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Dylan Tweney

Dylan Tweney

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Singing Science Records

I’m definitely adding some of these tunes to the “some day learn to play on ukelele” list. I love the Miro-like album covers too: Singing Science Records
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Anti-spam and digicams.

Here are two upcoming PCMagCast events that I’m producing and moderating. Lots of useful info in both of them — check them out! SMB Bootcamp: How to Can Spam (Tuesday, July 25, at 2pm Eastern / 11am Pacific) A 60-minute overview of anti-spam technologies for small-medium businesses, featuring PCMag
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EFF: Perfect 10 v. Google

I love it: A bunch of librarians (and EFF) are helping Google fight a porn publisher for the right to make thumbnails of their dirty pictures: EFF: Perfect 10 v. Google, here’s the press release
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SMS 411.

Want to learn more about SMS, aka short message service, aka cell phone text messaging? Check out my new site, SMS411.net, which provides simple, easy-to-understand information on how to use SMS with U.S. cell phones. Although the popularity of SMS is rapidly growing in the U.S., we’re far behind th
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Internal Damage.

Most tai chi chuan (aka taijiquan) videos are New Age snoozers of the yoga-hippies-on-the-beach variety. You’d never guess from them that tai chi is originally a martial art with serious defensive and offensive applications. That’s why I applaud Internal Damage: Advanced Tai Chi Chuan for Combat (DV
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Mr. Haiku.

“Gee, what a beautiful sunset! If only I had an inspiring Zen poem to make this moment last forever.” Mr Haiku (from the engaging Duke of Uke)
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Tubes or pipe?

Without trying to defend the clueless Senator Ted Stevens, I still have to ask: Why was it stupid for him to say the Internet is a “series of tubes” but it’s smart when people in the know call it a “bunch of pipes“? Huh? (Yeah, I know Doc says it’s not just pipes, it’s also […]
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Blast to the Past.

Here’s a story I wrote a couple months ago that I really had fun with. The working title was “the palimpsest in the synchrotron,” which I loved, just because I got to use the words “palimpsest” and “synchrotron” in the same sentence. Over and over again. Just try saying it aloud, and you’ll see what
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IEBlog : Table Rendering

After pulling my hair out for a few hours, I learn that Internet Explorer doesn’t render table widths exactly as you specify them in the “WIDTH” properites, unless you add “table-width: fixed” to the table’s style sheet. Aarrgh. IEBlog : Table Rendering
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The Zidane mystery.

I can’t find a decent explanation anywhere of why the #1 soccer player in France would headbutt another player in the final moments of the big game. This is as good as any: “the lofty hermeneut within me saw it as the supreme existentialist gesture—le grand refus—at the very moment of being inducted
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