Archive for February, 2009:

Life’s Top Albums

So after ripping on Facebook I get a classic but interesting Facebook chain letter:
“Think of 15 albums that had such a profound effect on you they changed your life or the way you looked at it. They sucked you in and took you over for days, weeks, months, years. These are the albums that you [...]

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Facebook Smells Like Death

After a year or two without a Facebook page I decided to check it out again. Two years ago it was nothing but high school students I knew, but now almost every human I have ever come in contact with has a page. I’ve gone through some kind of Kübler-Rossian grief cycle as my emotions [...]

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Quiverfulls

So all the fury aimed against Nadya Suleman—the woman who added eight children to her previous six—got me thinking about large families, just in time for a nice article in last week’s New York Times titled “And Baby Makes How Many? In an Era of Shrinking Broods, Larger Families Can Feel Attacked.” (Full disclosure: I’m [...]

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Monkey Bowl XLIII

True primate lovers know that the final judgment of a Super Bowl has nothing to do with the football score and everything to do with the primate commercial count. A great Super Bowl providesendless primate entertainment in the minutes between plays. This fabulous recent trend began with E*Trade’s classic Super Bowl XXXIV ad featuring a [...]

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