“Our most formidable weapon is not our military strength, but rather our democratic ideals… It therefore seems oxymoronic that we would embrace a strategy that requires that we toss aside that strength in order to engage in a conflict on the terms we claim to abhor from our perceived enemies.”
—Byron Williams, “What is the Real [...]
Mark sent this to me, with the title: “Ahh… $700 well spent :)”
Photo by Mark Jen
Someone left an interesting one word comment on a photo I took:
First jeans
Valley Fair Shopping Center, Santa Clara, California
Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX1
1/8 sec @ f/2.8, iso 400, 6mm (28mm)
The word was “kawaii.” (可愛さ)
Dave sent me this link to geeky office slang.
We’ve heard them before (some from the Wired), but it’s fun reading them again.
There has been some funding movement among the Democratic part.
You can read about it on The Next Hurrah or on the Swing State Project. Please remember these are sites slightly biased toward the Democratic Party, so it sounds a lot better than it is.
Translation: The Republicans are on full retreat and are cutting their losses [...]
I recently received the following book from Wiley:
I haven’t had a chance to read it yet so this will be a placeholder for a future review.
Links to other reviews
I lost all my photos today.
The net result is I lost about one and a half months of photos permanently (around 1000 images), about six months of originals that haven’t been burned yet to disk, lost days of work, and shot up my entire backup regiment.
I’m also one crash/corruption from losing everything.
The ultimate blog post (Digg).
via Balloon Juice.
= Babe versus Babe.
Clever.
Thanks Digg.
