25 Feb 2005, 16:12 p.m.

CJ Cregg Is Nicer

Jokes from the press gaggle. The White House reporter pool and White House press secretary possibly like each other but also feel very bitter about their relationship.

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25 Feb 2005, 12:03 p.m.

I Relish The Experience

Salon's office has moved to Rincon Center near the Embarcadero, nearer the northeastern tip of San Francisco. My commute has therefore lengthened slightly, but I get an obscure pleasure out of maximizing my usage of …

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20 Feb 2005, 16:44 p.m.

You Can't Fire Me, I'm Water

Via Leonard, a bunch of jokes. Speaking of jokes, I'm seeing Will Franken on Wednesday at 8 at the Marsh on Valencia here in San Francisco. I urge you to come for his new one-man …

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16 Feb 2005, 13:04 p.m.

The World Renowned New York City Public Library

"The public library? Are you insane?" Sumana: http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2005/02/16/off_the_rails/index.html Nandini: what did you think of the advice he gave? Sumana: I thought it inspiring, witty, and incisive Sumana: unless you did not Sumana: in which case …

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15 Feb 2005, 7:53 a.m.

Recommendation

Last night Eric and I saw Jonathan Richman and Dengue Fever at the Rickshaw Stop. Jonathan Richman was vulnerable and wacky and touching as always, and made an endearing joke about stars. He played songs …

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14 Feb 2005, 11:15 a.m.

Salad Days

Tonight I am going to a Jonathan Richman concert with a male friend while Leonard works on an Ultra Secret Project. This is in keeping with the "February 14th is just another day" philosophy I …

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09 Feb 2005, 14:55 p.m.

My Folksonomic Tag For 43 Things: Deceivers

My colleague Katharine Mieszkowski wrote about folksonomies a few days ago. She mentioned the group goal-setting site 43 Things. A reader told her to look into the relationship between 43 Things and Amazon.com, a huge …

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08 Feb 2005, 12:32 p.m.

Science!

Consumer Reports has put out a compare-and-contrast report on the various types of contraceptives on the market today. If you are in a committed, monogamous relationship and you want to prevent pregnancy but don't have …

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07 Feb 2005, 15:12 p.m.

So What If It's In Kenya

I see from the Apple.com trailers site that I can expect Duma to come out soon. It should be about the Russian parliament, but it is not!

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07 Feb 2005, 14:13 p.m.

Don't Wish For A World Without Zinc

Life Lessons in Literature by Margaret Berry makes me happy. I feel mildly ill so I went to Whole Foods and got a pharmacy's worth of placebos and symptom reducers. I got slippery elm lozenges, …

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