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  1. Hugh

    What would you do with 2000 books?

    Police Find Weapons Stash In Home Of Accused Book Thief - San Diego News Story - KGTV San Diego 10News.com Related To Story Police Find Weapons Stash In Home Of Accused Book Thief Maria Nater Allegedly Stole Thousands Of Books From Local Libraries...
  2. Hugh

    Screening quiz for prospective Borders employees

    Would you have qualified to work at Borders? Here is a sample from a quiz that prospective employees had to take: So you think you could have worked at Borders? - CNN.com I would have failed this small sample.
  3. Hugh

    What would you do with 2000 books?

    Woman Arrested In Theft Of Library Books, DVDs - San Diego News Story - KGTV San Diego 10News.com Related To Story Woman Arrested In Theft Of Library Books, DVDs Maria Natar Accused Of Stealing More Than 2,000 Books, DVDs From Area Libraries...
  4. Hugh

    Ayn Rand: The Fountainhead

    Ayn Rand used to have weekend meetings in her apartment with groups of people who would discuss philosophy. Alan Greenspan used to attend. We get a little glimpse of what those meetings must have been like in Fountainhead.
  5. Hugh

    Ayn Rand: The Fountainhead

    The copy of Fountainhead that I just finished says that it is the "centennial edition", and that struck me as odd knowing that the book could not have been written 100 years ago. Centennial edition in this instance refers to the birthdate of the author instead. It was also a new book in a used...
  6. Hugh

    Bad Ideas: Booktrack Adds Sound Effects And Music to Books

    Jeff Bezos said that it would be his worst nightmare to have the Kindle beep at you while you are reading.
  7. Hugh

    Subscribe to a paper, get a free tablet computer?

    Powered by SAVE THIS | EMAIL THIS | Close Newspaper giant Tribune Co. developing tablet device (CNN) -- Hoping to take a small slice from Apple's big pie, newspaper publishers are developing tablet computers of their own. The Tribune Co., one of the...
  8. Hugh

    The economics of self publishing e-books

    Another self pubbed e-book author scores a book deal: Self-Published Author Scores Four-Book Deal - GalleyCat
  9. Hugh

    Hotel guest suing Hilton over USA Today

    Wow, "half" of it's subscriptions are to hotels? I didn't know it was that much. The first line of the story makes sense, nobody I know reads the thing. I actually like the paper. Even if they carry a Nascar story front page above-the-fold, who am I to say it's fluff? They are giving the...
  10. Hugh

    Hotel guest suing Hilton over USA Today

    Hotel Lawsuit: $82 Million in Unwanted Newspapers - CBS MoneyWatch.com You don’t read it, and no one you know reads it … so how can USA Today be the No. 2 newspaper in the country? The answer is hotel copies — which make up about half of the flagship Gannett paper’s 1.8 million daily...
  11. Hugh

    Internet Explorer Users and their IQ

    Powered by SAVE THIS | EMAIL THIS | Close Internet Explorer IQ report appears to be a hoax A report claiming Internet Explorer users scored lower on IQ tests than users of other Web browsers appears to have been an elaborate hoax. The report, supposedly...
  12. Hugh

    Wisconsin professor wins writing contest

    I've spent my entire life believing that Snoopy's cousin Spike was the writer of that attention grabbing opener.
  13. Hugh

    Wisconsin professor wins writing contest

    Wisconsin professor wins 2011 bad writing contest - Yahoo! News SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — A sentence in which tiny birds and the English language are both slaughtered took top honors Monday in an annual bad writing contest. Sue Fondrie of Oshkosh, Wis., won the 2011 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction...
  14. Hugh

    "Grown" and "0.37 - A try to eXplain USA something..."

    i don't acetpt anybody insutls at 3 in teh morning after 15 fglassed of wine. hahahahah.
  15. Hugh

    Do You Believe in Previous or after Life?

    Pastafarianism could grow at an annualized rate of several hundred per cent over the next few days, that's pretty danged fast. On a somewhat related topic: It is not required to check your sense of humor at the door upon entering BARF.
  16. Hugh

    Do You Believe in Previous or after Life?

    Yes, believers are called Pastafarians.
  17. Hugh

    Do You Believe in Previous or after Life?

    I must have done something really bad in a previous life and ended up being reincarnated as a human being who is damned to a lifetime of searching for his keys and wallet.
  18. Hugh

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  19. Hugh

    Driving in the rain

    I pretty much missed it, he whipped right by. If it weren't for the captioning I wouldn't have seen it at all. It doesn't appear as though he used a clutch when shifting gears, wouldn't that destroy a transmission?
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