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WDET’s (local NPR station) Detroit Today had an article yesterday regarding the upcoming shortage on brewing supplies.  Guess hops and 2-row malt are getting harder to find.  Or at least more expensive.

MP3 store here.

Here’s an article showing the perspective from “inside” on the way a FIRST Lego League team and the associated persons experience a day of competition on an FLL event.

Article here.

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A Wacom Bamboo drawing tablet: $80

A pair of Birkenstocks: $80

Garmin Colorado 400 BlueChart GPS: $600

Apple iPhone: $400

Noodler’s Red Fox ink: $13

Blue Luminglass: $25

2008 Coffee calendar (for home): $20

Law School in a Box: $15

Swatch “Yellow Ring” watch: $140

Keurig Elite B40 Brewer (for work): $100

Orange Pelican 1200 Case: $37

Green Laser: $80

Plasma Bulb Night Light: $10

Auto LED: $25

Casio EF305-9AV Watch: $50

And just to dream….

Graham Chronofighter Commander watch: $10,400

This is one of the best hints I’ve seen for Mac OS X 10.5.  I actually ran the “defaults” command twice, so I could have a “recent applications” and a “recent documents” folder.

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20071101055329470

MacTech has an excellent article on using d-trace: the newly included debugging tool included with Mac OS X 10.5.

Go ahead and check it out.  You’ll be smarter when you’re done.

Software is abstract and non-tactile by its very nature. It can be difficult to see what it is doing and why it may be misbehaving. To get a better view of software, we often use tools like gdb, leaks, lsof, and sc_usage, just to name a few. We even still use “caveman debugging” techniques like recompiling the code with additional print statements.

A few years back, Sun Microsystems developed DTrace: a new and innovative way to trace running software on live systems. DTrace enables developers and administrators to “see” what their code, and others’ code, is doing in a flexible and dynamic way. With the release of Leopard, Apple has brought DTrace to Mac OS X.

http://www.cracked.com/article_15660_ultimate-war-simulation-game.html

The Ultimate War Simulation Game