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May 2012

Huzzah!

Since I’ve long bellyached about the dearth of decent music shops in Spokane (even Bellingham has an Everyday Music; why + more

Road Trip

The missus and I spent Memorial Day exploring Northrup Canyon, home to all manner of birds, wildflowers, and—oh yeah!—rattlesnakes. If + more

“It just floats right onto the sandwich.”

This, my friends, is why we beat the communists: a team of mechanical engineers and nano-technologists, holed up in an + more

Ewww

An alert reader sent us this story about the Lyndon B. Johnson School of…well, perhaps you’d better read it yourself. + more

Preaching Comma Sense

Ben Yagoda offers up some helpful comma pointers in yesterday’s New York Times. Bonus: he uses “gobsmacked” in a sentence—a word + more

(sigh)

Forget the tendentious claim that the Beatles belong in the Western music canon alongside Beethoven and Brahms, Paul Krugman seems + more

Say my name, say my name…

Some business names are just better than others. But why? And perhaps more important…how? Come to the next BIZStreet workshop + more

“There you are, like butter in sunshine.”

The inestimable Derek Helt was kind enough to share with me the Lutheran Insulter, which wasted no time whatsoever in + more

How Fast Do You Read?

Take this short test to find out. It tells me I read 646 words a minute (158% faster than the + more

Back Home

It’s true—both CK and I spent some time in northern Colorado this week: primarily Greeley, but also Denver and Fort + more

up north

Well…since both the writer and the boss are out of town (Greeley Colorado) I offer up a picture from my + more

“Calculatedly Stupid”

Ian Leslie says we really can be too clever for our own good: “If a rat is faced with a + more

72 Years of Pop Culture

Radio Time Machine is a nifty little tool that plays Billboard chart-toppers from every year back to 1940. Well…30-second samples, + more

Physics Is Phun!

Are we really on the verge of of one of the biggest imaging revolutions since 1826? Lytro’s new light-field camera + more

bsw 04.29.12

This past Sunday, our senior designer Shirlee Roberts was married to her sweetheart, Brett Downey. photo courtesy of Matt Vielle + more

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