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He Safire to the facts! [in the style of Cartman from South Park]

February 19th, 2006 · No Comments

Kottke led me to this post by Wes Felter rightfully criticizing William Safire’s rough’n’far from ready article ostensibly reviewing the jargon of the blogosphere. Among the numerous factual errors, Safire’s primary source for these facts - blogossary.com gets things so wrong it’s almost laughable. Here’s a quick example of their entry for ‘meme’: “A meme [...]

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IM Quotes

December 29th, 2005 · Comments Off

hey, if you type in your pw, it will show as stars
********* see!
hunter2
doesnt look like stars to me
*******
QDB: Top 100 Quotes

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Ace Bar for sale

November 27th, 2005 · No Comments

eBay: ACE BAR NEW YORK CITY MANHATTAN EAST VILLAGE BUSINESS (item 4420176447 end time Dec-19-05 16:27:21 PST)
Yeah. The Ace Bar in the East Village is being sold on Ebay. I hope it comes with the Hologram Werewolf and the collection of vintage lunch tins - cos those things are worth like 1/2 a million alone.

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How T-mobile reinvented SMTP…

November 19th, 2005 · No Comments

So I was doing a bit of googling to fix up my new Nokia 6682’s email capabilities and I found some useful information via Google and then this

complete nonsense (see image on left) from T-mobile - my trusted cell phone provider, to whom I pay large chunks of cash every month to provide me with [...]

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dack.com 2.0

November 8th, 2005 · Comments Off

Go to the Web Two Point Oh! site and get yourself a new company pre-made for VC loving. I am the President and CEO of the Welsh-sounding Secwy, who specializes in tag-based classifieds via Ruby on Rails.
Ah.. the good old days…. found while perusing apophenia

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