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"Few things in the world are more touching, rewarding and beautiful than making someone cry tears of joy."

-- Gargolito

Operation Smile - Changing Lives One Smile at a Time

Labels: Chunk Of Wisdom

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CleanSoftware.org - Free software, no nasties!

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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
For my buddy Bels...

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Quotes from Gandhi

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The Dishonest Reporting 'Awards' 2004

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News Map

Very cool way to look at the news.

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Appendix D Tools for Troubleshooting

These are tools built in to XP.

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The Official Maria Spiropulu Appreciation Page

This is the hottest physicist I have ever seen.

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Slate's Today's Best Cartoons

Some of the best political cartoons from around the world.

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MediaChannel.org - A Global Network of More Than 1,000 Media Issues Groups

More lefty news goodness

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Team Ellen

This woman is currently on pace to break the world record for solo sailing wround the world.

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The Shining in 30 seconds with bunnies.
The Shining in 30 seconds with bunnies.

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IBM Redbooks

For the Geek in all of us.

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The Live CD List
Linux for All!!!

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heroes

Heroes as Clerks!!!

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Dusty Info: A collection of 934 old, somewhat obscure and whacky, but curiously important facts
I am a fountain of useless knowledge.

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Guardian Unlimited | Life | Guardian life bad science

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Practical Piercing

If I ever got any type of piercing, this would be it.

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A Festivus for the Rest of Us!

Happy Chriskwanzakah !!!

Christmas, Kwanzaa, Chanukah

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Project Honey Pot: Distributed Spam Harvester Tracking Network
I HATE Spammers!!!

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Welcome to Jesusland

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Bill Henessy's Blog
I have said in my blog before that Dubya is an idiot. This guy thinks Dubya is the coolest president since Teddy R.

No Comment.

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The Straight Dope
Because not knowing is dumb.

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Attention film studios across America, the following message is for you.
If you invest on a new film based on a popular & hot new or old "game/book/novel/TV show/newspaper article/comic/foreign film/old movie/remake or TV commercial" stick to the source material especially when it doesn't work for the medium, it's ok to dress the X-Men in leather, but to make Sabertooth a mindless mono-growl brute is stupid. DO NOT MESS WITH THE STORY OR THE INTEGRITY OF THE CHARACTERS.
Do not listen to the uncommonly talented director that says "you know, I think Spiderman should have four arms. I mean, he's an arachnid, isn't he?"

Jonathan Demme is proof that a director can make a story better when he made the Silence of the Lambs. Other than the prominence of Lecter's character in the movie which was a small part of the book, the rest of the story was very loyal to the novel. Jonathan Hensleigh on the other hand, massacred his adaptation of the Punisher by placing it in Tampa and made a munchkin version of Frank Castle . If this movie had been called the Avenger or the Redeemer and was not associated with the Marvel character, it would have been rather good for it's budget and acting. Part of the appeal of the Punisher comic is that Frank Castle takes on the baddest criminals in the baddest-ass city in the world. And as much as I like The Lord of the Rings trilogy, I have four mayor issues with it:

1. Arwen should not have been so active in the story, if they wanted to include her they could have done so as a inner monologue device for Aragorn.
2. The Ents, elemental beings, thousands of ages old, wise beyond comprehension. But a hobbit has to lay a winky trick on them to convince them to fight Saruman. The book was very clear that the Ents had an Ent Moot as a way of verifying concensus that they would go to war and acknowledge that they may not survive it.
3. Faramir the opportunistic pig. This really irritated the hell out of me. In the Two Towers the character of Faramir is wise and enigmatic, he almost preternaturally knows that Frodo has the ring and how dangerous it is and he let's Frodo go. His relationship with his father is a painful one where he has all the traits that the favorite son does not, including the humility to forgive his father for that favoritism. Instead, in the movie he is this wimpy bastard that reluctantly does his father's bidding.
4. The destruction of the One Ring. Frodo does not hesitate to destroy the ring. Ever. In the book Gollum attacks him and takes the Ring and in his joy, dances and misses his step falling into the fiery pits of Mount Doom, it was a fitting and no less tragic end for poor Smeagol. To have Frodo tackle Gollum off the ledge to get the ring for himself is an insult to Tolien and his fans. There was no logical reason to change the dynamics of that crucial event.

I however, think that it was wise to bring the Elfs to the battle of Helms Deep. It made sense because of the size of the armies. That part worked very well, and it did not totally deviate from the essence of the story. It is possible to add to original ideas to an original story, and make it better. So movie exec's everywhere, I ask you - no, I beg you, since you often have the final word on what gets put in a movie and whether it is distributed, don't mess with it, and don't let anyone mess with it. It would be like eating pizza for the for the first time, but drench it in Tabasco sauce.

You won't really know what it tastes like.

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Alright, so I come across this word and as I usually do, I had to look it up. Solipsism is a philosophical term applied to the idea that the only reality that can be proven is individual reality, only what the self thinks is what is real.
The link below clarifies this concept.
Solipsism and the Problem of Other Minds [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]

I just found another word for something that I am not.

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The Human Clock - A Photo for Every Minute of the Day
The actual time of day, often told with crappy cardboard signs.

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Photoblogs.org - The Photoblog Resource
I just blogged a blog. He he.

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DailyCandy - Home Page
Kinda Cool Webzine

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Done Deal: Script and Pitch Sales - Updated Daily
This is one of the main sources on the net for new films in development.

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The way I figure, the US goverment would be appalled if my vote was not properly counted due to questionable and unreliable voting procedures.

I knew there was a way to make the whitehouse work for me.

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