Monthly Archives: October 2007

Bigby

October 31, 2007 – 10:10 am

Just watching the Packers-Broncos game and noticed a player called Atari Bigby. Atari is a Japanese word meaning attack, but clearly that’s not its most prominent use. Perhaps in another decade or so we’ll have a Nintendo Morris in the league. I’m guessing XBox 360 Jones may not make it past college.

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Giuliani, Bush and Pirates

October 30, 2007 – 10:33 am

Here’s a nice opinion piece on the similarities between the current and possible future President. My favourite quote: I really do think that he ran for president partly just to appease his Oedipal issues and partly because he needed to do something with his life and he didn’t think he could pass the written test [...]

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Lateral

October 29, 2007 – 10:31 am

This clip is entertaining enough, but the commentary is great – I can only assume that the commentator had bet heavily on the result. (HT: Daring Fireball)

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Freecom 500GB External Drive

October 26, 2007 – 9:14 am

How about that for a snappy title? I bought one of these as part of the planned upgrade to our existing ad hoc Tivo-like device. The drive seems excellent on first use: it’s fanless, so the only sound is the disk revolving the case is metal, so it dissipates heat well (in sustained use it [...]

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Turkey and Kettles

October 25, 2007 – 8:56 am

Turkey is currently weighing what to do militarily about the PKK, the Kurdish rebel group that is either a terrorist organization or an army of freedom fighters. The Kurds, or some number of them at least, want an independent homeland made up of parts of Turkey and Northern Iraq. Turkey and Iraq are less supportive [...]

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