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Yesterday, I wrote an application that targets compliance for FEC campaign finance digital disclosure. More accurately, I’ve written it over about 4 months now, but the disclosure part is being written this week.

Yesterday, the USHoR voted 425-0 to congratulate Lovie Smith and Tony Dungy. Apparently the 10 members who didn’t vote were […]

That’s right.

There’s already a company that exists only to make fun of Ted Stevens.

I am:William GibsonThe chief instigator of the “cyberpunk” wave of the 1980s, his razzle-dazzle futuristic intrigues were, for a while, the most imitated work in science fiction.Which science fiction writer are you?This is rather fascinating, since I d…

All the kids love Dane Cook, probably because most never saw him in the Dennis Rodman flick Simon Sez. (If you’ve ever wanted to pick up bulimia as a hobby, just purchase that DVD.)

But Cook also has taken knocks from old-school comics because his popularity blossomed on such new-school outlets as MySpace, where he marketed himself heavily and now boasts about 1.7-million “friends.”

By

Back to the beach this weekend for my board meeting on our timeshare…..stayed at sister-resort in Treasure Island…(Ours is on Madeira Beach)1st view is approach to beach through seagrass….it was obviously a bright, beautiful morning. A large grou…

You should be dancing, yeah
- The Bee Gees

You can dance, you can jive, having the time of your life
See that girl, watch that scene, diggin’ the dancing queen
- Abba

I like to rhyme, I like my beats funky
I’m spunky. I like my oatmeal lumpy
The Humpty Dance, it’s your chance to do the hump
- Che Guevara

Okay, I might be wrong. Perhaps the revolutionary socialist icon Che Guevara did not, in

I’ve just left my job at the Gabber, and am now about a week away from flat broke. Because my people back at the paper still love me, they have offered me this column. Not because, I suspect, they believe that I will greatly increase readership with my…

I used to play this game with my mother: Which would you rather…? It basically consisted of me thinking up the most morbid, horrible ways you could die and asking her which she would prefer. I remember playing this game on car rides, always just m…

…Yes, that’s the actual thread title on an actual message board on–get this–a Disney-themed Web site. (Click here to enjoy it yourself.)

That particular thread was started by someone upset that I made (very benign) fun of The Wiggles. Which is funny, because I was much tougher on The Doodlebops, owing to the fact that–and forgive me for being so blunt, because I mean this with all possible

Some people presume I write about certain subjects only because they’re conveniently close to my office in downtown Tampa’s Times building.

Not true. I wrote about David Jenkins because he heads up rockin’ Jobsite Theater, not just because he works a stone’s throw away at the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center.

(And Dave, sorry again for nailing you with that stone last week.)

But it’s not my

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