Friendly Radical Wacko Information Alert:
Don’t forget to set your clocks forward one hour tonight.
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Well, after taking some lessons from my friend Steve Griffin’s excellent website Delegate Technologies, I’ve redesigned the site so that it will re-size to the browser window. Let me know what you think.
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An excellent letter from the Wall Street Journal (4/2/2003):
A Consumer’s Right to Cheaper Goods
If Mr. Jenkins does indeed reveal “an indifference to consumer welfare,” as Messrs. Simons and Kovacic claim, it is a perfectly valid point of view, as cold and unfeeling as it may sound. A democratic government has no business giving preference to one group of citizens (consumers) over another (business owners), and to use the coercive power of the state to benefit the former by restricting the property rights of the latter is morally reprehensible. (The idea that government action must be justified morally may seem quaint to Messrs. Simons and Kovacic, but nonetheless it is true.)
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Big geek news: C# is going to receive ISO standardization. Java better start re-thinking their isolationist world.
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It’s been a movie filled weekend. Here is one you cannot miss. Read my review of the astounding Roger Dodger!
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Here’s a one liner I heard for all you Okies out there:
What do you call a Pallbearer at an Oklahoman’s funeral?
Karaoke!
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And another joke for all you beer drinkers:
There was a beer convention a while back and after meetings all day the
presidents of three large beer companies decided to go out for a drink.
They settled in at the bar and the bartender asked them what they would like.The president of Budweiser said, “I’ll have a Bud, the King of Beers.”
The president of Coors said, “I’ll have a Coors, the beer with Mile High
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Here is something particularly weird: Strindberg & Helium
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Another particularly strange website: Eugenemirman.com.
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A friend just sent this comparison to me and though I can’t vouch for it’s total honesty, it seems pretty close to me:
Price of Gas:
You Think A Gallon Of Gas Is Expensive?
Makes one think, and puts things in perspective.
Diet Snapple 16 oz $1.29 $10.32 per gallon
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Lipton Ice Tea 16 oz $1.19 $ 9.52 per gallon
Gatorade 20 oz $1.59 $10.17 per gallon
Ocean Spray 16 oz $1.25 $10 .00 per gallon
Brake Fluid 12 oz $3.15 $33.60 per gallon
Vick’s Nyquil 6 oz $8.35 $178.13 per gallon
Pepto Bismol 4 oz $3.85 $123.20 per gallon
Whiteout 7 oz $1.39 $25.42 per gallon
Scope 1.5 oz $0.99 $84.48 per gallon
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