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Comment on A wonderful little film by Angel

Angel — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 21:18:33 +0000

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Comment on Make fewer products, but make them great by Ken Hunt

Ken Hunt — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:50:39 +0000

It would make perfect sense to me that Coupland was out ahead of everyone else in describing this sort of thing.

Comment on Make fewer products, but make them great by Jeni

Jeni — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:41:59 +0000

I believe that Douglas Coupland described this phenomenon — one with which I am intimately familiar — as “option paralysis” … the tendency, when given unlimited choices, to make none.

Comment on The Messy History of Voting in America by Ann Ruby

Ann Ruby — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 17:44:36 +0000

When were ordinary Americans allowed to vote for the first time? In the beginning it was only the Electoral College.

Comment on Pay More Attention to Your Food by Ken Hunt

Ken Hunt — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:51:03 +0000

It’s now my goal to eat really slowly while thinking a lot about my food. The upside is that this leaves less time for exercise, which I really hate.

Comment on Pay More Attention to Your Food by Jeni

Jeni — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:22:30 +0000

On the subject of “slow food,” another study was released earlier this week that suggested that “people who devour their meals quickly and eat until full are three times more likely to become overweight.”

Curiously, the study comes out of Japan, birthplace of a champion speed eater, the astonishingly slim Takeru Kobayashi.

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Comment on The Messy History of Voting in America by Ken Hunt

Ken Hunt — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 23:58:58 +0000

Thanks for the comment Jeni. For one thing, it lead me to your blog, Newsbite, which looks great!

Funny that you link to the London Free Press. Before going to school in London, I often wondered if illiterate people could put out a newspaper. The “Freeps” showed me it was possible!

Comment on The Messy History of Voting in America by Jeni

Jeni — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 23:48:15 +0000

This post made me consider something I’d never thought of before, namely, how those are illiterate go about voting. Google led me to this, which answered most of my questions: http://www.lfpress.com/perl-bin/publish.cgi?x=articles&p=245255&s=fightingwords.

Comment on Canadian Election Results: Everyone Lost by Election Results | Swampy's Weblog

Election Results | Swampy's Weblog — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 20:27:03 +0000

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