From the Tumblelog February 7-13, 2010

Feb 13

A new Buzz start-up experience based on your feedback

Posted by Todd Jackson, Product Manager, Gmail and Google Buzz
We’ve heard your feedback loud and clear, and since we launched Google Buzz four days ago, we’ve been working around the clock to…

Will health-care insurance save your life?

Megan McArdle’s column questioning the link between insurance coverage and mortality (researcher speak for “dying”) is interesting, but ultimately misleading. At its base, it takes a…

Feb 12

Millions of Buzz users, and improvements based on your feedback

Feb 11

NFL Films withholds post-interception talk

Reggie Wayne was wired for the Super Bowl and mostly didn’t say much. But as I watched parts of the game for an obsessive third time, I knew that Wayne’s mic’d up segment would pay off huge in…

BlueCross BlueShield of Texas' blueprint for denying health policies.

It’s difficult to appreciate the stakes in health care reform if you receive health insurance through your employer. About 59 percent of Americans do, and while they are paying more and more for…

RT @SPINmagazine: Free Download: New @Japandroids song! http://su.pr/6TsSN8

Feb 10

Sarah Palin’s Secret hand Notes - Tom Toles Editorial Cartoon on GoComics.com

Feb 09

gal328: Frequently Raised Objections

Republicans -- Not Obama -- More Often on Wrong Side of Public Opinion

One of the more commonplace assertions among pundits on the center-right — made rather carelessly by Victor Davis Hanson and more thoughtfully by Jay Cost, is that agenda put forward by Obama…

Condescending Liberals

“[I]n the end the bedrock common sense of the American people will prevail,” wrote conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer Friday in the Washington Post. He was crowing over Scott Brown’s…

No Fussin’ and Fightin’: Let’s Try Dialogue Instead

Much is said about the “culture wars” in the US—especially every four years at election time. And much was said leading up to yesterday’s Super Bowl concerning an ad from Focus on the Family, the…

poopy. lala.com is blocked at work again.

Feb 8

Elliot’s final tally from last night’s party was 26 adults and 25 kids.

Feb 7

Today Elliot was watching ESPN while Finn was in bed. There was bleeped profanity. Finn walked in and said "The swearing attracted me."

Finn just said "Elliot, I know how to get a girl when you are teenager. Give her a compliment and then walk away." - Too much iCarly!