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PR Watch Has Its Eyes Open (Oct 17 2003 21:46 GMT) - Ten years ago John Stauber decided to take on the media arm of corporate America: the public relations industry. From his home in Madison, Wisconsin, he founded PR Watch, a quarterly magazine that tracked the machinations of the hired guns who stealthily attempt to manage public perception and thereby shape public policy. |
the ridey.net weblog
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Ooops (Oct 17 2003 21:44 GMT) - We've had some problems with the MySQL database that stores this blog's data. We've been able to restore several entries that had temporarily disappeared, but I'm afraid we can't resurrect comments made on those entries. Feel free to repost comments,... |
Joho the Blog
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[POPTECH] Cloning (Oct 17 2003 21:44 GMT) - Michael West is talking about cells that can become any type of cell and that don't die. He's showing photos of nerves, folllicles, heart muscle and much more, all made in the lab. The cells W authorized for NIH funding would all be rejected by foreign bodies, i.e., you and me. |
elf-reflection :: living in changeling times
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bathroom behavior (Oct 17 2003 21:44 GMT) - I've seen the purported sociological studies of usage and avoidance patterns for urinals in men's bathrooms (e.g., in a bank of urinals, the newcomer takes the urinal that affords the most distance from men already standing at others), but there are a range of interesting bathroom behaviors. There are the usual suspects of those who never flush or those who repeatedly flush every ten to twenty seconds while seated on the toilet, those who wash their hands when they enter the bathroom but not when they leave, those who bypass the seat cover dispenser but then are heard tearing off strips of toilet paper to line the seat, etc. Yesterday, though, I saw evidence of an unusual and previously unobserved behavior: |
elf-reflection :: living in changeling times
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bathroom behavior (Oct 17 2003 21:44 GMT) - I've seen the purported sociological studies of usage and avoidance patterns for urinals in men's bathrooms (e.g., in a bank of urinals, the newcomer takes the urinal that affords the most distance from men already standing at others), but there are a range of interesting bathroom behaviors. There are the usual suspects of those who never flush or those who repeatedly flush every ten to twenty seconds while seated on the toilet, those who wash their hands when they enter the bathroom but not when they leave, those who bypass the seat cover dispenser but then are heard tearing off strips of toilet paper to line the seat, etc. Yesterday, though, I saw evidence of an unusual and previously unobserved behavior: |
Happy Software Prole
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Uptown, Downtown and Midtown (Oct 17 2003 21:43 GMT) - Language: AussieInAmerica on {up,down,mid}town: Something that is common here in Atlantic Canadian and northeast American small cities is to refer to the CBD (or city centre/downtown) as 'uptown', especially ... |
Happy Software Prole
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Uptown, Downtown and Midtown (Oct 17 2003 21:43 GMT) - Language: AussieInAmerica on {up,down,mid}town: Something that is common here in Atlantic Canadian and northeast American small cities is to refer to the CBD (or city centre/downtown) as 'uptown', especially if coming to the city from its environs. BUT... once I am 'uptown' , I would then refer to my location as 'downtown'. |
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