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provocations & observations by William Plasencia 

Poor iPhone reception graduates to SNL 'Weekend Update' joke status -- Engadget

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"It was reported this week that Google would soon launch its own cellphone as a challenge to the iPhone. Also a challenge to the iPhone? Making phone calls."

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At 94, Carmen Herrera Is Art’s Hot New Thing, and Enjoying It

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hope springs eternal

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The show Paranormal State on A&E is great.

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Why have I NEVER seen this show before? Super frickin spooky.

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An American in the Italian Wheels of Justice - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com

the Italian legal system “is not among Europe’s most distinguished.

How to make friends and influence people abroad.

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R.I.P. Sen. Paula Hawkins (R-Fla.) dead at 82. I liked her, back when I was a kid and GOPer.

Hawkins entered public office at a time when doors that previously had been closed to women were being opened. Ideologically, she never considered herself a feminist, but she championed equal opportunities for women.

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Alaias, Ancient Hawaiian Surfboards, Make a Comeback

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"The alaia provides a stripped down, back-to-the-roots alternative. They are to surfing what the fixed gear is to cycling or the bow and arrow are to hunting. And unlike their often-mass-produced foam-and-fiberglass cousins, which you must buy from a manufacturer for $500 and up, alaias are cheap and easy to make, and considerably easier on the environment."

I must learn to surf someday.

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What A Long, Strange Trip It's Been

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After completing its pupa stage, a Monarch butterfly emerges during the CSI-03 experiment aboard the International Space Station Thursday.

Photo credit: NASA

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I. Can. Not. Wait.

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No Country for Old Typewriters

Cormac McCarthy has written more than a dozen novels, several screenplays, two plays, two short stories, countless drafts, letters and more — and nearly every one of them was tapped out on a portable Olivetti manual typewriter he bought in a Knoxville, Tenn., pawnshop around 1963 for $50.

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The End Of The CrunchPad - TechCrunch

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This is the kind of soul-crushing corporate deceit that I've witnessed firsthand. You have a good idea and people -- because of greed or insecurity or just plain meanspiritedness -- just try to steal your life's work. Happens in Miami much too frequently.

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