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February 27, 2004

Recent Events & Public Decency

I am glad to post this entry all-be-it kind of late, but Bubba the Love Sponge, a local radio DJ shock jock was fired from a local Clear Channel Radio station, WFLA-98 Rock, after an FCC fine of $755,000 for...

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April 08, 2004

Worldly Finaces

After several recent conversations about world economy and the comparative value of the dollar, I have done some actual inspection of the numbers. here is a look at the information that I came up with. The values below are courtesy...

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April 29, 2004

Google Files for IPO

Well all of Wall Street has been salivating over this event and Google has filed for it’s IPO. Virtually every news agency is covering this: Slashdot BBS ABC Forbes Ars Technica NPR CNN And of course the actual SEC IPO...

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June 07, 2004

Tampa Bay Lightning WIN the Stanley Cup!!

The Tampa Bay Lightning have WON the Stanley Cup. I am not usuallly one to follow many organized sports, but I have followed the NHL this season and particularly the local Tampa Bay Lightning. Last night in an amazing and...

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August 12, 2004

Hurricane Charley Preparation

With the upcoming hurricane I have decided to put together a list of useful bits of informational links and other such stuffs. The Weather Channel radar map St Pete Times on Bonnie & Charley St Pete Times hurricane preparation Hurricane...

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September 19, 2004

National Talk Like a Pirate Day 2004

Avast ye lubbers, today, thees finest of all days has been deemed National Talk Like a Pirate Day. So shove off and get talkin before I keelhaul ya and smear yer blood on me mizen mast as a warning...

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November 02, 2004

Helpful Links for Voting

Time To Vote | Voter Leave Laws: this site lists the states that must provide time off for employees to vote. Note that Florida is not on this list. Having Trouble Voting? find your polling place: this site is slow....

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November 09, 2004

Bad Religion & a Ph.D. Dissertation

Greg Graffin (singer) of Bad Religion posted his Ph.D. dissertation online (CornellEvolutionProject.org). Makes for some very interesting reading. The premise is that evolutionary biologists (scientists) cannot (do not) believe in traditional religions because of their science. There is a...

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November 19, 2004

The "DUH" Award

While at work today we were discussing holiday pay. I told one of the guys that in order to qualify for holiday pay he would need to work 26 hours that day. To which he repliled “Is it possible to...

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December 02, 2004

Jason Kottke, Ken Jennings and the Jerks at Sony

To echo the sentiment from Anil Dash, I am really not interested in Jeopardy. However, reading Jason Kottke’s original postings about the Ken Jennings saga, I have enjoyed a little heightened interest in the path of the famous Ken Jennings....

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March 27, 2005

Happy Easter!

Well it’s the best image that I could find. Anyway, HAPPY EASTER everybody!...

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April 14, 2005

Google Maps and How I Overestimate Society

So much of technology and the web in general I take for granted. Especially when something new comes out and it get blogged to death. Like Google’s new mapping and satellite imagery. After a conversation the other night while eating...

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April 18, 2005

Gapingvoid T-shirts

The Gapingvoid t-shirts are go! They are a limited run of 200 prints of each shirt. I got mine! Go get yours!...

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May 25, 2005

Towel Day!

It’s Towel Day! In celebration of the amazing works of Douglas Adams. Primarily “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”. To quote from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an...

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May 31, 2005

Google Print

The other day Google (everyone’s favorite search service) added print searching to it’s search repitour (sp). Everybody quick go check out Google Print. It’s cool!...

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July 09, 2005

London 07-07-2005

I would like to extend my deepest condolences to those who’s lives the recent terror attacks in London have touched. Keith Robinson points to a post from Richard Rutter where he references on of the key effects that the 9-11...

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July 12, 2005

Admonishing Spammers

Tim Bray over @ Ongoing got a bit of spam the other day and did a little background checking on who is playing games. Here is the write-up on what he found. Sunlit Spammers I for one feel that every...

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July 29, 2005

Evergreen Terrace

The flyer for the show Was last Sunday @ the State Theater in downtown St. Petersburg. It was a really cool show, plenty of energy and a lively crowd. Thanks for the ticket John....

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August 09, 2005

Doctored photos in the news

According to an article in CNN last week Katherine Harris, a local bay area politician has been a little upset that some periodicals have been altering her image in their publications to make her seem a little more haggard or...

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August 27, 2005

Bloggers off the Port Bow !

This morning Rachel made mention about how cool it is to see bloggers in real life. The other night J & I went out to eat and ran into her and Mark @ BellaBrava. It really is neat to put...

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August 31, 2005

Katrina assistance - a Call to Arms

Jason Kottke is blogging that Amazon has decided not to add a donation mechanism to their site for hurricane Katrina. Pardon me, but that is fucked up! Come on people, WTF? Seriously this can and will impact our entire nation....

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September 08, 2005

Vitale Gallery Benefit for Hurricane Katrina

Attention peeps in da ‘burg! The Vitale Gallery is hosting a benefit, here is St. Pete; silent auction / live date auction, raffle for prizes, cold beverages and tasty foods (generously donated by Cafe Alma and Ceviche) (thanks, for the...

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December 13, 2005

Homes Of The Billionaires 2005 - Forbes.com

Homes Of The Billionaires 2005 - Forbes.com Found this quite interesting. One of the points that really got me was that they spend a smaller percentage of their income on the housing than the average person....

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January 31, 2006

Open Wireless

This place that I enjoy going (will remain nameless because of the nature of this article) has open wireless point. Now, it is open intentionally, however, everything is open; the access-point, the router admin… you get it. Now I am...

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July 09, 2006

Congratulazioni l'Italia

2006 World Cup - Italy wins wow…...

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