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Found on Twitter No. 3: Why power users hate fancy web design

David CazaresDavid Cazares November 13, 2012, 8:45 AM Nov 13, 2012
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Today I’m letting the people I follow on Twitter drive my news, information and entertainment consumption. One of them recommended this paen to simple web design. Follow me on Twitter. Bob Collins is off this week.

Found on Twitter No. 2: The siren and the spook

David CazaresDavid Cazares November 13, 2012, 8:00 AM Nov 13, 2012
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All day, I’m posting interesting or entertaining things I’m finding by hanging out on my Twitter account, using Twitter as my primary news recommendation engine. The Petraeus scandal is all over Twitter today, of course, including links to this Frank Bruni essay In the New York Times: It has to be more than mere coincidence Read more →

Found on Twitter No. 1: Fiona Apple and Quentin Tarantino

David CazaresDavid Cazares November 13, 2012, 6:52 AM Nov 13, 2012

For many of us, Twitter has become a primary avenue for discovery of news, information and entertainment. I thought I’d hang out on Twitter for much of the day and keep a running log of what I find through the recommendations of people I follow. Here’s the first thing that drew me in: Bob Collins Read more →

Gone flying

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 13, 2012, 6:51 AM Nov 13, 2012
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Tomorrow I will attempt to be the first person (in my house) to fly an airplane he built himself across the country.

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And now this message from winter

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 12, 2012, 12:07 PM Nov 12, 2012

Reviewing basic rules for winter driving.

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The splendor of the Lowry Avenue bridge

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 9, 2012, 3:28 PM Nov 9, 2012
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Minneapolis, for all the right reasons, is becoming the ‘city of bridges.’

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Giving up on the zipper merge

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 8, 2012, 1:45 PM Nov 8, 2012
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Unless something changes soon, the zipper merge is going to be this century’s conversion to the metric system in the ’70s. Great idea, made perfect sense, and was dead on arrival.

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Timewasters: Cell phone crashers

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 8, 2012, 1:06 PM Nov 8, 2012
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For no particular reason… This video released this week is actually the second of the series. Here’s the first one…

Election night live blog

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 6, 2012, 4:12 PM Nov 6, 2012

It Gets Better… again

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 6, 2012, 11:03 AM Nov 6, 2012
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The RCMP is out with a video, today, that refocuses on what the point of the effort is in the first place.

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Grand Marais from the air

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 5, 2012, 2:16 PM Nov 5, 2012
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Sit a spell and relax for a minute or two on your trip from political story to political story today.

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Into the storm

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 5, 2012, 11:38 AM Nov 5, 2012
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Sometimes, the people who rush in to help Hurricane Sandy’s victims haven’t been treated well.

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High-rise hell

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 1, 2012, 2:03 PM Nov 1, 2012
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It’s almost impossible to hear the stories coming from New York and New Jersey and not think, ‘how would that go over if that happened here?’

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The art of going nowhere

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 1, 2012, 1:07 PM Nov 1, 2012
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It’s 1973 again out East. Today, gas lines are the norm as people try to find suddenly rare commodities in order to get from here to there.

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Fakers and phonies in the news.

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 30, 2012, 10:53 AM Oct 30, 2012
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This has been quite a 24 hours for people who fake things.

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