tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35660662011-08-26T07:42:43.922-04:00Howard Sherman's random thoughts on technology and life in NYC (as if you care).Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02358308968868357317noreply@blogger.comBlogger17631100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3566066.post-62451110696397113602009-05-18T17:39:00.005-04:002009-05-18T17:48:35.489-04:00

Come Fly With Me: I'm a guy who has been obsessed with The Donald's hair for quite some time but this photo takes the cake for its sheer majesty. Enjoy! (via Gawker)Update: A place to follow the fuzz.

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P040209LJ-0070, originally uploaded by The Official White House Photostream.

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P041509PS-0052, originally uploaded by The Official White House Photostream.

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P042409PS-0122, originally uploaded by The Official White House Photostream.

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P030309PS-0041, originally uploaded by The Official White House Photostream.

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What A Sport: Angel Cabrera's victory in the Masters got me wondering in what other professional sports can you get away with having a pot belly and wearing pleated pants. United Press InternationalHere's my list. Let me know if I missed any.-Golf-Bowling-Billiards-Video Games-Poker & Bridge-Archery*-Pro Bass Fishing*Honorable Mention-Baseball: See David Wells but no pleated pants.-Football: Get

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Things I Just Don't Need (Part 46): Here's the 46th in an occasional series of things companies try to sell me that I just don't need.Marimo Excrement Coin Bank"Great design and good quality item. Size is 18 x 18 x 14 (cm)" $9.00Who dreams up this crap? via Foolish GadgetsOther Things I Don't Need:*Electronic Cigarette*$8,000 Feathered Sweater*$55 Baked Potato*$100 Cup Of Coffee*Hamburger In A

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Ann Coulter Speaks: Inspiring.

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Things I Just Don't Need (Part 45): Here's the 45th in an occasional series of things companies try to sell me that I just don't need.Electronic Cigarette"Smoking everywhere E-Cigarette is an electronic smoking device or an electronic cigarette which is also known as E-Cigarette. It is a non –flammable product that uses state of the art classy micro-electronic technology which provides smokers a

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Pundit KitchenOne would hope.

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Man Makes Love To A Humidifier: Love what you buy - really.Full Disclosure: I work for the company promoted in this video.

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Legs: Part of an exhibit at MOMA on 40 years of contemporary art.

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Devil: Part of an exhibit at MOMA on 40 years of contemporary art.

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Howard: "Howard lives his life, and I live mine." (More)(The New Yorker)

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Holiday Rush: This news report is sad, frightening and pathetic."Suddenly, witnesses and the police said, the doors shattered, and the shrieking mob surged through in a blind rush for holiday bargains. One worker, Jdimytai Damour, 34, was thrown back onto the black linoleum tiles and trampled in the stampede that streamed over and around him. Others who had stood alongside Mr. Damour trying to

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Shaggy: I'm glad teen girls will propel Twilight to a box office smash. Maybe Robert Pattinson can now afford to buy a comb. Via Hollywood.com

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SuperLawyers: My favorite advertising supplement has hit the streets - SuperLawyers. Here's a sample of some of the eighty-three pages you'll find in Sunday's NYT magazine.

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North-South Lake: Catskills hiking.

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Inspiration Point: Hiking in the Catskills.

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Things I Just Don't Need (Part 44): Here's the 44th in an occasional series of things companies try to sell me that I just don't need.$8,000 Feathered Sweater"Burberry Prorsum’s feathered sweater (about $8,000) was inspired by brush strokes in paintings by the British artist L.S. Lowry."Suckers for a feathered sweater flock together.Other Things I Don't Need:*$55 Baked Potato*$100 Cup Of Coffee*

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Bagged A Bear (1), originally uploaded by hsherman.My First Kill: Where I grew up a right of passage for young kids was riding a bicycle without training wheels, throwing a perfect spiral and - when you wanted to live dangerously - jumping a subway turnstile. In Alaska, it's bagging your first bear.While wondering through the Sportsman's Warehouse in Fairbanks, I came across a bragging wall

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Alaska: Gone hiking. Back in a week or so.

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Paperless Bankoriginally uploaded by hsherman.When a bank does something to make my life easier - not a common occurrence - it's worth noting. I've been banking online for ages but from time to time I need to deposit a check or cash using my bank's ATM.Chase has now done away with deposit slips, envelopes and anything else that resembles paper. Instead, if you need to deposit a check or cash at a

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Unnecessary Instructions, originally uploaded by hsherman.It's a door not a weed whacker.

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Vermont Gorge, originally uploaded by hsherman.Rickety bridge over a gorge in VT.

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Nathan's Infamous: No wonder the fast food chain restaurants fought NYC's regulations mandating calorie counts on their menus. Get a load of the far right column on this sign at Nathan's Famous in Coney Island.On the low end - 685 calories for a small order of French fries. At the high end, 1444 calories for a large order of French fries covered in melted cheese and chili.The good news is that I

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Quote Of The Week: "No co-op board in this city would even consider letting Libya buy an apartment, yet the U.N. gives it a seat on the world body responsible for peace and security." - Dan Gillerman, Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations. (NYT)

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Piloboulus: Saw this dance company last night. Strained a hamstring just watching them.Piloboulus

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Toilet Anxiety: NYC toilets are as stressed out as the people who sit on them.

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Blog Confession: Unlike other bloggers who can't resist sharing their personal lives with readers, I've been reluctant to explore such intimate details of my life in public - until now. I have no choice. I have to confess this behavior or else it will continue to haunt me. The only way to unburden myself of the growing guilt is to come clean. So here it is.I drink from juice cartons and mouthwash

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Take Out: See this movie. Then, the next time you have Chinese food delivered to your apartment, give the delivery guy a hell of a tip.

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Quote Of The Week: "For example, when I am annoyed with Dick Cheney, I meditate on how Dick Cheney was my mother in a previous life and nursed me at his breast ... It’s a fantasy of releasing fear and developing affection. It’s a way of coming back to feeling grateful toward him and seeing his positive side, finding the mother in Dick Cheney." -- Robert Thurman. (NYT)

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Little Red Lighthouse: Under The GWB. Little Red Lighthouse & GWB

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Explaining The Mortgage Mess: Listening to a frightening but fascinating podcast from This American Life about the mortgage crisis. Someone needs to go to jail. (Podcast)Market Education LLC

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Highwaters Are ChicBuy some socks.

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New York Botanical GardenOriginally uploaded by hshermanThe "world is a carousel of color." (More)

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Arthur Avenue - BakeryOriginally uploaded by hshermanDo people really eat this stuff?

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Distracted: "The average knowledge worker switches tasks every three minutes, and, once distracted, a worker takes nearly a half-hour to resume the original task, according to Gloria Mark, a leader in the new field of 'interruption science.'" (NYT)

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The Magic Of Cake: Was on Arthur Avenue in the Bronx yesterday. It's now an Hispanic neighborhood with a taste of Italian. The taste was pretty good if you go for red sauce at Dominick's - No menu, family style, noisy and cheap. As if we didn't have enough to eat, there was dessert at a nearby bakery where we embraced "The Magic Of Cake" along with biscotti and cannoli.Fortunately, we burned some

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Quote Of The Week: "Eric Erbelding and his husband, Michael Peck, both 44, see each other only every other weekend because Mr. Peck works in Pittsburgh. So, Mr. Erbelding said, 'Our rule is you can play around because, you know, you have to be practical.'Mr. Erbelding, a decorative painter in Boston, said: 'I think men view sex very differently than women. Men are pigs, they know that each other

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New Crane: At the corner of 23rd and Madison. Run for your lives!

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Quote Of The Week: Barack Obama "... has never deviated from his much-quoted formulation in 'The Audacity of Hope,' where he described himself as aloof from 'the psychodrama of the baby boom generation' with its 'old grudges and revenge plots hatched on a handful of college campuses long ago.'" - Frank Rich NYT

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Quote Of The Week: "Even nutritionists and personal trainers notice a problem. The wealthy are eating more and gaining weight because of the stress" of a poor economy - The New York Times.Boohoo.

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Gym Jive: Bad behavior at the gym pissed one guy off enough to cause a fist fight and lawsuit. I've never snapped like this but there certainly are some things about the way people behave at gyms that make me wonder what planet they're from. Here are a few things that come to mind.*The Hacker: Coughs up the contents of his lower GI track while working out on the elliptical trainer next to yours.

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Things I Just Don't Need (Part 43): Here's the 43rd in an occasional series of things companies try to sell me that I just don't need.$55 Baked Potato"One Potato, Two Potato, Three Potato ... And so much more! ... New York's First Gourmet Baked Potato Bar." Truffle Potato: " ... truffle compound butter, truffle oil, truffle salt and fresh truffle shavings." $55.The name of the place you can buy

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The Big Chicken: When "Johnny Reb's Chick, Chuck and Shake owner S.R. 'Tubby' Davis erected the 56-foot (17-meter) tall structure over his restaurant as a method of advertising" in 1963, he couldn't have known The Big Chicken would still be a beacon to Atlanta travelers 45 years later.A rebuilt version of the original designed by Georgia Tech architecture student Hubert Puckett, still stands

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Prairie Style: Is it only a matter of time before Vogue magazine runs a fashion spread on FLDS chic?With the Web awash in pictures of women from the polygamist compound in Texas, we're getting a glimpse of a clothing style I haven't seen since Little House on the Prairie appeared on television.One Seattle Post writer wouldn't be surprised if the buttoned up look finds its way onto the catwalk."

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Man Skirt: Spring has sprung.

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Bagel Abandonment: How can someone forget that they had a bagel toasting in the lunchroom? I've heard of senior moments but a whole bunch of synapses have to stop firing to cause you to cut the bagel, put it in the toaster, push down the lever to start the browning process and then abandon your poppyseed breakfast treat without a second thought.I would have scoffed it up but I'm a sesame seed guy.

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Quote Of The Week: "As far as I’m concerned MySpace is the Antichrist for children." (NYT) Full interview.

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Things I Just Don't Need (Part 42): Here's the 42nd in an occasional series of things companies try to sell me that I just don't need.$100 Cup Of Coffee"Those with a taste for a high-class product and an indulgent experience will be thrilled to hear about the launch of the world’s rarest and most premium coffee - at £50 per cup. Combining two of the world’s rarest coffee beans, Kupi Luwak and

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Quote Of The Week: "Snarkiness is contempt before investigation." - author Jon Winokur (NYT)

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In-N-Out: I had a layover in Los Angeles a few days ago (from 11:30 pm through 6:30 am) so I found the In-N-Out Burger nearest LAX and stopped in to find out what all the hub-bub is about.Luckily I wound up in line behind an In-N-Out veteran who taught me how to order off the "secret menu." It was a wonderfully transcontinental experience. He give me the skinny on ordering and I filled him in on

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Gone Fishing: Back in a week.

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Time's On My Side - I Think: My wristwatch stopped, again. I'm not looking forward to taking it back to the repair guy for a second go round. Do I need a watch anymore? Seems like there are so many ways to tell time without that thing I strapped to my wrist - my cellphone, my computer, my iPod, my desk phone, my BlackBerry, the cable set top box and the alarm clock beside my bed. I was amazed to

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Count On This: Here's how people count money around the world. I think it helps if you're double-jointed. (via boingboing) via boingboing.net

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Babes In Bars: Don't mean women. I mean babies."In New York, too, the smoking ban has altered the bar’s image. No longer a den of adult sin, the local tavern is now seen as an attractive option for afternoon gatherings among parents."Never realized this:"Neither New York state nor city law forbids minors in bars, although state regulations say children under 16 must be accompanied by an adult, a

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Online Voting: My parents are voting online from Mexico in the Democratic presidential primary. This is a big deal, at least to me:"This year, for the first time, expatriate Democrats can cast their ballots on the Internet in a presidential primary for people living outside the United States.Democrats Abroad, an official branch of the party representing overseas voters, will hold its first global

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Things I Just Don't Need (Part 41): Here's the 41st in an occasional series of things companies try to sell me that I just don't need.Cheeseburger In A Can"...is it the greatest achievement of mankind thus far, or is it an abomination of foodstuffs that deserves to be hucked back into the gaping maw of whatever food processing plant it was spewed from?" € 3.95 (Gizmodo)What about the fries?

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Pizza By Region: U.S. pizza styles. Ohio Valley–Style? (Slice)

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How Do You Know You're Getting Old?: You know you're getting old when the bushy-haired pre-teen who grew up next door is now a young adult with a bald spot.

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Florent Finis?: Say it ain't so. (Eater)

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Will Franken: Will Franken is nuts - and very funny. I saw him perform at the Upright Citizen's Brigade on Friday and his rambling, high-speed comedy left me uneasy and amused at the same time.Check out his blog. Here's one of his tamer bits below.

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New Museum - NYCUpdate: Great space. The art looked like garage sale rejects. Felt like I was being made fun of. Maybe I was.

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This Just In: What if your Facebook news feed was a TV newscast. Scary.Thanks to Rick for the link.

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Juno: Great interview between David Letterman and Ellen Page of Juno movie fame. (via Diablo Cody)

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Mortal Combat: I've got to figure out a way to shop for food at Trader Joe's on 14th Street any day other than Saturday or Sunday.I was in there today and it was mortal combat buying $30+ worth of groceries. The checkout line ran from the front door all around the back wall of the store. People pushed carts into each other and tempers were short. Especially mine.Joining the checkout line (for 12

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Quote Of The Week: "If you can’t put it into your mouth, you shouldn’t put it on your skin,” - John Replogle, C.E.O. of Burt’s Bees, after tasting the company’s avocado butter hair cream. (NYT)

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Freezer Proof: Want to avoid getting your iPod zapped of all power in cold weather? Get an iPod Shuffle. I've had larger iPods whose battery drained in no time during a cold spell but this week while NYC was in an arctic freeze, the little red iPod Shuffle I clipped to the shoulder strap of my computer bag chugged along. via Apple.com

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He's Baaaaack: Before there was Internet serial entrepreneur Jason Calacanis and Internet serial exhibitionists Julia Allison and Jakob Lodwick there was the Grand Pooh-Bah of all things self-promnotional - Josh Harris.After riding the first Internet boom into the ground, Harris is back - well, in a sense - as the subject of a new documentary.Photo via BusinessWeek

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Back Of The Invisible Hand: "Adam Smith used the metaphor of the invisible hand to describe how markets should function: With everyone at liberty to pursue self-interest, the market omnisciently distributes goods and capital to maximize the benefits for all ... But now the invisible hand is being asked to account for what it has wrought. In this country, many economic complaints — from the

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The Ultimate Put Down: It's bad enough that the Boston Red Sox have denied the Yankees two World Series titles of late but now Boston - the city - is trying to make off with Madison Avenue.The movie "The Women," a remake of a George Cukor film about an affair that scandalizes New York City, was filmed last summer in Boston with Newbury Street as a stand-in for Madison Avenue.That hurts.Newbury

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Ann Curry In A Hurry

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Quote Of The Week: “I was tear-gassed before I could walk,” - Daniel Schlachet, the son of a woman profiled in today's weddings section who reared "her boys on a diet of war protests and civil rights marches." (NYT)

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The Numbers Don't Add Up: The Sudoku phenomenon is dead - at least according to Google Zeitgeist's look back at 2007. (via PSFK).

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Mickey D's: McDonald's is sponsoring elementary school report cards. (Advertising Age via The Bayou)

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Passing By:The MTA is not going my way. At least twice over the last few weeks I've been on a subway that passed my station because it was behind schedule. At least that's what the train crew on the 1 train said over the PA system as we blew by the 66th Street IRT station.What's up with that? Do they expect us to believe that keeping to their schedule is worth leaving passengers stranded on a

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Gadgets Gone Wild: At least 85 tools, over 100 functions and yours for $1,200. A whole lot of Swiss Army knife. (More via AP)

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Social Networking Preferences: Assuming a recent Northwestern University study is not junk science, it's interesting to see how kids' preferences for certain social networking sites are based on race, ethnicity and their parents' education level."That study, now in the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, finds that Facebook is the social networking site of choice for white students, that

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Nuclear Power Redux: Is nuclear power making a comeback - at least in the minds of former doubters? Seems so.

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Things I Just Don't Need (Part 40) - Holiday Edition: Here's the 40th in an occasional series of things companies try to sell me that I just don't need.Lovely Pink Seal Taser"Give Electric Shot to Crazy Japanese Businessmen! ... Who imagines this lovely seal is a stun gun? It gives an electric shock to a naughty guy trying to touch you ... Don't use it to a person who has a heart disease. Don't

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Quote Of The Week: "Young love is about wanting to be happy,” she said. “Old love is about wanting someone else to be happy." - psychologist Mary Pipher (via NYT)

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Fast Food Facts: You'll gain weight just reading this comparison chart of nutritional facts for just about any fast food product you can imagine. (via Kottke)

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Things I Just Don't Need (Part 39): Here's the 39th in an occasional series of things companies try to sell me that I just don't need.Tiddy Bear Comfort Strap"Does the shoulder strap of your car cut into your shoulder? Is your shoulder strap too tight and annoying? Introducing the Tiddy Bear. The cute little guy who eliminates all those problems." $14.95 As another blogger wrote, if this isn't a

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Faces In Places: A blog and Flickr stream to peruse when you want a pick-me-up. Objects that look like faces. (via Cool Hunting) jazamarripae's Flickr stream

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Air Guitar Nation: Missed this documentary when it opened in NYC. Guess I'll get the DVD. Or maybe this post was just an excuse to show off the air guitar avatar I created.Get your own Avatar from airguitarnation.co.uk

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Quote Of The Week: "The reason that vajayjay has caught on, I think, is because there is a black — Southern especially — naming tradition, which is to have names like Ray Ray and Boo Boo and things like that,” Dr. McWhorter said. “It sounds warm and familiar and it almost makes the vagina feel like a little cartoon character with eyes that walks around." - NYT

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Deli Days: As two single Jewish guys in NYC, each Christmas Eve my best friend and I would see a movie and have dinner at either the Carnegie or Second Avenue Deli - while our Christian brethren celebrated the birth of the baby Jesus.When I think of what passed for my meal, I can't believe I'm still around to write about it. My favorite combo - pastrami and chopped liver on rye with hot mustard.

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Vacation Getaway: Afghanistan?

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Political Analysis: Now this is some political analysis I can get behind.Poll: Bullshit Is Most Important Issue For 2008 Voters

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Unfortunate Baby Names: Most people are focused on the top 10 baby names NYC parents gave their children in 2006. Looking at the entire list, however, I found some fairly unfortunate selections.Girls' names seem more inventive:*Trany*Egypt*Brooklyn*Heaven*Diamond*Genesis*London*Lyric*Milan*Kenya

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Overheard At Trader Joes: One cashier speaking to another cashier. Paraphrase: "I can't stand it when a customer asks me where the end of the (checkout) line is when I'm standing there holding a sign that says this is the end of the line."

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New York Melody: I felt bad about laughing at this but I laughed nonetheless.Country Music Stars Challenge Al-Qaeda With Patriotic New Song - Bomb New York

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Ouch!: Jon Stewart did a number on Chris Matthews last night during an interview ostensibly designed to help Matthews flog his new book. At least that's what Matthews appeared to think.Stewart lit into him, however, making the case that the message of the book - which focuses on how the lessons of politics can be applied to life - was cynical and down right sad. A "self-hurt book," said Stewart.

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Molecule Of The Week: What did I do before I found this site?Here's an example.Antimony Trisulfide: "The 'Chinese needle' form of antimony trisulfide produces white glittery stars in fireworks. The 'dark pyro' form increases the sensitivity of flash powder and sharpens the 'report' or loud boom sound effect. Antimony trisulfide should be handled with extreme care because it is toxic and very

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Huh?

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