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Art Fair Bingo

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Woot! Art Fair Bingo returns for the Ann Arbor Art Fair(s). ($DEITY forbid it be one, unified art fair.) Art Fair Bingo is a wonderful tradition wherein you, the discerning resident/exile/art-lover voluntarily go to Art Fair and photograph people or things on the bingo card. There are no prizes aside from the admiration of those […]

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The New Computer

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I have finally broke (broken?) down and bought a new computer. Yes, I bought. Frankly, I can’t build the machine for the price and, damn it, immediate gratification is so nice. Not that I haven’t been looking for a month now but it feels immediate. Anyway, I took the plunge and came up with an […]

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Lake Expo Online – Lake News

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It’s unlikely this Congress will ever impeach George Bush because his people – some of who were close at hand during Watergate – didn’t make any Watergate-like tactical errors: no tapes, no smoking gun, no hard evidence of deliberate wrongdoing. That doesn’t make them any less guilty of what Theodore H. White described as the […]

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Internet Radio's Death Rattle

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Today is a day of silence for Internet radio. Small broadcasters all the way up to Yahoo are shutting down in protest over the outrageous royalty rates approved by the Copyright Royalty Board. Who’s the CRB? Essentially, they are an arm of Congress, tasked with reviewing and setting royalty rates. How bad are the rates? […]

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Why Don't We Talk

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I’ve seen, at a minimum, four posts in the last week about people complaining about people not “conversing” on their blogs. As a member of the sub-M level of bloggers, let me posit this. It’s not that no one cares, it’s that they’re really not into conversing. The Internet is passive on its prima facie. […]

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Social Networking VPN

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A VPN (Virtual Private Network) is a network technology that let’s you use public Internet resources to securely use private network resources (such as you work network from an open WiFi access point). When do we get something like this for social networking. Not my Top 8, not a bit-flip of friend or not a […]