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Jargonwatch: If layoffs in the last recession were RIFs (reduction in force), watch now for ISOs (identified savings opportunities).
| Bluetooth at the dog park. Still feels wrong. (Unlike texting.) |
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| will someone please draw Christian Bale beating up his mom & sister with the old Batman "BLAM!" and "SPLAT" graphic splashes? |
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| Christian Bale arrested for assaulting mom & sis. (Jen: Batman? I wonder what they did to deserve it..." http://tinyurl.com/5uy6xw |
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| further signs of a cultural shift: court says FCC overreacted to Janet's SuperBowl boob flash: http://tinyurl.com/63cpvt |
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| @timoreilly citizens ~> consumers; it happened before 2000, since I remember being disappointed hearing Gore say it repeatedly. |
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| #3 favorite phrase of this week: "Bank talent is not an option." |
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| @suesims consider following "pasadenaviews" -- a Pas. realtor who posts about stuff going on there, houses for sale. cool. |
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| friend in Liberia writes: i see people who make $250 per MONTH spending $100 on DVD players. |
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| for all who doubted stories of stock brokers throwing selves out windows in 1929, this from today's WSJ: http://preview.tinyurl.com/... |
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| Jen cusses at 10 yr old dinner guest. Her defense: 'ass' is not a swear word. |
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| A pal pulled 200k out of WaMu today. |
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| @monkeytrousers right, hobo burningman. Woody Guthrie with Vitamin Water. Obama is the black FDR. |
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| Imagining Great Depression II, slackers riding the rails but thumbing Twitter updates from the boxcars. Every hobo camp has a web site. |
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| Pics of runs on IndyMac, like SMS mobs. Different motivation, but all got msg to be at same place & time for same reason. |
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| Sarah Silverman and Jimmy Kimmel broke up. What's going on in Matt Damon's head? http://tinyurl.com/5u6n3f |
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| @hrheingold wonder what insights may sprout from this Newtonian act! |
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| Why is the left self-destructive? Methinks some folks in the middle may miss the joke of New Yorker's cover: http://tinyurl.com/5g9oxs |
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| @monkeytrousers Then that's LA, too. |
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| @monkeytrousers Hmm... Fun in the sun vs. Stick up the ass. Tough choice. |
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