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Bill Tancer’s latest post about Hitwise having advance indications of yesterday’s announcement of a drop in July home sales is fascinating. In short, Bill points out that the National Association of Realtors require 3-4 weeks to put their analysis together, so, even though September’s almost upon us, we’re just now hearing that home sales in…

Slate Spoiler – Snakes on a Plane (tags: ricksipod)

Ze Frank explains that like with free speech, while you have the right to recline your seat, if you exercise that right to its limits, many around you will think you’re an asshole. That, and many other spot-on observations, in today’s the show: Brilliant. Just brilliant.

ESPN.com – NFL – T.O. reaggravates hamstring; doubtful for next game As a life-long 49er fan, the only word I can use to describe the hell that TO is inflicting on Dallas is Glee. (tags: 49ers owens cowboys parcells) ESPN.com: 2006 LITTLE LEAGUE WS The Little League World Series is my favorite sporting event of…

Fascinating conversation over at Andrea Weckerle’s blog about the firing of a Goodwill worker. Andrea not only reports the orginal story, but followed up and spoke with several people at Goodwill. Subsequently, a number of concerned Goodwill customers forwarded a link to her blog through Goodwill’s corporate site, resulting in a discussion of the matter…

I’m just blogging this so it’ll be easier to find the next time I want to have a good laugh… (If you haven’t seen it before, it’s five of Hollywood’s most popular voiceover guys, doing a trailer for a film about themselves. Hilarious.)

I recently bought Robin a laptop, which meant that her 3+ year-old PC is now freed up to do the thankless job of being the kids’ computer. It’s running WinXP home, and has a wifi connection to the home network, and before I let the kids run loose on the thing, I’d love to hear…

I’m pretty intrigued by Adam Kalsey’s new service, FeedCrier. FeedCrier will notify you by instant message (currently AIM only, others in development) whenever a feed updates. Adam announced this last night on his blog, and I looked at the instructions for publishers and figured out that it’d take about 2 minutes to integrate FeedCrier into…

DeadlineHollywoodDaily has the news.

I’m in love. I just found a WordPress plugin that replicates some nice functionality I had in my old Movable Type install. The Movable Type version was called MT Refsearch, and the idea behind it is pretty cool: if you come to a page on my site because you searched for a post, Refsearch would…