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Priorities, dude. Priorities.

By cp on June 30, 2005

If you’re looking to have a lunch meeting with officials from Belgium, don’t forget the cool ones. From the article: BRUSSELS (Reuters) – A lunch meeting between a leading parliamentarian in Belgium and counterparts from Iran has been canceled because the beer-loving Belgian could not stomach a ban on alcohol. I’m usually not one to [...]

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GOOGMaps API

By cp on June 30, 2005

The GOOG released an API for their maps product. People have been kluging together little (although useful!) applications with GOOGMaps since shortly after it came out. This should make it that much easier. the ‘Hoo, it turns out, has also provided an API for its maps product. Both the GOOG and the ‘Hoo seem to [...]

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Razor Sharp ‘Toons

By cp on June 23, 2005

Sometimes you see a listing for an event and you know immediately that you can not pass it up. Stephanie called a few days back to tell me about ToonTime with THE RZA and we knew that this was such an event. Musician/Actor/Writer/Icon-extraordinaire RZA — A.K.A. Bobby Digital — is the artist in residence at [...]

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FSM Cafepress Shop

By cp on June 23, 2005

There’s a Cafepress shop for Flying Spaghetti Monsterism warez. Represent!

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Flying Spaghetti Monster is My Homeboy

By cp on June 22, 2005

Via BB, I give you an Open Letter to the Kansas School Board. It puts forth a theory — equally valid to Intelligent Design — that states that the earth was created by a Flying Spaghetti Monster, backing it up with the sort of irrefutable statistical facts that we’ve become accustomed to by the Intelligent [...]

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Home Brew of Mediocre Magnitude

By cp on June 18, 2005

Ryan Clancey, A.K.A. Home Brew of Mediocre Magnitude, has just done a large and glorious redesign of his brewing site. It is beer-colored and wonderful, contains information about HBMM’s beers, brewing in general, and as far as I know, people, feelings, and bowling. Why shouldn’t it be so? Clancey has everything it takes to be [...]

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Family Helpdesk

By cp on June 18, 2005

If there’s one thing that every person of the technical persuasion fears, it’s the helpdesk call from the family. Mom or Dad are on the phone and they’ve got some sort of virus or they’ve deleted some sort of template or they want to hook a new wireless router up their circa 1983 green bar [...]

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Hello World

By cp on June 12, 2005

There it is. The "Hello World" post. As far as I can tell, it’s the way these newfangled blog things are started. Hell, the software I’m using to do this filled the title in for me. Very kind of it, that. "Hello World" has been around since 1973 (Wikipedia’s "Hello world program" entry). I know [...]

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