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Things will be quiet here at tins until tomorrow night or possibly Wednesday; Robby (my two year-old son) is getting both eyes operated on tomorrow morning. As I recounted a few months ago, Robby’s eyes started crossing earlier this year. He’s been wearing bi-focals since the original diagnosis, but the degree to which the eyes…

This made me laugh — Tom Fox solves the energy crisis, … then doesn’t. (Psst – Tom, my last name is Klau.)

Stealing the entire post from Mat. This is unconscionable. Ok, you historians. Has there ever been a person forced to renounce his American citizenship as part of a plea bargain to a crime for which he was never charged? The first U.S. government-declared “enemy combatant” in the war on terror will soon be released from…

Twice in the past week my referral logs have told me something I didn’t know. In the first case, it was that a high school classmate and dear friend had passed away. In the second, it was that someone I’d written about a while back is in the news again. In both cases, the spike…

There’s a good mini-FAQ on Live Bookmarks here. Check out some of the cool ideas: Why keep your bookmarks to yourself? Services like http://del.icio.us let you publish your own bookmarks as RSS feeds, so that other Firefox users can subscribe to your bookmarks through Live Bookmarks. Live Bookmarks and del.icio.us makes it easy to share…

Thought some of you might be interested in what other tins readers are buying. Here is a sampling of what tins readers have bought this quarter at Amazon.com: Books: Blogging: Genius Strategies for Instant Web Content, by Biz Stone Dark Age Ahead, by Jane Jacobs Dreams from My Father : A Story of Race and…

Saw at Slashdot that Mozilla has released the preview release of Firefox. Cosmetically, little appears to have changed from the .9x version of the browser. But I did notice one really interesting enhancement: RSS integration. Check out what shows up in the lower right corner of the browser when you hit my site: When you…

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Just in case you hadn’t heard, Steven Seagal’s long awaited debut album is soon to be released: I’ve heard it, and it’s really not all that bad. Seriously, though, it really is that bad. I’ll just give you a teaser: think raggae rap. UPDATE: If you are so inclined, you can listen to some clips…