Fish sticks have recently been added to our diet, if you can call it that. Fish sticks are relatively innoffensive, although I can’t say I’ve eaten them regularly since I was, oh, ten. They’re fine as long as you don’t think too hard about what that “minced fish” might be. It’s something of a leap [...]

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So the birthing center is getting slightly anxious about us. We’re dragging our feet a bit choosing a birth classes and birth styles. I guess a lot of folks have an idea in their head of what they want the birth to be like. Perhaps they see it as ritual or rite of passage. I’m [...]

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“BoingBoing”:http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/96467942/why_drm_drives_pirac.html repeats the genuinely relevant portion of this “Eric Flint”:http://preview.baens-universe.com/articles/salvos6 post.
bq. Pirates rob bullion ships, they don’t rob grain ships. Electronic copyright infringement is something that can only become an “economic epidemic” under certain conditions. Any one of the following:
bq. The product they want—electronic texts—are hard to find, and thus valuable.
2) The products they [...]

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I originally bought an art tablet so I could improve my photo editing and retouching. A mouse just doesn’t have the finesse, and there’s a lot of features in Photoshop that you just can’t get to without a pressure sensitive input. And then, yesterday, I suddenly realized I could do something far better with [...]

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I had an interesting revelation about one of my newer art tools yesterday, which I will share with you shortly. Right now, though, it’s time to guess ten. I give you ten lyrics, you give me the artist and song title.
# Animaniacs, “Schnitzelbank” [ "Glen":http://www.art-machine.org ] -Ist das nicht ein hairy chest?-
# Soul Coughing, “Lazybones” [...]

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