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Archive for December, 2005

Saturday, December 24th, 2005

Santa Tracking

Track Santa at NORAD. Or track Santa using Google Earth. Personally I think Santa has stealth technology on that sleigh. These tracking systems don’t show him in the same place.

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Saturday, December 24th, 2005

Little Red Book story a hoax

Remember that senior at UMass Dartmouth who was visted by federal agents after he requested a copy of Mao Tse-Tung’s book on communism, “The Little Red Book”? Turns out he made the whole thing up. Made a great story though.

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Thursday, December 22nd, 2005

Blogging in Johnson City

‘Geeks’ seek to develop area’s blogging This article from the Johnson City press sounds like something the Tri-Cities Computer Club might do if it was still and functioning organization. More info is at Jose Castillo’s blog. Wonder if anybody from the Rocky Top Brigade was there? Although I guess that’s more of a Knoxville thing.

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Wednesday, December 21st, 2005

Fine theater

I seem to be finding really funny stuff at Librarian’s Rant lately. Here’s the latest. Don Saklad Orders A Pizza: A Play FYI: Don Saklad is a really weird interesting guy and so is his blog. Update: Haiku/Senru based upon the writings of Don Saklad

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Wednesday, December 21st, 2005

Performancing for Firefox

This post is a test of the new Performancing blog editor plugin for Firefox 1.5. Looks nice and seems to work, but I wish it had spell check.

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Written by Dan Greene, web designer and library geek. Topics covered here include Library and Information Science, Information Technology, web design, and maybe even a monk or two (more...)

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