| Apple IIc goes for $2600
WEB developer Dan Budiac has just shelled out $2,600 for a 20 year old Apple IIc on eBay. While many 'vintage' PCs change hands for a few dollars it seems this Apple did not lose its expensive price tag. This is partly because it was still in its box and never switched on. However if it was difficult to find software for 20 years ago, it is next to near impossible to find it now, but like many fan boys Budiac does not seem to care much. Apparently he had been mightily miffed when his father sold the family one in 1989. Once the got the machine home he opened it and stayed up until 4 o'clock in the morning playing Oregon Trail. He filmed the unboxing on Flickr and the showing has become an overnight sensation with 2.5 million visits from fanboys with nothing better to do with their lives.
Obama is the new JFK says Kennedy's daughter
If a similar foul-up were to take place in an American general election that would be a loss of 4,000,000 votes. Thats like having every single voter in the state of Georgia disenfranchised. Not even the harshest or most misinformed critic of the American electoral system accuses the US of such a massive foul up, intentional or not. In view of this, it seems that the time and thought you so generously gave to our election might be better spent tending to your own knitting. .
Wild Card -- Tuesday PM
On Dec. 15, two days before he pulled the request, internal polling for the library bond showed the downtown garden proposals failing 72% to 28% (outta 756 replies). This, while the poll showed the library passing with 63% and the public safety bond with 56%). And you were wondering why The Duane didn't want to risk an advisory vote?
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*I visited the Ron Rankin Veterans Memorial Plaza this p.m., and I'm certain The Ronfather woulda been pleased. You don't get the impact of the eagle statue, donated by the Rankin family, from photos. It's huge. And the new war mural of the kneeling Marines at Fallujah ... well, you can't visit the plaza without feeling as though you're on holy ground. Hat Tip to Rondaughter, Kerri, for pursuing her Dad's dream to the end.
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*When Blogmeister Ryan returns from his long weekend, HBO will be adding a new link, for Mike Kennedy's who's finally succumbed to the call of the blog.
These beauty queens are expert muskrat-skinners
Dorchester County's traditional jobs, the ones that inspired the Outdoor Show's muskrat skinning and oyster-shucking contests, have begun to dry up. Phillips' father, for instance, sold his waterman's boat and now works in an office. At the same time, some local young people have absorbed more of popular culture, which places little value on small-town pageants — and zero on muskrat skinning. But, if other people want out, Phillips and Abbott want in. Phillips is headed to Villa Julie College near Baltimore next year, and Abbott, a junior, is also thinking about schools outside the Eastern Shore. Phillips will study nursing; Abbott is thinking about marine biology. There's no guarantee they will be able to find jobs back here. So while they still had time, the two wanted to dive as deep as possible into the traditions of Chesapeake marsh country — a place where beauty queens can get their hands bloody.
Analysis: A new USAF cyber-war doctrine
NEW DELHI, Feb. 28 (UPI) -- A recent decree by India's top Islamic seminary declaring terrorism anti-Islamic has not only come as a morale booster for moderates in the community, but also put on the defensive separatists and hardliners who were drawing religious and moral inspiration from 150-year-old Darul Uloom Deoband. .
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