Archive for March, 2005

Daily Show’s take on the Schiavo case

I’ve said once and I’ll say it again: “it’s sad when we have to make our comedians the voice of sanity.”
Download this video [4MB WMV]. Watch it. Point people here. It explains why this is a story. Ok, no it does’t, but it does point out just how insane this whole thing has become.

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Ari Rang

I know I promised unpronounceable words next time I did a restaurant review, but I have to rave about a new place. We went to Ari Rang on Ann Arbor-Saline Rd near Godaiko and Outback. Wow. What a great lunch.
Since it was lunch (and we’re not restaurant reviewers) we both ordered Bee Bim Bop [...]

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What a good book question

I saw this on Crescat Sententia this morning, and I thought “what an interesting question to pose”.
You’re stuck inside Fahrenheit 451, which book do you want to be? (N.B.: this refers to what book you would memorize, as do the characters at the end of Bradbury’s novel)
Mine isn’t exactly the greatest novel in the universe, [...]

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Confirmation (of a sort) of the end of RoboHelp

If this isn’t telling, I don’t know what is.
Link to forum
In case the link goes dead (or the comments are deleted), here are the three posts so far (I apologize for the length):
I’m the Director of Product Management responsible for RoboHelp, Captivate, and other Macromedia products. I haven’t posted to this list before, but given [...]

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Productivity Tools and Religious Wars

I used to be a Tech Writer not that long ago and still have many professional and personnel friends who travel in those circles. So, when news hit the web today of the impending demise of Macromedia RoboHelp, it in my inbox pretty quickly. To scale the news up a little bit for relational purposes, [...]

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Damn Hippies

Bwahahahahaha!
Fighting back: In London, 35 Greenpeace protesters rushed onto the floor of the International Petroleum Exchange in February, intending to paralyze oil trading on the day the Kyoto environmental initiative took effect, but, unexpectedly, the traders turned on them, punching and kicking the protesters until they ran for their lives.
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Poll: Congress Should Sit Out Schiavo Case (AP)

Wow, that low, eh?

AP – About seven in 10 Americans say Congress inappropriately intervened in the case of a brain-damaged woman whose relatives disagree over whether she should be allowed to die, according to a new poll.

[via Yahoo News [Politics]]

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