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  • Dennis Wilson and Charles Manson

    A cautionary tale that I spent the morning reading in Wikipedia. It’s a narrative of cults, drugs and craziness. Vincent Bugliosi documented in his book Helter Skelter but now Wikipedia helps give further credence to the Manson rise to cult leader status. Along the way the cult had some interaction with perfectly normal famous people,…

  • links for 2008-08-12 [delicious.com]

    KDL32XBR6 | 32" Class BRAVIA® XBR Series LCD Flat Panel HDTV (31.5" diagonal) | Sony | SonyStyle USA This is the TV we're buying (tags: tv)

  • links for 2008-08-09 [delicious.com]

    Mozilla Firefox 3 and Blackboard Anyone supporting Blackboard Enterprise 8 needs to know if Firefox 3 is being supported. (tags: cms blackboard mozilla)

  • Herbert Huncke, Greg Corso and Neal Cassady

    Who among us hasn’t wanted to live life to its fullest? Who doesn’t want to escape their dreary day to day existence? Well, lest you be tempted by the media that it’s fun being a criminal just consider the victims of past attempts to escape the bounds of society. Here now are the Beats.

  • Nakagin Capsule Tower

    11-Nakagin Kurokawa Originally uploaded by slgFede Look at this! It’s the elevation of the floors at the Nakagin Capsule Tower in Tokyo Japan. I love this photo because it shows the original building site when there weren’t many buildings around it yet. Now it’s completely lost in a neighborhood of skyscrapers.

  • GPU accelerated H.264 encoding

    H.264 is the new DivX, the new Xvid as announced yesterday on Anandtech.com: Right now transcoding Blu-ray movies isn’t exactly at the top of everyone’s list, but using H.264/x264 you can significantly reduce file sizes on any video. x264 is the new DivX and its usefulness extends far beyond just ripping HD movies. Needless to…

  • Incompetence reigns supreme under Doug Feith

    Michael Ledeen, an appointee under Doug Feith to run a program to re-evaluate intelligence on Iraq is now been shown to be collaborating with suspected Iranian secret agents. He had no business meeting with them or believing anything they said, but Rumsfeld and Cheney made sure the CIA and State Department were out of the…

  • Joe Galloway blasts Pentagon & Larry Di Rita on MAP claims

    Joe Galloway, now a military columnist for McClatchy, is one of the nation’s most accomplished war reporters. He was in Vietnam for years reporting on the war for UPI, and was the only civilian awarded the Bronze Star during that war, awarded for his rescuing wounded American soldiers under heavy enemy fire. Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf…

  • Potential Energy (K sub p)

    What do you do when you see a TV show that motivates you to question the decisions you have made? Do you just let it pass? Or do you recognize yourself in the lives you’ve been watching, and DO something about it.

  • US Gas consumption is going down

    Due to the increase of fuel costs, consumption of gasoline and diesel fuel is dropping. If the drop continues who knows what the sum total effect might be? read more | digg story