Year: 2005
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Mixed nuts
Bizarre experiment with mixed nuts, run by nutsThe adventures of Chad, the guy who was so into Super Monkey Ball that he decided to live in a ball (bizarre video game commercials)Absolutely bizarre music mixes. (Thanks to Third Coast Festival) Check out #3 (I’ve Got You) and #13 (Bier Bier Bier Downtown).And this, uhhhh,… I…
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Bye bye Carly
In consumer PCs, HP is still getting punished by Dell, which just reported record numbers.Time, 21 February 2005, Pg. 36The consumer PC’s at HP were not Carly’s problem, they sucked way before she took the reins at HP. They don’t work very well, they break more than comparable business PCs and they cost a fortune…
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By the numbers
59% Proportion of 10th-graders in 1990 who said they expected to graduate from a four-year college.80% Proportion of 10th-graders in 2002 who said they expected to graduate from a four-year college, attributed to increased encouragement from teachers.Time, 21 February 2005, Pg. 19That increase in the number of kids who think that they will graduate from…
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A Million Monkeys
We’ve heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true.Robert Wilensky, speech at a 1996 conference
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Compassion
Unless our desire for human compassion is stronger than our desire to be right, to be secure or to belong, love will elude us.Marsha Sinetar
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Thoughts on an Honored institution
You have two choices in life: You can stay single and be miserable, or get married and wish you were dead.At a cocktail party, one woman said to another, “Aren’t you wearing your wedding ring on the wrong finger?” “Yes, I am. I married the wrong man.”A lady inserted an ‘ad’ in the classifieds: “Husband…
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Too bad. So sad.
I feel horrible that, once again, someone has invaded my privacy.Hotel heiress and professional celebrity Paris Hilton, in an interview with US Weekly magazine, on the posting of the contents of her cell-phone address book on the Internet