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Bush Spends His Time Reading

Karl Rove’s  opinion piece in the WSJ “Bush Is a Book Lover”  explains alot about the past 8 years. The article tells us about the vast quantities of books that he and Bush have read each year for the past few years. Rove and Bush had a contest of sorts to see who could read the most [...]

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Your Package Has Experienced an Exception

Today, my email inbox taunts me with subjects like: There’s Still Time! Rush shipping extended on great gifts … Christmas Gift Baskets in Time For Christmas Last Chance for Christmas Delivery Get Delivery by Christmas … Last Day to Order Gifts in Time for Holiday Delivery  That last one is from the company that I placed a toy order with on [...]

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E-Commerce Sites That Close During the Night

 I do my Christmas shopping online while the rest of the household sleeps and the house is quiet.  Now, it’s 1:15 am. I need a gift for my dad.  A HomeDepot gift card would be just the thing.   He really would like it. It’s not just me being lame.  He’s that kind of dad, a real [...]

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Freaky Crazy Web 0.1 Site

Can’t tell if The Amish Homepage is a parody site, or is serious.  Whichever, it is so web 0.1, consider it campy-retro-web design. Yes, I know, Amish people are not supposed to use electricity, but we’re making sure that we use as little as possible… 1. This page uses no fancy background. 2. This page uses darker colors [...]

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Feeling the Pain

Lehman No. 2 Joe Gregory Lays Off Household Staff of 29 and won’t be taking the private helicopter or seaplane to work.  

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12th Anniversary of “Irrational Exuberance”

A moment of silence please as we reflect on the 12th anniversary of  Alan Greenspan’s famous comment about irrational exuberance made on December 5, 1996: Clearly, sustained low inflation implies less uncertainty about the future, and lower risk premiums imply higher prices of stocks and other earning assets. We can see that in the inverse relationship [...]

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Shipping Cost Gobbly Gook

Snapfish says about ordering prints of photos: To calculate the shipping cost for your print order, add the above tiered prices to your base price for each set of ten prints (not including the first five prints). Tiered prices apply to all delivery methods. See pricing tables. Shipping & Handling: Prints & Enlargements   standard 2-day overnight canada international 1-5 prints 99¢ $5.99 $8.99 $1.99 $4.99   6-195 prints 49¢ 49¢ 49¢ 49¢ 49¢   196-395 prints 39¢ 39¢ 39¢ 39¢ 39¢   396-595 prints 25¢ 25¢ 25¢ 25¢ 25¢   Each [...]

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Real Life Scandals, Swindles and Secrets

Scandals, swindles and secrets entertain fans of crime stories and  film noir movies. Here are some real-life dramas: From TechCrunch: “Last week, Danish Computerworld awarded IT Factory … with the prestigious Denmark’s Best IT-company 2008. This week, the company has been declared bankrupt and its managing director Stein Bagger went missing in Dubai while under scrutiny [...]

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A Look at the Lame McCain Campaign

Requiem for a Maverick, about the lame McCain campaign, has the sub-title “John McCain ran one of the most incompetent, schizo campaigns in history.”  Worthy read.

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