Paul

What on earth is “progressively designed high tech space?”

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I can’t decide which is worse: the building design or the ad copy.  Either way, if it were being dropped next to MY condo building (sorry, “amenity”) I’d be out rioting. Dropping a ginormous suburban-style office building on the edge of a densely populated urban neighborhood is neither progressive nor high tech. http://www.150second.com/ Continuing Kendall … Read more

Willie Bobo: Spanish Grease

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In the category of “things I heard while drinking mojitos in a bar in Jersey City and used Shazam to track down.” Funnily enough, one of the first youtube hits was for “Summer Loving” in Spanish.

OK, who’s surprised? Really?

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Many Homeland Security initiatives are called flops – latimes.com www.latimes.com A high-tech “virtual fence” to catch illegal border crossers. Next-generation nuclear detectors at ports. Tamper-proof driver’s licenses in every state.These were signature Bush administration initiatives to protect the country against terrorism and secure its borders. …

Steve Jobs weighs in.

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I wonder how I’d feel if I didn’t hate Flash. http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/ I wanted to jot down some of our thoughts on Adobe’s Flash products so that customers and critics may better understand why we do not allow Flash on iPhones, iPods and iPads. Adobe has characterized our decision as being primarily business driven – they … Read more

somewhere between baffled and bemused

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I just found out what the Betsy Ross Teabag Flag with the “II” in the middle means: Second American Revolution: MEANING OF OUR FLAG. Our Betsy Ross flag with a Roman numeral “II” in the center of the 13 stars symbolizes the Second American Revolution on its surface, but at a deeper level it symbolizes … Read more