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Astrology and Car Insurance (article)
"So, what's your sign? You crash here often?" by Naomi Kim (Yahoo News) Dec. 14, 2006.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061214/od_nm/astrology_driving1_dc
"Car Carma" (isn't that just as klassy as Klassic Karaoke?)
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This looks like an awesome movie trailer and articles that primal_sanshin sent to me. I'm definitely going to check it out this March ( Read more... ) -
"Hogher" Education
Since I'm now looking for a jobby-job, I updated my profile at careers.com and I have noticed and increase in job-related spam.
This one looks like a twist on the old favorite African-in-need-needs-your-bank-account-to-transfer-money one.
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100 Dollar Holiday
If there’s one way in which the world has changed more than any other since 1840, one thing that’s truly different about our lives, it’s that we’ve become such devout consumers. That consumption carries with it certain blessings (our lives are long and easy by any historical standard) and certain costs (first and foremost the damage it causes to ( Read more... ) -
similarities between prison and academe
Why did it take me so long to admit that academe was never going to make me happy? Because I had been institutionalized, like Brooks in The Shawshank Redemption. He spent a life in prison and knew its rules, and his release into the outside world was just too much. He hated it enough to hang himself in a boarding house. I bet he wasn't happy in ( Read more... ) -
Scary Mary Poppins
Someone posted this on darkvictoria and I wanted to "collect" it here:
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Goodbye Eugene
I had a very nice dinner with leesalu and got to speak with astartesyriaca tonight.
During my conversation with leesalu the words of an old friend, Helen, came up. She was a German friend I had in England while living in the international hall. While discussing politics and culture at a gemutlich pub, she made the observation: Germans are hard to meet, bit easy to get to ( Read more... ) -
Neil Gaiman's blog
I thought some folk (especially astartesyriaca and nekokaiju) would be interested in Neil Gaiman's blog: http://www.neilgaiman.com/journal/.
