Tiny Specks of Misery, Both Vile and Useful
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Itâs easy to hate viruses for their freeloading ways, but they have also repaid us in ways we are just beginning to tally.
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Tycho:  I'm super depressed.  I thought I had invented a new word - mirthquake - and then I was going to say that you should prepare yourselves for the aforementioned, as today's comic strip was rated this or that number on the rictus scale.  I mean seriously, I've been excited all weekend.  A simple Google search put me in my place - the word is practically ubiquitous.  Expect it soon on Urban Dictionary, that mausoleum of once vibrant language.
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âHomo Politicusâ ought to be a solemn book, but it reeks of unseemly glee.
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Fed up groveling before your PC? You should be. Imagine an alternate universe where your TV forced you through the same daily humiliations.
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Microsoft is applying for a patent for an operating system that starts out crippled.  You must pay to do things like take the throttle off network speed, disk access, install drivers, install software, and more.  Trust me, I rarely even visit Groklaw, even if this is my second consecutive blog entry with a link to a Groklaw article. My VarLinux.org readers posted the article, A Brave New Modular World, and I had to share it.
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It might surprise you how handy -- and inexpensive -- it can be.
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Barking, repressive, unworkable ideas are clearly catching
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Here are two ways to make the most of your losers.
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One indicator can steer you away from small-cap shenanigans.
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Try these (slightly) more palatable tactics.
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From ringtones to bloglets to short-blast video games, today's amusements comes in bite-size morsels. A tasty Wired magazine report on instant entertainment.
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"The Cult of the Amateur: How Today's Internet Is Killing Our Culture" by Andrew Keen; Currency ($22.95)  ___  Andrew Keen is an unhappy man.
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Sometimes, a thing looks too bad to be true.
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Oddly enough, good news can be bad, and vice versa.
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Imagining hundreds of outage-related micro-dramas unfolding simultaneously.
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Some are unusual but compelling, while others are rather gruesome.
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Letter: Whats needed is advice on how to be a suck-up without losing your soul.