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In the 1980s, NBC aired a sitcom called “227,” set in Washington, D.C. Someone on a listserv I’m on asked, “[Did] they ever establish in that series where in DC it was supposed to be set?”
I did a little poking around and found out that the show takes place at 227 Lexington Place. Anyone familiar [...]

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Pieces of Flair is one of those cute but ultimately useless applications available on facebook. (Yes, I have it on my profile.) Every now and then, I come across a piece like the one pictured at right. I direct your attention to the last two words.
YES YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO YOUR OPINION AND I [...]

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Photo: FredoAlvarez (flickr)
Search for just about any LGBT-related term in Google, and you’ll see a set of rainbow stripes (link via gooster) dividing the regular search results from the paid ones. Note that your browser window has to be wide enough for them to show up; in this case, the window pictured above is 935 [...]

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A minor site update. Yesterday, I installed a couple of plugins that I hope make commenting on this blog a little more pleasant.
For months whenever I replied to a comment, I would hand-code a link to it like so:
@<a href=”#comment-0000″>commenter</a>:…
The result resembled a twitter reply:
@commenter:…
Now anyone who comments here can do that with far less [...]

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VH1 on their forthcoming mini-series, “I Love the New Millennium“:
Kick off your Ugg boots and put down your iPods, ’cause VH1 is bringing you the next big hit in their hugely popular I LOVE THE… series. That’s right, it’s I LOVE THE NEW MILLENNIUM!
What? Already?! Isn’t there still at least a year and a half [...]

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In a former life, I was something of a pinball machine repair wizard (except for that one time I fried a circuit board and no one has ever let me live it down), so color me surprised and delighted when CNET posted a piece about the Lucky JuJu pinball museum and gallery in Alameda, Calif. [...]

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They’re at it again! The folks at Ars Technica put together another Bingo card for next week’s Worldwide Developers Conference. Back in January, they released one for the Macworld Expo in San Franciso.
A Google search for “keynote bingo” reveals variations on the same theme from a myriad of others.

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This Escheresque stairwell is part of a living space in Philadelphia that was once a garage. The layout is absolutely stunning.
Nearly 30 more images of the space, including diagrams and cutaway models, are available in a flickr set. (via theoctothorpe)
Photo: rossfindly (flickr)

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The other night, presidential hopeful John McCain appeared on “Saturday Night Live” and said Americans should vote for someone who is “very, very, very old.” To get an idea of just how old McCain really is without looking up his date of birth, why not compare his age to concepts, products and other items younger [...]

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My easy button finally has a companion, courtesy of Yahoo! Search Marketing.
Yes, it yodels.

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