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Monthly Archives: March 2008

Monday Mash-Up, 3/17/08

17-Mar-08

1) I am swamped. Between the start of the new job only one week away (which kicks off with a trip out to Cincinnati) and the [mostly good] stress of our impending house purchase (attorney review is winding down; inspection is on Saturday), I’m a week behind on Spindle’s March update and am going to have [...]

Spring Cleaning

15-Mar-08

I spent the morning updating the backends of this site and Spindle’s — WordPress 2.3.3 and Joomla 1.0.15, respectively – as well as a number of the plug-ins and modules that had new updates released recently, and finally found a new WP template I liked better than my previous one which had a couple of cosmetic bugs I never could figure [...]

Lucky to be Black

14-Mar-08

I really am trying to lower my political caloric intake right now – and, for the most part, have, thanks to a hectic few days of dealing with the adventures of buying a house – but the events of the past week have simply been unavoidable and difficult to let go unremarked upon. The posts I haven’t written this week would [...]

The Ideal Woman

14-Mar-08

Men’s Health reports on an “ideal woman” survey by some British dating website:
There’s no accounting for taste. Some guys go for Salma Hayek, others for Jessica Simpson.
A British dating website polled 66,000 men about their female ideal and came up with someone who sounds closer to Jessica than Salma: blue eyes, long blonde hair, 5-8, 130 pounds, [...]

Olbermann on Ferraro

12-Mar-08

“This is not a campaign strategy, this is a suicide pact.”
Amen.

Related Reading via Amazon:
The Politics (Oxford World’s Classics)

Living History

The Ultimate History of Video Games: From Pong to Pokemon–The Story Behind the Craze That Touched Our Lives and Changed the World

Confessions of a Video Vixen