04 Nov
I’m playing along with Ed Bott’s Uncensored Jukebox. (Link goes to the rules so you can play along!) The current edition is here. 1. We Shout – Tatu2. I Want Someone To Love – Sailor Moon soundtrack3. Hands – Jewel4. I Can’t Stand It – Danielle Paris5. Wild One – Faith Hill6. YMCA – Village [...]
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25 Aug
A Massachusetts high school is going to charge kids who ride the school bus $1 per day. Great, charge them money to come to school – that’ll improve their attitudes. Story on Eagle Tribune
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20 Aug
Okay, it’s nice that you can take some pictures of your favorite actor or cartoon character, and set the pictures to music using Windows Movie Maker. What you are doing is A. creating a slideshow, not a video, B. copyright infringement, both to the song and the subject of the picture, and C. just plain [...]
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07 Jul
A Consumerist reader snapped this photo of the pharmacy at the Wal-Mart in Elmwood Park, NJ. They’re most likely renovating, but I am definitely not picking up my drugs at a pharmacy like this. I agree with Consumerist… it looks like a kid’s play-pharmacy.
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04 May
I’m a big fan of those “what’s in your purse” posts… I’m even a member of the Flickr group. I just realized I hadn’t done one in some time, so here goes. (Please note that the links in this post, with the exception of the Purseket link, are not affiliate links – they are for [...]
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01 May
“Sharon Labchuk is a longtime environmental activist and part-time organic beekeeper from Prince Edward Island. She has twice run for a seat in Ottawa’s House of Commons, making strong showings around 5% for Canada’s fledgling Green Party. She is also leader of the provincial wing of her party. In a widely circulated email, she wrote: [...]
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19 Mar
Well, due to the old layout having major CSS problems, I updated to this one. I think I like it better anyways. You’ll also need to delete your old subscription and resubscribe to this newer feed… I’m so sorry about that!
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13 Mar
Snopes, the popular Urban Legends site, has implemented a script to prevent people from copypasting their articles, although any idiot can view the source code, and snag it from there. This script is akin to people implementing anti-right-click functionality in their sites to prevent image theft… anyone determined enough knows at least 2 ways to [...]
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06 Nov
Time Magazine voted YouTube as the invention of the year. Know what it beat out? Gardasil, the vaccine to prevent HPV, the virus that most often causes cervical cancer!
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25 Aug
“Valleyschwaaaaaaaag! Yay!” is what I said when I saw the package. Woohoo! It’s been a long time coming, and now it’s here! Spoilers below! I got: A black t-shirt from VideoEgg, a blue, gray, and green massager from Findology (disable your ad blockers or there will be almost nothing there!), an orange pen, keychain-bottle opener, [...]
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