Category: Humor
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Ian of Letters Home to You has postulated a list of guiding principles of blogging, twenty commandments if you will. They are not written in stone as you will find out (see commandment # 19, if it has not already changed). Although I have been blogging for more than two years (including my guest blogging…
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The current buzzword in marketing is ‘going green’ or ‘eco-friendly’. Today’s New York Times has an apropos look (subscription required)at the phenomenon ( which I had ranted about earlier in my Madness of Magazines post on my personal blog), thus confirming my suspicions that while going green might be desirable, there will always exist a…
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The sparsely populated state of Nebraska is best known for its cold climate, corn, beef and football. But Nebraska has also contributed an impressive array of national luminaries in the fields of literature (novelist Willa Cather, poet John G. Neihardt), philosophy (Saul Kripke), the financial world (Warren Buffett) and show business (Henry Fonda, Fred Astaire,…
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The Secret Service tags the politicians it protects with code names. The choice of monikers is not always entirely clear although it is supposed to reflect the personality of the owner. It is not a surprise that the names are usually flattering – some more than others. Senator Barack Obama, who among the current presidential…
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George W. Bush has wrapped up his G-8 Summit meeting in Germany where he had an interesting encounter with his erstwhile "soul mate" Vladimir Putin and was greeted by demonstrators. He also dropped by in Italy (where he was booed by protesters) and Albania for a short time. For a pleasant change, in the latter…
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Between cats and bad spelling, things can really get out of hand! So reports Dwight Silverman of the Houston Chronicle. Computer geeks have their own niche in pop culture. Sometimes, something crazed from that niche escapes and runs rampant among the masses. Now working its way into the popular consciousness is something far more bizarre…
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In a recent survey Danes emerged as the happiest people in Europe. But now there is a fly in the ointment of their contentment. The Danes can no longer understand each other!
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As if the grandiose claims and threats of ‘Baghdad Bob’ ( Mohammad Saeed al Sahaf of Iraq) weren’t enough, we now have a new candidate for the grand prize of propagandery : ‘Khartoum Karl'(Link to WaPo article via Rawstory):
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Jyothsnay, whom I first met through a heated debate about cats and dogs, points me to a perfect crime. But she suggested and I agree, that the animal roles are reversed. Download PerfectCrime.zip (hope the file opens)
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What do medical students actually do? Study medicine? No; they engage in epic Peep battles.
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