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Six degrees: just found @tieguy, a long lost fellow Cameron Crazie, through @rlloyd, a current colleague I met just 4 months ago.
Going to a meeting at Harvard soon. Any modest & reliable hotels nearby?
In the age of popups, the window X was my most oft-clicked item. Today, it's "Skip This Ad" links.
Why the shock over keeping Gates as SecDef? I say, keep him indefinitely. http://is.gd/apdC
@pomeranian99 Thanks for the advice and vote of confidence. We'll get back to you soon.
@Digidave You have a true gift for writing things that beg to be clicked.
VIRUS ALERT I should have been suspicious when that FB friend I never talk to said I "look really funny in this video." http://is.gd/alVn
@tikkers That's the one! www.garysguide.org. Thanks for trying, @Swerdloff.
I've forgotten the name of a site. It lists techie events. Looks like nytimes.com. Bob's List, Gary's List, ...something like that. Help?
Cool "crowdsourcing" (gag) project: MN Star Tribune is having readers evaluate challenged Coleman/Franken ballots. http://is.gd/9jLm
@DavidStephenson I'm trying to find out who from the GovTwit list are worth watching. If you have one, please add it here: http://is.gd/agaL
Check out Duke's alumni-student research guidance collaboration project http://www.dukenews.duke.ed...
Wow. My alma mater is doing something really cool with online collaboration. http://www.dukenews.duke.ed...
@jstogdill Wagoner drives Volt to DC...sort of http://is.gd/adSL
CNN kills sci-tech reporting http://tinyurl.com/6584hf
RT @hyperradiant web 3.0 was invented by marketers when they heard about semantic web and didn't understand it.
RT @johnmscott government twitter directory: http://tinyurl.com/5jont7 [this is the most definitive i've seen. head's up, Sunlight people]
Re: the chart: I'm disproven. No obvious correlation between recessions and defense $$.
I'm looking for a 50-year (or so) chart of federal spending, defense spending or, even better, defense R&D spending, adjusted for inflation
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