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dusty cue Cats

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dusty cue Cats

dusty cue Cats, originally uploaded by swanksalot.

or as it was (ridiculously) trademarked ":CueCat".
[ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuecat ]

Unfortunately, these are the PC only models, not USB models, so are basically useless to me. If you want one, ask. I’ll let ’em go for the price of shipping and handling.

The barcoder can be used for other things, such as a Librarything ISBN scanner ( www.librarything.com/cuecat )

never did throw these away, though they just are taking up shelf space…

links for 2011-09-03

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  • Next partners with Apple to release Paris 1906 cookbook in iTunes store – chicagotribune.com
    Several months ago, Nick Kokonas hinted of a forthcoming digital cookbook from Next’s Paris 1906 menu, with a pay-what-you-want model. Now the finished product is a month from publication, and we know a few more details.

    Next is partnering exclusively with Apple to produce the cookbook in an enhanced iBooks format, to be sold through the iTunes Store. It’s no longer the Radiohead pay-what-you-want pricing. The digital book is tentatively set at $4.99 and will only be available for the iPad. 

links for 2011-09-02

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  • Rick Perry set to carry out one or two more questionable executions as candidate – War Room – Salon.com
    Rick Perry has executed 235 people so far as governor of Texas, so it's no surprise that he's set to kill at least one more person as a presidential candidate. Unlike the case of Cameron Todd Willingham, whose execution was carried out despite widespread doubts as to his guilt, Duane Edward Buck committed the murders he's been convicted of. But Mother Jones reports that Buck's sentence was obtained through questionable means.

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  • I took that 9/11 photo Frank Rich wrote about. – Thomas Hoepker – Slate Magazine
    Somewhere in Williamsburg I saw, out of the corner of my eye, an almost idyllic scene near a restaurant—flowers, cypress trees, a group of young people sitting in the bright sunshine of this splendid late summer day while the dark, thick plume of smoke was rising in the background. I got out of the car, shot three frames of the seemingly peaceful setting and drove on hastily, hoping/fearing to get closer to the unimaginable horrors at the tip of Manhattan.
  • The meaning of 9/11's most controversial photo | Jonathan Jones | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
    Walter Sipser, identifying himself as the guy in shades at the right of the picture, said he and his girlfriend, apparently sunbathing on a wall, were in fact "in a profound state of shock and disbelief". Hoepker, they both complained, had photographed them without permission in a way that misrepresented their feelings and behaviour.

Falun Gong In Front of Chinese Embassy

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a mostly silent protest

In July 1999, Communist Party of China (CPC) leadership initiated a ban on Falun Gong and began a nationwide crackdown and multifaceted propaganda campaign intended to eradicate the practice. In October 1999 it declared Falun Gong a "heretical organization."

Human rights groups report that Falun Gong practitioners in China are subject to a wide range of human rights abuses; hundreds of thousands are believe to have been imprisoned extra-judicially, and practitioners in detention are subject to forced labor, psychiatric abuse, severe torture, and other coercive methods of thought reform at the hands of Chinese authorities.
In the years since the suppression campaign began, Falun Gong adherents have emerged as a prominent voice in the Chinese dissident community, advocating for greater human rights and an end to Communist Party rule.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falun_Gong

On Erie and Clark, Chicago

links for 2011-08-26

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  • Steve Jobs’s Patents – Interactive Feature – NYTimes.com
    The 313 Apple patents that list Steven P. Jobs among the group of inventors offer a glimpse at his legendary say over the minute details of the company’s products — from the company’s iconic computer cases to the glass staircases that are featured in many Apple stores.

links for 2011-08-25

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  • TidBITS Tech News: Steve Jobs Resigns as CEO
    Apple will be a different company without Jobs at the day-to-day helm, in whatever role the coming days bring for him and the firm. It won’t be a worse company, but it will be different. Whatever the cause, and whatever state he is in, we don’t need to know. We only wish him and his family the best.

links for 2011-08-24

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  • Bending the Rules on Bacteria and Food Safety – NYTimes.com
    Safety is one problem with keeping a stock at room temperature. Flavor is another. A reboiled three-day-old stock may be safe to eat, but it is now seasoned with millions to billions of dead bacteria and their inactivated toxins. It’s conceivable that they might add an interesting flavor, but more likely that the bacteria have feasted on the stock’s sugars and savory amino acids, the air has oxidized and staled the fat, and the stock has become less tasty.
  • Editor in Hacking Case Kept Getting Payments, BBC Reports – NYTimes.com
    LONDON — The former News of the World editor Andy Coulson received hundreds of thousands of dollars in severance pay from his former employer after joining now-Prime Minister David Cameron’s Conservative Party as director of communications in 2007, according to a British Broadcasting Corporation report on Monday evening
  • Rick Perry’s Donors Reap Benefits From Texas State Aid – NYTimes.com
    Philip Mullins, a trustee, said, “I think the concerns that were raised were based on a feeling that the chairman and some other people on the board were trying to set up a fund-raising campaign for the governor of Texas.”