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Why punctuation matters

Thursday, May 15, 2008 11:11 PM
This is a true story, but I'm changing the names to protect the innocent. A co-worker, whom I'll call "Mark," has been on assignment recently about 10 or 11 time zones away. Back home, his co-worker "John" sent him an email about a meeting that transpired
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Quote of the day (on drug testing)

Thursday, April 17, 2008 2:46 PM
From Cathy , on her husband Doug (seen in comments here ): Doug would pass a drug screen. Crazy doesn't show up in body fluids. (He may be drug-free, but I'm reasonably sure Doug never sleeps.) Share this post: Email | del.icio.us | Digg | Reddit
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Even scientists have a sense of humor

Monday, March 31, 2008 10:18 PM
A couple of physicists in Italy have developed an explanation for poltergeist activity, which suspiciously always seems to happen around children; it has to do with quantum mechanics and the chemical changes that occur in the brain around the time of
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Quote of the day (on the death of Vampira)

Saturday, January 12, 2008 8:55 PM
Maila Nurmi, the actress who played Vampira from the 1950s onward, passed away on Friday at the age of 86. This comment, seen at Newscoma's place , may qualify as the quote of the month: May you rest, but get back up and do it all over again. Hilarious.
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FBI wiretaps canceled for not paying the phone bill

Thursday, January 10, 2008 6:10 PM
This is just too funny : Telephone companies have cut off FBI wiretaps used to eavesdrop on suspected criminals because of the bureau's repeated failures to pay phone bills on time. [...] In at least one case, a wiretap used in a Foreign Intelligence
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A heartwarming Christmas story

Thursday, December 20, 2007 9:46 AM
My paternal grandfather was a curmudgeon throughout his entire life. Christmas seemed to aggravate the condition. For nine or ten years, from the late 1950's through the mid-1960's, he taught at Gibbs High School here in Knox County (at that time, Gibbs
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Quote of the day (on Christmas)

Friday, December 14, 2007 11:37 AM
A Twitter update by the inimitable Newscoma : Must go shopping or my family will be getting Tampax and batteries for Christmas. I should probably create a Newscoma tag. Share this post: Email | del.icio.us | Digg | Reddit
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Quote of the day (on Newscoma)

Saturday, November 17, 2007 4:48 PM
From John Carney : It seems like all I've done this week is link to stuff that Newscoma has posted . I know the feeling, John. Share this post: Email | del.icio.us | Digg | Reddit
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An error message that explains a lot

Wednesday, October 17, 2007 8:04 PM
A while ago, my Flash player crashed Internet Explorer 7. Yeah, I know; you're saying "Use Firefox instead of IE7, dummy." Anyway, the Windows Error Reporting Service dutifully sent the error message to Microsoft; I expected some message to come back
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Gore's talk on climate change

Sunday, October 14, 2007 9:20 PM
Via Djuggler , this video of Al Gore from February 2006 discusses fifteen things we can do as individuals to help mitigate the effects of global warming. The first several minutes are a hilarious monologue of self-deprecating humor and personal observations
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Quote of the day (on bodily functions)

Thursday, October 04, 2007 12:37 PM
Newscoma cracks me up sometimes. Go read this , which brings us the quote of the day (and probably the month): It will be a bad thing and not a good thing, this peeing. Indeed. Share this post: Email | del.icio.us | Digg | Reddit
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Meet Ogg the caveman

Sunday, September 23, 2007 6:45 PM
I have a new story posted at the Psychozilla Tribune, in which the world is introduced to Ogg the Caveman. After lying frozen in a glacier for 50,000 years, he woke up when global warming started melting the ice. He's now taking the world by storm. Read
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This is why blogs exist

Sunday, September 23, 2007 4:41 PM
Newscoma is tipsy-blogging "Plan 9 From Outer Space." Right now, as I type this, she's watching the movie and drinking some merlot, and blogging about it. Just go read this post . This is why God invented blogs. Share this post: Email | del.icio.us |
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News Sentinel gets it right, and I blog like a pirate

Wednesday, September 19, 2007 12:58 PM
Two articles on Jack McElroy's suit against County Commission appear in today's News Sentinel ( here and here ); believe it or not, I have no objections to either article's objectivity. None. They stick to the facts, avoid biased characterizations, and
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The Psychozilla Tribune is now live!

Sunday, August 26, 2007 10:05 AM
Pop open the champagne, folks -- the Psychozilla Tribune has gone live! In the spirit of the late, great Weekly World News (which recently ceased publication of its print edition), the PZT seeks to report news that is ... (ahem) ... "slightly off-center."
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Quote of the day (from Newscoma)

Sunday, August 05, 2007 8:47 PM
Here's a recent Twitter from Newscoma , which I've been laughing about for the last couple of hours: I just sneezed on my dog. It was unexpected for both of us. I've had several Quotes Of The Day from her. Maybe I should create a Newscoma tag. Share this
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From outrage to juvenile snickering in one click

Friday, July 27, 2007 3:30 PM
Today, I read the latest idiotic statement from the Vatican, and my outrage began to coalesce : In comments released in advance of an interview to be published today in the German weekly Süeddeutsche Magazin, [Msgr. Georg Gänswein, Pope Benedict XVI’s
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Some newspaper corrections I'd like to see

Wednesday, July 25, 2007 10:24 PM
Based on this , I thought of several newspaper corrections I'd dearly love to see: From the Knoxville News-Sentinel : The News Sentinel has run a recent series of stories regarding financial improprieties within the County Mayor's office. This series
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Scary Amazon searches

Sunday, July 22, 2007 11:17 PM
Based on this , I swear I'll never search at Amazon for anything but books, DVDs, music, and electronics. Kevin proves that the other choices are just too scary. Share this post: Email | del.icio.us | Digg | Reddit
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Cheney chooses new undisclosed location, buys Dracula's castle

Tuesday, July 03, 2007 12:49 PM
In a surprise move, Vice President Dick Cheney has purchased Dracula's Castle to serve as his new "undisclosed location," anonymous sources say. A senior White House official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said, "The Vice President needed a new
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