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Political

Are some Christians stupid?

Washington Post article about ministers violating tax laws by urging their flocks to vote for McCain: Asked why he felt the need to discuss the candidates by name and to be explicit in rejecting Obama and his pro-choice views, Johnson said he must connect the dots because he is not sure that all members of his […]

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Writing

OpenOffice for Aqua

Last week I made the switch from NeoOffice to OpenOffice for Aqua on the Mac. I’m impressed with the overall appearance of the application, and the functionality. Most importantly, I was able to process Word documents with templates without problems and without loss of functionality. The application is very fast and responsive on my PowerPC laptops, and […]

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Stuff

Deep breaths and baby porcupines

The economy is all over the place today, and a lot of people are uncertain and more than a little worried. Now is the time to take deep breaths, not over-react, or look for the nearest tall building from which to jump. Good, commonsense discussions about what all of this means can be found among […]

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Internet

Game over?

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. From GigaOM: There are other participants, some that are well known, like HP with its HP MediaSmart Connect, or TiVo. And some are upstarts, like Vudu, Zv, Verismo and Sezmi. But the future belongs to Amazon, Netflix or Apple. It’s still too early to tell which one will win the race […]

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Internet Media

AppleTV Rumors

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Rumors abound this weekend that something is up with AppleTV. TUAW first wrote about the AppleTV signs coming down, and erroneously mentioned about machines being pulled. The site later made an update that the machines haven’t been pulled, and conjecture in comments is that the signage change is because of one year […]