Tag Archives: internet

Fame, or Something Like It

I just saw Megan McIsaac out the window of Caffé Vita. I feel like I just had some sort of celebrity sighting; I’ve been following her work for a few months and reading her blog and I suppose would call myself a “fan”. But isn’t that weird how the Internet gives rise to this obtuse [...]
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Post It

At the office, at one point some of my co-works covered a wall in the executive editor’s office with Post-It notes. Perhaps they should try to one-up this goon. I’m at a coffee shop right now because my apartment won’t have internet for at most the next ten days or so. My ISP informed me [...]
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Why I Will Use Bing

I have no illusions about Google’s stranglehold on search, and I certainly won’t stop using Google. But besides the fact that Microsoft has implemented some really awesome new features that don’t overwhelm the user, there’s this: If the search market is indeed in its infancy, it’ll need a rivalry to grow. And that’s the best reason [...]
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Film

Movies I watched this weekend (in order of awesomeness, the bottom being most awesome): Vanilla Sky 12 Monkeys The Prestige Watchmen La Jetée Also movie related, the reason I haven’t posted in two days is that on Friday my internet was shut off, which I found out Saturday was because Broadstripe (my internet service provider) was [...]
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Broken Shit We Used To Fix

I haven’t used the internet for more than probably thirty minutes over the past three days. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Just an inconvenient thing. My computer is completely dead. This is a bad thing. I think all the nails are in the coffin and that fucker’s in the ground. It will turn on [...]
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The Smartest Thing I’ve Read on the Internet

There is a lot of talk about Hillary Clinton already losing the nomination. Over at Americablog, apparently even Clinton insiders are singing the same tune everyone else is. But if you look at the comments to that posting, about seven comments from the bottom, is one of the smartest pieces of Internetery that I’ve ever [...]
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