Month: March 2007
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5 Ways to Use Twitter
Sharonista has a post over at 9:01 AM: The Top 5 Ways Smart People Use Twitter #4. Breaking news & getting scoops. People let their guard down on Twitter, and if you’re in the tech news reporting field you might get some juicy leads via Twitter. The kind of news that’s likely to be broken […]
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Gary Kamiya: How Bush Made the GOP Commit Suicide
This from my buddy Kevin: Democrats should give two cheers for George W. Bush. He and his political mastermind, Karl Rove, dreamed of achieving a permanent Republican majority. Instead, his disastrous presidency has dealt a devastating blow to the GOP, one from which it may not recover for many years. That’s the inescapable import of […]
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Why ‘24′ Suddenly Got Boring
While at home last week I realized why 24 got boring all of a sudden. It stopped dealing with ‘real’ people. 24 succeeds when it has many more regular civilians involved in the plot. Like the dad that had to go get the bomb trigger from a guy he never met while that guy held […]
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Army Recruiter to Jersey Resident: 'GO BACK TO AFRICA AND DO YOUR GAY VOODOO LIMBO TANGO”
From Pam’s House Blend: Corey Andrew had his profile and resume posted at Careerbuilder.com, and it caught the eye of Army recruiter Marcia Ramode, who contacted him. When Andrew informed Ramode that he is gay, and believed that the DADT policy was wrong, the two engaged in a three-day email exchange that included statements by […]
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Lincoln Park Trixie Model
Jake writes: Girl standing on the bus a few people away from me: “I have a modeling job tonight, and as soon as I’m done modeling I’m gonna have to walk home from my modeling job in the clothes I modeled in. DID EVERYONE HEAR THAT? I’M A MODEL.” (Words in caps may or may […]
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Testing Tags
Testing 1 2 3 with Ultimate Tag Warrior with Robin Lu’s hack – let’s see if this baby works.
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HOWTO: How to Attend a Midwestern Funeral
The funeral went just fine. Grandma was well prepared and wearing one of her signature bright red-salmon dresses with a rosary folded into her hands. Her face may have been a bit ruddy but I like to think she’d been out gardening – or maybe had some latent Cherokee no one ever knew about. The […]
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Goodbye Grandma: Hmm hmm hmm
Sad to report my grandmother (mom’s mom) just passed away. She’d been fading for a few weeks but after 99 years she’s ready to go raise hell in heaven. Mom’s side lasts forever – I think it is the TB and polio that strengthened and thinned the herd. Grandma was famous for her tri-tone prod […]
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Warm Ice Water
Recent family events may mean grief is on its way. For some reason this has cast me into a very emotional mood tonight (well morning, it is 3am). I typed my best friend’s name – the one from high school that died a year after graduation – and stumbled onto an essay his mother wrote […]
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Hypo-Allergenic and Cat-Safe Plants
I’m wanting to get some plants in this place and so I cross referenced a list of low-pollen hypoallergenic plants with a list of cat-safe plants. Output: Begonia Pansy Petunia Snapdragon Sunflower Rose parsley Thyme Spearmint Sage Spider plant