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• Dark Roasted Blend: Some of the World’s Strangest Fences
  Don’t fence me in.
• Sept. 8, 1966: Liftoff for the Starship Enterprise
  My favorite TV show (HBO’s The Wire is a very close second) turns 42.
• Playbill News: Zoo Story: A Preview of the Fall 2008 Broadway Season
  Lots of good things to see in New York this fall. Do you think 7 or 8 months is too young to introduce a baby to the theatre-going experience?
• New E-Newspaper Reader Echoes Look of the Paper - NYTimes.com
  I start every day by reading the newspaper. I look forward to new technology like this, which will make the experience that much better.

• David Mamet on ‘Speed-the-Plow’ and Drama That Brings Home the Bacon
  Drama? Art? Business? Who cares - it’s David Mamet.

• Dark Roasted Blend: The Most Alien-Looking Place on Earth
  Didn’t I see this on Star Trek?

• Dark Roasted Blend: The Most Alien-Looking Place on Earth
  Didn’t I see this on Star Trek?
• Game of the Week: Packers vs. Vikings - Adam Duerson
  Go Vikings!
• Radio beats CD and MP3s when it comes to music listening, survey finds
  Good news for those of us in the radio business.
• MinnPost - Community first: Organizers explain what they do
  After Sarah Palin inappropriately ridicules community organizers, one responds that the Alaska Gov’s “remarks were insulting and inappropriate to a field of work that is made up of people who are really sacrificing of themselves to give back to the community.”
• MinnPost - Checking facts at the GOP convention
  Just the facts, ma’am.
• ESPN - Competitiveness got the better of Culpepper - NFL Nation
  Excellent analysis of why Daunte Culpepper can’t get a job in the NFL.

• Will Sarah Palin Give a Great Speech? You bet! « Roadkill Refugee
  Sarah Palin for VP of Middle Earth.
• TiVo and DirecTV to Develop New DVR - NYTimes.com
  I sense a new purchase in my future.
• Dave at Peace : Rolling Stone
  Letterman has always been tops in my book. Just read his thoughts on the late Warren Zevon at the end of this interview.
• In Defense of the Man of Steel
  I’m a Batman guy, but this plea to preserve “the house where a seventeen year-old kid dreamed up Superman” deserves attention.
• Typewriters Morph Into Creepy Sci-Fi Creatures
  Hunt and peck turned into amazing sculptures created without any welding, soldering or gluing.
• ‘Galactica’ Curse Seeping into Language
  Holy frak! One of my favorite authors is quoted here and uses the new hip curse word in his new novel!

• YouTube - Running Man
  Norm Coleman gets the star treatment - in a funny way.
• Name and Rate Cult TV’s Best Lines | The Underwire from Wired.com
  Holy TV catchphrases, Batman!
• 9 to 5
  Steve Jobs in the Garden of Eden.

• MPR: Slideshow: Anti-war protesters
  Labor Day in Saint Paul. Reports of broken windows at my office building.
• MinnPost - A tall order: telling the Wellstone story on stage
  Local actor and playwright evokes fiery maverick local politician who died too soon.
• Michael Feinstein at the Regency and With a New CD - ‘The Sinatra Project’ - NYTimes.com
  Modern day crooner evokes Ol’ Blue Eyes.

• Vikings Build Practice Squad
  After cutting down to 53 players, the Vikings sign eight to the practice squad.
• Minnesota Vikings Current Roster
  At the end of the NFL cut-day, here is the Vikes’ current 53 man roster.

• Maine artist creates HOPE image decades after LOVE - Yahoo! News
  Here’s my pic of Philly’s LOVE: Philly LOVE
• Trekkies pay final visits to Las Vegas attraction - Yahoo! News
  I’m sorry I never got to experience The Experience.