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Friday, Feb 08, 2002

without a doubt

cant get this stupid no doubt song out of my head this morning.

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presence tense

"Imagine being able to learn without dialing a single digit whether another person's phone is in use, or in the case of a cellphone, whether it is even turned on. Now imagine being able to do the same thing with any wired or wireless device of the future — whether it is in the car, in an airplane or at the gym. Not only could you learn whether a person is available for a chat, but you could also deduce what that person might be doing at that exact moment, all without exchanging a word."

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Thursday, Feb 07, 2002

peep show

frontline: american porn

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Tuesday, Feb 05, 2002

fig batty

vintage fruit labels

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Monday, Feb 04, 2002

call screening

ken lays not just claiming he was out of the loop, now hes completely out of sight.

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plastic bagged

todays plastic surgery victim former cnn/now fox newspersonality greta van sustern.

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interest groupies

"From the advent of the New Deal until the 1980s, no such grand financial-and-political-corruption scandal took place, on either party's watch. That was partly because regulations were adopted, beginning in the 1930s, to prevent such corruption. The Reagan-Bush-Gingrich counterrevolution severely undermined those protections. A new way of thinking about business morality -- or rather, a very old way -- took over. The Gilded Age, "public be damned," caveat-emptor spirit of Commodore Vanderbilt came back from the dead, reincarnated as a self-evident, all-American truth. Indeed, the Enron saga exemplifies "the genius of capitalism," Bush II Treasury Secretary Paul H. O'Neill recently proclaimed."

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spy me to the moon

why does this spy museum suddenly seem less kitschykool?

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blimey

c-spans enron coverage. noticed a hitchens-sullivan washington journal roundtable among the many links.

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reserve power

"Last week, 52 Israeli army reservists placed an open letter in the weekend papers stating their refusal to serve in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The reservists believe the Israel Defense Force's "mission of occupation and repression" doesn't serve the defense of the state of Israel, and they consider the IDF's actions there to be designed to "expel, starve, and humiliate an entire people." By Monday, the Jerusalem Post reported that the number of refuseniks had grown to 150."

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