tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89239846055000490402012-02-07T21:38:33.479-05:00Thomas Marcettihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06251387021074263374noreply@blogger.comBlogger3161100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8923984605500049040.post-85312002512736871352012-02-05T13:24:00.003-05:002012-02-05T13:25:49.993-05:00

"Are you dressing up!? Are you wearing pants with a zipper?"Jess, panicked that Super Nerd Bowl II plans had changedSo here we are, Super Sunday. A day famous for gluttony and mindless televised entertainment. Oh and I guess there's going to be a football game on too. Don't get me wrong, I like Super Sunday gatherings. I'm all for getting together with people to eat various dips, tiny hot dogs,

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This video based on comments Bill Maher made before last year's Super Bowl makes some interesting points. Maher points out the wild popularity of football is contrary to the general consensus that all socialism is bad, particularly the belief that it's bad because Obama supports social programs. If you don't want to watch the video (not recommended) but want a recap or breakdown of it, this

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** Update ** 10:30 a.m.ish Jan. 18, 2012 As I go about the Internet today and see how many sites are joining in the blackout, I wanted to again emphasize that I support the cause. I am against SOPA and PIPA. I hope that taking shots at Wikipedia doesn't make anyone think otherwise. There has been a lot of talk about SOPA lately. I've been asked to sign dozens of petitions to encourage Congress

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Martin Luther King Jr. Day is a day where most people take extra time and effort to remember the race divide in this country and to think back on how far we've come from the days before King. Part of me wants to go on a diatribe about the millions of people who are still enslaved around the world or the hypocrisy of the people who "practice tolerance" one day a year. Instead, I want to point out

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Zen is a powerful tool for seeking self-awareness and enlightenment, two goals that should be central in journalism. Zen and the art of journalism is my attempt to turn Zen teachings into practical journalism tips. "Having failed to distinguish thoughts from things, we then fail to distinguish words from thoughts. We think that if we can label a thing we have understood it."- Maha Sthavira

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I think it was somewhere around the third grade, and the wildfire trend of fully-enclosed Trapper Keepers that swept the world, that I first became interested in carrying as much shit with me as possible. Admittedly, when I was much younger I wanted a utility belt like Batman, but I never had things I actually needed to carry. I had one toy briefcase in which I carried a notebook, a Play-Doh

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As I continue to get Twitter pornbot spam, it occurs to me I made a mistake in one of my Twitter posts yesterday. The mistake was using "loins twitching" in a post, apparently it's a popular pornbot keyword. It is also apparently a popular keyword for real Twitter users. The many replies I got, some of them being quite erotic, focused more on loins than on journalism. In my haste to explain how

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One of the first things I read this morning was a piece by Mark W. Smith about former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum's Google problem and how the GOP candidate has made it worse for himself. Smith does a great job of laying out the problem and how Santorum and his campaign missed opportunities to fix it. But the article reminded me of a conversation I had in the newsroom on the night of the Iowa

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Ah, Jan. 3, 2012. The eyes of the world turn to Iowa and the quote, unquote historic caucus. Well, I guess not the eyes of the world. I imagine anyone with a favorite sports team playing tonight is more concerned about that. The people in Syria who are getting murdered by their government probably don't care too much either. I guess there is a lot of hype about former Egyptian dictator Hosni

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The other day I overheard a reporter trying to explain a story to an editor. Apparently the story didn't make sense. So the reporter was trying to explain what their intention was and what they thought the story was. I couldn't hear the whole conversation or what the nature of the misunderstanding was but I knew the reporter had missed the mark and suddenly a Zen saying I had heard a long time

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In case any of you were wondering what the clippings would look like if you wrote three stories a day for two years, here you go: For reference, the binder to the far right is 4 inches wide. Thanks to my mother for clipping and keeping all of these. Seeing the amount of work I produced while I was reporting in Michigan reminded me of how much I miss writing, so in conjunction with my personal

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Found this video on the blog of a friend and former teacher. Not only is the premise awesome, but this throwback to 8-bit gaming is excellently, faithfully executed.

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I'll be the first to admit my grammar, spelling and word choice are not perfect and there is much I don't know in those areas. However, the things I do now I cling to very strongly. Word choice is one of the those tricky areas that can cause serious havoc in writing. Many times the definition of a word is different than what people think it means. One of my favorite misunderstandings is monsoon.

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I wish it was one of those things that is so stupid it becomes funny, but the recent call for a "gas strike" or "gas out" kind of infuriates me. If you are lucky enough to have not been bombarded by social media requests from people urging you to stick it to "big oil" by not buying gas for one day, then count yourself lucky. What is perhaps most amazing about calls for "gas strikes" is the

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When I first heard about National Grammar Day I thought it was kind of silly. For the most part I dismiss almost all national "cause" days. I'm not even a big fan of Talk Like a Pirate Day and I love pirates almost as much as I love my family. It's a simple matter of oversaturation. A quick Google search will pull up about 50 billion pages of billions of national "cause" days, because if you have

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In the past I've pointed out some pretty stupid criminals and delighted in the endless variety of inane situations I've heard criminals get into as I listened to police scanners, so when I saw this story it seemed only fair I'd point out how stupid law enforcement can be as well. Search Warrant Typo Frees Drug Dealer Reported By Dennis Ferrier, Nashville News A convicted drug dealer serving 29

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An article over at GalleyCat took an interesting look at the top pirated eBooks on Pirates Bay (read the article). Aside from pointing out how quickly pirating can rack up huge losses for any industry, the article also shines light on something that should be fairly obvious - most digital pirates are huge nerds. The corollary to that is that huge nerds have fairly predictable tastes. Here is the

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Early this year my father had his knees replaced. When I was visiting him in the hospital I saw this sign on a door: I was with my mother at the time and the two of us were bamboozled to say the least. I've tried to figure out what the signs could actually mean (I refused to do any research to try and figure it out. I didn't want to take the fun out of it). Now, Western medicine has ingrained 

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As if people liking Twilight isn't mysterious enough, they have to say enigmatic  things like this The other day on my way to work I saw this sticker: I was baffled by what this meant so I went looking for answers. What I found in the Twilight Wiki was of little help. (It's possible that the terrible grammar and sentence structure made it impossible to find information on the site, or it

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I like to think that people are generally good and for the most part rational beings - it helps me sleep at night. And humanity as whole plays a long most of the time. People go about their lives for the most part as you would expect and react to situations in varying degrees of normalcy. But every now and then you get some real crazies who act just like their names imply - crazily. Fla. Police:

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I saw some panicked Facebook posts recently about the new* Instant Personalization and the scariness of its sharing potential. * Instant Personalization was actually announced in late April 2010. For those of you unfamiliar with the program, Instant Personalization allows a limited number of sites to use information from your Facebook account to personalize each visit to the site. The example

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"Hope and fear cannot alter the seasons."- Chögyam Trungpa

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A recent tech article caught my eye when it produced a list of "5 Technologies That Just Might Be Extinct By the End of 2011." At first I was intrigued because I enjoy reading about new tech and the evolution of technology, which of course includes the dying out of some things. The article contends that cable TV, landline phones, laptop computers (notebooks), hard drives and desktop operating

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Just the other day I was sitting around thinking. I said to myself "Self, how can we piss off a lot of people, possibly keep a ton of people from seeing their families on Thanksgiving and get a TSA agent to grab a handful of my genitals?" Luckily as I was sitting pondering this some idiot saved me the trouble. It's called National Opt-Out Day (Nov. 24) and the goal is basically to cause a

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"You called me a bitch on the Internet." - Erica Albright, 'The Social Network' Erica Albright supposedly said that to Mark Zuckerburg after he actually called her a bitch on the Internet. Since my life is no where near as thrill-a-minute as the Facebook dramatization (and since I'm not going to be a billionaire soon) I had to settle for a much more subtle and and less mean-spirited showdown with

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Couple siphoning gas catch fire TACOMA, Wash. (AP) - A couple siphoning gas from a Salvation Army van caught fire when it suddenly erupted in flames in Washington state.A witness told police two people were trying to siphon gas Wednesday night in a Tacoma church parking lot. As the witness approached and startled the suspects, the fire broke out.Police spokesman Mark Fulghum told The News Tribune

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I know that to many of you I am an inspiration in every aspect of life and I don't want to dismiss that, but one of my recent Twatter posts has inspired one of my favorite bloggers. "Journalists like telling dead baby jokes and other tasteless and crude stories because it helps them cope with the horrible things they experience on the job. And it’s cheaper than therapy."Stuff Journalists Like

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The Hero of the Day award goes to Municipal Court Judge Damian G. Murray for his verbal bitch slapping of notorious waste-of-human-parts Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi. "Snooki" fined $500 for annoying people By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press Writer SEASIDE HEIGHTS, N.J. – Calling her "a Lindsay Lohan wannabe," a judge fined "Jersey Shore" star Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi $500 on Wednesday and ordered her

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This is a collection of news stories, photos and quotes that didn't quite pan out into full blogs for one reason or another. If you're interested in penguins, facial recognition safety features, controversial hormone treatments, baby carrots, marketing campaigns featuring metal music or studies about exercise than this roundup is right for you. Hop Along walks Annwyne Annwyne Stanish walks "

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My favorite part about Fox News is that in its relentless quest to demonize and attack everything that is not ultra-Right Wing, it constantly shoot itself in the foot (when it's not using falsified facts or misleading footage.) Hopefully by now everyone has seen or heard of this latest Foxtrocity, especially because the Islamic Cultural Center is still such a hot button issue and Fox is, as

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"Having failed to distinguish thoughts from things, we then fail to distinguish words from thoughts. We think that if we can label a thing we have understood it." - Maha Sthavira Sangharakshita P.S. this dude isn't even on Wikipedia. Wrap your "New Media" head around that!

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I'm just going to come right out and say it. I saw a Chupacabra, the bane of Latin American farmers. Right off the bat I know some of you are judging me, questioning my sanity, wondering how drunk I was/am. Well before you get too chaffed from sitting so haughtily on your high horse, listen to my tale -- if you dare! Chapu-thingy I was driving home from work like I do most nights. I was

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I'd hate to make fun of people with mental retardation or any other cognitive impairment, but the question "What if Kanye West is retarded?" is very thought provoking (and hilarious). The question has resurfaced in my mind constantly since reading the Cracked article linked above.  To be quite clear, I have absolutely no respect for West. His "music" is absolute garbage -- a point that I know

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Usually it seems like politicians' glasses are half-full of shit and half empty of morals, but that is really unfair (some of them are totally full empty). In many cases though a variety of factors affect a politician's decisions. I'm going to totally ignore those factors and pigeonhole the crap out of them. A Democrat's glass is overflowing with generosity. It's not fair that some people don't

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Stem-cell experiment on pigs seen as step forward in repairing heart damage By Fred Tasker McClatchy Newspapers MIAMI -- A medical research team led by University of Miami doctors injected stem cells into the hearts of pigs that had been damaged by heart attacks.Within two months, the doctors said, the stem cells made the pigs' hearts good as new.For humans, the research represents another

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"If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason." - Jack HandyI'll give you a reason to scream. That tangent aside. Normally I'm a pretty big fan of trees. I'm a fan of their shade and how open they are to having small- to medium-sized hang out and live in them. I've even, on occasion, been awed by trees. But

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"Give me all you're money or I'm going to pollen you to death."XOXO from the Bouquet Bandit Police arrest 'bouquet bandit' The Associated Press NEW YORK -- A man suspected of robbing two New York City banks while armed with a floral bouquet and a potted plant has been arrested. Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said 44-year-old Edward Pemberton was taken into custody in Brooklyn after police

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"There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty."- John Adams

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A report I read from The Seattle Times has had me fuming most of the night. It was about a study by the Alaska office of the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health into the fatality rates of various types of fishing. Some of you may already be thinking "Oh I know which one had the most. I've seen and or heard of Discovery Channel's 'Deadliest Catch.'" And indeed this show has

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"A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck."- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. I'm looking at you Wall Street

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A friend's Facebook discussion about newspaper design got me thinking again about how much stock I place in the strength of the medium and in the need for good design. The meat and potatoes of the conversation was how sad it is that some papers are letting page design fall by the wayside in order to try to wrangle Internet traffic. Responses to this highlighted on the need to have good content

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"I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart." e e cummings (1894 - 1962) Judging from this quote I would almost swear he was alive today and working for the government.

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It used to be a universal truth most people held to -- Jesery stinks. However, it seems a couple of the state's residents are rallying to cast down what they call unfair stigmatization.  Website looks to tout all that's good about N.J. The Associated Press TRENTON, N.J. -- Tired of boorish comments and jokes about New Jersey, residents and business people have created a website to express their

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Polysyllabic contemplations = teh suxMonosyllabic Tweets = gud!  It's not a secret that I despise Twitter. I think it's an incredibly vapid and limited way to communicate, but I decided to fold and get an account. My initial plan was to post ironically, but I soon realized that would be nigh impossible. If I tried to post about completely useless shit I would have to compete with the thousands

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"Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind." - Albert Einstein Listening to Marilynne Robinson and Jon Stewart discuss the interconnectivity of religion and science really got me thinking. The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10c Marilynne Robinson www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full EpisodesPolitical HumorTea Party I make a very specific

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"Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy."   - George Carlin I didn't know Carlin worked for Fox. Man that dude did just about everything when he was around and kicking. Get it? Because Fox doesn't care about lying and or making up facts and or ignoring or missing using facts. Get it?... 'Cause they

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The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10c Back in Black - Product Recalls www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full EpisodesPolitical HumorTea Party

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I hate to be a Cynical Caleb (the slightly less well-known cousin of Debbie Downer) during the celebration of our nation's independence, but there is something that normally is just a pet peeve of mine that has metastasized into full-on rip my hair out rant-page (Get it? Like rampage. Word play is fun). The practice of using the term "American" as a synonym for a person, place or thing from or

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In this July 4, 1910 file photo, provided by the Nevada Historical Society, Jack Johnson, right, knocks out Jim Jeffries during a boxing match in Reno, Nev. A century ago Johnson reached the pinnacle of his career when he defeated Jeffries in what was billed as the "Fight of the Century."  -The Nevada Historical Society Fight of the Century highlighted US racial divideBy TIM DAHLBERGThe

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"Hey check out this alert: 'South African police arrest Paris Hilton for possession of marijuana.' Hopefully they execute her."- Paginator C I know they dropped the charges, I just thought this was funny.

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Final Destination 5 Gets Renamed 5NAL DESTINATION This is serious. I couldn't make this up if I tried. Apparently the executives behind this shit fest didn't think it would be vomit-inducing enough so they decided to try to "hip it up" with some street-cred earning Leetspeak. But they messed that up too. Five-nal Destination? Really? That's what people thought was a good idea? I'm upset for

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While exploring some of the more cobwebbed corners of my various bookmark lists, I found an Oatmeal strip I had not read. Entitled "What it's like to own an Apple product," the strip is a pretty funny, but more or less accurate look at the idiocy and frustrations of being an Apple geek. The archetypal Apple ownership experience. For some time, ideas for various rants about Apple have been

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This is from a couple weeks ago so the numbers are probably slightly off now but it's still pretty interesting. BP's got money aplenty for huge Gulf spill billBy The Associated Press Cleanup, fines and lawsuits stemming from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill are likely to cost BP tens of billions of  dollars. Yet many investment analysts say the British oil giant can survive the crisis. Here¹s a look

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Jess and I were discussing the ease of explaining and understanding geography in Michigan using the I-live-here-on-the-hand method today and it got me thinking. During her summer internship, she is back in Michigan and was talking to another out-of-state intern about different places around the state. By simply saying "Look at the palm of your right hand" she was able to explain the different

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"A tree is a wonderful living organism which gives shelter, food, warmth and protection to all living things. It even gives shade to those who wield an axe to cut it down" – Buddha. I like to give environmentalists and hippies a hard time about tree hugging but seeing some of these trees makes even me consider dendrophilia. It is easy to forget just awesome this little planet is when we're

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The Colbert ReportMon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c Prophet Glenn Beck - Father Guido Sarducci www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full EpisodesPolitical HumorFox News

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"An opinion should be the result of thought, not a substitute for it." - Jef Mallett I'm looking at you Fox "news" team.

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The John Isner-Nicolas Mahut match the last couple days has been drawing a lot of attention for the sheer epicness of its duration and the savagery for which the two are racking up the aces. For those not familiar with the match: Their first-round match at Wimbledon lasted more than 7 1/2 hours -- breaking the record of 6 hours, 33 minutes set in a 2004 French Open match. -- The Associated Press

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"Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none."   - Jules Renard While the same could be said of many professions, writing in general seems to be plagued by this predicament. I think the problem is that while some professions have very obvious indicators of skill or talent, writing is held to a set of standards that is highly subjective, in

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By Nicholas Riccardi and Alex Rodriguez Los Angeles Times ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - The U.S. has spent nine years and billions of dollars trying to hunt down Osama bin Laden amid the rugged, lawless badlands along the Pakistani-Afghan border. But according to Pakistani officials and his own family, Gary Brooks Faulkner of Denver thought he could get the job done himself, with a pistol, a dagger and

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Many of us still haven't forgiven Kevin Costner for such global disasters such as 3000 Miles to Graceland, The Postman and Tin Cup, but it is amazing to see him now reaching out and doing something like this. Too often the typical Hollywood star response is to blame people, whine a lot and adopt more babies from Third World countries (that last one might just be a typical day for Angelina

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Where were you when John Wooden died? If you are anything like me, you were sitting at your desk cursing him for dying and screwing up at least three of the pages in your section an hour and half before deadline while simultaneously wondering who the eff he is was. Before tonight I had never heard of him, or if I had it had rolled out of my short term memory like a frat boy's date falling

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"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be."   - Kurt Vonnegut

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The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10c Jon Meacham www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full EpisodesPolitical HumorTea Party In this interview with Jon Stewart, Newsweek Editor Jon Meacham touches briefly on the future of journalism, specifically in regard to the future of print. I, of course, was pretty interested in his take, particularly because he seemed to make an excellent

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"Dio has rocked for a long, long time, Now it's time for him to pass the torch. He has songs of wilderbeasts and angels, He has soared on the wings of a demon. It's time to pass the torch, You're too old to rock, no more rockin' for you. We're takin' you to a home, But we will sing a song about you." Tenacious D - 'Dio' Ronnie James DioJuly 10, 1942 - May 16, 2010 After a battle with

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"There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers." - Richard FeynmanMay 11, 1918 – Feb. 15, 1988 Makes you wonder what he would say about this deficit.

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"I count him a great man who inhabits a higher sphere of thought, into which other men rise with labor and difficulty." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Since I've been designing sports pages (just less than 4 months) I've struggled to figure out how anyone can stomach watching a baseball game. Watching most sports bores the crap out of me, but baseball seems to be one of the worst. I'm probably one of the few people younger than retirement age and older than a toddler that has fallen asleep in a ball park during a baseball game. So far I'd had

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A lot of things about the recent Hollywood boondoggle that is "The A-Team" remake make me sad. I've come to terms with the realization that about 75 percent of what Hollywood makes is total crap they are hoping to sell us so they can buy more cars and black market organs (for shits and giggles), that 20 percent is a legitimate attempt to create something of quality that fails because some

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The Villages town squares are remarkable in their own right, and with a community of about 70,000 retirees being offered nightly happy hours and live music, there are endless opportunities for ridiculousness. Guy: "What the hell Marvin!?" Marvin: "What?" Guy: "What the hell Marvin? Either you're drunk or I'm drunk." Marvin: "What?" Guy: "You're parking on the curb Marvin." Marvin: (slurred

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One of the best (and worst) things about the Internet is that nothing ever goes away. Every tweet, twit, video and Facebookery will be suspended on the information super highway forever. Among the piles of dead flies stuck in the World Wide Web there is plenty of gems and plenty of trash. In my recent wanderings I stumbled across some old junk in this article: "What's next for Hotmail." In my

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"The English language was carefully, carefully cobbled together by three blind dudes and a German dictionary."   - Dave Kellett

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"Like most intellectuals, he's intensely stupid." -Marquise de Merteuil For a long time I've been against embryonic stem cell research, not only because of the way they are harvested, but because it has been practically useless. At risk of repeating myself, the facts are that adult stem cells have been seriously researched for about 10 years compared to about 30 years of embryonic research. Adult

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Reporter to editor: “I saw my first dead body today, instead of being sad I just had a strange craving for Subway.” Editor: “Welcome to journalism, son.” From Overheard in the Newsroom That's not quite the way I felt when I saw my first but...

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From xkcb

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"The tooth fairy teaches children that they can sell body parts for money."  - David Richerby

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I've been told it's been unseasonably cold in Florida. I got the memo late apparantly as I have only closed my windows a handful of times since Jan. 10th(ish). But we can all rejoice because Spring is officially here. In Michigan this was marked by the sighting of a robin. While working in Hillsdale (southern Michigan) we got numerous calls each year from people who had spotted "the first one"

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I caught this segment on CNN this morning about Green Day's show opening on Broadway. At first I just thought it was foolishness. Of course Green Day wanted to be on Broadway. The band that pioneered the movement of selling out punk rock would do just about anything to make a buck (especially if they can wear eyeliner while doing it). But then I heard something that made me incredibly sad. The

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"You smell like a man -- like bacon." -Jess Belcoure

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If you are the only person in the office when a local business burns to the ground don't wait several hours to tell the people the who put together the paper. This not one of those things that commonly comes up in conversation allowing you to segue into revealing your news tips. Wrong approach: "Speaking of deadline for the local section coming up, I wrote a story about a horrible fire today.

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I'm slowing adapting to living on the other side of the country. Mostly this means enjoying beautiful weather and having access to fried chicken no matter where I am (huge bonus), but in general I tend to forget that I'm not in Michigan unless I see or experience something that is totally alien to that Midwestern jewel. In the last several days as I've been trying to get out and enjoy the

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Apparently I am a spinster woman. I have a cat that I talk to and generally treat like a person. I tell people about things she does. And yes... I'm going to blog about her. Or more specifically, her fur. I bought a new brush for her, the kind that gets out the loose undercoat, and it is ridiculously effective. In one brief brushing I took out more hair than I thought her little 9-pound frame

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"If living conditions don't stop improving in this country, we're going to run out of humble beginnings for our great men." - Russell P. Askue

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Wily coyote evades NYC police capture for 2 days NEW YORK -- A wily coyote evaded New York City police for two days before being nabbed in a parking garage. It was the fourth coyote sighting in Manhattan this year. The animal first eluded police capture Wednesday near the Holland Tunnel. It was spotted Thursday afternoon on the West Side Highway, and police chased it to an open-air garage in

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The Oscars have a time honored tradition of being something I don't really care about. This award show seems to be a popularity contest that they don't even bother to thinly veil. And I don't mean popularity contest as in which movie is thought to be the best or liked by the most people. This is the kind of contest that makes the douchiest guy prom king (generally speaking) and the girl who

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From xkcd Isn't this true of almost all math theorems? The more math you know the fewer friends you have? I remember my Calculus teacher used to get very annoyed when I asked him why we needed to learn about derivatives. After about 35 minutes (most of the class period) trying to convince me how important Calculus is, his final point boiled down to: You might need to know it so you can

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I can't decide if this makes me hungry or sleepy. But I do know that I want one for my kids. I realize that might mean buying one now and putting it in storage for the next decade (or two, who knows) The thought of the cost of storage is making me reconsider this bed for my kid. The little punk is already going to be the most expensive thing to happen to my life (and I haven't totally given up on

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I tried to take care of some simple banking transactions today and an hour later I still cannot properly describe how frustrating it was. In the end, the gentleman in customer service took about 3 seconds to do what I needed to do, but it took me about 20 minutes to get to that point. My goal was to discontinue an automatic transfer from my checking to my savings. I had initially set it up to

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Genius, Visionary, Modern Hero That is Kevin Flynn. He came into our lives and showed us the limitless possibilities of the future. And then, all of a sudden, he "disappeared." Some people believe he died. We don't. We know that Kevin Flynn Lives. We're not crazy, we're not obssessed, we're not lunatics. We simply have followed the

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Unit 91 "We've got a pothead on fire." Radio "Where's this pothead at?" I wish I could make this stuff up.

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 "These things happened. They were glorious and they changed the world... and then we fucked up the endgame."  -Charlie Wilson Former Texas Rep. Charlie Wilson dies By JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press Writer DALLAS (AP) - The late Rep. Charlie Wilson worked tenaciously to funnel millions of dollars in weapons to Afghan rebels who fought off the Soviet Union, only to watch Afghanistan plunge into

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Unit 91: It's either a large bonfire or a fully engulfed mobile home. In their defense there were people standing around the fire crying and roasting marshmallows.

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 Pandas like to be express mail If you're anything like me - you've no doubt found yourself, at least once or twice, in possession of a panda wondering how on Earth you're going to be able to mail it to a friend. Well, worry no more. NPR is here to help. NPR: How to FedEx a Panda

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"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies."   - Thomas Jefferson

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Meet Marko, the 9-year-old systems engineer Marko Calasan, a 9-year-old from Macedonia, is more than just a kid who's into computers. At age 6, he got his first systems administrator credential from Microsoft and, last month, he became perhaps the youngest Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer. Information from CNET news. This reminds me of Tony Stark's bio from Iron Man.

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Time for another installment of "If I had Twitter." It's becoming harder not to run into Twitter posts in my everyday Internet browsing so I have seen some of what passes for communication in them. On the off chance the entire Internet goes retarded and this is what we are left with, I should probably learn to speak this sub-language. Here is goes: "It's @rainy @outside. The #ground is @wet."

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Scanner Traffic: “One man with a shovel. Two men chasing him.”Information from Overheard in the Newsroom I'm sure there is a good reason, and I'm sure its funny. Because if the Howards and Fine have taught me anything, it's that there is always a good reason for physical escalation.

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Scanner: “We need to advise this male that he cannot ride the train with human waste running down his pants.”Information from Overheard in the Newsroom

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