Ballookey

I was just browsing feeds in Google Reader when I came across this post on Steve’s go flying turtle!:
In fact, as much as I liked reading some of the nice comments at my blog, I have now discovered closing the comments to be somewhat liberating. How, you ask? Well, according to blogger etiquette, when a [...]

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A subscription to the paper edition of Time magazine is $20 for 56 issues or .35/issue.
It’s $5.00 per issue on the iPad.
A subscription to GQ, on paper, sent through post office and delivered to your door is either $1.00/issue, or .83 each depending on whether you buy a one-year or two-year subscription.
It’s $2.99 per issue [...]

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This affects NEARLY nobody, but I’ve changed the settings of this blog to automatically close comments after 14 days. I’ve been getting a metric ton of spam comments. Obviously I just mark them all as spam and no one sees them, but it’s gone super nova the past couple of days, so I figured closing [...]

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The Way the Future Blogs, an online memoir by science fiction writer Frederik Pohl » Blog Archive » Isaac, Part 4, and some other guys.
This blog entry by Frederik Pohl is really poignant for me because the event he recalls is just months after my birth, and to hear about his great [...]

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Why A Salad Costs More Than A Big Mac – The Consumerist.

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My Brother’s Bar on Gowalla.
Dude. I just happened to have the Gowalla website open because it’s recently had a redesign, and what do I see scroll by, but someone checking in to My Brother’s Bar in Denver. What a great spot. I had my first legal drink there  17 years ago – A gold margarita. [...]

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News flash: To anyone who may not have noticed that I have an aversion to posting incessant MySpace-style self portraits, I’m a fat chick. I don’t like it, but that’s the way it is.
As a fat chick, I’m a little surprised at all the vitriol directed at Whole Foods over their new discount program. They [...]

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Fentimans.
I love this stuff – the Dandelion & Burdock specifically. If you can find it, give it a try, and even better, add a couple of fingers of a certain Canadian Whiskey. I don’t know if that’s a ‘thing’ or not, but I love it.

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Facebook iPhone Dev Quits Project Over Apple Tyranny .
Dude, I don’t care how popular it is, the Facebook app for the iPhone sucks MORE than Facebook’s interface itself so cry me a fucking river. Maybe it’s TIME someone else had a try.
Also, I’m the sort of lame-o that wants a gatekeeper between me and [...]

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I’m currently reading Wil Wheaton’s ‘Memories of the Future‘ (available at lulu.com) and am deeply conflicted about it. A little more than half way through, I’m increasingly annoyed at a stupid comments Wil makes in his narrative.
Page after page, Wil writes hilarious and snarky commentaries about the first half of the first season of Star [...]

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