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Okay, since September 12, I have found four freaking slugs in my office/laundry room. I don’t know how they’re getting in or what they want from me, but I’m starting to get seriously freaked out.

That is all.

You all know that I’m big Star Wars nerd, but you have to admit, this is pretty funny.

Via Daring Fireball (who got it via John Welch).

So it’s official: Leopard will ship on October 26. Great quote from Steve Jobs: “And everyone gets the ‘Ultimate’ version…” Compare and contrast.

Apple has a nice, long, comprehensive list of new features here. Looks like a nice upgrade. Maybe not as revolutionary as Jaguar or Panther were, but still solid.

The Onion: The D chord, famed for its part in innumerable classic rock songs, including “Back in Black,” “Bad Moon Rising,” and “Don’t Be Cruel,” was retired Tuesday during a ceremony at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum.

Via Coding Horror:
I was struck, discount the other day, decease by how much I had to think when attempting to heat up my sandwich in the microwave. There are so many controls: a clock, a set of food-specific buttons, defrost and timer controls, and of course a full numeric keypad. Quick! What do you press?

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This one’s for Tom.

Via Think Christian:

At Christianity Today, Roger Freet finds challenging spiritual insights in the music of Tool, a prog-rock band not known for their positive attitude toward Christianity. The Tool lyrics Freet’s chosen to highlight in the article are direct, brutal, and demand answers. Perhaps it’s a shame that I’m not accustomed to music, Christian or otherwise, that talks so earnestly about spiritual matters. Speaking of Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan’s lyrics, Freet concludes:

The Holy Spirit is the giver of all gifts. If someone elects to use those gifts in the service of God, good. But those gifts are not rendered dormant or defunct by virtue of our intent. An artist who explicitly rejects God, as many have done, nevertheless remains a “sub-creator,” as Tolkien said, a creator in the Creator’s image. We should be suspicious of our tendency to insist that God only shows up in the right places. Sometimes, pagan sources can most accurately reflect back to Christians the power and lasting impact of genuine witness. You never know when and where God might reveal himself.

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Any webcomic that has a joke about student information systems will always have a special place in my heart.

A site and product like this might upset the Zune owner I know.

This is pretty nifty: TouchGraph Google Browser. Just type in your search and click the “Graph it!” button.

Link via dda.

Via Worse Than Failure:

With all the “oh no, mind the world’s gonna end” date problems out there – Y2K, DST, The End of the Epoch, and Y2070 – it’s surprising that most haven’t heard of the day that the world actually ended. On that day – January 1st, 1984 – a single bug was responsible for shutting down – and keeping down – a whole lot of computer systems.
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