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Posted by wolfgang amadeus on December 18th 2008 in Comics
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA…. cough cough… BOOOHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

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Posted by anupcs on December 18th 2008 in Politics, Technology
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Blogs are so out. Microblogging is where it’s at these days. Even the US Congress gets in on the action at Tweet Congress. Check out the site for whether or not your local politician is tweeting (is that even a word? Sigh). So far 15 Democrats (including the President- and Vice-President-elects) and 26 Republicans are on Twitter.

The pressure is on enough that our buddies across the pond also started their own tweeting with Tweetminster (Westminster, get it?).

Is this going to be information overload or is this going to be actually a useful way to keeping track?

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Posted by riyer on December 18th 2008 in Journalism, Random, Trivia
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This reminded me of stories that my wife frequently recounts from a mischievous publisher she worked for (he is now deceased). This publisher was known to introduce ridiculous sentences and observations in stories that were in draft form. It was my wife’s job as an editor to delete them from the final copy. For e.g. if a sentence read “Ms Jane, VP of Marketing” - he would edit the draft to read “Ms Jane, VP Of Marketing AND A SLUT”. They were lucky they never went to print with something so ridiculous

A complete list is here

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Posted by riyer on December 17th 2008 in Animals, Health & Fitness, Random
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This blog by Paul Zak (I read his blog regularly) asserts that the Journal of Contemporary Ethnography showed that people with dogs are judged to be more trustworthy. Paul offers that Dogs are completely dependent as pets and someone who keeps a dog is dependable hence trustworthy. He goes on to explain that oxytocin response leads to reciprocal rewards. Here is the complete posting

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Posted by riyer on December 16th 2008 in Environment, Fashion, Travel
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I guess if they can build an indoor ski slope in Dubai, building a refrigerated beach was inevitable. The Palazzo Versace fashion house is building a hotel to compete with a Armani branded hotel and they needed a differentiator. Dubai already boasts of the worlds first 7 star hotel (whatever that means). Full story here.
Full pictures here

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Posted by papi on December 16th 2008 in Science
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I’d heard of some of them before, but some were new to me. Read it and wonder…

http://www.cracked.com/article_16871_6-insane-discoveries-that-science-cant-explain.html

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Posted by anupcs on December 16th 2008 in Humor, Travel
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Comedian Louis CK appears on Conan and puts some interesting perspective on what we take for granted these days. He calls the current generation the “crappiest” of all time. Extremely funny.

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Posted by riyer on December 15th 2008 in Food & Wine, Movies, Politics, Technology, USA, War, World
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For every one of you who hated the show of security that is the TSA line in airports - I am sure you thought of doing this a few times.

Is that secure enough for you Mr. President?

To his credit, the President joked that he saw the man’s sole.

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