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Outwit your inbox - Washington Times

Outwit your inbox - Washington Times Good advice from Randall Dean, author of Taming the E-Mail Beast, on minimizing e-mail distractions, dealing with e-mail, and making it easier for your recipients to deal with your messages: "People who constantly check...

Posted by Michael Bates on July 7, 2009 8:53 PM

The Dawn Patrol: Vinyl Call

The Dawn Patrol: Vinyl Call Reflecting her changed priorities, Dawn Eden is looking for a buyer for her "entire pop, rock, and comedy record and CD collection," with proceeds to help finance her doctorate in theology and her aim of...

Posted by Michael Bates on April 13, 2009 10:41 PM

Daniel Radosh's Rapture Ready! - By Hanna Rosin - Slate Magazine

Daniel Radosh's Rapture Ready! - By Hanna Rosin - Slate Magazine "A Christian friend who'd grown up totally sheltered once wrote to me that the first time he heard a Top 40 station he was horrified, and not because of...

Posted by Michael Bates on May 6, 2008 6:20 PM

List of Crayola crayon colors - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

List of Crayola crayon colors - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia A very nice table showing what the colors look like, when the colors were introduced, renamed, and replaced, RGB equivalents, and the equivalents in the 2004 "State Your Color" special...

Posted by Michael Bates on April 23, 2008 6:54 PM

Hemingway's <em>Kansas City Star</em> stylesheet

Hemingway's Kansas City Star stylesheet Ernest Hemingway encountered these rules on word usage, sentence length, dates, and abbreviations during his brief stint as a reporter for the paper in 1917-18. I'd write more about them, but I'm afraid of violating...

Posted by Michael Bates on April 9, 2008 8:59 PM

The Dawn Patrol: Rave On

The Dawn Patrol: Rave On "I can remember when / You were a friend of mine / A better time." A 1990 video of the Dave Rave Conspiracy, performing "Weight of the World."...

Posted by Michael Bates on February 21, 2008 10:25 PM

Dallas Observer Blog: How Jesus Found Dawn Eden Goldstein

Dallas Observer Blog: How Jesus Found Dawn Eden Goldstein "I realized that the first kind of rebellion, Chesterton was saying [in The Man Who Was Thursday], was the false rebellion, and the second kind was the true rebellion. And Chesterton...

Posted by Michael Bates on October 25, 2007 11:11 AM