Yearly Archives: 2009

McGang… What?

This is pretty gross and funny at the same time. A consumer initiated bastardization of cheap fast food has created the “McGangBang”, a McDonald’s McChicken sandwich inside a double cheeseburger. It’s gotten to the point where folks are even able to order it by name. Check out the link for details, but no post about [...]

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Did You Know Vanilla Ice Is Back?

I did not.

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How Does Income Tax Work?

The Obama administration’s promises to level income tax have naturally brought about debates and fear from the wealthier class. Even as a home-owning, child raising parent I can’t really say I understand how income tax works, but I feel that the Republican-sponsored tax cut for income over $250,000 is really odd given that the cost [...]

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Schwarzenegger’s Arm

For some reason I love this shot of Governor Schwarzenegger and a robotic arm: (thanks to Boston’s Big Picture)

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Back to the Music

Over the past few weeks I’ve had some time while babies slept and video was rendering, so I finally started updating my music site again by uploading high quality MP3 and cover art source for two of my older projects. You can read about those updates on The HooKHeaD Project home page. I’ll continue to [...]

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The Wife, Writing

It’s worth a mention that my wife Kathy has begun blogging and is so far blazing through her posts. We’ve had a rather tumultuous 2009 so far, so she’s got a lot to write about.

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The Economic Stimulus Act 2009, in detail

The nifty Open Congress has the full text of the highly debated economic stimulus that just went through Congress. I suspect that most critics among the common population haven’t looked at it in detail. It is over a thousand pages so that’s to be expected. However I’d say take a look, scan it, whatever. It’s [...]

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Whitehouse.gov Enters a New Age

A great example is set where it should always have been. The newly launched whithouse.gov under President Obama is not only a nice clean site (with a blog), but it validates. Hot damn. (via Daring Fireball) UPDATE: Kottke has a nerdy example of how much more savvy the new site is under-the-hood.

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