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Christopher Hitchens has an excellent post on Slate. He doesn’t pull any punches…
This is what the Republican Party has done to us this year: It has placed within reach of the Oval Office a woman who is a religious fanatic and a proud, boastful ignoramus. Those who despise science and learning are not anti-elitist. They [...]

http://www.magmilerace.com/
Jeff Witt, a PR person for Lenovo, organizes the Magnificent Mile race every year in Raleigh, NC. They are a currently little over half way along their goal to raise $40,000 to benefit the SPF, an organization that is helping people fight diseases like PLS.
I was pretty surprised to learn about it from an email [...]

The normally staid Eric Savitz from Barron’s Tech Trader Daily had an unfortunate title today.
It’s Back: The D Bag o’ Schwag
Thanks for the laugh Eric.

I rarely post about work stuff here on my blog, but I wanted to give the readers (all six them) the hook-up.
Geek.com, in partnership with HP and WOM marketing company Buzz Corps, is giving away an HP HDX 20.1″ notebook that is worth about $5000. Here is the info.
If you are insanely lazy and don’t [...]

That’s right… Guiness Cupcakes!
Also, this post is in the process of being (Yahoo) buzzed so definitely vote for it! I think we are all interested in seeing what Buzz is capable of.

Did you just upgrade your Flash player and now it won’t work? Or you upgraded and it works in IE but not Firefox? Or how about you uninstalled it via Windows Control Panel, but it’s still there?
Yeah, working with Flash is not as easy as it should be given its ubiquity. This is why people [...]

http://blogs.wsj.com/informedreader/…
Did pulp fiction kill the long sentence? Do short sentences create suspense? You decide.