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Clearing the Browser Tabs – Overly Geeky Sunday Edition

Jimmie | January 16, 2011 | Comments (1)

I’ve been holding a bunch of links that are geekier than the usual political stuff about which I write. I don’t want to hold on to them much longer, lest they expire, so I’m going to dump a bunch of them here for your enjoyment. To be perfectly honest, I never quite know what to do with the geek-related articles I come across. I know that most folks visit The Shack for my political stuff, but there is far more to me than just politics and I really would like to write more about gaming and computer tech and space news but I don’t because I’m afraid I’ll lose what little readership I already have.

Maybe you all can give me guidance. Do you want to see more from me on those subjects or should I just keep on the way I am? I’ll let your opinions inform my decision, since you’re the ones who give your time to read what I write and who share my links to your friends and family. Leave me something in the comments and we’ll go from there, okay?

And now, links!

If you want to learn how to program in Ruby, there’s an open source program that’s just for you. It looks like it might be handy for anyone who wants to program, whether Ruby is your language of choice or not.
I had a fairly involved Twitter conversation with my friends Kerry Picket and Pamela Gorman today over exactly how to pronounce new RNC Chair Reince Prebus’ name. I don’t think we came up with a consensus answer, though I think Pamela had the most definitive answer.
Arnold Schwartenegger told a newspaper in his native Austria that his term as Governor cost him 200 million dollars. Unfortunately, it cost the citizens of his state a whole hell of a lot more. (via memeorandum)
I admit I’m not entirely conservative when it comes to space exploration. I don’t think anyone can, or should try to, put a price tag on the value we get from pushing back our frontiers. And we do need frontiers to keep us from falling into stagnation. Imagination invigorates us.
Danger Patrol looks like a very good pulp-action role-playing game and it’s entirely free. Jump on it and let me know what you think.
Do you want to get from Endor to Tattoine? Well now you can…umm, so long as you have a space ship with a hyperdrive.
Artist Jason Thompson has been drawing a comic adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s story “The Strange High House in the Mist” that you really should see He’s been taking his time with it, a bit, but if you check out what he’s done thus far, you can understand why. It’s beautiful and captures the imagery of the story wonderfully. He has one more panel to go before he’s done to get caught up now.
A new Kindle Lending Club? Heck, sign me right up! This is a fantastic idea. I’m a bit surprised that Amazon didn’t think of it first.