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Self promotion is not the same as arrogance.

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 09:32:36 GMT

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There is a difference between being arrogant about yourself as a person and being confident that your work has some value. The first is unattractive, the second is healthy and natural. Some people respond to the one as if it were the other. Don’t confuse them. Marketing is not bragging, and touting one’s wares is not evil. The baker in the medieval town square must holler “fresh rolls” if he hopes to feed the townfolk.

They will have no clue what they're saying

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:37:01 GMT

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Clip Source: www.anncoulter.com

Next time you're at a cocktail party, just start saying, "Chocolate pudding is dramatic irony" from time to time. Eventually other people will start saying it, without anyone bothering to consider whether it makes sense. Then we'll do another one: "Nicolas Cage is a two-cycle engine."

Before you know it, liberals will react to news of a mass murder by muttering, "Well, you know what they say: Nicolas Cage is a two-cycle engine," while everyone nods in agreement.

Gaming recovery will take awhile

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:23:29 GMT

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Clip Source: www.kxnt.com

The head of the American Gaming Association says it will likely be three-to-four years before the casino industry fully rebounds from the economic downturn of the past year-and-a-half.

David Byrne on how the Internet affects, among other things privacy

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:12:39 GMT

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Clip Source: journal.davidbyrne.com

Privacy and security, as much as we might strive for them, are phantoms that we chase but can never truly catch. As much as we love getting information, data, media and connections, so we ourselves become available as data. Social websites like MySpace, Facebook and Twitter seem to use these conflicting urges — the urge to reveal oneself to the world, in all one’s intimate details, and yet simultaneously maintain some kind of privacy. Good luck with that.

why difficult time writing

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 09:07:33 GMT

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Clip Source: www.jetless.org

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Today has been a watershed of understanding in why I have such a damn hard time writing online these days. From my ever-inspiring friend Diana Kimball knocking out the fully crystalized prose versions of the amorphous ideas sloshing around in my noggin’, to my other good friend nickd running an ax straight down the issue in his inaugural hand-spun post just like in the good ol’ days. I’m too caught up in software! I spend all this time in templating languages that prevent me from ever getting around to creating! Horse shit!

Thomas Paine distinguishes society from government

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:05:30 GMT

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Clip Source: reason.com

If Paine was not a pure libertarian, he did have an undeniable libertarian streak. It was Paine who wrote that “society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil.” And it was Paine, in Common Sense, who declared: “Some writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins. Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness POSITIVELY by uniting our affections, the latter NEGATIVELY by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher.”

Ron Paul proposes true health care reform

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 22:47:57 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Ron Paul proposes, effectively, a 100% tax credit on medical expenses, i.e. whatever you spend on health care during the year you can deduct on your federal tax return.

So, we could, like, take care of ourselves. Crazy, huh?

Clip Source: bytestyle.tv

H.R. 1495, the Comprehensive Health Care Reform Act of 2009 (12 pages long)

H.R. 1498, the Freedom from Unnecessary Litigation Act (2 pages long)

Ron Paul, the libertarian congressman from Texas, whom nobody ever confused with a me-too Republican, has proposed a health care reform that deserves the name "reform."

It's this. Whatever a family has to pay for the doctor, the hospital, the pills or the shots, it could deduct on their federal tax return.

Get that? A 100 percent tax credit on health care costs. Socialized medicine turned inside out, you might say.

Instead of the government taking care of us, we take care of ourselves. And by just that amount, lowering our tax bills.

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where our country is headed - redistribution of candy

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:02:07 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The quote is about redistributing candy. Sounds fair, right? Wait until that's your paycheck. Do you still support the current administration's push towards more government programs now?

Clip Source: www.writeonnevada.com

The segment also included an attack on socialism, pertaining to the redistribution of candy.

"Maybe this is why I'm a business reporter," Romans said. "My mom took all my candy - four kids - divided it up equally and then gave it all back to us in equal amounts and I was like [Romans threw both hands up in the air and gave a look of distain] ... It's not right. It's not right."

Both Roberts and Chetry labeled the candy redistribution as "socialism," as Romans told her story.

So this is how liberty dies

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 07:09:01 GMT

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clipper's remarks: My first thought, after reading this paragraph, was, "Oh crap, that could actually happen here, couldn't it?"

Clip Source: en.wikipedia.org

Padmé Amidala makes her third appearance on film in Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005), set three years after the events of Attack of the Clones. After Anakin returns from a battle, she informs him that she is pregnant. Padmé watches with increasing suspicion as Palpatine becomes a dictator, using the Clone Wars to amass vast emergency powers and gain control over the Senate and judiciary. Padmé later witnesses Palpatine declare martial law, transforming the Republic into the Galactic Empire and naming himself Emperor. As the Senate cheers for Palpatine, she tells herself, "So this is how liberty dies: With thunderous applause."

a good tweet is

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 05:25:06 GMT

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Clip Source: edition.cnn.com

Dickerson believes a good tweet conveys useful information or a personal observation in a funny or sideways way. And it can't be boring.

"Shorter is always better," he says of Twitter's 140-character limit. "If there were any more space Twitter would stop being a lovely little toffee candy and turn into something more confused."

We're all felons, now

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 06:24:37 GMT

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Clip Source: reason.com

"There's no way to rule innocent men.
The only power government has is the power to crack down on criminals.
Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them.
One declares so many things to be a crime
that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws."

—Ayn Rand

In his new book, the Boston-based civil liberties advocate and occasional Reason contributor Harvey Silverglate estimates that in 2009, the average American commits about three federal felonies per day.

In fact, it's nearly impossible for some business owners to comply with one federal regulation without violating another one. We're no longer governed by laws, we're governed by the whims of lawyers.

Whatever one may think of Ayn Rand's political philosophy or ethics, her criminal justice prophecy has proven unsettlingly accurate: In our continuing eagerness to purge American society of crime, we've allowed the government to make us all into criminals.

Tags: politics, crime

protected Twitter accounts partially indexed by Google

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 05:03:58 GMT

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clipper's remarks: If the account is "protected," Google should not be able to work around it. Scary.

Clip Source: latimesblogs.latimes.com

We expect this is an unintentional "feature." Twitter Chief Executive Evan Williams wrote on his profile (which is not protected) Saturday, saying, "I think it's not cool to retweet a protected tweet."

We think it's not cool to let Google index a protected tweet.

dependence on electronic communications

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 22:20:50 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I think we all are far more dependent on electronic communications than we realize. They are an intrinsic part of modern life, both personal and professional.

And I could not agree more that "if this bothers you ... I think you're in trouble."

Clip Source: www.courvo.biz

To me this underscores the fundamental dependence we in voice-acting have on electronic communications as an intrinsic part of our business plan. If this bothers you…I think you’re in trouble..

Word choice does matter

Sun, 11 Oct 2009 03:52:31 GMT

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clipper's remarks: What you write says much more about you than you might realize.

Clip Source: www.courvo.biz

In my estimation, what you write in public should present with the same sensibility as what you would wear to an important job interview.

Until you know your audience, or they know you, it's always best to err on the side of a slightly more formal, universally-accepted style.

the essence of you will come across in your writing more than anything else in today's over-social-networked medium.

For instance, my arbitrary grammar rule-book has a hard-and-fast edict about the four "I's".

I (me)
imagine
if
it's

These are words I will never start a story with.

"It's" has reached monumental proportions as a starting word in broadcast stories. That is lazy writing.

Just…know that your words represent YOU online. Be creative. Be expressive. Try to find a different word than "nice" or "very" when describing ANYTHING.

The words you choose to represent yourself are just as important as the clothes you wear, the car you drive, and the way you talk, in revealing YOU. They represent choices. Make good ones.

Poker quote from 1869

Sun, 04 Oct 2009 07:05:09 GMT

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Clip Source: www.andybloch.com

The amusements of the prison proper were but few and simple. Most of the prisoners played cards all day long, and until roll-call, at nine o'clock at night. The favorite game was bluff, or poker, and the stakes or chips were one-cent pieces. It was as amusing to a looker-on to see with what earnestness and feeling the game was played, as it was to the players themselves. They would have had nothing to keep them from thinking of the outrages to which they were subjected, had it not been for card-playing.

Whoever invented cards, no matter how much they have been the means of doing mischief, contributed to the gratification of his fellow-beings in no small degree. And that there is amusement in them for the most enlightened and cultivated intellect, as there is for the simplest and most ignorant of mankind, cannot be questioned.

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