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Well the folks over at MacHeist have put together yet another impressive bundle of great Mac software for only $19.95 (US).

For those unfamiliar with the MacHeist, what they do is get a bunch of great independent developers to come together and offer up a bundle of software for a great price. 25% of all proceed are donated to charity, you can see a full list of the charities on the MacHeist web site. When you buy a bundle, you can choose to give to all or pick the ones that you want to support. Basically a win for you (great applications), a win for the developers (more exposure), and a win for the charities.

This nanoBundle includes the following titles, listed with their retail prices:

• MacJournal - $40
• RipIt - $20
• Clips - $27
• CoverScout - $40
• Flow - $25
• Tails Of Monkey Island - $35 (Unlocked when 50,000 bundles are sold)
  

I found out today that podcaster and author Tee Morris has unexpectedly lost his wife, leaving him and his 7 year old daughter (a.k.a. Sonic Boom) to pick up the pieces of their life. Being a husband and a father of three, I can't imagine what this is like.

I have listened too and enjoyed many fine hours of Tee's podcasts of his books, and I have a couple dead tree versions too, he is a fine author and I hav ebeen a fan ever since I heard "Billibub Baddings and the Case of the Singing Sword"

ChipIn if you can, my heart goes out to you Tee.

Here is a classic parody of taken from the courtroom scene in the movie "A Few Good Men"

Not something that you see everyday, but this is a good one, read the notes for a good laugh:

"Good news is that I truly out did myself this year with my Christmas decorations. The bad news is that I had to take him down after 2 days. I had more people come screaming up to my house than ever. Great stories. But two things made me take it down.

First, the cops advised me that it would cause traffic accidents as they almost wrecked when they drove by.

Second, a 55 year old lady grabbed the 75 pound ladder almost killed herself putting it against my house and didn't realize it was fake until she climbed to the top (she was not happy). By the way, she was one of many people who attempted to do that. My yard couldn't take it either. I have more than a few tire tracks where people literally drove up my yard."

You may think that e-mail was invented just to give you something to do all day, well perhaps not...

Now "back in the day", if you were a gamer, there was only 1 video card that you would "ever" want.... the venerable 3dfx graphics cards were the best (at the time):

So your at work one day, and being the recession and all, the boss asks you to wash his car. This is probably NOT the best way to do it, but I am sure it would be the fastest way!

Here is a great german commercial about 10 drugs that you should NOT take while driving.

The president of the United States is dead. He was murdered in the morning sunlight by a four-year-old boy…

So begins 7th Son: Descent, the technothriller novel by J.C. Hutchins. Originally released as a free audiobook podcast, 7th Son has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Time.com, Wired.com UK, and on the cover of Blogger & Podcaster magazine. See what critics and bestselling novelists are saying about the book.

As America reels from the bizarre presidential assassination committed by a child, seven men are abducted from their normal lives and delivered to a secret government facility. Each man has his own career, his own specialty. All are identical in appearance. The seven strangers were not born, but grown — unwitting human clones — as part of a project called 7th Son.

The government now wants something from these “John Michael Smiths.” They share the flesh as well as the implanted memories of the psychopath responsible for the president’s murder. The killer has bigger plans, and only these seven have the unique qualifications to track and stop him. But when their progenitor makes the battle personal, it becomes clear John Alpha may know the seven better than they know themselves…

Now this is something you don't really see every day, well at lease not up here in the Great White North!