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Mark Steyn explores new career options.

Read it. Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.

Read it. A useful distinction, well explained.

Read it. We’re doing amazing things these days … for animals.

Read it. No word on whether it involves armored bears.

Read it. It’s still farming.

Read it. And it would, too.

Read it. Afterwards you can eat the losers. What’s not to like?

Read it. Sorry to intrude geek stuff into all the doom and gloom, but this is pretty significant.

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Read it. This ought to shake things up a bit.

Read it. Admit it — you had to look that up.

Read it. Predicted first use: Mapping the distinctions between Red States and Blue States. John McCain will at last be revealed as a Scoop Jackson Democrat operating under deep cover.

Check it out. A need whose time has come … oh, has it ever.

Read it. A neat trick — if it works.

Read it. Singapore doesn’t get near the respect it deserves for its achievements in practical economics.

Read it. Go, Fred.

Read it. Judges upholding the law. When was the last time that happened?

Steve Sailer is always coming up with interesting stuff.

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Pogue has the inside skinny.

Read it. As do I.

Read it. No kidding — there are pictures.

Read it. What’s interesting is that the motion detector is actually in the bulb.

Read it. Pretty clever.

Read it. This one’s for you, Roy.

Read it. Perhaps the Law of Unintended Consequences actually works in our favor sometimes.

Read it. This is actually a very clever concept.

Read it. I’m certainly ready to do my part.

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Under these kinds of conditions, a cow (or a goat or pig) is a much better medium for saving. It is sturdier than paper money. Friends and relatives can’t ask for small pieces of it. If you own a cow, it yields milk, it can plow the fields, it produces dung that can be used as fuel or fertilizer, and in a pinch it can be slaughtered and turned into saleable ­meat or simply eaten. With a small loan, people in rural areas can buy that cow and use cash that might otherwise be diverted to less useful purposes to pay back the microcredit institution. So even when microcredit looks like indebtedness, savings are going up rather than down.

Then go here and lend a hand.

Read it. People are starting to get a clue.

Read it. Release your inner geek.

Read it. The new business model for authors? Doesn’t seem to have harmed Cory Doctorow or John Scalzi.

Read it. I prefer the PowerSquid myself, but this is pretty cool.

David Pogue is distraught.

Actually, I’ve given up on watching movies. I just watch the trailers — for free — on the Internet, because typically the best parts of the movie will be in the trailer, almost by a law of nature; they want you to see it, so they show you their best stuff.

If it’s really any good, your friends will tell you about it, and you can buy the DVD later — which will have the director’s cut and half a metric ton of supplemental material, for about what you would pay to watch the lame theatrical release in a theater.

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Best case: Neither of your parents attended college at all, your father is a factory worker, and your mom is on disability. . . . Worst case: Your father went to Yale as an undergraduate and then Harvard Business School and is now an investment banker and your mom went to Brown, holds a Ph.D. in chemistry and works as a research chemist.

Of course, if you don’t insist on going to Harvard, it’s a lot easier.

But it is worth pausing to savor the irony of an institution that charges as much as $45,000 a year asking its applicants to demonstrate their proletarian credentials.

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Read it. In case you were wondering. I know I was.

Read it. Everything you never wanted to know about Urdu, and then some.

Read it. I wish I got paid for doing that sort of thing….

Read it. And the hits just keep on comin’.

Read it. One of the fun parts of living in a partisan world is that one can always depend on one side to find the holes in the other side’s plans. In the old days this meant that the Useless Class (the Democrats) got their ideas out, and the side of the Useful Class (the Republicans) got squat. But the Internet has changed all that.

Read it. Important news in a subject you didn’t know anything about.

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My major problem with Open Office is that it’s gawdawful slow.

I don’t know whether it’s because everything is wrapped up into one application, or what.

I find myself activating my Windows VM under Parallels and using Word and Excel in preference to NeoOffice (Open Office customized for the Mac — it is, sad to say, quicker than the regular Open Office) just because the combined operation only takes about half the time.

Unfortunately I’m too cheap to shell out Microsoft-extortionate prices for Mac Office, so there you are — I’m just a prisoner of value rigidity.

Steve Sailer has a GREAT idea.

ParaPundit likes it, too.

Read it. An interesting concept.

The parallel with campaign advertisements is just too much of a cheap shot, however.

Read it. I guess enforcement works after all.

Read it. Can’t say that I blame them. If the British can do this, can Americans be far behind?