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Archive for December, 2007

Art on a Sunday Afternoon

Posted in Flickr, art on 23 December 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Was perusing Drawn! and came across The Daily Mammal and Bears in Ill-Fitting Hats. At the Daily Mammal, Jennifer Atkins strives to draw an post a drawing of a different mammal species every day until she does one of every mammal species on earth. Cool! I can’t get a link to one [...]

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Longer Lived Batteries with Nanowires — Can I Have My Electric Car with Decent Range Now?

Posted in gadget, technology on 21 December 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Those geniuses at Stanford have used silicon nanowires to create a lithium ion battery that holds ten times the charge of current Li-Ion batteries.  Apparently, silicon has been know for years to have a higher capacity for storing lithium than the currently used carbon, but problems with the silicon expanding and shrinking as the lithium [...]

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Cool Wii Hack

Posted in YouTube, computers, gaming on 21 December 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Someone over at Engaget posted about a Wii hack that allows a cool virtual reality experience.  There’s even a video on Youtube about it:

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Help Start Cheney Impeachment Hearings

Posted in U.S.A., politics on 16 December 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Impeaching Dick Cheney is a fabulous idea: if we don’t hold the top officials of the Executive Branch accountable for their abuse of power, future politicians will see this administration as a precedent for their own aggrandizement of power.  Sign the petition and help prevent our republic from becoming a de facto dictatorship.

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New Website on the Way

Posted in website on 16 December 2007 | Leave a Comment »

    Several months ago, I recklessly volunteered to develop a website for a local peace and justice nonprofit organization.  After mocking-up some pages in a graphics program (Inkscape, a totally cool piece of software), I tried installing a content management system (CMS) on a spare computer I had lying around.  After some work I got [...]

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Video of Dan at Modesto REC.

Posted in USPS, Video, YouTube, humor, work on 6 December 2007 | 2 Comments »

I got an email yesterday from a former coworker at the former Modesto Remote Encoding Center. It had a link to a video on Youtube, featuring everyone’s favorite supervisor, Dan, making a special holiday announcement:

Dan is now a supervisor at the Kearney station, in Modesto.
If you watch the clip at [...]

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