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Entries from October 2007

Seen in my RSS reader: Carson Palmer

October 18th, 2007 · No Comments

Because everyone needs features and things added to their blog’s publishing schedule, I’ve added “seen in my RSS reader,” which will randomly report on things that were just too good to be true.
Enjoy this one. Awww, poor Carson Palmer.

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Hacking Ann Coulter

October 16th, 2007 · No Comments

Gee, I guess it sucks to be Ann Coulter this week, huh.
[Thanks, Alex!]

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Are you the Bacheloser?

October 16th, 2007 · 2 Comments

If there’s one YouTube video you watch today, it has to be the call for entries for the Austin Chronicle’s Bacheloser contest. Austin, of course, is the city that ABC’s latest Bachelor, Brad Womack, hails from. When people said that the alt-weeklies looked at different goings on in an alternative way, they were most certainly […]

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WGN wins out in Chicago

October 15th, 2007 · 1 Comment

With the Chicago Cubs making a playoff run in 2007, the team pushed its radio partner, WGN, into first place for the summer slot ending in mid-September, according to Arbitron ratings.

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Monday Roundup: 10/15/07

October 15th, 2007 · No Comments

Political Wire cites a CNN report stating that political ad spending for the 2008 presidential run could be double of that from 2004.
Kevin Drum shares his thoughts on the word from the NY Times‘ public editor, Clark Hoyt, about how Deborah Solomon’s “Questions For” column in the New York Times Magazine is put together.
J. Harvey […]

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On “Bond” marathons

October 15th, 2007 · No Comments

The Onion has chosen to take out some frustrations on TNT for its random running of James Bond film marathons.

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Text messages driving editorial

October 12th, 2007 · No Comments

A colleague of mine, Anna, pointed me to a great article on SI.com from Peter King, where King details a conversation he had - via text message - with Miami Dolphins QB Trent Green in the hours after Green was taken off the field with a concussion after hitting Houston Texans DT Travis Johnson in […]

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Jeopardy! for the rest of us

October 11th, 2007 · No Comments

Okay, so how did we miss this, TV-heads? Back on 10/4, MeFi had a great post pointing to the J! Archive, a huge compendium of “Jeopardy!”-related bits. You know you want to spend the next four hours there.

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Awesome funeral campaign

October 11th, 2007 · No Comments

I love print ads. Beyond the fact that I bought a lot of print ad space and got to see the ins and outs of it as I began my career in marketing, I always enjoyed print because it’s a non-verbal, non “heavy” way of getting your point across. Hitting that mark perfectly - or […]

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George Harrison records now for sale

October 10th, 2007 · No Comments

Nine albums by George Harrison are now going to be on sale digitally, the BBC reported on Wednesday. iTunes is to be one of the vendors through which the albums can be purchased.

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