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Flying: you know it’s not a free ride

by Allan Jenkins on August 24, 2008

For all you road warriors, out there… Technorati Tags: air_travel,humor,flying,travel Technorati Tags: air_travel,humor,flying,travel

As I am increasingly tired of Wikipedian onanists purists deletionists, I was amused to hear of Modernista!’s idea of creating their own Wikipedia entry, then using it as their website. Smart, funny and oh-so-totally against Wikipedia’s rules about companies editing…

Map of the path not taken

by Allan Jenkins on March 11, 2008

I came of age before Gary Gygax’s (PBUH) Dungeons & Dragons fell onto my radar. And I escaped the fad unscathed. My first and only experience with D&D was in intelligence school (I needed remedial, you see) in the Navy,…

What women want

by Allan Jenkins on February 23, 2008

What do women want in the workplace? This 1943 Guide to Hiring Women suggests 11 ways to get the most out of that girl at the office, including: 7. Whenever possible, let the inside employee change from one job to…

Flags of world, graded on design

by Allan Jenkins on January 13, 2008

Josh Parsons, a philosophy professor in New Zealand, has favored us by grading the flags of countries according to design. An important effort, and one for which I am grateful. One cannot help but nod in agreement with his helpful…

Desirable Roasted Coffee is not G rated…

by Allan Jenkins on July 2, 2007

While it doesn’t exactly explain a month’s hiatus from the Noble Blogosphere, I will say I’ve been put off blogging ever since — that is, since 4:04 PM today — I found out my blog is G-rated. G-rated? Only one…

That’s right… if your plane successfully crash lands at sea, you get licorice (this guy wanted the black licorice, but his previous selection was no longer available, so he got red). From the highly amusing Airtoons. Hat tip to Michael…

Miss Dewey: a search engine for Lee Hopkins

by Allan Jenkins on October 31, 2006

Brother Lee Hopkins, who likes a pretty ankle almost as he likes a good Googling, can have both with Miss Dewey, a fetching, though tart-tounged, virtual receptionist. Via PSFK Technorati Tags: miss dewey, lee hopkins, search technology, search engines

Buy your own Web 2.0 startup!

by Allan Jenkins on August 8, 2006

It might not make sense, but who said this bubble had to make more sense than the last one? You can buy your own Web 2.0 start-up — Yoosi (pronounced You See because, you see, that’s what you do when…

In what I can only admire as a remarkable act of judicial common sense, Arizona Superior Court Judge Pendleton Gaines has ordered Defendant’s counsel to accept Plaintiff’s counsel’s invitation to lunch. In support of his order (in the case of…