May 16, 2012
I just bought myself a new MacBook Pro. But, I was buggered if I was going to pay full price from Apple, so I decided to build one myself. This is the result:
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August 25, 2011
Micheal Shermer's book, The Believing Brain on Amazon, plus other interesting reads and DVDs:
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History's Mysteries - Superstitions [VHS] $9.84 Did you know that when you knock on wood, it should be oak? Or that throwing spilt salt over your shoulder to ward off bad luck is a relic from the days when the seasoning was so precious that it was accepted by much of the civilized world as currency? With help from experts like Charles Panati, the author of Panati's Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things and Dr. Michael Shermer, the publisher... |
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MatheMagics: Turn on the Computer in You (PR TV: Package: One Manual; One Video Tape, 4 Audio Cassettes) $21.99 Package Edition: 1 Video Tape; 1 Manual; 4 Audio Cassettes (all in purple cover) by Arthur Benjamin, Ph.D.. Positive Response Television, Inc., and RGA Publishing Group... |
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Sport Cycling: A High Performance How To $9.95 How to do it from a man who's done it.Psychology professor, fitness author, and world-record holding cyclist, Michael Shermer's top accomplishments include outstanding performances in The Great American Bike race, Miami to Maine, Spenco 500,Race Across America,and multiple Seattle to SanDiego grueling marathons.And now with this break-thru cassette, he takes you inside the advanced cyclists' world... |
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Penn & Teller - Bullsh*t! The Complete Second Season $15.99 All 13 second-season episodes--including "PETA," "The Business of Love," "The Bible: Fact or Fiction?," "Death, Inc.," and "Profanity"--are featured in a three-disc set. 6 1/2 hrs. total. Standard; Soundtracks: English Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital stereo, Spanish Dolby Digital mono; photo gallery; filmographies. **13 episodes on 3 discs. 6 1/2 hrs.**... |
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Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed [Blu-ray] $26.26 Former Nixon speechwriter and game show personality Ben Stein challenges the theory of evolution and the teachings of Charles Darwin in this controversial documentary. Taking the education establishment to task for barring the introduction of "intelligent design" material into science classrooms, Stein links Darwin's ideas to Nazism and confronts prominent atheist/writer Richard Dawkins as part of... |
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Godless $20.00 The least trusted group in America is also one of the fastest growing minorities. This is not an ethnic group but a plethora of individuals from vastly different cultures and professional backgrounds that ... ...have each decided to find understanding through the sciences rather than the traditional beliefs of the supernatural. ...have chosen to question what they had been taught and doubt th... |
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Secrets of Mental Math: The Mathemagician's Guide to Lightning Calculation and Amazing Math Tricks $7.30 These simple math secrets and tricks will forever change how you look at the world of numbers.Secrets of Mental Math will have you thinking like a math genius in no time. Get ready to amaze your friends—and yourself—with incredible calculations you never thought you could master, as renowned “mathemagician” Arthur Benjamin shares his techniques for lightning-quick calculations and ... |
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The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies---How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths $5.99 Bestselling author Michael Shermer's comprehensive and provocative theory on how beliefs are born, formed, reinforced, challenged, changed, and extinguished. In this work synthesizing thirty years of research, psychologist, historian of science, and the world's best-known skeptic Michael Shermer upends the traditional thinking about how humans form beliefs about the world. Simply put, beliefs come... |
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