I have been taking a news vacation for awhile. It’s been nice. I might continue my news vacation even longer. Why have I been taking a news vacation? Because besides the big things — the war, ineffective and costly anti-terrorist actions, foolish economic policy, and such that we expect to see out of a second [...]

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Here’s an “odd news story”:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59533-2004Nov18.html. _Vanity Fair_ ran a story in 2002 claiming that Director Roman Polanski (_Rosemary’s Baby_ and _Chinatown_) seduced a woman while on his way to his own wife’s funeral. Roman Polanski would like to sue for libel in British court, but there’s a problem: Britain has an extradition treaty with the [...]

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“The Elf”:http://www.elfnoodles.com/ and I spent this last weekend in a cabin near Berkeley Springs, West Virginia. We were supposed to meet some friends there, but due to a mind-bogglingly enormous screw-up on my part they couldn’t find the cabin and ended up driving all the way back home the same night while we worried that [...]

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My email informs me today that, contrary to popular belief, I _can_ “transmute to the most advantageous chap for your girlfriend.” It’s kind of like Kafka, except instead of waking up a cockroach I wakeup as the CEO of a pharmaceuticals firm.
Oh, wait, that’s _no_ difference.
The email continues:
bq. My tablets is used to heal cavernous [...]

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Yeah, I am in the grip of a consumerist mood for some reason.
I just wanted to share with you a fun program called “MusicMagic Mixer”:http://music.predixis.com/. It’s like “MoodLogic”:http://www.moodlogic.com/ with -three- two significant differences:
# MusicMagic works, whereas MoodLogic does not.
# The developers of MusicMagic Maker are still around, whereas MoodLogic staff appears to have been [...]

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