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Entries from January 2009

Twitter Updates for 2009-01-30

January 30th, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized

Twingly blog search providing results that don’t contain ANY of the terms I am searching for. http://bit.ly/1AmRxi # Pew Research: 69% or Americans don’t want to live in a city. Small town, suburbia, or rural life is preferred. http://bit.ly/10V1K # Virgin America sues blogger over fake ad. “I thought you were GOOD at PR, Richard […]

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Twitter Updates for 2009-01-29

January 29th, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized

Working on the site that we put up to sell our Sea Ray 400. It’s a great boat, going to miss it. http://bit.ly/HYBV # WSJ: Beware of Facebook ‘Friends’ Who May Trash Your Laptop http://bit.ly/M1q4z # New York Times: 48% decline in net income. Wonder if 34 Abu Ghraib cover stories (in 37 days) helped […]

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Twitter Updates for 2009-01-28

January 28th, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized

Reading “An Ecosocialist Manifesto” By Joel Kovel and Michael Lowy. http://bit.ly/9IKn # Morse code is faster than texting. http://bit.ly/dmuJ # Powered by Twitter Tools.

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Seattle to (Local) Visitors: Drop Dead

January 28th, 2009 · 8 Comments · Crazy Urbanites

Seattle continues to lurch forward with it’s ongoing campaign to make the city utterly inhospitable to anyone who has the audacity visit by automobile, (or be too old to wear spandex.) The latest inane move is chronicled here. It’s okay to come via jet and cab to the W though for your shopping spree. Just […]

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Twitter Updates for 2009-01-26

January 26th, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized

Pew Research policy priorities survey: Global warming in last place among American adults. http://bit.ly/3T2r8b # State of Hawaii investigates funding a program to give homeless there a one-way plane ticket to go … somewhere else. http://bit.ly/3bbxS # Seattle is 8th fittest city in the U.S. Salt Lake city is number one. SF is 12. Fattest […]

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Twitter Updates for 2009-01-25

January 25th, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized

Nowhere at carbonite.com can you find out how to remove the (ugh.) Mac version. It’s the roach motel of backup apps. http://bit.ly/ibJh # Just deleted my tivo season pass to Meet the Press. Without Russert, it’s just not the same… # At our Vegas Party: “LeVar Burton Interviews Robert Scoble, and then Seduces Sarah Austin […]

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Finance Companies Giving Away Chevy Suburbans (Seriously)

January 16th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Economics

This is second hand, but from an extremely reliable source. A friend of a friend had a financed a 2006 Chevy Suburban, but returned it to the finance company a few weeks ago due to personal financial constraints. The finance company (GMAC??) called him and told him to take it back and keep it, but […]

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