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I got this message on myspace this evening. I have to admit…they’re getting clever.
Hi, my name is Scott Rist with Century 21 First Choice in Pacific Beach. I would love to invite you to view my page and read my blogs on first time homebuyers, sellers, and investment properties. I know you will [...]

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For the longest time, I was addicted to RSS. Sometime back in ‘04, I happened on Gush, and was immediately super stoked. I started amassing feeds, throwing every site I liked right into my cute little folders.
Then I found Rojo, realizing that I could have a web-based aggregator, and use the same goodies regardless of [...]

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No amount of gesturing helped the other day, so I’m taking my plight-inspired plea to the web.

If you are a caucasian male who drives north on 805 between Chula Vista and Mission Valley each weekday morning between 5:30 and 6:00 a.m. in a fairly new silver Ford F-150, and listens to an iPod (or similar [...]

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An open letter to cell phone companies / voicemail service providers:
Dear Sir/Ma’am:
The automated message that you play after someone’s greeting is too freaking long, and it tries my patience. I don’t want to leave a numeric page; people don’t carry pagers anymore for a reason. I don’t want to explore additional options after leaving a [...]

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I’ve been extremely reticent to address the recent protests and riots that have emerged in response to the cartoons of the Muslim prophet Mohammed published in a Danish newspaper several months ago. I’ve been hesitant for a few reasons:

I wasn’t entirely sure what the cartoons actually depicted
My initial tendency is to side with free [...]

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