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tr.im Dies Ugly and Resurrects Horribly

The internet is a deadly and deceitful place.  We all try to get along with each other while chasing our greater dreams into the depths of the ether.  One thing you’ll need in your web journey is a “URL shortening” service that will condense a long URL into something easy to remember.  TinyURL was the king, bit.ly is the new prince and tr.im is now the ugly court jester that committed suicide and then decided it was all a joke and came back to life three days later. 

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Twitter Going Toes Up

We love it when our prescience is proven right in the marketplace.  In March, we predicted the demise of Twitter, and today, we have growing evidence that Twitter will soon be going toes up.

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Live Body Streaming Memes Memoir No More

I read something interesting somewhere the other day and the simple, arresting, argument was this:  “The memoir-as-a-book as we know it is dead.”

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Gardasil for Anal Cancer

I am not a Gay Man, but I as a child of the theatre and a man of the moment, I certainly appreciate and understand the human struggle for Gay equality and equity in America — and while my support has not always been perfect, I appreciate the dedication and vision of Gay Men’s Health Crisis and the work they do to serve and educate all the people of the world.

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Ten Forty-Two

The day he turned 42, he dropped the other shoe.

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The Harbinger of Renewal

As we age, and as we realize there are more days behind us than ahead of us, it becomes necessary to pay more attention to the wild terms of living a dangerous life.  The change of season from Winter to Spring is a harbinger of renewal — and you cannot have new beginnings without the onslaught of death.  Watch for the harbinger.  Weigh the harbinger.  Fight the harbinger.

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What We Fear: The Bloodless Among Us

What do we fear the most?  Our deaths?  American culture is enraptured with the idea of dying in our popular entertainment and religious cultural memes.  Today is Friday the 13th and that means — to many people — that today is an unlucky day, a foreboding moment in time, a chance for the terror within us to strike out in the dark to wound those surrounding us.

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Chinese Horse Fighting

The other day I was doing an innocent internet search on “horses” and I came upon a topic I didn’t know about and certainly didn’t want to see: Chinese Horse Fighting.

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Steve Jobs: Privacy and the Public Persona

Yesterday, Steve jobs confessed what many of us have sensed for a while:  He’s incredibly ill and will not likely last the year.

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The Other Mozart Syndrome

There are actually two “Mozart Syndromes.”  This first one is rather precious and new and deals with washing the sounds of Mozart’s melodies over the ears of babies and young children to help them think more clearly.  The second “Mozart Syndrome” is more ancient, more insidious and much more dangerous by many magnitudes.

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