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...quickly overtaken with Halo 2, lackluster action flicks, seasonal brews, and the occasional, half-assed academic pursuit. After ignoring several polite e-mails warning against the impending deadline, I decided to finally just sit down and write the damn thing. Open a “Document1.” Hmm. Did I even learn anything in college? Did I have an emblematic experience that shaped me? Alt-tab to Pine. Pressing “down” at the bottom of my inbox seems to do nothing. Perhaps I’ll just help it along by holding the down...
...clear that you could substitute, say, Anheuser-Busch for Heineken or Kodak for Fuji or McDonald's for Tesco. Those bench players may be based in the U.S., but they have global franchises. Gorle acknowledges the general nature of the Cup connection to each stock that UBS chose. And, hmm, except for InterContinental Hotels, UBS has a business relationship with all of them...
...DeLay: Oh, they did? Hmm...
...users with the prospect of a prize in every search. Inspired geeks like OILMAN cracked the source code to learn that the contest works by linking specific terms to prizes--a "Starbucks locations" search might yield a Starbucks gift card; he posted all 1,165 terms. MAKE YOU GO HMM dubbed the contest "Sit and Spin," scolding, "This is not how to get more people to use your search." Determined, THREADWATCH.ORG wrote a program that sent a keyword through the system 4,122 times. The booty: a Home Depot gift card...
...Hmm. This is a curious self-empretzelment: How did it come about that when Bush talks about Palestinians he sounds like Ted Kennedy talking about Americans? It came about the old-fashioned way, through utter policy failure. Bush's flashy love affair with democracy is a fallback position: it ascended when the original rationale for the war in Iraq-the threat of Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction-receded. Bush was dismissive of "nation building" in his 2000 presidential campaign. By the 2004 race, however, a staple of his stump speech was, "Freedom isn't America's gift...