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tex avery cartoon

I found a few old cartoon shorts on Google Video. Good stuff. They don’t make them like this anymore.

GoogleVideo: Tex Avery Cartoon – Bad Luck Blackie – 7min. Genius.

GoogleVideo: Merry Melodies: “A Day at the Zoo” (1939)

GoogleVideo: Tex Avery – Red Hot Riding Hood


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The Future of Credit Cards – Earning virtual currency for spending in the real world & other world bridging


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Seven Career Killers: “Procrastination is an ingrained habit,” Nemko says, “but if you don’t kick it pretty quick, you’re going to find yourself on the corporate slow track.”

Moving on up

Click Fraud Gets Smarter: “One of Boser’s biggest challenges is putting a finger on exactly how widespread the practice is. Some search consultants say click fraud accounts for upwards of 20% of all traffic, and may generate more than $1 billion in dubious sales a year. Others say those stats vastly overstate the problem. “


first blood, soul

first blood, soul … “if you step, to fb…”

PayPal Goes Mobile! Send money securely, anytime, from wherever you are. You don’t need cash or a check – just your phone.


refresh, dallas

Refresh Dallas Meeting Thursday, March 23, 2006 (7:00 PM – 9:00 PM) “Rails: Diving into the Rabbit Hole” “Refresh is a community of designers and developers working to refresh the creative, technical and professional aspects of new media endeavors in the Dallas area.”


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What Makes a Lefty: Myths and Mysteries Persist “It’s obvious that they were using both hands equally,” said anthropologist Amanda Blackburn from the University of Manitoba. “It’s not fair to say they were ambidextrous in the true sense of the word, but they may have had a tendency to use both hands equally. It’s a behavior they may have learned rather than just being born like that.”

Colgate-Palmolive to Buy Tom’s of Maine “The $100 million cash deal for privately owned Tom’s of Maine, which got its start in 1970 by producing a phosphate-free laundry detergent, reflects Colgate’s strategy of focusing on the higher-margin oral and personal care businesses.”


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BlackBerry Maker to Merge With Company That Will Allow Devices to Work With Phone Networks


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Screenshots from the upcoming Google Calendar: CL2 web application. Will have tight integration with Gmail. Look forward to testing this out.


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Greetings, Starfighter. You have been recruited by the Star League to defend the frontier against Xur and the Ko-Dan armada. The Last Starfighter arcade replica… plus game download


dallas real estate

The Foreclosure Report: Defaults Continue To Mount In Dallas/Ft Worth: “The Dallas News has a report on foreclosures in that area. “More people are losing their homes to foreclosure than at any time since the Texas real estate bust of the 1980s. As residential foreclosures jumped 30 percent from a year ago in North Texas, the average mortgage on foreclosed houses fell to $129,000, compared with almost $146,000 a year ago.”