Entries from September 2003The Posts You Asked For

Evidently a Russian finance magazine had its ad banned when people realized what the euro was doing to the dollar:

(The caption reads something like “The Magazine of How Money Is Made.”)

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Your kid says, “When I grow up, I want to be a scientist.” You have pictures in your head of lab coats, test tubes, Nobel Prizes.
But then there’s the other side — the dark side of science. No, not ‘politically’ dark (like experimenting on kittens or something). These are what Popular Science calls “The [...]

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It seems some folks around here — a whole family (or, perhaps, Family) — have taken to squatting in and illegally renting out a bunch of homes in a neighborhood.
You really have to read the whole thing. This is from our local paper (the Dispatch). There’s no single funny moment — the whole story is [...]

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Thanks to getting my news — well, headlines and links anyway — from lots of different places, I often find myself reading an article from a newspaper somewhere… but I don’t know where.
For instance, today I ended up at the Corvallis Gazette Times. I have no clue where Corvallis is. Phone numbers in ads don’t [...]

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I like the all-computer-generated Google News, but sometimes choosing the right top story really does require some human intervention.

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Unlike this, here’s a card I’d be happy to give out.

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