Title: French Lessons Author: Peter Mayle Media: Paperback Date: July 2010 Rating: 10/10 A delightful collection of stories about eating and cooking in France. I picked this book up at Barnes & Nobel to read while in Frace, figuring that I ought to read something about the country that I was visiting. Very funny...
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Poking around online to see if anyone has posted pictures of an idea I have (converting a nice old book into a storage folder for burned DVDs) I stumbled Wikipedia’s article on optical disc packaging. Yes. An entire article devoted to nothing but analysis and description of CD cases. And it’s a pretty long...
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I’ve been thinking about copyright a lot recently. When I saw this article on the ASCAP website I thought it would be a good exercise to take it apart and respond. So here we go! Anti-copyright crusaders are currently engaged in a publicity campaign to discredit ASCAP’s efforts to defend the copyrights of our...
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For your consideration: Through science humanity holds the potential to transcend the limits of nature and the bounds of this earth, or to destroy itself. Let us strive for transcendence.
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Whoa! the wife just found the cheese shop we visited (and loved) in France online! the owner was very friendly and gave us a 5 minute tour of different types of mild goat cheeses when we went into the shop. And to think we just dropped by on a whim. Hope they ship to...
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Very nice. I think I might have to make some special Christmas card this year or something…. YouTube – Amazing 3D Paper Design!.
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Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte discuss OpenID. Lots of useful links in the show notes. GRC | Security Now! Notes for Episode #95
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