"Glenn also has a rather dry sense of humour, which I'm guessing not enough people pick up on." -- Andrea See
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PopSci's New iPhone App: Tech Buyer's Guide
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Just in time for Black Friday, PopSci's new Tech Buyer's Guide iPhone app is available free in the App store. It's a portable version of the Tech Buyer's Guide here on the site, so it's packed with product recommendations and buying advice across 17 categories of tech, from netbooks to DSLRs to Blu-ray players. In addition, each product has a ...
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Rick Garnett
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PrawfsBlawg
Best iPhone apps for Prawfs?
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Well, the turkey is brining, the stuffing and corn pudding are in the oven, the pies are done, and wine is flowing.� Happy Thanksgiving!� Naturally, my mind is focused sharply on matters�professional, and so I ask:� what, do people think,�are the best iPhone apps, for law-profs?� I've found Yelp and Open Table crucially important, when arranging ...
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WASHINGTON—In keeping with a longstanding Thanksgiving tradition, Vice President Joe Biden ceremonially pardoned a 4-pound yam today at a ceremony in the White House Rose Garden. "Under my authority as vice president of the United States of America, I hereby grant this yam full and unconditional clemency," a smiling Biden declared as he ...
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Kenneth Anderson
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The Volokh Conspiracy
Happy Thanksgiving
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... to all our readers, commenters, and fellow conspirators. And please be careful on the roads today and over the weekend. It is a foggy morning here in DC. Thanksgiving is the greatest American holiday — uniting a very loose sense of Providence and Bounty and Plenty, family and commonweal, the sharing of food and [...]
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Ken Layne
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Wonkette
Wonkette’s Children’s Treasury of Traditional Thanksgiving Videos
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Without the turkey-slaughter stylings of Miss Wasilla, how could any of us really enjoy Thanksgiving? Here’s the dropout governor of Alaska before she ditched her job for Hollywood. Look how she doesn’t want to touch that filthy animal! Once you’ve gone Neiman Marcus, you can’t go back. So many more beloved holiday ...
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Anyone who votes for this bill will be haunted like all the bail out and stimulus voters…it is a political albatross around their collective necks
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Doug Hoffman says he'll run again in New York's 23rd district next November.
Like the Summer of Love (1967) forty-two years ago, we'll be remembering and no doubt historians will be writing about the Summer of Crazy (2009) for years to come. Whether aging Tea Partiers will be having reunions to get nostalgic in 2050 is another question. But we've assembled our Top Ten Right-Wing Crazy Protest moments for your ...
Generally considered cranially vacant even for a bird—the turkey wasn’t always such a buffoon. The wild turkey was historically considered a rather shrewd critter, difficult to fool with standard hunting ploys and surprisingly agile. Did you know, for example, that wild turkeys can climb trees? And if you throw an apple to a ...
26 Nov 2009 07:24 pm
When the popular 46-year-old Lebanese psychic Ali Sibat went on-air and made his predictions about the future, the phone lines of the satellite television station Sheherazade used to be flooded with calls.
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In the 1/1/24 edition of the Silicon Valley newspaper and online journal Metroactive, I have an editorial describing how the American consumer came to propel the export-driven development of Japan, Korea, Malaysia, China and now India. That process, spanning more than six decades, is almost always portrayed -- especially in Asia -- as having come ...
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Manolo the Shoeblogger
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Manolo
Manolo says, today as the Manolo gathers with his friends and family to give heartfelt thanks for the true blessings that Divine Providence has bestowed upon him, you may be assured, dearest internet friends, that you will be counted among the foremost of these blessings. Allow the Manolo to now wish upon you the happiest of all Thanksgivings.
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Manolo the Shoeblogger
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Manolo
Whose Shoes Wednesday…The Answer!
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Manolo asked, whose shoes? Manolo answers, it is the Kate Beckinsale! Perhaps the Manolo’s internet friends were distracted by the holiday, but no one correctly identified this week’s personage of note.
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Gordon Smith
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Conglomerate
The NYT has a fascinating set of slides based on searches entered on Allrecipes.com, . The most common search? “Sweet potato casserole” ... by a country mile. But my favorite from the Top 50 was #16:
We humbly offer our thanks to the 10 most gonzoid, bamboozling, dignity-impaired political figures of the moment.
Gordon Smith
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Conglomerate
On this Thanksgiving Day, I am grateful for the same sort of things mentioned by random people on the streets of New York ... But reading a fascinating interview with Umberto Eco, I was reminded that I am also thankful for the ability to learn and grow and change: I was fascinated with Stendhal at 13 and with Thomas Mann at 15 and, at 16, I ...
Nobrow Press is all about publishing beautifully tactile illustrated books. Wherever possible we try to push the printing process to ensure that colour, format and paper quality combine to produce publications that are not just books, but collectible art objects. Many of our publications are individually numbered and run in editions of between ...
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Marc DeGirolami
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PrawfsBlawg
In a post below, Jonathan Siegel directs attention to the Third Circuit's decision in a case where a public school district thought that it would be educationally edifying to ban all music about religion during the month of December.� I agree with Professor Siegel and with the court that this is not an Establishment Clause case, though I wonder ...
Hey Montreal: I’ll be at Smart Design Mart this weekend with some of my books, prints, framed prints and silkscreens. Smart Design Mart is a design fair organized by some amazing local designers, fashion designers and artists. Check out their blog here for an overview of the designers. Lots of great stuff. Most of them [...]
Amy Alkon argues that people who either make too much noise or let their children make too much noise in spaces that we all have to share are not just bothering us, they're stealing from us - 'stealing our attention,...
If the child was screaming so loudly no one could hear the safety warnings by the steward, it was wise to make the mother and child disembark. Safety first. Why are people arguing this issue? I do not have children and do not appreciate being berated by parents because "I do not understand." I understand safety.
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Former CNN anchor Lou Dobbs has indicated that he might consider an independent bid for the White House in 2012, and early polling shows he could attract up to 14% of the vote. However, some of that is almost certainly a generic protest vote as an unnamed “some other candidate” picks up between six percent (6%) and nine percent (9%) of the ...
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A year ago today I received an early morning email from a friend. His son, trying to escape from his hotel room at the Taj in Mumbai, with terrorists outside his door looking for Brits to execute, had fallen 50...
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