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Thank Goodness

“Thank Goodness” is quality essay about being thankful from the perspective of philosopher and atheist Dan Dennet after he suffered a “dissection of the aorta”—the lining of the main output…

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A Special Sense of Humour

Cbrown posted this little gem via their blog, and I thought it worth mentioning. I had to share this find. I recently purchased a high-quality computer sleeve from a small…

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Print Out a Directory Listing in Windows 2000

…and files. It works perfectly! Open Notepad, and then copy and paste the following three lines of text into it: @echo off dir %1 /-p /S /D /o:gn > C:\Temp.txt…

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Trip to Israel Journal Entry Day 4

…carvings filling the shelves. Omar seemed very friendly assuring everyone that the carvings in the store were all carved out of high quality dry olive wood. He said that all…

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Jeff Milner’s Gmail Account Giveaway!

…are just learning about my contest now, there will be another one as soon as I get some more invites. It’s also more like begging than a contest — so…

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Heather Armstrong Dead at 47

Tonight I saw the news that Heather Armstrong died yesterday. I read her website pretty regularly for about a decade since the early 2000s. Alex Williams, The New York Times:…

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Kayaker Drowned

…she did communicate with the ORCKA club on their website and had planned at one point to join us on the trip we took down Box Canyon last month. More…

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Christmas Vacation Cancellation

…in June WestJet’s website said we could book with confidence knowing we could cancel our flights and get our money back with no fees or hassle but when I called…

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Letter to My MP

June 13th, 2008 To: Mr. Rick Casson House of Commons Parliament Buildings Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0A6 CC: The Honourable Jim Prentice P.C, M.P. 5th floor, West Tower C.D. Howe Building…

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Nerd TV

Personally I think they should have called it Geek TV but semantics aside Nerd TV has weekly one-hour interviews with some of the world’s greatest innovators in the field of…