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Jun 30th

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Jun 29th

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BBC NEWS | Giving up my iPod for a Walkman →

What happens when you give a 13 year-old a Walkman? “It took me three days to figure out that there was another side to the tape.”

Jun 29th

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Feed My Inbox ~ RSS to Email ~ →

This is a great site to get automatic updates to the blogs you follow. Just put in the site, and your email address.

Jun 29th

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Jun 29th

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Jun 29th

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John Gray on types of atheism - Crunchy Con →

“New Atheism, in Gray’s view, is a cruder version of 19th-century Positivism, the philosophical position holding that the only real knowledge is knowledge acquired through the senses. It’s hard materialism, in other words, one that regards metaphysical discussion as simply a matter of subjective preference. In the 19th century, intellectuals generally believed that religion was a...

Jun 28th

Jun 27th

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Jun 27th

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Jun 27th

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the Reasons to get rid of the major record labels →

Jun 27th

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No Recovery in Sight - NYTimes.com →

“The unemployment rate for males in April 2009 was 10 percent, versus only 7.2 percent for women, the largest absolute and relative gender gap in unemployment rates in the post-World War II period.”

Jun 27th

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Jun 27th

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Jun 25th

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“Anne: I’m not a lime, I’m just happy!”

Jun 23rd

Jun 22nd

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Obama's example: Putting family first →

Putting family first? Sounds good to me.

Jun 21st

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Op-Ed Columnist - Bullets and Barrels -... →

“There is only one precedent for an oil-funded autocrat in the Middle East being toppled by a people’s revolution, not by a military coup, and that was in … Iran.”

Jun 21st

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Iran's Khamenei throws down hard line with... →

Kind of a letdown, but I don’t know thy I expected the ‘Supreme Ruler of Iran’ to be reasonable with the election.

Jun 19th

Daring Fireball: Pixar Grants Girl’s Dying Wish... →

Jun 19th

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Jun 17th

“In case you didn’t know i heart enormous clocks. ”

– http://seriouslysoblessed.blogspot.com/2009/06/in-case-you-didnt-know.html

Jun 16th

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Microsoft Stops Paying For Employees' iPhones →

Forcing them to use Windows Mobile? That’s just mean.

Jun 15th

“This is hearsay - but under conditions of a police state coup, we are best...”

– From Andrew Sullivan. (via adamisacson)

Jun 15th

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Op-Ed Columnist - Drugs Won the War - NYTimes.com →

“We’ve spent a trillion dollars prosecuting the war on drugs,” Norm Stamper, a former police chief of Seattle, told me. “What do we have to show for it? Drugs are more readily available, at lower prices and higher levels of potency. It’s a dismal failure.” I agree.

Jun 15th

Jun 14th

I just came up with a great tourism slogan for Phoenix - “Less water, more hotter!”

Jun 14th

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Nuclear blasts’ toll lingers for one man -... →

“And when the blast went off, Robertson saw something that has been emblazoned forever in his memory. He says he could see through his gloves and flesh all the way to his bones.”

Jun 12th

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Gotta’ Move on Vimeo (via Vimeo) We went to the ‘free night’ at the Phoenix Children’s Science Museum last week. After waiting in line for 2 hours, we finally got in. They had a DJ playing music by the dance floor, and Anne thought it was great.

Jun 10th