Sean’s Mental Walkabout

• This American Life
  At 47 minutes in you get John Hodman's rewrite of the Phantom Menace. Pure genius.

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• MediaFile » Blog Archive » Sprint: Android not good enough yet | Blogs |
  Dear Sprint, get a clue, and put out an Android Phone.

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• Confirmed: Kids like Sugar better than XP - Engadget
  Don't let you children grow up to use powerpoint

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• People Over Process » Rackspace’s New Cloud Portfolio
  Rackspace Cloud Roundup.

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• India to the Moon! | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine
  The space race just got more fun to watch with another world power (India) getting into the mix. Congrats to them on a successful launch.
• jwz - “There are many copies.”

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• Merb 1.0 For Ruby Emerges. Real Competition For Rails?
  "… the Ruby developer community will reach 4 million programmers by 2013" - now that's an interesting prediction in there.

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• Electronic sleep mask for worry-free train naps ::: Pink Tentacle
  Having spent time on the trains in japan, I can definitely see this one catching on.

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While I love the snow part of winter (which we don’t get nearly enough of down here in in Poughkeepsie), I used to hate the dark part of winter.  The Sun setting at 4:45 in December is sort of depressing.

I say I used to, because now I’m eager for sundown, as it means I can grab the binoculars or the telescope and wander outside.  Now, a 6 pm sunset in October is great.

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• Learn The Airdates Of The Final 10 BATTLESTAR GALACTICAs!! — Ain’t It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news.
  Battle Star returns Jan 16th, and pushes straight through to the end. Can't wait.
• James Governor’s Monkchips » On Timeless Software: Pace Layering and the SAP Software Architecture
  I love this idea that layers in software need to age at different rates. I'd never thought of it that way before, but it makes perfect sense.
• ESA - ATV - ATV re-entry: First pictures (updated)
  Some great pictures of reentry of a satelite taken from the DC-8 observing plane. Very cool.
• Star Trek Side By Side Photo Comparisons
  Comparison of new trek casting with old. I'm quite impressed by Spock, Kirk, and Bones casting, and really can't wait for this to come out.

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