MaximumPC posted 21 Essential Steps to Make Your PC Better/Stronger/Faster, and it seems really good. It doesn’t have the “Run this random registry optimizer program and delete all your Prefetch files” type of pseudo-advice that other sites give. Some is of no use to the normal user (please don’t overclock anything unless you already know what it is!), but a lot of it is stuff anyone can do to help keep things in good shape.

Another link: PhotoRec. A friend of a friend deleted a bunch of photos from her camera. I’ve used PhotoRec a few times, and it’s amazing at retreiving deleted files, but the terminal interface isn’t at all beginner-friendly. I may try posting a quick tutorial on how to use it at some point.

I just saw Postbox, an apparently-free (at least in beta) mail client that really took the time to rethink e-mail. Check out the features. It currently runs on Mac and Windows.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again…

The Constitution only prevents the government from censoring you. If you call Mexicans “leeches” and “primitives” on your radio program, and complain about Mexico exporting “women with mustaches and VD,” you can be fired. It has nothing to do with the First Amendment. And if the radio station decides that being appalingly racist is okay and brings you back, and you give an apology, it doesn’t mean, as one commenter puts it, that “Freedom of speech is a thing of the past!”

Please familiarize yourself with the Constitution before attempting to apply it to private actors.