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Using your Xbox as a MP3 player

By From http://www.odonnellweb.com • Jul 6th, 2008 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

I’ve had figure out how to play MP3 collection through home theater on my list of things to do for a very long time. I’ve had a plan to put a music server down there and plug the sound card into the receiver. However, I haven’ gotten around to procuring a sufficiently cheap obsolete […]



links for 2008-07-05

By From http://www.odonnellweb.com • Jul 5th, 2008 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

ABC News: Setting the Perfect Temperature for a Drink
Local blogger David Turley is quoted in the first line of the story. Nice!
(tags: beer, Fredericksburg)

Search | Home Inspection Nightmares : This Old House
You could easily waste an hour laughing at these
(tags: housing)



Wall-E

By From http://www.odonnellweb.com • Jul 5th, 2008 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

We went to see Wall-E yesterday. Pixar gave us robot characters with more depth than most real life human actors can put forth. Sure, it’s a satire on our consumption driven society. Wall-E and Wal-Mart, coincidence? I think not. It’s also a rather distopian view of the future of earth and it’s inhabitants. However, […]



links for 2008-07-04

By From http://www.odonnellweb.com • Jul 4th, 2008 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

teams/fredlug – Software Freedom Day Wiki
(tags: fredlug linux foss)



Happy 4th

By From http://www.odonnellweb.com • Jul 4th, 2008 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

I like my holidays with a a side of silly.

Thanks Paul.



Homeschoolers displacing rich snobs at Harvard

By From http://www.odonnellweb.com • Jul 4th, 2008 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

While I was reading this article about parents that are upset because Muffy or Tad did not get into the Holy Trinity of Harvard, Yale, or Princeton, I was mentally composing a post about how being rich and stupid are clearly not mutually exclusive. Paying $46,000 to a college admission consultant just to help […]



whoisi

By From http://www.odonnellweb.com • Jul 3rd, 2008 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

whoisi.com is the newest, coolest social network thingy. It allows you to follow your friends in one place, without forcing them to sign up for yet another social network. It’s beta, and very new, so this your chance to get a nice low userID number that will make you feel cool when everybody is using […]



Watermelon has a viagra like effect

By From http://www.odonnellweb.com • Jul 3rd, 2008 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

If your wife has been buying a lot of watermelon lately you need to consider whether it’s just in season and cheap, or that maybe she saw this article before you did



Spotsy GOP has gone batshiat wacko

By From http://www.odonnellweb.com • Jul 3rd, 2008 • Category: Blog Entries.Local, Politics

Apparently, a couple of loons who happen to be county level democratic officials in NC have been busted for something related to satanic rituals and rape. Somehow, this absolves every Republican on the planet of everything wrong they have ever done, ever.
I’m not kidding.

As Democrats continue to pander to the Culture of Death by […]



links for 2008-07-02

By From http://www.odonnellweb.com • Jul 2nd, 2008 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

The Hole is Just Too Small, Mommy! | Ask Metafilter
Great discussion full of recs for low flow toilets that actually work.
(tags: toilets)

Fredericksburg.com – Ferry Farm archaeologists find George Washington’s boyhood home
(tags: Fredericksburg)