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“Make Up Your Mind / He Can’t Be All Four” is Now a T-Shirt

August 24, 2009
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Back in April. Adam Sacks of the blog Adam Thinks created this so-funny-because-it’s-true graphic:

After getting so many requests, he’s decided to make it a t-shirt. You can order it online from Printfection for US$20.00:

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“Squeaking By” on a Mere $300,000

August 20, 2009
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Squeaking By on $300,000: even in fat times, the headline of that article, which appeared in Sunday’s Washington Post, is far too tantalizing to ignore. What sort of person “squeaks by” on three hundred large?
One such person is Laura Steins, whose life – especially the socio-financial bits – is the subject of the article. She [...]

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Plus Ca Change…

August 14, 2009
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The strange accusations about Barack Obama coming from the American wingnut brigade – Socialist! Radical Muslim! Foreign-born! – are nothing new:
Image courtesy of Brian Kane.

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The Squeaky Fromme Gets the Release

August 14, 2009
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Squeaky Fromme is free? Damn, I’m old.
Click the photo to see Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme’s Wikipedia entry.
(I wish I’d come up with the title, but alas, that clever turn of phrase is the name of a team that played at a trivia league in New York City last week.)

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Glenn Beck and American Healthcare’s Amazing 16-month Comeback

August 14, 2009
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What a difference 16 months makes! (And wow, does the Daily Show have an amazing video archivist!)
Last night, the Daily Show did the public a great service by airing two clips. The first was from January 2008 featuring faux journalist Glenn Beck talking about how terrible the care he received at the hospital it was [...]

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At Last, a “Town Hall” Protest I Can Get Behind

August 14, 2009
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And it’s spelled properly, too!

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Monday Morning Comics

August 10, 2009
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My Question About the Twitter/Facebook DDOSing

August 7, 2009
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When I read that Twitter and Facebook were attacked for the sake of targeting one guy, my first thought was “Who is this guy, Jason Bourne?”

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The Tragedy of the Coffee Shop

August 6, 2009
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Over at my Coffee and Code blog, I write about a topic close to home for me: cafe owners in New York, fed up with laptops users lingering but not buying anything, are shooing them away.

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The Toronto Garbage Song

August 4, 2009

The Toronto Garbage Strike of 2009 may be over (as might be David Miller’s reign come election time next year) and garbage collection is resuming today, but that’s no reason not have a song about it. The Toronto Star posted a story today about The Toronto Garbage Song (a.k.a. Flush Your Garbage), which was written [...]

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FOX News Doesn’t Know Where Iraq Is

July 28, 2009

In a comment to an earlier article of mine showing FOX News’ tendency to mislabel badly-behaving Republicans as Democrats, “RODAN” pointed me to this map of the middle east shown on FOX News in segment where Neil Cavuto interviewed John Bolton on Monday – note the country marked “Egypt”:

The problem is: that’s not Egypt, that’s [...]

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City of Toronto and Unions Made a Deal

July 27, 2009

…which means that if it’s ratified on Wednesday, the strike will well and truly be over. If that happens, garbage collection and other services provided by the people represented by CUPE Locals 416 and 79 could theoretically be back by Thursday. For reasons unknown and unfathomable to me, it has been said that services [...]

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“Because ‘White Male’ Equals Default Human ‘Normal’, See?”

July 15, 2009

Michael Tomasky nails the real issue of the Sotomayor confirmation hearings perfectly:
Greg Sargent makes a great point about Jeff Sessions getting his knickers all in a twist about the "wise Latina" comment. Sessions said to Sotomayor this morning:
You have evidenced, I think it’s quite clear, a philosophy of the law that suggests that the judge’s [...]

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Where Does the Money Go?

July 13, 2009

Here’s a chart that shows where the average American’s money goes (click to see it at full size):

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Iran is Taking Marc Stiegler’s Final Exam

June 25, 2009

Here’s another article that would normally just stay in my tech blog, Global Nerdy. However, it covers the intersection of life, politics and technology, which I think would also appeal to non-techies, which is why I’ve reposted it here. Enjoy!
Marc Stiegler
I met science fiction author, software developer and computer security guy Marc Stiegler at [...]

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