Peter's Beard

  • Facebook and Privacy

    Facebook and Privacy

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    The Web opinionators (is that a word) and pundits are abuzz about Mark Zuckerberg’s recent comments about privacy on facebook.

  • Recurring Dreams

    Recurring Dreams

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    When I was little I would always wake up remembering my dreams in vivid detail. Now I remember that I dreamed, but can’t recall what about. But there’s one recurring dream I do remember…

  • Best Christmas Song Ever

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    October 14th, 1985, a date that changed Christmas music forever. It was on that day that the original boy group, The Vienna Boys Choir, released Merry Christmas, or Frohe Weihnachten.

  • Not Without My Wine

    Not Without My Wine

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    Inge sends me out in the blizzard to retrieve the wine before it freezes.

  • The Mail is Delivered Even in Blizzard

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    As we were shoveling snow outside at my sister’s house in Alexandria Virginia, and wondering what happens to the mail on a snow day, the mail woman appeared out of the white-washed distance.

  • Journalists – Meet Google, Your New Editor

    Journalists – Meet Google, Your New Editor

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    The tail wags the dog: Washington Post is an example of a publication that monitors google searches to help determine future editorial coverage. Tiger Woods searched a lot? You bet the sports reporter knows what his next assignment is. Keyword-based journalism.

  • The Practical Uses of Large Condoms

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    Looking for a way to impress the ladies without coming across as a bothersome jerk? Here’s a low key way to impress the ladies without tooting your own horn. This definitely gets the message across. This guy tastefully raises his desirability quotient.

  • Sex Offender Shuffle

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    Most Football fans remember the Chicago Bears Super Bowl Shuffle in 1985, the year they crushed my Patriots in the Super Bowl. Few remember the similarly titled Sex Offender Shuffle.

  • Google Hires Yanni

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    Or at least someone who composes like Yanni to create the original score to accompany the marketing video that goes along with the announcement that Google plans to crush all the real time search companies in the market that monitor the exhaust of real time services such as twitter.

  • CNN Triples Fox Pre-Game Lineup

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    CNN seems to have bought into the more is better concept. Last night, while watching the Obama announcement from West Point to authorize more troops in Afghanistan, I counted 15 people in the CNN “war room”. Jesus. Do we really need a 15 second sound byte from every single talking head on the CNN roster?