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    Internet Declares Socks-Found-Safe Thanksgiving Day 2009

    July 11, 2009 - By 

    @Pennycat denies involvement in disappearance of Twitteratti @Sockington Sockington is Missing (Update: FOUND) — HUZZAH SOCKS ARMY UPDATE: SOCKS HAS BEEN FOUND. He was underneath a shelf in my office, wrapped in a curtain, completely spooked and terrified. For the first time in years, he spent hours completely silent, not even reacting to hands, flashlights and food being waved inches from where he was. We’ve got him resting in a bedroom and letting whatever freaked him out get out of his system. As I posted on Jason’s blog post and Flickr page showing a very subdued Sockington, it’s a huge…

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    Giving It A Shot (In The Eye)

    July 11, 2009 - By 

    Had 2 successful insertions and extractions today, boo ya! Have not joined the Special Forces; just trying out soft contact lenses for the weekend. @fallingrock swears by them, I swore *at* them earlier. Seems OK now. Prescription Contact Lenses – CooperVision USA – Patient Homepage – CooperVision If you’re considering prescription contact lenses, consider that CooperVision is the contact lens of choice for thousands of leading eye care professionals nationwide. In fact, the trust they and their patients have placed in us has helped CooperVision become America’s second largest maker of prescription contact lenses. They know that no matter what…

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    July 5, 2009 - By 

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    Trials of a Homely Girl

    July 5, 2009 - By 

    Some things never change: from the NYT Archives of Sunday, March 1, 1903. Trials of a Homely Girl – Article Preview – The New York Times THINK how quick-witted you are and how much you can do,” said the comfortable woman to the girl who was complaining bitterly because she had no claims to good looks.

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    Backwash From Bailin’

    July 5, 2009 - By 

    @AKMudflats, it’s a beautiful day on the Internets when attorneys threaten bloggers and radio hosts with defamation, for freedom. Let’s all get our boots on, it’s gonna get spooty. AKMuckraker: Huffington Post Blogger in Palin’s Cross Hairs Using the substantial might of the Executive branch of government to bring down unenforceable legal threats on a private citizen in Alaska, and attempting to curtail free speech through intimidation on the Fourth of July? Not a particularly brilliant PR move. By specifically singling out and naming Moore, Palin has done two things; she has shown herself to be a reactionary immature politician,…

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    Palin Bailin’ Out

    July 4, 2009 - By 

    Every blogger worth her or his salt has already had a lot to say about Sarah Palin’s gobsmacking resignation yesterday. I can’t possibly improve on what they had to say (you should visit Mudflats, the companion piece at Huffpost, and Andrew Sullivan’s “Iceberg” post and catch up there). I heard fairly long clips of this speech on NPR on my way home, and I was trying to make sense of it and drive safely. All too soon, I gave up on trying to parse the unparseable and concentrated on getting home without incident. Some of the phrases I heard, however…