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2nd Annual DonorsChoose.org Blogger Challenge

2008-10-07T22:19:20Z

How would you like to make a difference in the life of a public school students? For the second year in a row, Six Apart is participating in the DonorsChoose.org Blogger Challenge. The challenge runs all throughout the month of October, a...

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Help Support DonorChoose Projects

2008-10-07T15:48:30Z

Over at my other blog, dollarshort.org, I'm blogging frequently during the DonorsChoose.org Blogger Challenge. Please check out this post about the challenge and how you can support the kids. Here's my challenge page which lists the projects I'...

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Is Sarah Palin qualified to be Vice-President?

2008-09-30T08:35:22Z

Larry Lessig in slightly over 12 minutes compares Pailn against every Vice-President in U.S. history and still has time to ponder the chances that she could become President Palin. Palin pales dreadfully in the comparison: She is the second lea...

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I don't have enough thumbs

2008-09-30T07:43:33Z

The following is a smattering of shows currently saved on my Tivo as "suggestions" -- shows that I didn't ask for but that Tivo thinks I would like. Usually, there are some pretty good ones and the ones that aren't can usually be traced to other ...

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"Shape of Water" by Saint and Kings

2008-09-15T10:53:49Z

Lately it's been heavy all my friends have been in trouble by the pound And they're spread out and there is only so much of me to go around Asking how things are going to go is like asking, "What's the shape of water?" The condition is not the p...

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Join Us at BlogWorld

2008-09-09T22:07:28Z

The BlogWorld & New Media Expo in Las Vegas on September 20th and 21st is the largest blogging conference in the world and Six Apart, Vox's parent company, will be there in full force. The only question we have is: Will you be joining us? If so,...

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Thoughts on the 2008 vice presidential race

2008-08-30T01:34:02Z

I don't think I've said anything about it up to now, and there's only (as of today) 9 1/2 weeks left. I just read Mudflats' "What is McCain Thinking? One Alaskan's Perspective." In it, she says: [...] Listen to John McCain and you'll hear about ...

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Discover the Best of the Blogosphere

2008-08-22T22:29:12Z

One of my favorite things about working at Six Apart is that it's a company founded by bloggers, for bloggers. As a result, not only do we want to provide bloggers with the best tools (like Vox, TypePad and Movable Type), we're also committed to ...

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Review: Rachel Kramer Bussel, "Spanked: Red Cheeked Erotica"

2008-08-22T16:24:22Z

"[...] I love what we're doing, but I'm getting confused. I'm having a hard time telling the truth where the truth ends and the play-acting begins. Sometimes we act like a regular couple and do normal couple-y things; sometimes we have reall...

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Ante Up!

2008-08-16T17:36:43Z

M.O.P.'s "Ante Up" has long been one of my favorite songs, thus I couldn't resist this video. Oddly, it's also one of the few tracks in the world where the edited version might be even more entertaining than the uncensored one.

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