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Monthly Archives: April 2006
Two-thirds of a conservative?
Conservative commentator Bruce Bartlett reviews Fred Barnes’ new book on Bush, Rebel-in-Chief and along the way has time for a critique of the President’s conservative credentials. He concludes that Bush amounts to “two-thirds of a real conservative, which sounds about … Continue reading
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Writely
I just got a Writely account and I’m testing it out. Writely is a collaborative online document editing system, recently bought out by Google. Currently it’s by invitation only, so thanks to Googlist for the invite. It allows mutliple people … Continue reading
Trading up, ad absurdum
Here’s an interesting idea: start out with something small, trade it for something a little better, trade that for something a little bit better, and so on until you’ve traded all the way up to something really nice. This guy … Continue reading
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A downloadable camera
Can be found here. It’s neat, but I doubt I would ever have the patience to make it work.
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Burning real images to CD
This is really cool. Unfortunately I’m not familiar with Matlab since I’ve always used Mathematica instead.
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A little late . . .
for Good Friday, but one of my favorite hymns/poems is particularly appropriate. How Deep the Father’s Love for Us by Stuart Townend How deep the Father’s love for us, How vast beyond all measure That He should give His only … Continue reading
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Keeping tabs on our government
Here’s a site with some pretty useful tools to help you keep track of your legislators and any legislation that’s important to you. You can set up monitors to keep track of individual legislators, bills, issues and more. It can … Continue reading
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OSU librarian accused of ‘sexual harassment’ for recommending conservative books
Wow. This is outrageous. [via Instapundit] From the Alliance Defense Fund: Scott Savage, who serves as a reference librarian for the university, suggested four best-selling conservative books for freshman reading in his role as a member of OSU Mansfield’s First … Continue reading
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Google Calendar
Google Calendar Beta is now live. Its interface and features strike me as very similar to that of 30Boxes, another web based calendar service that I’ve been using a little lately. Google has added some nice new features so I’ll … Continue reading
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Indiana’s 6th district: Mike Pence & 2006
My hometown (Daleville, Indiana) resides in Indiana’s 6th Congressional District, which has been ably represented for the past 5+ years by Rep. Mike Pence . Pence was first elected in 2000, shortly after I left for college, so I’ve not … Continue reading
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