Entries from October 2003The Posts You Asked For

Scored another mention in Dave Barry’s Blog. Woo-hoo!

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Even with all this high-class culture.

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I got a mention in Dave Barry’s blog today. Well, more like he posted what I sent him. Click here to see it.

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When someone’s willing to spend $124 on this, you can bet the economy is picking up.
Or just assume people are getting dumber.

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Here’s another item in the collection of things to be filed under “Duh! You’d think they’d know better by now!” It’s yet another case of an organization (it seems overwhelmingly to be school administrators) making a decision that anyone with an ounce of intelligence will realize is going to come around and bite them in [...]

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In an article about Barry Manilow and Bette Midler teaming up for a tribute album (a tribute to Rosemary Clooney), we have this:
Manilow adds, “We’re both high-strung and passionate and opinionated.” And 30 years later, he remains a man with a clear vision: “I put the ‘p’ in prepared,” he says.

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What happens when people who know diddly about science start pretending they do? This does.
Here’s the gist:
Parents in a Chicago-area school are demanding (via lawsuit, of course) that their kids’ elementary school stop using an 802.11b network (also called a WiFi network). This is a low-power wireless way to allow laptops to connect to the [...]

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Didn’t Herr Ashcroft’s Justice Department assure us that the USA PATRIOT Act would only be used to fight terrorism? That’s how I recall it. Cries (accurate cries) that it’s disgustingly un-American, a violation of privacy, and easily abused were brushed aside.
We were right. Ashcroft lied.
The government is now using the PATRIOT Act to [...]

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Get this:
A company called SunComm develops a technology called “MediaMax CD-3″ that prevents CDs from being copied — using its copy protection, music companies can cut down on piracy. (SunComm is a public company.)
The recording industry likes it, and albums using MediaMax come out — Anthony Hamilton’s “Comin’ From Where I’m From,” for example.
Then a [...]

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According to an AP story (you can read it on CNN), officials in Olympia, Wash., had special ed students performing janitorial duties as part of a Work Experience Program.
That’s bad enough. But get this quote from the article:
School officials said many special education students will do janitorial work after high school, so they believe the [...]

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Governor Schwarzenegger. What a joke.
The land of liposuction and body sculpting chooses a candidate to solve its self-inflicted problems based on “Oooh! He’s a movie star!” I’m going to enjoy watching the state fall to pieces.
Californians must simply be too stupid to realize it was their own whining, NIMBY-based attitudes that got them into the [...]

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You have to wonder if farmers in California vote themselves crops and then wonder why they’re starving.

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How can you combine the frugality of trailer-park life with the elegance of Aunt Elsie’s fine tea service? It’s easy with this beauty from the PVC Store:

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What, you’ve never heard Leonard Nimoy singing the Hobbit Song? For shame. Click the image to see the movie (warning to modem users: it’s a 4MB file):

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Yes, it’s real.

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