November 2009
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“President Barack Obama took office promising to lead from the center and solve...”
– The Coming Deficit Disaster - WSJ.com
Mr. Holtz-Eakin is former director of the Congressional Budget Office and a fellow at the Manhattan Institute. This is adapted from testimony he gave before the Senate Committee on the Budget on Nov. 10.
I’m glad to see someone is telling them.
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Dear Every Site That Paginates Articles
kevintwohy:
marco:
I’m sure you split stories like this into two pages for a good reason: to save my bandwidth. After all, the remaining 3,126 characters of the story’s body (1,530 bytes as transferred with gzip compression) would have increased the page’s total size by 0.0032%.
No, I’m just yanking your chain. I know you’re double-charging your advertisers for the same story by...
Advertising Promises Pleasure Through Consumption
“There’s clearly a hedonistic consumerist pleasure that drives marketing for almost every product, usually sex related. We’re a miserable society full of alienated, frustrated, isolated, lonely people. And so promising that stuff gets you to go out and buy something hoping it will solve that whole big empty space in your life. And guess what, that purchase didn’t quite get...
WatchIt has been a week since I got engaged to my dream girl :-) and it is still the coolest thing to think about.
Yaaaay!
