Category: the soapbox
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wai so srs?
so, on wednesday, a think tank in new jersey sent out a press release that they found a probable link to what may be responsible for the sudden, widespread increase of autism. coming across this last night, i posted (along with a quote and a link to the press release) an emotional rant about how…
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scientific link to autism found; get your tinfoil hats because us loonies were right
in a completely, totally, ridiculously different direction that what the medical establishment has been lambasting at us for years, a think tank has uncovered a probable cause for autism. you know all those people you think are insane for not getting their kids vaccinated? well guess what…they’re right. from the article: If it hadn’t been…
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wake up, music industry!
a couple of weeks ago i posted my reactions to some stuff that sam rosenthal was talking about on his projekt newsletter and facebook page. sam graciously took the opportunity to comment on my post, and one of his main points was this: Just because *you* buy music after nabbing it illegally, you are mistaken…
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fix the music biz by taking cues from the porn industry
some ideas occurred to me after my recent post about the music industry, and then erin said something that i thought was not only genius, but perfectly summed up the kind of thinking that needs to happen to save the music business: if you want to figure out what people will pay for online, look…
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Is Comic Sans really a bad font?
Comic frickin’ Sans …do you even have to ask? i get the SitePoint newsletter, Design View. I used to pretty much auto-delete these or filter them to my spambox but when i started using Outlook again, and was creating rules to keep my inbox clean, i decided to just filter it to the folder where all…
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blog action day: climate change — taking action against climate change and getting a buzz doing it
so i love it when i sign up for these “everyone blog about such-and-such topic” deals and i have no idea what to write about. ha. this post is for blog action day, a thing i didn’t know anything about until i saw someone’s badge. i’m all for these “get together and blog on a particular…
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omfg boycott the new $1 coin
ok, so i get a lot of forwards from my biomom. some are cute and worth reading and passing on, some are religious and worth deleting, some are racist and not worth my time, but tick me off anyway, and some are morally outraged at one thing or another. but regardless, i read them all,…