November 2010
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New Evidence Proves First Flag Made By Betsy Ross... →
“This resplendently bedecked man, with his pet bald eagle perched on his shoulder, strutted about with unabashed confidence and pride, like America itself. At once, I knew I must make this radiant son of liberty’s shirt into a glorious flag o’er our nation!”
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Finally Google Voice For iPhones →
“It’s nice. It’s much better than the Web-based fakeout app I wrote about in that January blog post. It’s basically a replacement for your iPhone’s phone app, complete with address book and a Favorites list…And if you send texts from this app, your incoming and outgoing text messages are free.”
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Forgive Us Our Synths – How 80s Pop Found Favour... →
“Ostentatiously intellectual and scornful of rock’n’roll cliche, the likes of OMD and Heaven 17 briefly set 80s pop alight – and now they’re back in favour.”
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Confessions of a Gay Soldier →
How ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ erodes the most valuable lessons military service can teach.
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Kubrick explains 2001 →
“When the surviving astronaut, Bowman, ultimately reaches Jupiter, this artifact sweeps him into a force field or star gate that hurls him on a journey through inner and outer space and finally transports him to another part of the galaxy, where he’s placed in a human zoo approximating a hospital terrestrial environment drawn out of his own dreams and imagination. In a timeless state,...
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Google Sky Map, Now with Time Travel →
“Have you ever wondered how the sky was back in 1900? How the sky looked when the Apollo 11 moon landing happened? Or what the sky will look like next Thursday night for your planned star-gazing trip? Today, the new version of Google Sky Map lets you time travel to see the sky at a specific date, past or future” Sorry Android only, which totally leaves me out, but it’s still...
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