I am Robert: Archive

Apr 7th

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Apr 7th

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The Best Camera iPhone photo sharing app supports... →

Our photography obsessed friend Chase Jarvis has been in touch to let us know about his new iPhone app, The Best Camera. Intended to make taking, tweaking and sharing images more straightforward,…

Sep 23rd

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How to Access Gmail When It’s Down [Gmail] →

Last week’s Gmail outage is just the latest in a long series of outages in our favorite webmail application, but you don’t have to let that stop you from accessing your email and…

Sep 11th

Buddhist Cat Doesn’t Believes in Godz. | elephant... →

Buddhist Cat Doesn’t Believes in Godz. | elephant journal

Sep 4th

How to Build a Hackintosh with Snow Leopard, Start... →

Two years ago, I detailed how to build a Hackintosh for under $800—then covered how to do the same with less hacking. Now that Snow Leopard’s out, we’re revisiting the Hackintosh, building…

Sep 4th

What if Websites Were People… →

Shared by RobertP I like how Jesus is Google. Nice…. A while back I heard Paul Boag talk about how websites should have persona’s while you design them. Although I don’t think is exactly what…

Aug 10th

Oct 4th

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“Following a weekend of scathing media reports and editorials on John McCain’s unprecedented campaign of dishonor and dishonesty, the Obama campaign today released a new 30 second TV ad called “Honor.” In 2000, John McCain said he wouldn’t “take the low road to the highest office in the land.” But eight years later, he’s running one of the most dishonest campaigns ever...

Sep 15th

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Palin / Clinton Joint Appearance on SNL (This is too good for words - Tina Fey looks and sounds just like her.) [via Bilerco.com]

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Awesome! [via Pride.BarackObama.com]

Sep 1st

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Cool.

Sep 1st

Aug 31st

“Our tribal custom” →

Whenever you hear someone defend an action with the excuse that “it is our custom,” “it is traditional,” “we’ve always done it that way,” “it is written so in our sacred texts,” or variants thereof,…

Aug 31st

Science on the national political stage →

Just some brief notes about science in the presidential campaign here. Barack Obama responded to 14 science-related questions posed by ScienceDebate 2008. Question 4 is about science education….

Aug 31st

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Aug 27th

Crossing the line →

Once upon a time, Charles Darwin crossed the equator in the Beagle, and he received the traditional hazing: We have crossed the Equator. I have undergone the disagreeable sensation…

Aug 26th

This is not a poll →

But if you want to do a little something to tweak the noses of the Religious Right, the American Patriarchy Association has called for a letter writing campaign. It seems that Hallmark Greeting…

Aug 26th

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Neil Patrick Harris is awesome.

Aug 25th

Aug 24th

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Matthew Mitcham, the only openly gay male athlete out of 11,028 athletes from 204 countries at the Beijing Olympics in 2008 (there are 9 lesbians too), won gold diving off the the 10m platform yesterday! Awesome! Now we just need more out gay and lesbian athlete at the Olympics!

Aug 24th

Aug 23rd

Galactic Spaghetti Monster →

Respected science publication New Scientist has provided us startling evidence of the FSM in a report of the phenomenon pictured above, which they’ve termed the “Galactic ‘Spaghetti Monster’”….

Aug 23rd

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Aug 23rd

Fay, Gators and the Convention →

After the last several days of gray, rainy, dreary weather-thanks to Tropical Storm Fay - I am looking forward to being out west. It is most definitely swampy here, but its not as bad as the news…

Aug 22nd

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I wish I was a Paleontologist

— I wish I was a Paleontologist (via feedly)

Aug 22nd

PZ's Galápagos Adventure →

Here follows a brief account of my sojourn in the Galápagos Islands, just to give you all a rough idea of what I was up to all this time. I’ve tossed in just a few pictures to illustrate what we…

Aug 22nd

apostropher: Your lord and savior is full of hot... →

Wow…

Aug 22nd