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Hot Father's Day gift:
Since newspapers stopped using petroleum-based ink, they haven't been the tinder they used to be. Enter the Weber 7416 Rapidfire Chimney Starter. 10 minutes from match to cooking fire.
Papa Joe smiles.
Truth telling: My dad saved me, and I killed him. L.A. Times. Not the story you think it is.
Complete thoughts: What can Iran protests achieve?. BBC readers largely ignore the question and say what's on their minds about the election and protests. Many give advice.
Foreseen: The Internet: What is it REALLY for?
1994 prescience by Brad Templeton, currently Board Chairman of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Connectivity, your way: Turn Your Home Computer into a Web Server in 2 Minutes. Digital Inspiration points out that private file-sharing is built into the new Opera browser. Let family and friends download files directly from you.
Go to labs.opera.com, download the Opera Unite software and install it. Congratulations, you are now running a web server on your machine and just need another minute to configure local file folders that you want to share with others over the internet.
...Start the Opera Web browser (yes, that's also you web server now) and enable the Opera Unite service from the lower left corner. Now double click the File Sharing link and select the folder whose content you want to share on the web. Any file or folder inside this folder can now be accessed over the internet - you can either use a public URL or specify a password for private sharing.
Vibes: John Houghtaling, of 'Magic Fingers,' Dies at 92. - Obituary (Obit) - NYTimes.com. As kids, we wanted to try these so badly, but we traveled only twice in my childhood, once to Washington, D.C., once to NYC, and stayed in good hotels -- no Magic Fingers -- both times.
Finally, in college, I was in Washington on my own and stayed at the Key Bridge Marriott, and there was a Magic Bed. For three minutes it was fun. After five, it was loud and irritating, tossing my 115-lb. body every which way. There was no way to turn it off.
Diagnostics: 35 Absolutely Useful Firefox Plugins For Web Designers And Developers. If you load your Firefox up with all these specialized tools, you'll want to set up a profile just for development use.
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