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Just so you know..
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Author: ryanvis
… you can tape bacon to a cat. Just not ours. I’m curious to hear a reaction from our Feline Americans. Whatever: Clearly You People Thought I Was Kidding [via Fark]
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Don't We Have More Important Things To Do?
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Author: ryanvis
UPDATE: Welcome Googlers. Check out the follow-up post before you flame this one. Remember kids, if you want to advance your cause, personalize the subject and rev up your logical fallacies. Today’s example: they’re not dogs, they’re “Canine Americans”. No joke. And animal-rights groups wonder why we don’t take them seriously. I’m not advocating random […]
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Crooks and Liars » Keith Olbermann’s Special Comment on Bush: Who has left this hole in the ground? We have not forgotten, Mr. President. You have. May this country forgive you
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Author: ryanvis
I’ve talked about Keith Olbermann before. I’m doing it again. Edward R. Murrow would be proud. Video here. Text below. Read it, watch it. And lastly tonight a Special Comment on why we are here. Half a lifetime ago, I worked in this now-empty space.And for 40 days after the attacks, I worked here again, […]
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The New and Improved Auchtoon! (now with Blog)
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Author: ryanvis
Awesome cartoonist and all-around great guy (no, seriously) John Auchter has a new and improved website/blog. John’s been cranking away learning all about WordPress and servers and hosting (oh my) and he’s finally up and running. Check out his new site and leave a commnet.. he’ll even talk back.
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Cool
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Author: ryanvis
In a follow-up to a post on Boing Boing about New Orleans a year after the Big K, I dropped a link to point out that ThinkNOLA’s been around for a tad bit longer. Damn if that suggestion didn’t make the front page (on a holiday weekend Friday, but hey, it’s better than a knitting […]
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Words you must read. Words you must understand
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Author: ryanvis
We don’t have enough orators in this world anymore, at least not orators that make any damned sense. We get people like Bush, or Gore, or Rumsfeld who fancy themselves orators but, really, at their heart are passionless readers. Except, that today, we may have found one. A writer, to be sure, of some prowess. […]
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They are Not OK
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Author: ryanvis
The message from New Orleans is clear. This country should be ashamed. Say a few words for some of your countrymen today. It’s more than the grandstanding in the Gulf Coast will do for them. (Seems to be a pattern.)
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Feedback
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Author: ryanvis
Scoble says that Steve Ball, group program manager for the Windows Audio Video Excellence team (hell of title) is reading all the blog, newsgroup, and beta feedback about the Vista sound. For those of you not familiar, the Windows Audio Video Excellence team has decided that the default, startup sound for Windows Vista will not […]
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Hey Ray!
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Author: ryanvis
Brilliant political strategy or stupidest thing you’ve heard in a year? Ray Nagin to CBS Reporter (on camera) “That’s alright. You guys in New York can’t get a hole in the ground fixed and it’s five years later. So let’s be fair.” *head to desk* [via Ashley Morris]
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Blogger nation – The Detroit News Online
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Author: ryanvis
Check it out.. Ed Vielmetti is the lead interest in a Detroit News article about local bloggers. Blogs really are mainstream if The News picked it up.I would have killed to have The News out Ann Arbor is Overrated, though.