12 Nov 2004, 20:26 p.m.

The Dot Isn't Just For "Dot Com"

Some customers write highly coherent and comprehensive help requests, whether courteous or profane. And some write help requests that resemble in prose style the opening of Flowers For Algernon.

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11 Nov 2004, 15:57 p.m.

Deepavali, Dipawali, Whatever

Happy Diwali! While dressing up for work in a shimmery pyjama juba, a.k.a. salwar kameez, I discovered that I don't have any kumkum, a.k.a. kunkuma, a.k.a. bindi, a.k.a. the red dot you wear in the …

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11 Nov 2004, 15:50 p.m.

Google Ads Come Through Again

"Sexy Chordate Singles"! I hope so.

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11 Nov 2004, 10:10 a.m.

The Anointing

Steve Robertson knows Ashcroft stories and I need to get some from him - such an intriguing figure! I always figured I had an in with Ashcroft since Steve knew his son at Rice. Professor …

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11 Nov 2004, 9:41 a.m.

RIP Iris Chang

When I was a sophomore at UC Berkeley auditing Andrew Creighton's wonderful introductory sociology class, he had us read chapters from Iris Chang's Rape of Nanking first off to remind us what humans can do …

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10 Nov 2004, 19:59 p.m.

Not To Mention The Original Big Book

Two of my favorite Christianity bloggers: Real Live Preacher and Slacktivist. I imagine that the Preacher, a.k.a. Gordon Atkinson, would enjoy Douglas Coupland's book All Families Are Psychotic, and now I find that Fred Clark …

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08 Nov 2004, 11:43 a.m.

The Clothes Make The Man Not Be Naked

If you are considering clothing purchases for yourself or others, and you are like me and know nothing of fashion or style, please read The Morning News on women's clothes and men's clothes. Or you …

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04 Nov 2004, 10:46 a.m.

Cute Animal Pictures

A baby elephant. Another baby elephant. A tortoise. A baby penguin. A baby panda. A baby human. A baby human and a fake baby dog. An adult human and a fake otter.

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03 Nov 2004, 8:31 a.m.

Election Night, 2004

Things to remember about the several hours after that last hope: Pizza, booze, CNN, increasingly grim jokes. I couldn't believe that Coburn won, Bunning won, that the GOP would be consolidating its control of the …

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02 Nov 2004, 16:16 p.m.

Election Day, 2004

Things to remember about Election Day, November second, 2004: Going to sleep at 1:30 the morning of, crying and praying. I can't tell where the cold draft in my room is coming from, and it …

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