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**links for 2006-01-24**
- [MonsterFishKeepers - Building My 50,000 Gallon Monster Mega Tank](http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?s=11274b7c4259e4cc4bca2139f1bbad86&t=8952)My large tank is L shaped. The long part of the L is 36 feet, the short part of the L is 27 feet. The front to back of the long part of the L is 18 feet, the front to back of the short part of the L is 15 feet. The tank water is 9 feet deep.(tags: [aquarium](http://del.icio.us/mattgrommes/aquarium) [fish](http://del.icio.us/mattgrommes/fish) [diy](http://del.icio.us/mattgrommes/diy))*[HowToBuildALoft - ElephantStaircase](http://www.elephantstaircase.com/wiki/index.php?title=HowToBuildALoft "HowToBuildALoft")This idea is mainly geared towards college kids building a loft for their dorm room so that they can better utilize limited space, but we hope it inspires you to do more.(tags: [diy](http://del.icio.us/mattgrommes/diy) [building](http://del.icio.us/mattgrommes/building) [wood](http://del.icio.us/mattgrommes/wood))*[Are Professors too Liberal?](http://hnn.us/articles/1038.html)[Horowitz's] argument is bogus in almost every way imaginable. His premise, that a balance of political party affiliation is necessary or desirable in major sectors of American life, would lead to an almost totalitarian quota system.(tags: [politics](http://del.icio.us/mattgrommes/politics) [liberal](http://del.icio.us/mattgrommes/liberal) [conservative](http://del.icio.us/mattgrommes/conservative) [juan+cole](http://del.icio.us/mattgrommes/juan+cole) [school](http://del.icio.us/mattgrommes/school))*[Issac Asimov's The Last Question](http://adin.dyndns.org/adin/TheLastQ.htm)In fifty years [Asimov] averaged a new magazine article, short story, or book every two weeks, and most of that on a manual typewriter. Asimov thought that The Last Question, first copyrighted in 1956, was his best short story ever.(tags: [asimov](http://del.icio.us/mattgrommes/asimov) [sciencefiction](http://del.icio.us/mattgrommes/sciencefiction) [story](http://del.icio.us/mattgrommes/story))*[iStockphoto.com : Articles - Know Your Type](http://www.istockphoto.com/article_view.php?ID=153)Practicing good typography is at the core to good design.(tags: [typography](http://del.icio.us/mattgrommes/typography) [web+design](http://del.icio.us/mattgrommes/web+design) [design](http://del.icio.us/mattgrommes/design))*[BLDGBLOG: "The city as an avatar of itself"](http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2006/01/city-as-avatar-of-itself.html)"It's often hard to convince people that Olivo Barbieri's aerial photographs are real," Metropolis writes.(tags: [photography](http://del.icio.us/mattgrommes/photography) [buildings](http://del.icio.us/mattgrommes/buildings) [city](http://del.icio.us/mattgrommes/city))*[Bash Reference Manual:](http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bashref.html)This text is a brief description of the features that are present in the Bash shell.(tags: [bash](http://del.icio.us/mattgrommes/bash) [tutorial](http://del.icio.us/mattgrommes/tutorial) [manual](http://del.icio.us/mattgrommes/manual))*[How to make dorodango](http://www.kyokyo-u.ac.jp/youkyou/4/english4.htm)Shining mud ball(tags: [diy](http://del.icio.us/mattgrommes/diy) [art](http://del.icio.us/mattgrommes/art))*[Mastering Ajax, Part 2: Make asynchronous requests with JavaScript and Ajax](http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/wa-ajaxintro2/?ca=dgr-lnxw07AJAX-Request)In this article, I will zoom in from that 10,000-foot view and focus on specific Ajax details.(tags: [ajax](http://del.icio.us/mattgrommes/ajax) [tutorial](http://del.icio.us/mattgrommes/tutorial) [ibm](http://del.icio.us/mattgrommes/ibm))*[Sacco report on Iraq](http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-files/Guardian/documents/2006/01/20/fullsacco1.pdf)(tags: [comics](http://del.icio.us/mattgrommes/comics) [iraq](http://del.icio.us/mattgrommes/iraq))*[Transracial Writing for the Sincere](http://www.speculations.com/transrace.htm)(tags: [writing](http://del.icio.us/mattgrommes/writing) [race](http://del.icio.us/mattgrommes/race))