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A day of mixed baggae
Music city = fun
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The surprisingly witty Bob Barr
Not as funny as McCain can be, but close, surprising close
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Your Monday reading
- Visual Thesaurous
- SchellingPoint.com
- Reporter gets shot, keeps reporting
- An alternative to business requirements
- The Pop vs Soda map
- David Friedman on Bob Barr
- An interview with Bob Barr
- An Asian rant about Europe, which had the memorable quote
Heaven is a place where the police are English; the chefs are Italian; the car mechanics are German; the lovers are French and it’s all organized by the Swiss. Hell is a place where the police are German; the chefs are English; the car mechanics are French; the lovers are Swiss and it’s all organized by the Italians
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Saturday link clearing roundup
- Visual thinking from the 1960s
- Schelling and the Nuclear Taboo
- Mexican cartels running pot farms in U.S. national forest – who says no one makes things in America anymore!
- The Pill makes women pick bad mates
- ‘Peter Pan’, ‘Snow White’ busted at Disneyland – People and their free time…
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My new favorite title for any long story
“A funny thing happened on the way to the grave…”
Tommy Womack -
Google and the Russia-Georgia War
Georgia does not appear on Google Maps, whereas Russia does. How odd.
Update: They do have Georgia, just not at a very good level of detail.
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Early tech support
Via PurpleSlog, here is the first tech support call.
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Link of the day
Old-Picture.com – very cool.
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Quote of the moment
Michael Scheur –
When you don’t do the hard things, you end up doing the extreme things.
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Foreign Policy is not what defines what America is, it defends what it is.
Here is the interview
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Least surprising headline ever