts seeing only bright colors in the surrounding world, the heartache

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As part of the continuing theme, "Which city will we lose?" here's a vote for Long Beach.It's clear that Iran will develop nukes and they're entirely open about what they'll do with them: bomb Israel and the US. They're not concerned about the fact that we'll retaliate, and I don't think the Federal government will act to stop them before they do it. We'll lose one entire city, maybe two,

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An interesting history quiz.

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This is the kind of thing Jeff Copeland loves.

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I'm taking bets:Do you think the Dixie Chicks will cover Hank Williams' No, No Joe (full lyrics here) before, or after Richard Carpenter puts out She Ain't Heavy, She's My Sister?

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Banning tagging.

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Doodle has a simple solution. I like it.

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See? Bob Dylan's wrong.Only Muslims must get stoned. The rest of us have other options.

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Lots of extra points for creativity for this one. The writer even gets points for the closing line in the piece.

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Well, there's still time. Maybe Yunus and the Grameen Bank will announce that space aliens actually built the Great Pyramids, that capitalism is the real source of world poverty, or that they're calling in all loans of over $27.

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In more news-of-the-day, NPR has just received a Federal Department of Education grant to develop accessible radio technology for the deaf and blind.We're going to give Federal tax money to NPR to make radio accessible to the blind.Still, Federal tax money for radio for the deaf and dumb? NPR seems like an obvious choice -- indeed, one of many.

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Glenn Reynolds suggests the CIA would be well-served by studying this book. I think perhaps this one, too.If they haven't been already, that is.

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Telephone Hacks Roundup - Lifehacker

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Glenn Reynolds notes hereDrugmakers get sued for defective products; 'activists' and sensational journalists do not. If I were to start a drug company, and peddle a drug with no more evidence of its safety and efficacy than anti-vaccine activists and their media allies had to peddle their approach, and if as many people were made sick, or killed, as a result, I'd probably be in jail now.Reynolds

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Before YouTube will let me watch this video I have to register and say I'm willing to watch it."This video may contain content that is inappropriate for some users, as flagged by YouTube's user community."YouTube's user community thinks videos like this or this, or this are, in contrast, just fine for everybody.The "offensive" video is by David Zucker, producer and director of "Airplane" and "

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Still cheaper phone calls.

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I often look for things on Amazon, only to be told that they're not eligible for Amazon Prime. Here's a search for Amazon Prime items

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In case you suddenly need to know something about a new medical condition.

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Google Code SearchI assume this is a competitor to Krugle. Krugle's been doing it longer, but it's hard to believe they can compete with a search company.

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Google Code SearchI assume this is a competitor to Krugle. Krugle's been doing it longer, but it's hard to believe they can compete with a search company.

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Grand Central is an example of bootstrapping a good, but simple, idea into a complete web service.Here's the basic idea.You probably have at least two or three phone numbers: work, home, and cell. For folks to call you, they may have to call all three. Worse, if they don't get you on any of them, they leave three messages. More numbers? More calls, more messages.Sign up at Grand Central and

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Jeff Grove points to this map of the world at night, with a tip: zoom in (by clicking on the map) and contrast North and South Korea.

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Saturday morning, I went to the Denver Libertarian Breakfast (the Le Peep on the corner of Colorado and Mexico, Satudays at 8am. And yes, Saturdays have an 8 in the morning, too.)I think of myself as a libertarian-leaning Republican. When I take the World's Smallest Political Quiz which Libertarian friends, like David Aitken, hand out I'm always pushed into the Republican quadrant because I

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