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For your workday pleasure. via mumpsimus

Fascinating article. A couple of things: yea, at some point, encouraging people to have one kid and having a premium on having boys, you’re eventually going to get into trouble. I was wondering when they’d have to start addressing it: There is such a glut of boys here – roughly 134 are born for every

Straight from boingboing: The Business Software Alliance has put up some materials on why software piracy is bad. The reason they cite to stop piracy is that it keeps the software industry from getting bigger. My cow-orker Seth has revised their copy with several counterexamples to show what a strange proposition this is: Original: Some

Drunken blog posts are like drunken e-mails, only with a far, far bigger audience. You sort of crawl out of bed the next morning and go, “I just posted that to 500 people. Damn.” No more drunken blog posts. Really. I mean it this time. Anyway, lots to do today. In the mean time, movie

At which point, the protagonist thinks: he does not have to be perfect. Just date. Pretend. It does not have to be real. Make something up. Just live in Chicago. Here. Now. Next to me. That’s all. And the protagonist grabs another black russian, and switches out the contacts for glasses, and goes to watch

Going out to dinner with Jenn and the SO tonight. Watching more of Carnivale. Dude, Nick Stahl can be kinda hot, in a broody, guy-next-door kind of way. I’d totally take him home, especially if I caught him reading something equally hot. But I digress. Doing a quick read-through of Margaret Atwood’s Good Bones. Quirky.

I start to worry, as my workplace and government become increasingly more involved in my life choices. Four workers in the United States have lost their jobs after refusing to take a test to see if they were smokers. They were employees of Michigan-based healthcare firm Weyco, which introduced a policy banning its staff from

Today is grocery shopping day, and with that in mind, and the fact that this has been such a tough couple of months for me, regarding just about everything, I’m going back to the basics. In fact, after some time off, a lot of sleeping, and being honest with myself, it’s pretty easy to see

Jeff Jarvis has a roundup of Iraqi blogs covering the election.

Spent pretty much all of yesterday in bed, getting up periodically to eat, check e-mail, soak in the tub, and watch the rest of Battlestar Galactica, which I will rant about later (half the female characters are still robots, Starbuck is the hottest character of them all, I’m sick to death of boringly pretty boy