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  • Visit to Federal Hill

    April 25, 2005

    :http://egseah.mindsay.com This past Saturday I went to visit [Emily] and Robert in Providence, Rhode Island. The mission: eat authentic Italian food. So we went to Federal Hill on Atwells Ave, which regarded as the area’s Little Italy.

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  • Milton Glaser at Boston Public Library

    April 24, 2005

    Yuri tells me that Milton Glaser will be speaking at the Boston Public Library:

    31st Annual Dwiggins Lecture — Wednesday, Apr. 27 at 6 p.m. in the Rabb Lecture Hall (Ext. 2225). Milton Glaser, noted designer and illustrator, President of Milton Glaser, Inc., founder of Pushpin Studios and New York Magazine, and principal of the publication design company WBMG, will speak on “Design and Ambiguity.”

    I’m hoping to go. Who’s with me?

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  • Planting Ideas for Profit

    April 21, 2005

    I just read an interesting article by Paul Graham about how PR firms work. For small companies looking to generate some attention, hiring a PR firm will gets them into the press and by extension the public consciousness. Graham relates how a “good” firm charged $16,000 a month, and was worth every penny. Ever wonder why “suits are back” this year? Because some company paid a PR firm to say so. Is it coincidence that this happens to be the advertising slogan for The Men’s Wearhouse?

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  • Jumbled Text

    April 21, 2005

    Can you read this?

    Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

    If you want to know why, and see some other language versions, check out this link that explains some of the cognitive theory behind it.

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  • *!@#$! Spammers

    April 20, 2005

    Some asshole is apparently using my domain as a return address for their bullshit spam, and as a result I get to reconfigure all my mail filters to ignore the bogus users. Whee. I can’t wait for validated email to become a standard.

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