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Seth Stevenson’s wrap-up of reader responses to his request for worst ad song ever used in a TV spot is priceless. There are too many great examples to list them all out, just drop by and enjoy the many examples he’s collected. Did he miss any?

Be sure to read Barack Obama’s keynote address at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois on Saturday (link via Zorn via DJWinfo). What a speech. Zorn asks: “Remind me again why Democrats should be getting behind Hillary Clinton for president in 2008 instead of this guy?”

I’m thrilled to read that Sara Ramirez won a Tony award this evening for her performance in Spamalot. As I said when I saw Spamalot during its pre-Broadway run here in Chicago, she was (and presumably still is) the highlight of the show. She has a phenomenal future in front of her, but the Lady…

Interesting: Patrick Ruffini recently announced he has a 2008 Presidential Wire aggregator of sorts. It tracks a number of blogs and mainstream news sites, looking for mentions of likely presidential candidates in 2008. (I found it after seeing several clickthroughs from there to my post earlier today on partisanship. Apparently my mention of both Biden…

Not sure how I missed this nugget from ArchPundit a couple weeks back, but I wanted to respond to Vasyl’s comments. Vasyl said: Well, reporters read blogs. So do opposition researchers. In an era of online access to a lot of information about candidates, a stray comment by a candidate or political party on a…

I got an e-mail the other day from a local Democrat, asking for my help in spreading the word about a movement to ask Rep. Judy Biggert to remove herself from the House ethics committee. Rep. Biggert is my representative (IL-13), and she’s a Republican. She serves on the Ethics committee (the same one that…

I’m really enjoying Flickr — like del.icio.us, it took me a while to figure out exactly why I should care about it. Since I was never much of a bookmark user (no, I’m not sure why either), the whole notion of sharing bookmarks didn’t seem that useful to me. But after playing with it a…

Your post today asks when FeedBurner will address the concerns you voiced here last month. As noted here (on FeedBurner’s public forums), and here on my blog more than a year ago (and here on my blog just a few days ago), this has always been how we encourage users to operate. It takes just…

An old boss of mine, Randy Littleson, is part of the management team at manufacturing performance management company Kinaxis. They just relaunched the company (including a name change), their corporate website, and best of all, just started publishing new content in RSS. This is just the beginning of what they’ll do with RSS, but it’s…

A while back (at least a year, probably more), Marty sent me a quick e-mail. “Have you read Ender’s Game?” Ignoring the name of this blog for a moment (if you didn’t know, “tins” is an acronym for “There Is No Spoon”, a pivotal scene in the Matrix when Neo realizes that he’s in more…