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Virtual Geek: EMCs VMware Storage Strategy – The 3rd Shoe Drops This is cool stuff. The DRS-for-storage part is what I'm craving the most. Jim Leff's Slog: How to Save $5000 on Your Logo "Scrawl an ugly, primitive, childish, highly-unsatisfactory mock-up of what your entirely unartistic brain is picturing. Give it to the artist." This Jim Leff guy is dead on here. It's hard to be creative, and it's hard to know what someone else is thinking. Which means a big bill if someone has to start from scratch for you, creatively. Rumor: Fox May Cancel Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles Oh, I'm sure they will. Basically if it's a show I like it'll get nuked. It's too bad the …

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Metairie man says stranger chewed, swallowed after taking bite out of his arm – Breaking News from New Orleans – Times-Picayune – NOLA.com I agree with Boing Boing — zombies? But it's probably just drugs. How to Handle Criticism — Copyblogger Nice succinct list. I use the "nobody's right" one a lot. For every person I have tell me a blog post is wrong, I have another saying that I'm right on. You make your own decisions, you invent your own reality, and others might share in that or not. gapingvoid: "cartoons drawn on the back of business cards": the "ignore everybody" cartoon I like this. I might print it out and hang it in the doorway of my office. …

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Hope Town Lighthouse | Visit Hope Town, Abaco, Bahamas This is the lighthouse seen on Scrubs this week — I've been there. Hope Town doesn't allow motorized vehicles in the main part of town, which is cool.

Lifehacker – Trillian Astra Handing Out Invites Willy Nilly – trillian If you were thinking about trying the Trillian Astra beta I offer you this: I've already uninstalled it. It doesn't seem to be able to work right with XMPP chat servers, which is kind of a big deal these days. Just like the old versions of Trillian it tries to do lots of things and does everything very poorly. I know it's a beta, which explains the crashing, but the UI is terrible, too. Time to see if there's a new version of Psi… Video-In and Magnetometers Could Introduce Interesting iPhone App Possibilites – Mac Rumors The more sensors the better, in my opinion. A magnetometer might also be …

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Alaska's Mount Redoubt – The Big Picture – Boston.com The 1200X SEM photo of the ash is cool. See all those edges? That's why volcanic ash is nasty and abrasive. Those edges are all very sharp, even if they are minuscule. Further down: a UW – Madison contribution. Always cool to see. Microsoft will allow Windows 7 users to downgrade to XP | All about Microsoft | ZDNet.com Microsoft is succumbing to corporate America refusing to move forward. Problem is, XP is solid, and nothing else since has been. When a guy like me is happier with a beta OS instead of a released, "stable" one, well, yeah. If I didn't have a hybrid hard disk (blech) in my laptop …

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Performance Anti-Patterns | ACM Queue “Want your apps to run faster? Here’s what not to do. By: Bart Smaalders, Sun Microsystems” Good stuff here. 7591 vaccum tubes in original boxes – $50 a) Nice spelling of vacuum. b) This guy removed the glass tops to clean them. *sigh* Only vacuum left is an almost perfect one between this guy’s ears.

Obama Poseable Action Figure What will the Japanese do next? I like the photo of him vs. Darth Vader.

Crabs 'feel and remember pain' suggests new study – CNN.com Lots of stuff feels and remembers pain, including lots of stuff we eat. Doesn't mean we should stop eating it, just means we should stop killing it slowly.

Noah Stokes – Front End Developer and Other Crap "I'll pull your data asynchronously from every orifice of your server." OMFG, funny. Props to Jeremy Zawodny for the link.

AT&T To Offer No-Contract iPhones to Existing Customers Starting March 26th? – Mac Rumors $699 for an iPhone? Ugh. I'm guessing this is AT&T and Apple realizing that they are losing a lot of money by not selling to unlockers. I.B.M. Said to Be in Talks to Buy Sun for $7 Billion – NYTimes.com I don't think this is going to make it past the antitrust guys. And if it does I'm not sure this is good for projects like MySQL. Maybe it's different now but as of just a couple years ago IBM didn't seem to understand open-source.