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I’m a bit late with this, but if you haven’t been watching ESPN 8 (“The Ocho” for Dodgeball fans), you probably missed the huge pile-up crash a couple of days ago during the Tour de France (or, perhaps more appropriately, the Tour de Dopage, as the 1998 Tour became known as). YouTube – Tour [...] When I was a kid, there were two toys I played with constantly, Barbie and Ken Legos and Spirograph. I think I bought a Spirograph for my kids when they were younger. I don’t know what happened to it, but I’m pretty sure that the plastic gears were used as Frisbees and lost. [...] Boeing took the wraps off their first fully-built 787 Dreamliner plane on July 7. The company hasn’t released a new plane since 1995 and is now the number 2 plane producer in the world behind Airbus Industries. The plane looks great and has terrific specs – both for airlines and for passengers (note [...] I was an early adopter of the Terastation when it was released a few years ago. The Terastation is a pretty typical (well, now pretty typical) SOHO-type NAS that is a fairly inexpensive solution to getting loads-o-disk space on your local network. It’s not screamingly fast, but it’s got loads of features including a [...] History is a story. There’s a timeline; a plot (even if it’s derived later); heroes and villains; uncertain conclusions; some resolutions and loads of stuff to be learned or enjoyed along the way. Just like in a good novel. Well, sort of. History writers have great fodder for books, but often don’t execute well [...] |
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