Brian A. Thomas .com

You have to check out this cool video. It is a water fountain where LED strobe lights are synced in a way to make water drops look like they are going slower then they really are, stop and go backwards. Some of the details on how it works can be found at his homepage. That [...]

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The orginal version of it on guitar:
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(and his website complete with backing track and tabs so you can try it yourself… and covers of it… and making it into the Wiki’s entry on Pachelbel’s Cannon)
This is the one I first saw:
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Bedbug infestations on rise across U.S. is a story for those who do not have a week stomach. In shot, bed bug infestations are on a drastic rise in the U.S. after years of near eradication at least here, to the point that many people thought they were a myth.

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Overkill: The Rise of Paramilitary Police Raids in America, is in important read for everyone. It chronicles the alarming rise of the use of Paramilitary forces to raid American homes. On many occasions, they raid the wrong home, kill innocent people and generally ignore people’s civil liberties… of course the Patriot Act took tons of [...]

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George Bush: Darling of the Liberals is a great article detailing how absurd it is for Liberals to be attacking Bush, when he is a Liberal himself on so many fronts. To summarize:

Largest increase in government spending, even after defense is taken out.
The “No Child Left Behind” act is a reauthorization of LBJs Great Society [...]

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Looking for a fun game to play online that forces you to use your brain? Submachine 3 is the game for you. It is relatively short, only 11 levels, and not too hard, I needed a hint on only 2 levels and the one was fairly easy without reading a full spoiler. It is a [...]

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I edited the PHP on the WP-Amazon Plugin for WordPress. I wanted to achieve two things. One, when adding an image, I wanted the text to follow it. Two, I wanted to have it display the name of the product in the title attribute of the link, that is, when one hovers over the link, [...]

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