Let's take a moment to salute all those YouTubers who graced this blog on Sunday mornings in 2008: And with that, it is with great reluctance that I must announce that I am ending Sunday CuteTuber™. The only reason is that it has become too difficult and time-consuming to find videos to feature. Despite its [...]
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The nice man on the informercial insists that it's easy to make money in the "cash flow" business. Why didn't Wall Street think of that? # Sunday CuteTuber™ 2008 Year in Review is finished and ready for tomorrow morning. # Note: The "#" links at the end of each entry go to Twitter, not to [...]
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Thomas Friedman: Landing at Kennedy Airport from Hong Kong was, as I've argued before, like going from the Jetsons to the Flintstones. The ugly, low-ceilinged arrival hall was cramped, and using a luggage cart cost $3. (Couldn't we at least supply foreign visitors with a free luggage cart, like other major airports in the world?) [...]
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Another Ecclesiastes 1:9 moment: stumbled across this 1990 book while cleaning out my library. Ah, Wall Street… http://snipr.com/94uy5 # CNBC is really scraping the bottom of barrell for commentators today. The stupid:smart ratio is at least 2:1. # Mad at myself for not thinking of Point #2 in this response to Krugman's jackass column today: [...]
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Holiday air travel + weather delays = yearning for the "good ol' days" — I know the days are gone when attendants could be written up if we did not put the linen napkins with the T.W.A. logo embossed on them in the lower righthand corner of the first-class diners' trays. As are the days [...]
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Amazing how many bad versions of Christmas songs there are. Thank goodness for iTunes radio. # Note: The "#" links at the end of each entry go to Twitter, not to any external link. You should generally ignore these links. Powered by Twitter Tools.
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Clogging up the aggregator:
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What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun. –Ecclesiastes 1:9 Before there was bigotry, there was — bigotry. And before there was blogging, there was — blogging: We shall have to wait and see to what extent Rick Warren proves to be [...]
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Decided to take another whack at making "2008 Sunday CuteTuber™ Year in Review." Making two versions of the project as I go along this time. # China's Communists ban "The Dark Knight." But don't you dare suggest that they don't believe in free markets, right? http://snipr.com/937sc # Don't feed them after midnight! http://tinyurl.com/7ykfj2 #
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–Why was the student newspaper of a public high school in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, shut down (i.e., what was the topic of the article that administrators found objectionable)? –Speaking of censorship, which nation just imposed harsh new restrictions on bloggers? –On the other hand, which major corporation responded to calls for self-censorship, in the [...]
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