September 2009
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“646 goes both ways.”
– What meanings/connotations do NYC area codes carry? Check out P•Feld with the subtle palindromic number pun while discussing NYC’s evolving area code geography and mobile/land-line portability. I vaguely recall bygone days of the Bronx 212, and of dialing just the last seven. And I’ve...
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“Left-handed men have to reach much further into their pants, performing a...”
– Rob Faucherand, of UK department store Debenhams, on HOM launching briefs designed for handedness-neutral junk access, “a vital step toward equality for left-handed men.” My cup runneth over, Rob! This is a pleasing development, but the Reuters article hints at the Fraternal Order of...
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Dignity & Small-Time Hustles
Mike’s blatant rip-off of my ground-breaking post on the evolving state of condiment unit pricing at fast food eateries reminded me of an observation at (where else?) McDonald’s the other day demonstrating consumers are likewise capable of stinginess.
While I’m waiting on my iced coffee, a gentleman of approximately 50 years orders a few items and “a small cup for...
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“The continued existence of the floating, implicit government backstop of large,...”
– The cordially umbrageous John Carney comments on Paul Krugman Is Dead Wrong About Wall Street Pay
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“[A]n epileptic monkey choosing stocks by throwing darts could have made money in...”
– Crazy Nut Job, on mostly exiting his equity positions for cash, options on volatility, etc, in Quitters Prosper.
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WatchI’ll Take Her by Ill Al Skratch.
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“Insurance executives don’t do this because they’re bad people; they...”
– President Obama, to which Sean Hannity just said that Obama went to far when he said insurance executives were bad people. WTF???????? (via biteofpythias with some clean-up)
This is a precocious-child type manipulation by grown-man Hannity. He’s treating “they’re bad people”...
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JetBlue All-You-Can-Jet Lures Extremists →
Several people are taking the All-You-Can-Jet pass as the biggest personal challenge since all-you-can-eat. With any luck, hilarity will ensue. One caveat CNN points out:
Given JetBlue’s hub structure, many travelers found a slight hiccup: If they were in the Midwest, they might have to travel all the way back to New York to travel to the West Coast.
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Modernizing McGruff →
McGruff the Crime Dog® has taken on a broader and more progressive agenda since I was in his target demo. He’s now taking a bite of gender role stereotyping, media literacy, sexting, etc. The National Crime Prevention Council has even updated McGruff’s original remit (though not his website design) for the Web2.0 world with “Take A Bite Out of Cyber Crime.”
Good going,...
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“Just read President Obama’s speech to students…it is a good speech...”
– Newt Gingrich. Good thing that’s settled.
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Political opposition: The good, the bad, and the...
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Parents threatening to keep their children home from school because Obama might talk to them should disturb all of us. This isn’t simply a matter of parents thinking this is an inappropriate use of school resources or a waste of time. This is parents who think that having Obama say something to their children about staying in school and being the best they can be is so...
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Japan May Pay Citizens to Have More Kids →
A few tumbleloggers ran with quotes about Ben Stein’s Fortune article Assessing the net value of children. Unfortunately, rather than excerpting Stein’s piece, they excerpted an ax-grind post at Reuters by Felix Salmon - which did more to miss Stein’s droll humor and criticize him for the sin of lamenting the struggles of a higher social class rather than a lower one - than to...
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“I should hang up my SNL dream because they don’t seem to want to hire two black...”
– Asie, on SNL hired an Iranian-American cast member. She’s mistaken. Exhibit A: Tracy Morgan, the Other Black Guy.
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