13 Apr 2007, 16:08 p.m.

Next Up: A. Lincoln's Gettysburg Address Deck

We need more videos of Powerpoint Karaoke. I watched one performance to get a taste of it. And I realized what I might have guessed all along: I've seen performances just as bad (and we …

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13 Apr 2007, 8:11 a.m.

Representative Excerpts

To repeat, I am no way suggesting that a Mac Tablet would not be completely awesome. I would buy at least five, possibly eight, so I could use a different one each day of the …

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13 Apr 2007, 7:28 a.m.

Excerpt's Incredibly Nostalgia-Inducing, Too

I know it's Flash, but the site for Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris has an okay conceit with very good implementation. The video reminds me more of Salon than I could …

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12 Apr 2007, 16:21 p.m.

Static

For the past six months, my life at Fog Creek has had a rather unpleasant and pervasive physical element. I accumulate static electricity while in my Aeron chair. It seemed to start during the rainy/snowy …

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12 Apr 2007, 11:58 a.m.

Seen

Yesterday: a sign encouraging me to "Give $ Baby". I gave a dollar, but not a baby. Tuesday: a "Health King" juice/smoothie seller in the forties or fifties on Lexington Avenue. I thought the 38th …

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11 Apr 2007, 10:11 a.m.

"Stephen watched the samosa being smothered."

I have posted over 160 links, without meaning to accumulate such a repository, to the del.icio.us account that Leonard and I share. Here's something that might not get posted there: the Colbert/Stewart slash that made …

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08 Apr 2007, 18:04 p.m.

Even My High School Chemistry Teacher Liked "Frasier"

From a reference on Jaime Weinman's MacLeans blog: parts 1 and 2 of the Frasier episode "Ham Radio" (the YouTube links in the original Weinman post don't work anymore).

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08 Apr 2007, 15:35 p.m.

MC Masala on Spring and Continuous Partial Attention

Okay, this is ridiculous. It is snowing! in early April! This puts the lie to my "yay it's springtime" column this week. After I failed one quiz and squeaked by another, he gave me advice …

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08 Apr 2007, 15:30 p.m.

Movie Friends

Leonard doesn't like seeing movies in the theater, so I'm used to going alone or with other people. When we lived in SF, I had free time and a bunch of acquaintances who would go …

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06 Apr 2007, 15:03 p.m.

Approval

It turns out that my wantlist is my primary means of listing off bands I like, so I added a bunch today. I wouldn't know of half those bands without Internet radio. The list of …

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