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Kara just showed me an interesting poem on TED. Very cool; hope you enjoy!

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According to the Boston Globe (via Marketing Vox), some retail chains are branching out from loudspeakers as the means for announcing specials and encouraging sales. A device described as an “audio spotlight” beams low-volume messages directly into the eardrums of unsuspecting shoppers. This cuts through the clutter and din of the shopping environment, in an attempt to influence store patrons to buy certain items.

In related news, my apartment is filled with back-massagers from Brookstone that I felt uncontrollably compelled to buy.

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My parents have very talented dogs, two corgis (corgii?) named Della and Bryn. As any pet owner can attest, the mark of a truly talented pooch is its repertoire of tricks. Here’s a pic of my dad with the two pooches in question, Della (left) and Brynnie (right).

Della does a fantastic impression of Star Jones, post-gastric-bypass. It’s uncanny, right down to the bugged out eyes. Come to think of it, we didn’t even have to teach her that one. Brynnie has mastered “roll-over” with unbelievable zeal. Whenever he’s let in from the yard, he immediately gallops over to the shelf where his treats are kept. If anyone makes the slightest move toward them, he starts rolling furiously, as though his fur had spontaneously caught on fire and he were trying to put it out.

Talented as they are, I wish I could teach them this one:

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