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Will Femia is a Weblog enthusiast who, through good fortune and dumb luck, was introduced to the form as his position as chat producer for MSNBC.com careered into obsolescence. On any given day, Will can be found having already spent an unhealthy amount of time squinting at a computer screen.

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Posted: Thursday, August 31, 2006 12:27 AM by Will Femia

I did a double take when I heard an advertisement for Kurdistan during today's Hardball.  I guess they're looking for investors.  I wonder if they ever saw the ad for pork, however.

The Best Word Book Ever,1963 and 1991 - Highlights changes in the book between the two editions.  Strangely, most of them seem to be gender related.

Washington hit by curse of the kid bloggers - As a culture we don't really hold parents accountable for their kids' actions, so I'm not sure these stories are as scandalizing as some would like.

It probably behooves Americans to pay attention to news events in Pakistan.  I'm not sure if this blogger is actually in Pakistan or just relaying events there but his perspective is certainly insightful.

New York to L.A. in two hours - They're working on a 12-seat passenger jet that would travel at 1,200 mph without making a sonic boom.  Oh, and it'll be invisible. (jk)

Create your own panorama planet (Photoshop trick)

Lumalive textiles remind me of the kinds of costumes they wear in low budget sci fi movies set in the future.  Could wearing clothes like a Times Square billboard really catch on?  (Having said that, if they made an adult sized sneaker with those motion triggered blinking lights in the sole, I'd buy a pair in a second.)

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I can't help but think about the day when those Lumalive clothes are hacked by spammers and the first poor unlucky sap is photographed with an "enlargement" ad on his/her back.

Jennifer (Sent Thursday, August 31, 2006 11:59 AM)

My brother-in-law wants a pair of those shoes in an adult size too.  I think he's thought about stealing my daughters blinky shoes so he can somehow take them apart and make his own.

Jason - Pittsburgh, PA (Sent Thursday, August 31, 2006 12:09 PM)

Hey Will...you can make your own light up shoes!

http://id.mind.net/~truwe/tina/shoes.html

Amber L., Merrill, WI (Sent Thursday, August 31, 2006 7:54 PM)



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