Monthly Archives: July 2005

Don’t steal gasoline from this guy

From my local paper: Brian Mitchell of Mitchell’s Sheet Metal estimated that about 300 gallons of gasoline had been stolen from his company’s trucks in the last few weeks, so he decided to do something about it. On Monday, Mitchell … Continue reading

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Hotlinking: when is credit due, and how much?

My former high school speech club coach Mike Daisey was “busted” by a blogger for hotlinking to one of the images on her blog- and Mike responded with a reasoned rebuttal. At first glance you’d probably side with Martha, the … Continue reading

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Ode

Writer’s block, writer’s block, writer’s block, writer’s block, writer’s block, writer’s block, writer’s block, unoriginal thoughts, writer’s block, writer’s block. Wriiiiiiterrrrrrr’s block.

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Blast from the past: Joe Wilson was John Kerry’s idea of “honest”

Now that Joe Wilson is back in the news (part of it his own doing), I thought it would be both quite timely and at least somewhat hilarious to dig up this relic from exactly one year ago today: July … Continue reading

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Recommendation

I’ve only watched 3 episodes so far, but they’ve all been really, really great: it’s Scrubs Season 1 on DVD, and I highly recommend it.

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The return of the dogs

A fascinating post on the economics of dogs barking by Lee at Marginal Revolution.

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Prediction a la Rove

A prediction: Karl Rove is not Judith Miller’s source. Think about it: if Rove was Miller’s source, don’t you think the NYT would be pressuring Miller to reveal Rove with some kind of damning evidence, thereby effectively ensuring his almost immediate public demise? Continue reading

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Lame Excuses

Where I’ve been: Getting used to a new job, fighting a nagging respatory infection, wrangling with a lemon used car purchase, buying stuff for our possible new house, agonizing over a TiVo or MediaCenter PC, and as of late, working … Continue reading

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Why RSS *will* make a good advertising medium…

…because right now, my favorite RSS feed is my SlickDeals.net feed.

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