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All nighters...
I've started listening to podcasts from the PBS series NerdTv and today I was listening to a conversation with Max Levchin, one of the co-founders of Paypal. who had just been through his third all-nighter - that week. He said it was not unusual for him...

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EPIC
Joel sent me this link: http://www.broom.org/epic/ This video has IJH* all over it. It is an interesting view of the direction that we're taking in the next ten years. My primary thought around this kind of convergence, where everything is tailored to...

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You want to build your own PC next time? Make it small....
This is too cool. There are a ton of projects on this website about building small PC's, but this one was sent to me in particular. I was fascinated by the process, but what he did at the end of the project seemed to be the biggest trick of all. http...

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Flame Warriors
There are 10 groups of people in the world, those who blog and those who don't.... Actually according to Mike Reed , there are 90 types of Flame Warriors . I suppose I may sometimes come across as an Evil Clown .

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What Monty Python character are you?
I am the rabbit, with “nasty, big, pointy teeth!” What Monty Python Character are you? brought to you by Quizilla

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How cold is it?
It's so cold here in Manitoba that one of the towns nearby had its natural gas supply line freeze up : Temperatures took a nosedive Wednesday night; the mercury fell to the dreaded –40 C and with the wind chill, it felt like –52 C. Residents...

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ThinkGeek.Com has an RSS feed!
ThinkGeek.Com has a "What's New" RSS feed. These guys have great stuff for geeks, and lots of suggestions for spouses of geeks for Christmas. Mike

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Matrix Spoof Video
Featuring Steve “Developers, developers, developers, developers!” Ballmer. (you gotta be a geek to understand this one): http://www.only4gurus.com/v2/preview.asp?ID=4551 And another Matrix spoof video: http://codematrixusa2.free.fr/reloadedparody...

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Christmas quote
My wife sent me this quote: "You will decorate for Christmas; you will do it with a smile on your face, and a carol in your heart, or so help me, I will shove mistletoe so far up your scrooge a$$, you'll be sneezing berries for a week." :)

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Forklift training video
How not to drive a forklift . Warning: there's a lot of blood and gore in this video. And there may be bad language too, I have no idea, because it's in German.

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