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AIS on flight to PHL. Where’s the smile on my airplane, US Air? via SimplyTweet For those who don’t know, US Air bought the airline that used to paint huge smiles on the front of their planes: PSA. Too bad they don’t do that anymore.

As for the causes of long-term unemployment, there’s the obvious answer: there simply aren’t enough jobs. Before the Great Recession, there were 1.5 workers in the U.S. for every job slot; today, that ratio is 4.8 to one. Put another way, with normal growth instead of a recession, we’d have 10 million more jobs than…

I think I like this better than the Virgin America safety information video…

My philosophy, Objectivism, holds that: Reality exists as an objective absolute—facts are facts, independent ofman’s feelings, wishes, hopes or fears. Reason (the faculty which identifies and integrates the material provided byman’s senses) is man’s only means of perceiving reality, his only source ofknowledge, his only guide to action, and his basic means of survival. Man—every…

via oldcomputers.net I remember my dad buying me one of these along with the 16k expansion module and the printer (which printed on thermal paper in 32 columns!). I would borrow the Basic Computer Games book from the library and type away, hand-entering the programs and tweaking them. I saved programs on a Cassette player…

via theoatmeal.com There are plenty of examples of bad email. I’ve gotten every single one of them at one time or another.

This message gets to the heart of something very important. The conservative right likes to wrap itself in the flag and paint opposition to its values as un-patriotic and un-American. But tolerance is also an American value. And what is more craven than the fear that the American way of life will be undermined by…

I was going through some old photos last night when I came across a couple of photos from high school of a play I had done. Seeing as there was a lot of light coming from the back of us, the pictures did not come out all that great. Fortunately iPhoto helped enhance them a…