Pudding Time! Archives: misc
Updated twice, now, because blogging, as it turns out, is an excellent way to fret about hair. It's not my habit to worry about my...
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It's not, according to the spam I got today, a "spam." It's an "email knowledgemercial."...
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Well, we got our first comment spam in the gallery. I can't tell if it was a bot or just a sociopath who felt like...
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It's "new look" day at Puddingtime. I'm still stomping some bugs, but thanks to gl and fellow pudding chef pk for catching some egregious ones....
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Figures that on the day Wired reports gmail invitations aren't worth anything on eBay anymore I'd get the ability to send three. One's claimed. Two...
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I was poised to buy a new Macintosh to replace my old desktop computer, then the recent unpleasantness happened and I decided there's no way...
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It's never a good sign when you turn on the faucet and a hissing sound comes out. Phone transcript of call to the water bureau:...
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Your daily moment of Ed Wisdom: "Real men don't make backups, they just "tar -cf OlsenTwinsNaked.avi /" and share it on Kazaa!" Ed cited...
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"Spammers are people too." via BitRot...
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We started the day with the idea that we'd make it down to the anti-war march downtown around 1 or 1:30, perhaps in time to...
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Tomorrow morning Dad and I will drive out to somewhere past Scappoose and deliver Cat Roy to his new home. The presence of a...
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The neighbors are having a Superbowl party. Very considerate about letting us know it would happen and inviting us over for a beer. One of...
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Cat Roy suffers from periodic urinary obstructions. The vet told us the best thing for him would be Perineal Urethrostomy, which "provides a permanent shorter...
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(A Shopper's Tale) Nothing to do for it. Checks had to be deposited and we were hungry for something more than the faded cans of...
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Well, Al got stir-crazy and my head had one of those moments of "not so full of snot that I want to die," so...
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I've added blogmarks to the sidebar. Sam provided the inspiration for how mine look. In the case of PuddingTime!, though, they're driven by a...
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A few days ago I mentioned that Language Log is one of my favorite recent finds. A recent thread about the asinine and politically-motivated gotcha-hunting...
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After reading about the fact that we now have jet fighters "escorting" planes into US airspace, I was worried about what kind of world...
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Update: Make sure to check out the comments. As b!X points out, we're supposed to send money to Iran (not "Tran"), and it turns...
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"So I sez 'Buddy... hand over the almanac!'"...
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There's been an embarrassment of riches in wireless connectivity in the 'hood lately. Cooper's, the generally pleasant (more on that later, once we position...
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Al and I exchanged gifts and spent a pleasant morning together, went for a walk through Laurelhurst Park in the early afternoon, and went...
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We had to venture out to the asphalt part of town today, so we consoled ourselves with a trip to the Grand Buffet. I...
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Evidently Sven and I have more in common than previously imagined: The GashlyCrumb Tinies - You have a terribly wickedsense of humour and people...
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The Elder Gods are coming, and everyone is doomed!...
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Best of times, worst of times: There's no way in hell I can get out of school next term. I can't get all the classes...
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Why is it that I can't quite square this guy as a spokesmodel for natural male enhancement?" And it contains "thymus gland."...
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Make mine the Bulbogi Burger!...
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Confronted with the deadline for this week's Enterprise Unix Roundup, which surely must deal with Sun's adoption of Opteron processors, I'm guessing "Sun: Back Up...
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Crazy. The forecast called for 50-ish and rainy. We've got snow instead. It's supposed to be mostly gone from the roads this afternoon, but...
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That font thing got to nagging me, so I went out and cribbed the same Javascript from A List Apart that everyone else seems to...
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Finally and at long last the search page is all cleaned up and in line with the rest of the site. Another thing I'm goofing...
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Scene: Charlottesville High School administration office, some time in 1998 Me: I don't know. It doesn't feel like the secretaries and I are warming...
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Good to read Ed's back in the land of the employed....
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Sort of in line with that entry about finding a mail host is a wave of simplification I think I'm about to inflict on...
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I haven't had a lot to
say lately. Here's a rundown of some things o' note, though.
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PuddingWiki has been updated and improved a little. It's been around for about two years and still gets the occasional content update. Thanks to...
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New silly feature: the Puddingbowl.org Zeitgeist Page. What's it do? Every hour a script parses the puddingbowl.org logs for queries from Google, Yahoo!, Lycos,...
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O.k. I'll admit it: I thought the assorted Scandinavian languages just happened to have several thousand words that all mean "cold, sterile, and efficient,"...
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Looks like WIRED has figured out what that time travel spam was all about: "A trail of Internet clues has fingered Robert 'Robby' Todino as...
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We're in the midst of transitioning from one internet connection to another, and the new connection is acting a little flakey. Mail and web service...
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Keep a blog in your subscription list long enough, and eventually it pays off with something interesting, like Anil Dash's brief assault on the...
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Best spam in a while. Aerial photo of the time traveller's warehouse, courtesy ExpertGPS I plotted our time traveller's coordinates. He's somewhere in Winchester,...
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etc posted by
mph, 08/25/03, 08:03 AM
Preparatory to the one year anniversary of PuddingTime!, I put monthly archive links on the right sidebar. There's also an "on this day" thingerator I...
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Here's one to file under "asinine customer service" tales......
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I took a short trip to Northern Michigan over the weekend. I thought I'd be in for a world of hurt at the security...
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As Phil noted a few weeks ago (and the recent gallery entries reflect, Al and I spent a week vacationing with friends in the...
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Tip o' the hat to Cristina, who noticed Maher "Mike" Hawash has plead guilty: "A former Intel software designer charged this spring for plotting...
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Thwarted (so far) by the evil Tres cache, I took a lunchtime jaunt to much easier one very near Geekroar Manor. Since this represented my...
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I'm on the verge of solving my first geocache and I find myself stuck with this code: co aa ea gc go oo ga oc...
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The obvious jokes involve William Burroughs and a special "floppy head Joan" accessory, but I'm not gonna make 'em: That's a Jack Kerouac bobble-head...
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Issued by someone at the University of Wisconsin, this may be the best search query I've ever read in my own logs: "'discuss in the...
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Who knew Scientology could be both so hip and so useful? (via memepool)...
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Well, it's been a while, and Alison just dug this out of her bookmarks, so here's a reminder to go visit Scrumpdillyishus Land. (And...
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Spent a pleasant evening in Newport, OR. Enjoyed a walk on the beach, a visit to the tidal pools at Yaquina Head, a walk down...
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Back from the show. Sometime around Day Two I realized the backs of my eyelids had been colonized by snapshots of ad copy slapped up...
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You won't hear much from me for the next few days. I'm off to the Enterprise Linux Forum in sunny Santa Clara, CA where I'll...
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It seems Starbucks isn't hostile to "ordinary folks" taking pictures in its stores ... just "the media," according to this followup on BoingBoing. So stand...
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I ended up spending weekends driving back and forth between Fayetteville and Charlotte, NC for a while. There was a small mom-n-pop about halfway...
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Me-fi, by the way, provided the answer for another weekend camping meme: what the hell is up with the whole "izzle" thing....
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...to the promotion of the useful arts and sciences how? Prof. Lessig reports that Starbucks has copyrighted its "entire environment." BoingBoing recommends packing a...
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Over the weekend, I spent a lot of time making the site much more modular, so's to make it easy to keep up with...
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Hey, everybody, the next entry down was posted by Phil, who's a new collaborator on PuddingTime! It's cool to have him here. So the official...
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I always used to wonder what happened to people who went through bankruptcy. The local independent weekly decided to find out by profiling a bankruptcy...
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b!X picked up on Multnomah County's search for a qualified interpreter of Klingon, with Elvish on the horizon....
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Pete Townshend was cleared of kiddie-porn charges, but the police are still entering his info into a sex offender database....
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Ed has chastised me for failing to mention what may be Portland's most important cultural event of the year. (May not be safe for all...
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Phil Agre's waking from his wartime media coma and kicking a few things out onto RRE including a reminder about the fixated and interesting Commentaries...
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Georgians Plan Whites-Only Prom Party (via rantavation)...
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Amusingly hostile Libertarian take on 'slugging' in HOV lanes, (more at the NYT)...
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...I was shot out into the world. I think I will celebrate by synergizing my intuitive humanity....
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New York City prepares to say goodbye to token sucking: "Officially, the crime is classified as theft of Transit Authority property. But among transit...
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Last night I dreamed I went blind. Rather than being unable to see anything at all, I discovered that my brain had somehow preserved...
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Stefan Landsberg's archive is pretty good, too: p.s. Happy 300th post to me...
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Here's an archive of communist political art from China, Cuba, and the USSR: The images aren't very large, but you can get the gist......
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Cool... someone found a use for some of my antiwar march photos from January. (Flash required)....
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So, five days after taking the iBook into the shop and resigning myself to a few days with Mr. Gates' XP, the Windows machine decides...
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woe posted by
mph, 03/19/03, 09:17 AM
The iBook is in the shop, which means I'm about to log the most time in front of a Windows machine I've managed since...
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... in academia, please look no further than the Portland State University Bookstore, which refuses to sell pens that don't either involve gel or medium...
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Via Sam Brent on BitRot: Don't get trapped under stuff. Many, many more....
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Newest e-Monkey Newsletter is up on the archive. Most of the items have to do with a monkey that escaped from a UC Davis biodefense...
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"How can I let the introvert in my life know that I support him and respect his choice? "First, recognize that it's not a...
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e-Monkey Newsletter -- Volume 1, Issue 10 is out, the highlight probably being the Darwin-disproving lesbian monkey item....
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This is what passed for a mid-term in the beginning fiction class I'm in. We were supposed to "describe a character and face him/her with...
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Oregon has a no-call list to thwart telemarketers. $6.50 should, come April, take a bite out of the three or four phone spams we...
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"A Tale of Three Cities" is a Seattlite's look at Portland, OR and Vancouver, BC. It focuses on the transportation and commercial development in...
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Peter Singer, in addition to being a passionate, influential voice for animal liberation, is also, apparently, entrenched enough in his utilitarianism that he believes...
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It's a decent week for monkey news. e-Monkey Newsletter -- Volume 1, Issue 9 is up in the archives: IndyMedia: Monkeys escape from EU's largest...
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So, a few weeks back I set up a special No Mac version of the front page, and along the way that attracted more...
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The New York Times says we're in the worst hiring slump in twenty years: "The employment decline has become even worse than it was...
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Ed pointed me at an item about sleep deprivation on 20/20's site. It's got the earmarks of the sort of science reporting that aims...
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Got a teenage girl in your life and want to make sure she's growing up healthy and strong? "Cool-2B-Real is about real girls like...
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"The silver fish leapt from the water from his gurgling mouth came a bubble that solidified and dropped into my lap. Just as quickly...
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There's a new enlistment program coming that offers short (19 month) enlistments across the military (plus the remainder of an eight year term as...
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A doctor in Kentucky is getting sued because he used a laser to brand the initials of his alma mater into a woman's uterus,...
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While doing the research preparatory to telling Sam to go get stuffed, I came across a few things that changed my mind about just...
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It's a lard Saruman. Yick. Click it for the whole story. (via TheOneRing.net)...
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I'm in an Asian-American Film class this term, which is pretty clearly going to spend most of its time dealing with identity politics and...
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The e-Monkey Newsletter -- Volume 1, Issue 5 just hit the wires. Top news this week: hope for the Naples, FL squirrel monkeys!...
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"A Christmas toy intended to spread the peace and love of the holiday apparently spews hatred. "As first reported by The Columbian, a Vancouver,...
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Hate Macintoshes? Sick of reading about software you'll never use? Don't find John Gruber's depthless hatred of the OS X Finder fascinating and link-worthy? PuddingTime's...
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Well, I got tired of maintaining two blogs where one will do, so PuddingFlicks has been consolidated into this journal and the rating scheme...
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The latest issue of the e-monkey.org newswire newsletter, Monkeygram, is out....
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A film industry worker from LA had an unfortunate run-in with security here in Portland's PDX: "...After some more grumbling on my part they...
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I spent a little time this morning applying a Creative Commons license to a few of the pages around the site: You can read...
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The Ingram Company seems to exist to bring us all sorts of disturbing Japanese cartoon characters, including Tissue San: "Living as tissue is busy...
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In keeping with my pre-Two Towers hysterics, here's Lords of the Rhymes: I named the nameless hills and dells I drank from yet untasted wells...
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Creative Commons released its licenses today. The project allows for people who produce creative content (writing, photography, music, etc.) to share their creative works with...
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While trying to answer a question about the size of the local Latino population, I came aross CensusScope , which can tell you a ton...
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...until Beth straightened them out. The Marines over at military.com are evidently researching extreme weather urination....
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Google marches on with Froogle, a shopping search site. "We always love to hear from our users and we read all the mail we...
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To some, it's a creative twist on dialogue, and a new, harmless version of teen slang. But to anxious grammarians and harried teachers, it's...
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MonkeyX noted the 2002 Google Zeitgeist Timeline is online, sans December....
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Answering the question on everybody's mind, Beth explains how she pees in Antarctica....
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Taking advantage of my general state of quivery anticipation, still 9 days from fulfillment, Nitro and Snaggy hit it today with "the Lord of...
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Courtesy Julian Bond's gnews2rss.php, I've added the ten most recent Google News headlines with the word "monkey" to the PuddingTime front page sidebar. It...
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... and responsibly ensures that irresponsible Toys for Tots organizers learn a valuable lesson about following all the rules: TheDenverChannel.com - News - Sterling Wal-Mart...
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Shame mingled with pleasure as my humble effort here is noticed by an actual blogger even as I forget to toss the obligatory link into...
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Fascinated by all things monkey? Monkeywire is a mailing list worth consideration. Low traffic monkeys monkeys monkeys....
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Sven's back with an essay on Adult Supremacism. Adult supremacism is an ideology. It is the set of ideas, the belief system, that rationalizes how...
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BitRot's DarG dropped a link to Tales of the Plush Cthulhu: After all, while Sparkle Christmas Tree Sweater Bear, for example, was a friend...
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Sure to enrage your local Objectivist or other market fetishist, Buy Nothing Day is this Friday (November 29th)....
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Cool! Spencer and Fiona brought us a 'thank you' card for last night's pie. A pie delivery to our duplex neighbors didn't go so...
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Well, Alison and I trooped over to Jean/Trixie and Spencer/Dexter's home this evening with a still-warm pumpkin pie in hand. It took her a...
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Beth Bartel of iceglog has typed up an informative entry on what she's up to in Antarctica....
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An entry on Doc Searls' page reminded me to go look: SomaFM is coming back November 30th, but they have streams playing now. Google...
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esr is a potential target of kidnap and torture by terrorists ....
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iceblog! has come to life, with some entries from Beth that detail her trip to Antarctica along with some photos. Cool....
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After my initial encounter with the neighbor over her tragic car-backing skills, I did some fretting over what it means to be silent in...
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The woman from across the street came to our door this morning with a question....
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The San Jose Mercury news reports there are about to be 175 less McDonalds in the world: "McDonald's shares fell by as much as...
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Via Flutterby! we get a guide to reading the menu in a Chinese restaurant....
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