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What else can you do with a B-58?

How about a spy plane? Convair always had unusual ideas, and it seemed like among them was a fascination with drones.  The CIA and the Air Force were worried about the U2 even before it entered service.  Despite its performance characteristics, Russians could track the ugly thing on radar with no difficulty.  So remember that [...]

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Awesome Planes – B-58 Hustler

I thought it might be fun to do a series on interesting aircraft from around the world.  I’ve got a particular fascination for Cold War planes; the mission requirements made for very interesting designs and capabilities.  The B-58 Hustler is a great place to start. In the late 1940s, the boys at Wright-Patterson were already [...]

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LDS Scriptures on Kindle and BlackBerry

My wife gave me a Kindle as my Christmas present (I know it’s not Christmas yet, but I have very little self control).  After trying out a variety of free content, I wanted to try to find the LDS Scriptures (Book of Mormon, Bible, Doctrine & Covenants, and Pearl of Great Price) in a format [...]

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Google Latitude Fun

Well, it’s a neat app, I guess, except for one question. Why am I in New York instead of Utah? I remember waking up in Utah. . .

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Debunking the Gnaw Fold Diablo 3 Myth

As with all these fun things, there are kernels of truth.  Diablo does tend to drop Dol runes.  "Trout" does have a root in Greek meaning "nibble" or "gnaw". First, the hit points.  Diablo in Normal Mode of Diablo 2 has 13818 hit points (according to the useful Diablo Wiki).  So we can rule out [...]

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Surprise TF2 Update!

Bless those handsome devils at Valve!  Looks like the Demoman is nerfed a little, and spies (I hate them so much!) and engies get a little boost.  Here are the official changes (I’ve bolded the ones I found interesting): The Engineer’s teleporters can now be upgraded to level three. It will recharge faster the higher [...]

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The Irony of the Open X Package Opener

I was shopping on ThinkGeek the other day, and had some points to have this thrown in with my order.  Either that, or it was cheap enough that I thought I’d throw it in the cart.  Me no remember so good none.  Anyhoo, everyone hates those crazy impossible packages, right?  Here’s where the IRONY attacks. [...]

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Analog USB Gauges How-to

A clever blogger for diylife.com has posted a really nice how-to for adding analog gauges to your PC, including the needed USB hardware and some great advice for finding old gauges to work with.  If that’s something of interest to you, check out the full post for all the details.

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Grammar for Bloggers: Possessive or Plural?

Today’s article comes from Autoblog.  Here’s the line that prompted a post: The economy appears to be swooning, and before we land softly (or crash hard), company’s have begun to circle their wagons and reduce unnecessary spending. Leaving aside the questionable sentence construction, let’s address the apostrophe problem in the word "company’s".  The correct plural [...]

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Grammar for Bloggers: "Line Up" vs. "Lineup"

Welcome to a snarky new series.  A beautiful thing about the advent of blogging is the availability of so many sources for getting news and information.  The trouble is, many of our friends in the blogosphere have some difficulty with the written language.  This can be a barrier to adoption for the snobbier sections of [...]

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