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This year’s MacArthur fellows have been announced.
The MacArthur Fellows Program (which is also known as the “Genius Award”), awards unrestricted fellowships to people “who have shown extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits and a marked capacity for self-direction.”
Winning this award means you get $500,000 to do something cool. To do […]

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I’m sort of hooked on the experimentation meme lately, so to help feed the itch I picked up Sneaky Uses yesterday.
It is a bit different than the 700 Science Experiements for Everyone book, but it will definitely find a spot on my bookshelf.
In thumbing through it last night in bed though, I couldn’t resist the […]

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I’ve taken the next step. I am now an official USCF license carrier.
I’m currently a category 5 racer, which is the bottom of the rung.
This is all for the upcoming cyclo-cross season. The impetus is a cost-saving measure, since to buy a single day license went up […]

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In addition to the crispiness in the air of late, it is also starting to get darker much sooner. So after getting home a smidge late I figured it was time to “light” up for the winter season.
I’ve got one light that has a seat stay mount, but the Jake […]

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A New Zealand cyclist named Jacob Postrzygacz is riding the Australian Canning Stock Route.
A few items of interest on this journey are his bike and trailer. The bike comes from Surly, the Pugsley. If you take a moment to read over the description, you’ll notice that it can take 4″ tires. […]

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This Saturday from 3:00-4:00pm MAKE will present ‘Podcasting 101: How to Make, produce and Publish Podcasts at the Apple Store - University Village Seattle, WA

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Quite a few of you probably know about Technorati.
If you do, chances are you know about RSS. For some reason, Technorati doesn’t RSSify all of their site. I felt cheated by this. So why not create my own?
Well, I did. There are links to subscribe directly via this site, […]

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MAKE has a first hand account of a family who took matters into their own hands and came up with some DIY practices to get through hurricane Katrina.

I won’t bore you with any more of the little “bumps in the road” that we endured during our 11-day ordeal, but suffice it to say that it […]

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In helping with the Sudoku habit, I found a site that has a daily puzzle and I’ve created another RSS feed generator.
I’ve got the email out to the site owner offering help if he wishes to set this up under his domain.
Another thing I’ve employed with this most recent script is the help of XML::RSS. […]

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I’m sort of noticing that Bloglines will take its very sweet time in getting RSS updates for the site, depending on if you’re using the old RSS link.
If you’re subscribed to http://berserk.org/index.rdf, you may want to try updating to this.

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