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»Link.  A hundred and fifty years ago, the United States almost went to war with Britain over the capture of two Confederate envoys bound for London. Never heard of this before. Of course, the part of the story that stuck out to me the most was that during the cabinet meeting "in his corner, Seward had Montgomery Blair, the postmaster general..." Wait a minute, the postmaster general was in a cabinet meeting discussing a possible war with England?

»Link.  Gail Collins' piece is worth reading just for the similes.

»Link.  My preeeeecious!

»Link.  An hour long MP3 that includes the background hum of the Enterprise's engines with occasional other sound effects sprinkled in to make it more realistic. Would it be fair to say I am a geek who has this playing in the background while working today? Yes.

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»Link.  I have met my new master.

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“Available exclusively from the Forest Park Conservancy, the new Forest Park poster map is suitable for framing. It is landscape orientation, with dimensions of 38.5” x 12.75”, inclusive of the whitespace outside the neatline that allows for matting.

The land background features a textured surface based on LiDAR treetop returns, which is then blended with the LiDAR ground returns for the shaded relief. As a result, you can almost distinguish individual trees, and it is easy to tell grassy areas from heavily vegetated areas. The shaded relief provides an instant and intuitive view of the topography of the park and surrounding areas. Other features include showing the different kinds of parking options (roadside vs. dedicated), while spot elevations call out the height of landmarks, and trails are color coded to reflect the allowed uses.”

Their office is very close to my PT’s office, so I do believe I will pick up one so I can look at it and dream about trail running.

»Link.  Both Oregon Senators voted against it as well.

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“As a result, the final version of the Levin/McCain bill will be enshrined as law this week as part of the the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).”

Obama did not get my vote the first time and he is most definitely not getting my vote this next election.  We need a serious third party candidate, and we need one now.

»Link.  I am not a big fan of video games, but these cinematics and trailers for upcoming games are truly something to behold (remember the Hugo Strange trailer for Arkham City?). Would love to just have a short mini-series with this level of graphics and detail about the Fall of Cybertron, just without the game.