Wirearchy

Today I was cleaning up, and rationalizing my possessions a bit. I have a nice small Sony bookshelf CD/radio stereo system. I decided to give it to my nephew as a surprise, as it would be perfect ! in a 9-year old boy’s magic bedroom.
I took it down to his place today .. [...]

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by the brand Wealth Bondage.
Last night I watched a well-crafted Colombian film titled “Maria - Full of Grace”, which depicts an assertive 17 year-old Colombian woman who quits a sweat-shop job after being psychologically manhandled by the sweatshop boss. At the same time that she quits she learns she is pregnant with a baby [...]

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A delicious, thoughtful and inspiring post that clarifies and articulates important aspects of the magic many of us have found in blogging.
Go read the rest here - an excerpt directly below:
I am beginning to believe that the great utility of blogging is that it a small but immensely powerful tool that has the potential to [...]

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Via Brad DeLong’s blog:
The “End” of “Late” “Fees”
Blockbuster Video has large signs announcing “the end of late fees.” That seems to mean that if you’re more than a week late returning it, they don’t want it–in fact, you’ve bought it.
I foresee a future of many, many not very voluntary DVD-disc purchases…

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Look at the last sentence of this extract from Billmon’s (The Whiskey Bar) return to blogging. The problem, as I see it, is that people who have been labelled insurgents and don’t go along with the U.S Administration’s invasion and occupation and who resist that because, after all, it IS their homeland.
To me this [...]

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