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I haven’t taken the time to sit down with a coffee and properly write this story until now. So here goes.
Once there was a dog named Toby.

Toby was very excited about Christmas time.

Toby’s owners went out shopping, so Toby was inside his crate all day. They felt bad, so when they got home, they decided [...]

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There’s a link on FARK today pointing to an article that discusses how Atheists, by law, cannot be elected to public office in 7 US States. For example:
The Bill of Rights of the Texas Constitution (Article I, Section 4) allows people to be excluded from holding office on religious grounds. An official may be “excluded [...]

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I don’t normally delve into the world of celebrity gossip, so this actually feels a little dirty writing this.
Kevin Federline, husband of Britney Spears, has a web site: kevinfederline.com.
The site is done entirely in flash, and begins with a long intro that includes clippings from tabloids. The idea of the site is: [...]

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I have come to terms with something that I hate to admit: I’m not very clever.
Yesterday, I posted WBCN’s latest clue for finding the Xbox “X” hidden somewhere in Boston: It is hidden in a public place. I then went on to say that since it was such a vague clue, no one would find [...]

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So last night after work, I decided to hunt for the XBox that WBCN is giving away. It is stashed “somewhere in Boston”, and I think I know approximately where it is.
And approximate is a problem.
I spent about an hour looking everywhere for the damn thing. It was about 10 degrees, and I was just [...]

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This morning was the first morning without Howard Stern on WBCN here in Boston. And instead of playing “best of”, which was the original plan, the station is having two of their DJs do a show. They announced that, somewhere in the city of Boston, they have hidden a green X. On the back of [...]

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I just read on Yahoo that Coke plans to launch a new product called Coca-Cola Blak, which is going to be a “coffee infused soft drink.”
The article goes on to say:
Analysts have said one of the keys to the company’s future is capturing more consumers who have moved away from sugary soft drinks to diet [...]

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We have a cheap coffee table. It’s one of those all-assembly-required deals that you get for $30 at Kmart. And it’s taken a lot of abuse. Right now, the table looks like a parallelogram.
The little wooden pegs are just not up to the job anymore. The table sways back and forth with any weight, [...]

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I’ve seen this every day for about two weeks, but never stopped to take a picture until today:

This is a Die-Hard battery. So, here’s the question: are you an optimist or a pessimist?
Pessimist: Die Hard, eh? Look at this thing….it’s destroyed. Looks like it wasn’t that hard to kill it!
Optimist: Whoa! Look at [...]

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