Archive for March, 2008
Cell Phone Towers into Pine Trees
Cheap Mobile Phones are easy to come by and abundant. These mobile phones, or cell phones as we call them in the U.S., need towers to transmit their signals (no signal/bad signal means bad business in this thriving industry). Unfortunately, towers can be unsightly and some municipalities don’t want to look at them. There’s [...]
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Mills “baptizes” Lawyer
Heather Mills let loose on Paul McCartney’s lawyer after a judge gave her a paltry sum of $48.6 mil.
McCartney didn’t comment after Monday’s three-hour private hearing, but Mills, 40, emerged for an impromptu news conference on the courthouse steps — railing against McCartney’s lawyer, Fiona Shackleton.
Shackleton, who represented Prince Charles in his divorce from Princess [...]
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Diddy Says He Wasn’t Party to It
The Los Angeles Times has Diddy fuming. Apparently, the Times article tie Combs to the beat down Tupac got back in 1994, at the start of the big East Coast- West Coast blow out. The Times article says that Diddy (then called Puff Daddy) knew that Tupac was going to be ambushed and beaten up. [...]
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37 Million Requests
People are going nuts for online car insurance. According to the Chicago Tribune, there were over 2 million new policies bought online in 2007. 37 million requests for insurance quotes were made online in 2007, jumping 15% from 2006.
Consumers bought a record 2 million auto insurance policies online in 2007, a 37 percent rise from [...]
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That Poor Ellipsis
I sometimes frequent forums where, believe it or not, some of the people who post aren’t exactly grammar experts. I normally don’t have a problem with this, but lately there seems to be a trend of serious elliptical abuse.
For instance:
This shows how mean spirited that woman is .. I Hope CBS CANCELLED GL… She [...]
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Bamboozled
Beware of looking for a job on Craigslist. What you didn’t already know that? Well, here’s a lesson for all those thinking they can find the dream job by looking in the biggest ad on the ‘net.
I wrote another painfully sincere e-mail to Hillary Newman saying that I was smart and hardworking and had two [...]
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Reactions To Sally Kern
By now almost the entire world has heard about Oklahoma Rep. Sally Kern and her speech against gays.
Here is a clip of her speech (via Blogher):
The world is reacting to her- but not in the way she hoped.
Via Pam’s House Blend, I learn of a letter written by the son of woman killed in the [...]
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