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If you haven't been there already, Apple has a Thirty Years of Mac page with a video that I wouldn't be shocked to see a reworked version air during the Super Bowl.

The timeline and "My First Mac" sections are interesting to scroll through.

Going back a bit to the charter school mention earlier, there's been two recent articles in Slate about how the largest operator of charter schools in Texas uses blatantly creationist textbooks in its schools. The second article had an argument in the comments section about charter schools vs. "...

Here's a line of contrarian reasoning I've had rolling around in the back of my mind for a long time... (Note: I'm not a parent, so take the following with the very large grain of salt.) Hypothetically speaking, if you/your children are relatively intelligent and you're the sort of parent who takes ...

For purely selfish reasons (that go into effect a month from now), I wish this route was faster and more frequent between downtown and the Legends.

Oh well...I still plan on trying it out.

The last post helped crystallize something that had been rolling around in my mind for a while: "Socialism" and "Capitalism" are economic philosophies that can be incorporated (in varying degrees) into most political systems. "Communism" and "Libertarianism" a...

In last night's episode of The Simpsons , Comic Book Guy had an issue of Radioactive Man Meets the Kansas City Royals on display in his store. I didn't realize that it's shown up before in the show. Now, if only the Royals would have a Radioactive Man day sometime during the season...if Fall Out Boy...

Today's Omaha World-Herald has two articles and an editorial about an economic development partnership created by several Nebraska and Iowa agencies that is being promoted by the governors of both states: Nebraska, Iowa reach across state line to cooperate on economic development Heineman, Branstad ...

My personal pet peeve about phpBB is how cluttered the overall default layout is. On the standard thread pages, the virtually all of the information on the left column and on the headers/footers of each page doesn't need to be displayed; that information could be safely banished to profile pages or ...

As another data point to all this, Schlafly gets to operate its restaurants because (according to this article ), it's classified as a winery under Missouri law. Given that the Boulevard tour invariably points out that it also has a winery license to enable their catering business, I'm guessing ther...

I know this isn't exactly a ranking article of any sort, but apparently we're #1 in running quasi-legal online payday loan businesses.

With Orlando SC becoming the next MLS expansion team SKC weighs their options for a minor league affiliate...from http://www.mlssoccer.com/news/article/2013/11/21/sporting-kansas-city-mulling-options-new-usl-pro-affiliation “I haven't talked to him, but regionally is where we'd like the team to be,...

Are we talking a midtown level of shenanigans (i.e. an elevated background level of crime but tolerable), or would one just be fucked with constantly? Historic NE is just so enormous, and I am sure that crime and safety issues vary widely neighborhood-by-neighborhood. Would 101 Jackson be in a &quo...

bahua wrote:Two people have availed themselves of this newly clarified system, and staubio has sent an email making fun of it. Keep them coming.

As one of those two people who got an account activated in that time frame, it's good to be here.

I'll stand by for the hazing induction ceremony.