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Pointless meme of the day, from feste_sylvain :
- Go to musicoutfitters.com
- Enter the year you graduated from high school in the search function and get the list of 100 most popular songs of that year.
- Bold the songs you like
- Italicize the songs you liked then, but don't now
- Strike through the ones you hate
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Barack Obama and FISA
I've been commenting on this issue in other people's journals, but I haven't posted anything here ( Read more... ) -
So much for drive-through espresso at the local strip mall...
Signs of the times:- Shopping center economic model is history (this is a blog post, not a news story, but it posts compelling data to back up its claim)
- US Auto sales down by double digits overall last month
- Starbucks to close 600 stores
Some of this might just be normal recessionary stuff (particularly the Starbucks story) which is worrying enough ( Read more... ) - Shopping center economic model is history (this is a blog post, not a news story, but it posts compelling data to back up its claim)
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Fascinating site for Seattle history
I recently finished reading "Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism" by James Loewen. It's a fascinating history of residential segregation in the United States that describes how thousands of towns, cities, and suburbs throughout America, and many thousands more neighborhoods in multi-racial cities, were consciously made all-white. ( Read more... ) -
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From the Seattle Bubble blog: for the first time since the collapse of the housing bubble, homes in the Seattle area are priced lower than the same time a year previously. Overall, prices are down 6% from their peak 6 months ago.
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From VintageSeattle.org, the 1951 Seattle Civil Defense Manual. It's produced, of course, by the still-paranoid broadcasters at KVI. The first four pages are essentially an advertisement for the radio station. The rest is classic Cold War fear and delusion, clearly echoed today by the Duct Tape Brigade. The last couple of pages even have a long ( Read more... ) -
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Anyone have any idea how to go about getting the state and local utilities bodies to actually regulate the local telecom monopoly? Because I'm sick of getting forcefully sodomized by Verizon's "services," whether it's basic phone service or customer service or technical support service or their fun non-consensual "we'll help the federal government ( Read more... ) -
Concise cheat sheet for the upcoming election
Candidate vs. traits needed in the next president: Basically competentWell-intentioned rather than actively evilHighly intelligentRally the country behind positive action to address our problemsInspire me to be a better citizenListen and consider views of all Americans, even without agreeingGeorge W. Bush
NONONONONONORalph NaderNOYESNONONONOJohn ( Read more... ) -
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Total new miles: 496 through end of 2007
Previous 2007 miles: 3770.9
Total 2007 miles: 4266.9
Total miles in 2008: 223.2 (through Tuesday, January 15)
Total new miles: 719.2
Previous miles: 12068.9
Total miles: 12788.1