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How to keep busy (and productive) if you find yourself with free time during a recession

January 23, 2008

Robert Scoble has a great follow-up to his post about things to do to survive the recession. This one is more of a tactical list of things you should do to keep busy.

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Things to do to survive the seemingly imminent recession

December 15, 2007

Karen has been tooting the “Recession is coming!” horn for quite some time now (so much so that I almost feel bad having the first Recession-related post no our blog) and the thought seems to really be picking up steam. Robert Scoble has a pretty good list of things to do to prepare were it [...]

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“If I had killed her… this is how it might have gone down…”

November 16, 2006

OJ will be doing an interview with FOX where he’ll detail how he would have gone about committing those murders if he had, in fact, committed them, which we all know, he totally didn’t.

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Should you or should you not get the extended warranty on that _____ ?

October 5, 2006

I often wrestle with this when buying electronics (Applecare anyone?). The Washington Post does a great job of breaking down the issure. In short: no, you should not. Don’t be lazy, though. Find out the full reason. If anyone can tell me whether this applies to getting the insurance when you rent a car, let [...]

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Defending NYC off leash hours

August 27, 2006

On Tuesday, August 28th, Judge Peter Kelly will make a decision about observing or revoking off-leash hours in NYC parks. Let’s hope he agrees with Ted Kerasote, Op-Ed Contributor for the New York Times, who makes some excellent points about off-leash hours in today’s paper. Here is how dangerous Prospect Park looks on any given [...]

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Pluto officially kicked to the curb

August 24, 2006

As far as getting served by astronomers, it doesn’t get much worse than this. Smell ya later, Pluto!

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Well-executed parody of what Right-wingers see when they read the Times

August 18, 2006

The ones at the bottom are especially funny.

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Stephen Colbert at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner

April 30, 2006

Delightfully uncomfortably hilarious. Make sure to check out the video. Update: While we’re at it, check out this great Colbert interview. (Thanks, Kevin!)

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Oh you didn’t get into Harvard? Don’t waste your money going elsewhere.

April 28, 2006

Rich Karlgaard of Forbes magazine suggests if you are not earning a degree from Harvard, Yale or 20 of the other highly ranked private universities, you are probably poorly investing your money. While he makes a few valid points in this editorial (Google = Widener Library), in general this article enrages the hater of all things elitist in me. Karlgaard [...]

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