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Do you hate those automated voice menu systems that banks, cell phone providers, and other companies make you wrestle with? If so, consider this: Find-A-Human (hat tip to Neal): Find-A-Human gives you the procedures to short-circuit a company’s automated menu system and skip straight to a Real Live Human.

Rarely does my company do anything that the mainstream media would deem exciting enough to report on — and I can’t really blame them. Most of our work is either pretty nitty-gritty technical with a near-zero flashiness factor, or it’s so fringe that most people glaze over as it’s described. However, every now [...]

Emperor Misha over at The Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler posted a piece about the “news” streaming from the “occupied territories” — including a link to a fascinating 18-minute video clip that examines some raw footage that was clipped, edited, and provided to the world media by the ever-eager-to-whine “Paleoswinians”. It is a must-see.
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Another email from my sister (trust me, I get a bajillion) — but this one had a lesson that was, shall we say, particularly timely. So I’ll share.
The following is the philosophy of Charles Schultz, the creator of the “Peanuts” comic strip. You don’t have to actually answer the questions. Just read straight through; [...]

“I don’t want a president exactly like me,” Paone answered. “You know, I’m all for screwing or whatever, but I like that Bush has always been with Laura and is kind of boring. Clinton was a party animal who worked in as many ladies as he could, and look what that got us: A nuclear [...]