Month: October 2006
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Lancaster County Fire & EMS Status
So, at the risk of showing that I am completely missing the point when it comes to the five little girls who were killed in Pennsylvania, I merely want to point out something I discovered when I first got the breaking news alert of the shooting: Lancaster County Fire & EMS Status. This is a…
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More Misunderstanding YouTube
Here’s a rant about Mark Cuban’s anti-YouTubism that misses the point. There’s one thing wrong here: no micropayments. The problem with YouTube is not that they distribute copyrighted content. It’s that they think they are the only ones who should get paid for distributing copyrighted content. God bless mustang67 for uploading the Beatles clip. I…
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Most Complicated “Simple Special” Ever
Most Complicated "Simple Special" Ever, originally uploaded by juggernautco. This is a table topper at the Old Orchard Shopping Center in Skokie. Here are the conditions for this "Simple Special": 1. basic haircut only2. no shampoo service3. limited finish4. select styles5. only tuesday, wednesday, or thursday6. must make an appointment7. offer expires after november 308.…
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Why I’m Voting for Tony Peraica for Cook County Board President
Tonight I called up the Tom Roeser show (Political Shootout on WLS 890 AM) and got on the air as the last caller. Here’s basically what I said: Then Tom Roeser asked if I was Peraica’s brother-in-law. They laughed. Then I got cut off somewhere after I said that it was “time for a change”…
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Yahoo to Open Source Their Email
Holy crap.Yahoo allows outsiders to innovate on Yahoo e-mail – Sep. 30, 2006 Officials of the world’s largest Internet media company said on Friday it planned to give away the underlying code to Yahoo Mail, one of the crown jewels of its business, in a bid to encourage software developers to build new applications based…