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>"I sat in the Situation Room in secret meetings for nearly twenty years under five Presidents, and all I can say is that some awfully crazy schemes might well have been approved had everyone present not known and expected hard questions, debate, and criticism from the Hill

Tips for efficient tantrumming.

Nice cover I'd not heard before.

I've added a subscribe-by-email box in the sidebar, provided by FeedBurner, so if you're the email type instead of the RSS-in-a-newsreader type, you can now get tasty morsels of tech, trivia, and R.E.M. delivered to your inbox. Oh happy day!

I was reading over on Yahoo and tried clicking the little purple arrow next to the world Iraq...

Interesting article on color in Digital Web Magazine, but I find it deeply ironic that the article is completely in black and white.

it's the end of the world as we know it

Preview for Mike Judge's new psychological thriller. digg story

I was reading an old article on ars technica (IBM and OSDL to help Patent Office get organized -Jan 2006) about IBM's work with the USPTO to help reform the patent system, and ran across this quote:

I'm a little over the whole "tag cloud" (a simple weighted list, really) thing as applied to blog posts, but applying it to more socially "interesting" texts is a clever idea. Here Chirag Mehta has run a series of tag clouds on 360 speeches and documents by Presidents of the United States - US Presidential Speeches Tag Cloud.

From the Creating Passionate Users blog:

This 360' skateboard ramp is insane. Some people have way too much time and adrenaline on their hands.

What you get when you unpack an Apple refurbished product.

Ethan Kaplan at BlackRimGlasses has a post up about the major newspaper losing circulation. Feedburner (I think) thought they'd be funny with the feed ads, and this is what I saw in Google Reader a few minutes ago:

Most of us went through these. And I love the colors on that site.

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Ethan Kaplan at BlackRimGlasses has a post up about the major newspaper losing circulation. Feedburner (I think) thought they'd be funny with the feed ads, and this is what I saw in Google Reader a few minutes ago:

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Ethan Kaplan at BlackRimGlasses has a post up about the major newspaper losing circulation. Feedburner (I think) thought they'd be funny with the feed ads, and this is what I saw in Google Reader a few minutes ago:

With heartfelt apologies to Alanis:

I read Tom Clancy's "Teeth Of The Tiger" this weekend. Yawn.

I finally got around to removing the Google ads from monkinetic. I never did make money off them (though Google insists it sent me a $100 check back in '05 sometime) and I was beginning to find them annoying. So... buh bye.