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I know, I know… probably has to do more with the extensions than with the browser.

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After too long a time, Sutra is again under my fingers. It feels good to have her back. Wait, did I just call my computer “her”? Wow. I guess the years of familiarity have finally given way to my granting anthropomorphic qualities to a laptop.

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This. Looks. Cool. (I wonder how to convince The Wife that I need one of these?)

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Alright, folks: time for another edition of Le Linkage, the incidental series chronicling some of the more interesting pages I find in my stumbles through the Web. Today’s episode features stories about Nigerian scammers, anthropology, human enhancement, science fiction, some humor, and of course, another simple online game. Enjoy.

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The Wife and I are in the process of looking for a new laptop. Our old Inspiron 8000 (20GB HD, 600MHz, 192MB SDRAM, 14″ screen) just isn’t up to the task of running today’s memory hogging, processor intensive, hard drive chugging applications, like Firefox and WinAmp. (Attention Mozilla Foundation: Please fix that damned Firefox memory [...]

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Intro: A good thinker is someone who others can recognize is a good thinker. A great thinker is someone who can get others to think. Matt Murchison is part of the later, no doubt. While I’m not a big fan of MySpace blogs (they’re usually trash heaps — my own MySpace blog included), if you’re [...]

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From CNN: Humans must colonize planets in other solar systems traveling there using “Star Trek”-style propulsion or face extinction… “Sooner or later disasters such as an asteroid collision or a nuclear war could wipe us all out…but once we spread out into space and establish independent colonies, our future should be safe.” As someone who [...]

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In all this time, I’ve yet to find a good way to convey to the non-technical public how well and truly screwed up we presently are, six years after the Florida recount. So now it’s time to hit the panic button: In this article, I’m going to show you how to steal an election. Now, [...]

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If you’re reading this through the RSS feed, then you already saw I dugg this. If you didn’t (or haven’t checked out the article yet), Ars Technica explores the power usage of devices such as TVs, phones, and even unused adapters, which have an “off” state in which the device is not actually off, but [...]

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One small step for Toshiba, one giant leap for fashion statements.

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