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We do stuff.: We have really smart people who are always thinking up totally cool shit. We have a meeting room with a big, round, expensive table. When you hire us for marketing and consulting projects, we spend lots of time sitting around the table having meetings. ————— nice pseudo website.

New Filibuster Chart Puts the Lie to Republican Claims: People For the American Way has developed a chart compiled from Congressional Research Service data that lists the judicial and executive branch nominees filibustered prior to the Bush administration. Twenty-six of the filibusters – more than three-quarters of the total – were initiated by Senate Republicans. […]

Inside the Alfred Dome: The building was made of reinforced concrete with blown-in vermiculite insulation. 2/3 of the building nestled into the hillside to take advantage of the earth’s insulation.

Presenters, Abstracts, and Papers: Internet Research 6.0 is coming together quite well.

Clamptite: This little-known tool has a cult following. It transforms any old wire into the tightest clamp you can imagine. Unlike a hose clamp there is no limit to the diameter you can tie together. You can bundle bamboo into scaffolding, or twigs into fencing, make brooms from twigs, repair handles, and tie stuff down […]

Deep space vagina: Really interesting review of a very interesting book (which I’ve added to my Amazon list). snip i’ll prolly read this eventually. it is the sort of title that piques my interest.

Annenberg / CPB: Foreign Language free foreign language stuff.

Welcome to TV Turnoff Network: HAPPY TV-TURNOFF WEEK 2005! TV-TURNOFF WEEK 2005 – APRIL 25-MAY 1

Yeah but no but yeah but: Condoleezza Rice. Photograph: RIMGA/GettyThis morning Condoleezza Rice – or was it Vicky Pollard? – made one of those terrible errors foreign language speakers sometimes make when they are put on the spot. The worst I’ve done was ordered boiled fish… —– it is not uncommon for an expert in […]