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Awesome shirts for awesome people.

Simple for loop check that hard-codes a separate post limit for the front page of a blog, since the setting on the Dashboard applies to all pages including archives.

A subjective overview of the GOP's flaws and Obama's from a British perspective, going into 2012.

It shouldn't come as a surprise, but I suspect this practice is illegal, or at least unethical due to lack of disclosure. At the same time, technically speaking very impressive.

The companies don't want to admit that they don't want to enable HTTPS by default because of the server overhead, I imagine.

A good overview of a viral sensation turning into a career.

So true. My early forays into nurdage involved churchiness, in the form of winning small prizes for memorizing Bible passages.

When you can't find the leader you're trying to depose, you do the next best thing: steal his hat.

This is exactly what I expect from good sci-fi filmmaking. Awesome.

Haven't read anything on this list, although a few are on my to-reads.

One opinion on why criticizing Obama from the left doesn't help.

Makes sense to me.

A possible explanation for why Marco Arment's testing of Joulies didn't seem to have much effect on coffee temperature.

Heheh. A Harry Potter metaphor for wrapping up on the War on Terror. "For starters, we would very much appreciate it if they could lift the Petrificus Totalus curse someone has clearly placed on the U.S. Congress."

Shocking that providing for people's basic needs helps avoid extremism.

Interesting alternate theory, although I don't fully understand it.

[Update] I have meanwhile done a follow-up post commenting on the exorbitant $2.5  billion break-up fee and the concerns and desperation i...

The governor is running an openly religious campaign, but does he overlook the parts of the Bible that don't support his political beliefs?

Job creation in Texas is in large part an illusion.

The end of suburbia would make me happy.

The prosperity gospel freaks me out, and I don't see how it's remotely rooted in the teachings of Christ.

The now-famous Warren Buffet op-ed asking for an increase in taxes on income over $1M

I doubt the FCC would allow that level of vertical integration, but it would be hotttt.

I still kinda liked T-Paw.

It would be nice to hear a more combative job creation stance.

US Republican candidates for the 2012 presidential race trade fiery rhetoric at the influential Iowa Straw Poll.

It certainly feels that way sometimes.

Hopefully this isn't one of those mistakes where people die.

"Imagine how many historical literary classics might get lost over the generations if the English language was completely revised and recreated from the ground up every five or six years, and publishers had to pick and choose what to translate and reprint." Another argument in favor of archival.