Archive for December, 2009

Disagreeable Democrats

Democrats never agree on anything, that’s why they’re Democrats. If they agreed with each other, they would be Republicans.
—Will Rogers

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Quickly Condense Web Pages for Easy Reading

Here’s an indispensable tool for prolific readers of web content: Readability.
Just download this handy app, easily add it to your browser’s toolbar, & with a single mouseclick you can escape all the web page clutter (ads, images, photos, rotating banners, Bing nag screens, etc.) and get to the heart of the web page: [...]

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Disorganized Democrats

I don’t belong to any organized political party. I’m a Democrat.
—Will Rogers

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Book Review: Googled by Ken Auletta

Googled: The End of the World As We Know It

* * * Interesting in Parts, But Reads Too Much Like A Corporate Dossier
(Snapshot Review by Kerri Elders)
Without a doubt, Ken Auletta’s Googled is thoroughly and expertly researched.
However, it took me numerous ambivalent weeks to read it (BTW, it is not at all unusual for me [...]

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Quotations

Quotations are vital elements in any writer’s arsenal. Whether used in a prose piece or a speech, quotes are useful tools for “cutting the chase.” Quotations provide the writer (or the speaker) a socially acceptable way to express ideas and concepts that may not be Politically Correct (”Hey, I didn’t say that, Will Rogers [...]

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Stress Reduction Tip #1

Words of Wisdom!
“Stress primarily comes from not taking action over something that you can have some control over. So, if I find that some particular thing is causing me to have stress, that’s a warning flag for me. What it means is there’s something that I haven’t completely identified perhaps in my conscious mind that [...]

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