Posts from January, 2006
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Jan1Let’s Rage
Muslim rage Ski rage Anti-Bike Messenger rage Air rage Plain old road rage
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Jan1Flat Earth Society
I’m reading The World is Flat by globalization’s greatest cheerleader, Thomas Friedman. As the author skips across the globe speaking with leaders of commerce and culture, he visits Harvard political theorist Michael J. Sandel. The noted academic startled Friedman by suggesting that his “flattening” ideas have some parallels with what Marx and Engels were saying [...]
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Jan1PostSecrets
My eight postsecrets for the day: I don’t know how to play Texas Hold ‘Em or any card game for that matter. I don’t do any computer or console gaming and probably never will. I sometimes worry that my drinking a beer or two a day is too much alcohol consumption. Several times I day I fingerskate my [...]
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Jan0Facing Forward
It’s one of the most visited web sites on the internet and yet most of us over thirty have never heard of it. If fact, back in October, it ranked 10th most visted site in the United States. But if you’re an undergraduate student at just about any college in America, The Facebook is [...]
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Jan65 Reasons
Five reasons I’m missing Austin right now… With all the great city footage in the first two episodes of A&E’s Rollergirls, I don’t have Venis Envy, just Austin Envy. Our first experience with Mexican food in Chapel Hill was disappointing. We tried again with Monterrey, a restaurant that came highly recommended. Yeah… not so much. I’d [...]
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