Archive for December, 2008

The King of Christmas 2008

The King of Christmas 2008.  A great look at the true meaning of Christmas.  :)

Merry Christmas, everybody!

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Patton was assassinated?

General George S. Patton was assassinated to silence his criticism of allied war leaders claims new book – Telegraph.  Sure.  This may just be some crazy bunch of fiction.  But the more that I understand just how corrupt our government–any government, actually–is, the more I think it’s pretty damn plausible.

As Lord Acton said:

“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.”

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11th Grade

xkcd – A Webcomic – 11th Grade.  I couldn’t put it better myself.

Although I didn’t do Perl then.  And I still don’t, unless I’m forced to.  :)

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Phone layout

mental_floss Blog » 17 Pushbutton Configurations that Didn’t Make the Cut.  Pretty interesting to see what our phones could have looked like…

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Inflation Is… A Letter to a Ten-Year-Old

Inflation Is… A Letter to a Ten-Year-Old | The Foundation for Economic Education: In Brief.  Just in case some of the earlier economics lessons I’ve linked to were too heady and dense, hopefully this “Are You Smarter Than A Fifth-Grader” version will be easy enough to understand.  :)

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