Organic Mutant Archives: October 2005
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29 October 2005
Dick Nixon …
Too funny, hee hee…
OK I am old enough to rember the election in 1972. In fact it was my first election in which I could vote. I was 19, Dick Nixon was up for reelection. I had just won my first lottery and WASN’T drafted. The college campus campaign slogan was ‘Dick Nixon before he [...]
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29 October 2005
Blogacronyms
IMO - In My Opinion
IMHO - In My Humble Opinion
WRT - With Respect To
IIRC - If I Recall Correctly
FWIW - For What Its Worth
NT or - No Text (often in a comment subject line)
FAIK - Far as I know
BTW - By the way
IOW - In other words
YMMV - Your Mileage May Vary
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20 October 2005
CNN Advertisers: Selling me nothing, Buying …. what?
The price of watching television (besides the lost time) is often measured in the commercial ‘load’, or number of commercials associated with a given block of time. Typical is 8 minutes of commercials per half-hour of TV. It makes the circle of life complete: I get free programming, Advertisers pay networks for the chance to [...]
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19 October 2005
Blogevity
In case you don’t check the stats, this blog has been around since 2001, (A Blog Oddity). I was spurred to think about our, erm, longevity, as I read this look at the state of the blogosphere. The bullets: Technorati tracks 19mm blogs; 70,000 new blogs created per day; the b’sphere has doubled five times [...]
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17 October 2005
Sworn to Reform
Change is hard. Sticking with the status quo is easier, even when it requires lots of work and sacrifice. Why? Because making up your mind to change and creating new realities is a difficult thing to do. It can be painful. Even when life is difficult on a day-to-day basis, it almost always seems easier [...]
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16 October 2005
duologue reformed
Warning: I have performed some reform on the duologue, Norm. Mostly changes to colors & fonts, but a few graphical tweaks as well. It looks a lot different, I know. Do you like it? Wait, don’t answer that unless you are using Firefox or Mozilla - because right now there are a couple of issues [...]
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14 October 2005
Best Beaches - NYC edition
I cracked up when I saw that ^ headline with this picture:
Best of New York 2005 >