Dear Friend

You are probably surprised at hearing from me. I am Frodo Baggins, a hobbit of the Shire, adoptive son of Bilbo Baggins, a celebrated TRAVELER and ADVENTURER.

Among the many valuable objects bequeathed to me by Mr Baggins on the occasional of his departure is a MAGICAL RING, having the property of making its wearer invisible. Research conducted by my associate, Gandalf the Grey, has disclosed that this ring was previously the property of one Sauron of Mordor, a DARK LORD, and that the ring had been taken from him and subsequently LOST by Isildur of Gondor. Please see this news item at http://news.bbc.co.uk/... concerning the MUTILATION of Mr Sauron and subsequent DEATH of Mr Isildur.

I need your assistance in exporting this RING from the Shire and delivering it to the Cracks of Doom, Mordor. In exchange for your kindly cooperation in this matter, I will be pleased to pay you a FEE amounting to 10% of my uncle's wealth, currently valued at 1,000,000 (ONE MILLION) Gondorian gold coins.

I must impress on you the need to treat this matter in the strictest CONFIDENCE, as any disclosure could result in unwanted attention from the UNDEAD SERVANTS of Sauron known as ringwraiths.

I remain, yours etc.

F. Baggins, Bag End, Hobbiton, The Shire.

hobbit trickery - fortunately Bilbo is a THIEF

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This image is from the Hubble Space Telescope and offers a glimpse of another kind of ring around Saturn, the pole-encircling rings of ultraviolet aurora.

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J. Trauger, JPL, NASA

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Monstrous art

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mmm Halloween is coming - Tales from Net Crypt

DIY fisheye lens

Posted by Cory Doctorow, September 18, 2009 4:43 AM | permalink

Here's a simple way to turn a broken lens -- available in plenty at yard sales -- into a fisheye for your point-and-shoot.

Recycling Project - A Broken Glass To A Fisheye Lens

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hey looks like my luggage

Re: Displaying Notes in Mailbox Inboxes - Snow Leopard
Posted: Aug 28, 2009 8:39 AM   in response to: vanoord

Solved

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Email

This is a setting you may turn off, control-click your Inbox and choose Account Info. Go to the Mailbox Behaviors tab and uncheck the box for showing the notes in the Inbox. Should take care of the issue for you folks. Enjoy!

24" 2.8ghz iMac, other Macs   Mac OS X (10.5.8)   16gb iPhone 3G, iPods  

this bugged me til I found this

10.6: Make List view Stacks work like Grid view Stacks
Fri, Sep 18 2009 at 7:30AM PDT • Submitted by arcticmac

There's a new hidden preference available for List view Stacks in the Dock in 10.6. Open Terminal and run these two commands: $ defaults write com.apple.dock use-new-list-stack -bool YES $ killall Dock This will make the List view behave like the Grid view, only with all items arranged in one vertical list, with names to the right. [robg adds: The screenshot at the right is mine; click it for a larger version of the before (left) and after (right) versions of the List stack. With the change, you'll have to drill down into folders as you do with Grid view stacks; this hint's keyboard method works fine for the new style List view stacks.]

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By SARA CORBETT

Published: September 16, 2009

This is a story about a nearly 100-year-old book, bound in red leather, which has spent the last quarter century secreted away in a bank vault in Switzerland. The book is big and heavy and its spine is etched with gold letters that say “Liber Novus,” which is Latin for “New Book.” Its pages are made from thick cream-colored parchment and filled with paintings of otherworldly creatures and handwritten dialogues with gods and devils. If you didn’t know the book’s vintage, you might confuse it for a lost medieval tome.

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SHARING THE LEGACY From left, Peter and Andreas Jung and Ulrich Hoerni, grandsons of Carl Jung, at Jung’s home in Küsnacht, Switzerland.

And yet between the book’s heavy covers, a very modern story unfolds. It goes as follows: Man skids into midlife and loses his soul. Man goes looking for soul. After a lot of instructive hardship and adventure — taking place entirely in his head — he finds it again.

Some people feel that nobody should read the book, and some feel that everybody should read it. The truth is, nobody really knows. Most of what has been said about the book — what it is, what it means — is the product of guesswork, because from the time it was begun in 1914 in a smallish town in Switzerland, it seems that only about two dozen people have managed to read or even have much of a look at it.

If I anything other than a gnostic Christian I'm a Jungian.
Forever Jung, I want to be forever Jung...

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December 12, 2011

Now that even Dan Brown's new book is being described in reviews as "Harry Potter for Grown Ups," can we please please please ban this phrase from ever being used in criticism ever again?

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