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Kindle Saves Long Content

February 23, 2011
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Like many internet addicts, I’ve gotten very good at merely scanning anything I run across rather than, say, actually reading the thing. A little tip to get you to actually start reading again, especially those longer articles: Instapaper + their Read Later button + their Kindle integration + your Kindle = Simply a Better Way [...]

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Quit Thinking Small

November 12, 2008

photo credit: m-c So, as I was saying, this month is going swimmingly. Those two campaigns recently restarted have kept up their end of the bargain, and even surpassed the return on investment I was seeing initially (one has jumped to 140%, the other 151%). While they are certainly active campaigns, their adspend isn’t as [...]

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Happy Birthday to the Universe! And iPods…

October 23, 2006

Shall we join the Young Earthers and wish the universe a Happy 6,009th? Nah, I prefer at least acting the rational being. Instead, I’ll better spend my day celebrating the 5th birthday of the iPod. Maybe I’ll just load up a handful of Science Friday episodes and be awed by the natural world. Or load [...]

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More Money, Less Freedom

October 20, 2006

Despite my recent attempts at avoiding the news of the day, I see the Military Commissions Act of 2006 was actually signed into law on October 17th, essentially poisoning habeas corpus. Oh, and it also appears to somehow allow our country to opt out of the Geneva Conventions of which our country is a signatory [...]

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Anyone Else Tired of the Latest Round of Autoresponder Whoring?

October 5, 2006

Over the last few months, I’ve been looking at various ways of supplementing my income by making a buck or two from a few site I have online. So far I’ve taken a little action, and even made a few dollars. But mostly, I’ve just been digging up all the info I can reasonably find. [...]

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