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Archive for April, 2006

The A-Team Blog :: Dear Pacifist

Sunday, April 30th, 2006

The A-Team Blog has linked to a post found through Michelle Malkin’s blog asking how pacifism can actually stop the terrorists. That’s the brief version any way. The post and the general rhetoric from the pro-war camp presupposes two things which effectively reduce their arguments to nothing more than baseless rhetoric: 1. The burden of [...]

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Incredible 17″ iMac G5 Deal – $999

Wednesday, April 26th, 2006

Apple Certified Refurbished 17 iMac G5 with 1.9 GHz processor with the built-in iSight Camera, now only $999.

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First Triathlon – Sort of

Monday, April 24th, 2006

I haven’t posted for awhile because I’ve been out of town twice and deathly ill in between. I had what I thought was food poisoning, but I guess it’s been going around (nausea and diarrhea to the max) as some sort of virus. I ran a triathlon yesterday… Sort of. I got an asthma attack [...]

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Open Source Screenwriting Software

Wednesday, April 12th, 2006

Celtx – Open Source Screenwriting Software Ask and you shall receive. I searched for open source screenwriting software, and voila, I found there was a most excellent piece of software called Celtx. The writing tools included give it a leg up on Final Draft, believe it or not. Sure, there are some features of Final [...]

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Main Page – FreeMind – free mind mapping software: FreeMind is a premier free mind-mapping (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_map) software written in Java. The recent development has hopefully turned it into high productivity tool. We are proud that the operation and navigation of FreeMind is faster than that of MindManager because of one-click “fold / unfold” and “follow [...]

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Third Retired General Wants Rumsfeld Out

Tuesday, April 11th, 2006

Third Retired General Wants Rumsfeld Out – New York Times: “I now regret that I did not more openly challenge those who were determined to invade a country whose actions were peripheral to the real threat — Al Qaeda.” The decision to invade Iraq, he wrote, “was done with a casualness and swagger that are [...]

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Weeds Season 2 Premiere on Showtime

Monday, April 10th, 2006

Update: And now…   Click for Weeds Season 2 on iTunes! It’s official! Season 2 of Weeds will premiere on Showtime August 14th. (Edited: The Weeds premiere was previously announced as July 17th) If you have not seen it, Download Weeds on iTunes… at least the pilot episode (I’d recommend the whole season). Very rarely do I give a [...]

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Gospel of Judas

Friday, April 7th, 2006

bob.blog: iMonk V Judas Bob Hyatt credited someone as “Internet Monk” (couldn’t find a link to the source material [Edited: Here's the original Internet Monk piece: http://www.internetmonk.com/archive/the-stupids-do-new-testament-101/]) for this great comparison between the Gospel of Judas and a fictional piece on George Washington: Dateline: Arlington Virginia. Scientists and historians announced today the discovery of a [...]

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Signs of a Crumbling Old Guard

Thursday, April 6th, 2006

Soothing Ourselves to Death – Christianity Today Magazine: The decision by influential Christian broadcasters and music companies to avoid moral controversies could result in the church withdrawing from the culture as it tragically did a century ago. What is the job of Christian radio, after all? To give people what they want, or–as with any [...]

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globeandmail.com : Studios support film sales on Web: LOS ANGELES — Hollywood studios start selling digital versions of films such as Brokeback Mountain and King Kong on the Internet this week, the first time major movies will be available on-line to own. The films can’t be burned onto a disc for viewing on a DVD [...]

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