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Merlin's on a Twitter break.
Posting over at Kung Fu Grippe:
http://www.kungfugrippe.com/
XO, MDM
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Can't decide if these sweatpants would look best as pedal pushers, clam diggers, or capri pants. Fall fashion can be such a hornet's nest.
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GUESS: If Google bought your app (but hasn't moved it to their single sign-on), your app's now in maintenance mode, and you work on AdWords.
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I wonder if I could be in Mission of Burma for just, like...5 minutes -- like how they run flags up and down the Capitol's flagpole all day.
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*plonk*...*plonk*...*plonk*.
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I think it'd go:
"Roughly wrong or roughly right, /
Roughly loved at least one night... /
Roughly! /
La, la, la!"
http://xrl.us/oozie
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While I don't personally believe an alien flew people to Earth on DC-8s and invented human pain by bombing volcanos, I agree flying sucks.
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@Kalli It only took quitting a McDonalds job plus 20 years for me to figure out what I wanted to do. I'll bet you're faster.
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Still processing that I watched almost 5 min of a PowerPoint about "why LOLCats are funny" before leaving to drink. I CAN HAZ MAH TIEMS BAK?
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Here's another neat thing to do "before you die" — set down the paperback about existential tourism and fucking *go outside*.
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Oddly enough, now I really want a sandwich.
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Something I wrote: life in sandwiches, paper, and new expectations. http://xrl.us/SandwichRedux
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If you don't acknowledge your source in a book, you're either lazy or plagiarizing; in broadcast, the term is "new media strategy."
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More credible NPR plug: "To learn more about $GUEST, visit $GUESTSITE.COM. Or, stop by npr dot org, and search for '$GUEST.'" Pure Win.
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NPR drives traffic to their home page by never announcing any URL except their own: a proven web strategy also known as "being a huge dick."
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IDEA: Google search feature called "Safire" -- find pages with the earliest usage of a given phrase.
I'd use this _constantly_.
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With respect, @tj and @Moltz, I think this URL might give Mr. McCain's SEO folks better data to crunch: http://xrl.us/oox4f
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Pete Seeger's a genius and man of moral courage, and if this NPR show on him plays one more earnest, warbly folk song, I'll fucking lose it.
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If you've got your health, you've got everything. Especially if your health has a Viking range, 3-bridge views, and no mortgage.
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For mediocrity to become sustainable, just remove all room for creativity and focus on amusing the least interesting person you can imagine.
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