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  1. RT @sciam: Bird-like dinosaur used venom to subdue prey http://bit.ly/8iQAul
  2. RT @neiltyson: Happy Winter Solstice-Dec 21: 12:47 ET / 9:47 PT. Latin, "stopped Sun." Alt of midday Sun pauses a few days before rising.
  3. Interesting graphs of browser size stats: http://browsersize.googlelabs.com/ ... adding a url doesn't help much, doesn't show page resize.
  4. Lovely data visualization on browser market share. http://www.axiis.org/examples/BrowserMarketShare.html
  5. Nice roundup of devices & geek toys running Linux: http://bit.ly/6FIBkj
  6. Blogging triumphs over bad TV! RT @carlzimmer: Loom: a tale of paleontological woe with a surprisingly happy ending. http://bit.ly/7Vm0i0
  7. @icis_machine http://shesgeekybayarea3.eventbrite.com/ says early bird rates end on Dec 20. Tomorrow? Do you know something I don't know?
  8. Printing Holiday Cards Even if you Don't Have a Printer (Followup to last week's article.) http://bit.ly/7jeRXY
  9. Just discovered that lines 301-1368 (out of 1438 total) in my firefox prefs.js were devoted to duplicating default printer settings.
  10. New GIMP blog site from the UI lead: GIMP tip-of-the-day brainstorm, http://gimp-totd.blogspot.com/ Add your tips!
  11. RT @MarsRovers: Spirit surprises team w/ slight movement in right-front wheel. It hadn't moved since March 2006: http://bit.ly/77PpJe
  12. Running fetchmail with procmail, no need for postfix or other MTA in between: http://shallowsky.com/blog/tech/email/fetchmail-procmail.html
  13. It is so annoying how Facebook has disabled middleclicks to open links in new tabs. Wonder if any greasemonkey jockeys have fixed it yet?
  14. Occasional Facebook users beware: go change your privacy settings, "search", now if you don't want your FB account Google indexed.
  15. Why open source software can help US health care -- but current legislation makes it hard to choose it. http://bit.ly/sQ7NH
  16. Woman in the mile-long line at the post office had her barking, howling purse-dog with her. Glad I was only dropping off mail.
  17. Serving bowl repaired in time for tonight's party. I knew that hot-melt glue gun would come in handy.
  18. Experimenting with xchat marker lines. I don't get one in most tabs unless I type ^M every time I start up. Why can't it be automatic?
  19. @KathySierra Speaking no, travel yes: "I flew to Paris to speak at a conf last year" could make a job sound more interesting, less geeky.
  20. Whiling away a cold rainy evening testing peep.py, python-twitter in IRC ...