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What's so polarizing about Net Neutrality.

“Traffic Shaping” sounds innocuous enough, right? It's just an Internet Service Provider's attempt ...to control computer network traffic in order to optimize or guarantee performance, low latency, and/or bandwidth by delaying data packets.

Why normal people should only buy Apple products. And why I've stopped.

If you're a normal person—and by normal, I mean, anyone who doesn't know what the Turing Test is—then you should only ever buy Apple products. Seriously. I mean it. Go sell your PC and your Crackberry or Android phone right now. Then go to an Apple store, buy one of everything and never look back. Why would I recommend that? Because I've been using a Mac since 1984, and I know how great the experience is. Conversely, I've had experience with Windows PCs, Blackberry's and now Android phones. And the one thing those products have in common is, quite frankly, they suck.

Freddie Hubbard dies, leaves jazz world stuck with <shudder> Wynton Marsalis.

Once December 29th, Freddie Hubbard, one of the last great jazz trumpet players, died after a heart attack at age 70. Growing up, I was a huge fan of Freddie. I used to listen to his records and play along (did I mention that I started playing trumpet when I was nine? Cuz I did).

Merry Xmas, you lazy plagiarists.

A few years back, I was surprised to learn that nearly everything I'd been taught in Bible School about Christmas was, to be blunt, a bunch of lies. Frankly, I’d be surprised if Christian officials were too keen on the actual truth getting out since it makes their religion seem...oh, what's that phrase? Right, “made up.” In actuality, many of the Christmas "traditions" Americans celebrate were co-opted from, of all people, those nutty Pagans. Here's a rundown of Christianity's disappointing lack of originality:

Dead McMuffin walking: Is this the end of fast-food breakfast sandwiches?

McDonald's should be worried. And not just because of the movie "Food, Inc." No, they should be worried because there's a new device out there that could make a bigger dent in their breakfast traffic than telling people the real, nutritional content of a single Egg McMuffin. An invention so radical, you'll never again have to get up before 10:30am after a Friday night bender.

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BOOKS

I am America (And so can you!), Stephen Colbert—Sage advice for an ailing nation.
God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, Christopher Hitchens—The case against belief.
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality, Brian Greene—A mind-bending romp through quantum physics.
Adam's Curse: A Future without Men, Bryan Sykes—It's not MY fault, it's my chromosome's.
1984, George Orwell—Who says no one can predict the future?
Nonzero : The Logic of Human Destiny, Robert Wright—It gives you hope for the future.
The Stranger, Albert Camus—Alienated existentialism at its best.
A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson—Why aren't textbooks this funny?

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Change Congress Help keep Big Money out of politics
Earmark Watch Bringing citizen oversight to congressional spending
Money And Politics Illuminating the connection
Open Congress The real story behind what's happening in Congress
Fortune 535 Find out how wealthy your local politicians are
OpenSecrets Center for responsive politics
Citability Making government accessible, reliable, and transparent
Data.gov Public access to high-value, machine-readable data sets
Public Markup Review and comment on proposed bills before they are even introduced
FedSpending Find out where your tax money is going
The Sunlight Foundation Shining light on money, lobbying, and government
Transparency Int'l. Stop corruption to save lives.
Congresspedia The citizen's encyclopedia of Congress

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