February 2012
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What's Good For Your Dog... →
You know, I didn’t catch this the first time around, when Romney was running in 2008, so it’s still a little surprising to me that he would do something like strap his beloved family pet to the top of a the roof of his car for a trip from Boston to Canada.
As a dog lover and pet owner, emotionally I am shocked and horrified that anyone would think this is a good idea. On the few...
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My Friend Built a Robot to Play with His Dog While... →
Having to leave your pets at home while you go to work is always kind of a bittersweet thing (since you HAVE to work to afford to care for a pet). I came across this today randomly while once again questioning why I have a Google+ account.
The problem facing Microsoft developer Jordan Correa and his wife was hardly an uncommon one. They both have full time jobs (that’s not the problem),...
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What Crazy + Facebook Equals: →
MOUNTAIN CITY, Tenn. — A father who was upset after a Tennessee couple deleted his adult daughter as a friend on Facebook has been charged in the shooting deaths of the couple, authorities said Wednesday.
There’s a good deal to take away from this, so I’ll distill it to the three main points that I get from it:
“Facebook Friends” are not synonymous with...
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Inappropriate Funeral Protest →
Not cool. I don’t want Fred Phelps and his merry band of hateful bigots anywhere near a funeral service for ANYONE, and I certainly don’t want him in Washington State. Is it really that hard to NOT be hateful? At least not to this extreme?
“The hyperbolic mistruths, presented on the home pages of some of the world’s...”
– What Wikipedia Won’t Tell You - NYTimes.com (via infoneer-pulse)
And this is a lesson in, as a reader/consumer of information, to look at the source/author of the work you are reading. In this case, this NYT article was written by:
“Cary H. Sherman is chief executive of the Recording...
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Meet The Man Inside The Nicolas Cage Costume
Star Fix has an exclusive interview with the man who has enchanted audiences for the last 30 years playing the delightfully wacky, oversized puppet of Nicolas Cage.
It does go a long way toward explaining his behavior…
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Easily one of my new favorite places to go for hilarious knee-jerk reactionary comments.
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