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Ever been on a plane and groaned inwardly at the pre-flight briefing speech (or video) by the crew about how things work on the plane, etc? This one shouldn’t bother you, I think:
http://www.theflyingsocialnetwork.com/archives/5571

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…Toyotoho!  Kohler’s $6500 way-high-tech toilet, with all the gimmicks.  (last two links are to YouTube.)

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“Sarah Palin is a great friend to the bowling industry and we’re so proud and honored to welcome her as our keynote speaker at International Bowl Expo 2010,” said Steven Johnson, executive director of the BPAA.

A bowling columnist writes:

Politicians don’t seem to give a hoot about championing the great sport of bowling and that bothers me when ( Read more... )

Irish marriage equality TV ad; rather clever.

Thanks to Deb Geisler and John Scalzi, I can bravely point to an ad about major league baseball that doesn’t make me watch a sport I don’t care much about, but gets across a simple, semi-inspirational message that most everyone not in the NY metro area can get behind.

Various reports that the WPA wireless security systems have been broken pretty thoroughly, which is a big reason why my home wireless setup is top of the line on encryption.  This is a problem because some older laptops won’t handle it, and in the *brief* time such laptops are around, I have to either come up with a clear unencrypted signal OR hand ( Read more... )

ORPHAN: My readers quietly passed along some information on this still-yet-to-open movie that I trashed earlier…and a little more information on a personal note.

Susan talked to Mere, and she got the impression from Meredith that the sheer scariness of the poster got to Mere more than anything else.

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New Zealander taekwondo champ trying to open a whorehouse in his home country to support his bid to go to the London Olympics in 2012.    Well, it’s not as nice as a Wheaties box…