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The office cubicle turns 40 this month.
The open-office style was originally known as the “Action Office,” and was introduced by West Michigan’s Herman Miller Company in 1968.
Well, I don’t know about action, but the cube farm has been the bane of my existence for the last few years. Pictured above is a cubicle I once [...]

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During yesterday’s hearing on the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (DADT)” policy, Elaine Donnelly probably did more to convince lawmakers it should be repealed than anything else.
And she was arguing to keep DADT in place.
Donnelly treated the panel to an extraordinary exhibition of rage. She warned of “transgenders in the military.” She warned that lesbians [...]

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Estelle Getty as Sophia Petrillo on NBC’s “the Golden Girls.”
Picture it: the Bronx, 1985. A young boy, gay before he realizes it, sits in front of the television on a Saturday night. He laughs at the antics of four old broads in Miami, even though he doesn’t always get the joke. For the next seven [...]

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Greater Greater Washington covered today’s hearing between D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton and the Union Station Redevelopment Corporation (USRC). In particular, the hearing seemed to cover two things: maximizing the use of Union Station as an intermodal transportation hub (read intercity rail and bus), and the landmark’s embarrassingly inconsistent photography policy.

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West Side Story will be revived on Broadway next March, with previews running sometime in February. The show will not only enjoy a pre-Broadway run at the National Theatre here in D.C. for a month beginning in mid-December, but will also be somewhat tweaked for authenticity. According to Playbill:
The production “will introduce the unprecedented element [...]

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From the “Oh No She Di’n’t” file, Sen. Elizabeth Dole wants to name an AIDS funding bill after Sen. Jesse Helms, who expired two Fridays ago. From the Congressional Record:
SA 5074. Mrs. DOLE submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
her to the bill S. 2731, to authorize appropriations for fiscal years 2009 through 2013 [...]

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So, here’s the scenario: a customer gets less-than-stellar service, including a condescending lecture about why they don’t serve iced espresso at a local coffee establishment. Said customer writes a scathing blog entry about it, replete with a photo of the obscenity-laced tip he left behind. Coffee establishment responds with a blog entry of its own, [...]

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Photo: Point-Shoot-Edit (flickr)
Shit. Piss. Fuck. Cunt. Cocksucker. Motherfucker. Tits.
Upon hearing the news this morning about George Carlin’s passing, “shit” and “fuck” — two of the seven dirty words you can’t say on television — seem the most appropriate right now.
Damn.

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Photo via nycwaterfalls.org
The New York City Waterfalls, an art installation by Olafur Eliasson, opens one week from tomorrow and will be located in four different spots: Governor’s Island; Pier 35 in Manhattan; the Brooklyn Bridge; and between Piers 4 and 5 in Brooklyn.
According to the New York Times, this is the biggest public art installation [...]

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Mozilla — the company that brought us the browser that plays second fiddle to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer — today released Firefox 3 and is foolishly attempting to break a world record for downloading a single application. (Such a record exists to begin with?!)
The release was supposed to be official at 10:00 a.m. PDT (1:00 p.m. [...]

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