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Make Sense of Your Notes: Muji Chronotebook

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Because of the numerous hours in a day (and various other constraints), the lines in a diary are typically very narrow. They are also usually equally distributed (somewhat). But our information is a hierarchy. Some are more important to us. Some we feel happier about. We want to highlight stuff that’s important to us. We [...]

Microsoft Accounces Just 20 Editions of Windows 7

I will be looking to diagonalgrade my crappy copy of Vista Home Premium, that I never use…

Dogma, Atheists, Agnostics and the Easter Bunny

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Paschalepist — one who believes that on the Sunday following the full moon closest in time to the vernal equinox, a fluffy white mountain hare (of the species lepus timidus) hides chocolate eggs.
Apaschalepist — a person who does not believe that the Easter Bunny is real.
Vampirist — one who believes that pale, fanged immortals stalk [...]

Can’t get an Interview with Sarah Palin?

We’ve got you covered:
Q: How will you fix the economy?
A: The economy and putting it back on the world. I’m not looking at poll numbers. What I think it was an unfair attack on the war on terror. And I asked President Karzai, “Is that what you are seeking, also? That strategy that has been [...]

2008 Definition of Optimist

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Optimist: an investment banker who irons five shirts on Sunday evening.

Get Ready for the Procrastination Loop

Ever wanted to have a definitive way of planning out just how effectively you can waste your time?
Now you can! Use this flow diagram to effectively plan your working day. All bases are covered, decide how you are going to surf the web, where and what to eat for lunch, efficiently process your social networking [...]

Sheriff Lott’s New Toy

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The Richland County, South Carolina Sheriff’s Department (that’s them above) just obtained an armored personnel carrier, complete with a belt-fed, .50-cal turreted machine gun.  Sheriff Leon Lott has charmingly named the vehicle “The Peacemaker,” and insists that using a caliber of ammunition that even the U.S. military is reluctant to use against human targets (it’s [...]

Hug A Developer today

For all developers everywhere, we all share the pain…

Booooooooo RIAA

Here is a screenshot from the current muxtape.com homepage:

Muxtape will be unavailable for a brief period while we sort out a problem with the RIAA
Have any artists complained or is this just the RIAA on their high horse?

Piracy

Now I’ve got to site through an unskippable anti-piracy advert every single time I put the disc into my dvd player, even though I own a legit, shop-bought copy for fucking fuck’s sake
One day when every has really had enough and every one stops buying their products completely, these companies might, maybe, possibly, doubtfully, get [...]