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The recycled cycle, written 2 days ago, If you have wandered across my flickr stream lately you might of noticed a couple of photos of my latest bicycle. So here is the story behind it. I regularly commute the 2.5km to and from the train station each day. Until recently on self destructing cheap chi...

The Demise of PC Magazine, written 3 days ago, I just read the news that PC Magazine is being canceled. It’s not exactly a shock, given the state of technical magazines right now. I haven’t read one of those in years, since they turned to be more of a consumer than a technical publication. But...

Operations Center Hopes To Keep Traffic Moving, written 3 days ago, This center at 108th and L streets in Omaha is Forman's baby, a new, $3 million facility designed to handle problems on Nebraska highways more efficiently. "Our primary goal here is the safety and efficiency of people moving ac...

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R.I. P. Pillsbury Doughboy, written 2 days ago,

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Award for McDonald's ad, written 3 days ago, The Association of National Advertisers, Inc., gave an award this week to Mcdonald's for multicultural advertising, for the following commercial. According to Laurel Wentz on the ANA site: "Tony Suarez, McDonald's VP-multicultural marketing, said th...

WORD OF ADVICE TO THE HYANNIS AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE; It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt...Mark Twain, written 2 days ago, At tonight's Town Council hearing homeowners will be asked to commiserate with the town's millionaires who will beseec...

For more than a quarter of a century I have been a pro bono lawyer for the intelligence community fighting to legally declassify information that the public needs to know.

"Be A Pepper" On Sunday, written 2 days ago, In a gene apparently passed down from my GrandMother, Mama and I are partial to the unique blend of twenty-three flavors in Dr Pepper (as opposed to Canada Dry). We'll be checking their website on Sunday.

DoD Retirees Slam Waste, Errors, written 3 days ago, Read the stunning new book from the Center for Defense Information (CDI) on the budgeting weaknesses and strategic blunders of the DoD. It's a remarkably good read as well as offering a buffet of common-sense reforms for the new President and Cong...

Roll Back Sarbanes-Oxley: Huh?, written 1 week ago, I am a big fan of Newt Gingrich, former US Speaker of the House. I watch him frequently on Fox News. He is extremely intelligent and well reasoned. That is on most things. But Newt and I part company on Sarbanes-Oxley. Mr. Gingrich is now lobbying ...

The usual deaths, written 2 weeks ago,

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Check out NixonWasFramed.com for a fun look at Richard Nixon and his accomplishments.

Paramedics called for man tasered by police, written 1 week ago, Paramedics were called to a pub to treat a man who had been stunned by a taser gun by armed police during a 'raid'. It is believed that dozens of police officers raided the Romany pub, in Colman Road, Norwich, on Friday evening. As a...

"In Washington, lawmakers either want to prohibit something, or subsidize something. How about doing neither, and letting people make the decisions!" ~ Ron Paul

New Study Suggests that Cause Marketing Boosts Sales, written 1 month ago, Consumers are much more likely to buy products from companies that support social causes -- and nonprofit organizations --? than from companies that don?t. This is the key finding of a new study conducted by Duke University a...

Best Ribs In New York City, written 4 weeks ago, A colleague and I just went to Houston’s for lunch, at 26th and Park. We both had the ribs, and have to say these ribs are downright amazing. You just don’t get real bbq straight out of the smoker like that anywhere else in this city. Now they’r...