links for 2009-10-12
12 Oct
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Thank goodness Ron Moore explained this all for us! Perhaps he should have spent a little of his high-tech explaining skills on the ending of his own series.
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Pepsi advertises its Amp product with an iPhone app that "teaches" one how to "score" with 24 different "types" of women. I don't buy Pepsi products, and now have no reason to ever start.
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This is an excerpt from Chris Hedges' book "Empire of Illusion", which I enjoyed reading and would recommend without hesitation.
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Although (or perhaps because) I have been here for 10 years, I found myself agreeing wholeheartedly with some parts of this post, particularly this quote: "What sickens me most about San Francisco is not its dirt, or its large homeless population, or its questionable safety, but that locals and the city government seem to accept these circumstances." And, of course, this: "Unreliable and inadequate public transit, paling in comparison to most any other major city in the world."
