RhetoricVille

The World’s Billionaires - Forbes.com
According to Forbes, “a billion just isn’t what it used to be.” I will have to take their word for that. It’s nice to see a genuine nerd at the top of the list, though.

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Stronger Solar Storms Predicted; Blackouts May Result
You may want to re-think switching from cable to satellite.

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They Say, I Say
Over mid-term break, I’ve been reading a little book called They Say, I Say: The Moves that Matter in Academic Writing. The authors’ premise is that most academic writing is part of an on-going conversation, or should be, and that writers are obligated to present some of that conversation to their […]

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TWiT.tv
I admit it, I used to watch Tech TV. My favorite show was the Screen Savers, though there were some other good ones. Then the cable channel got bought by something called G4 and went to hell.
You can still catch Leo Laporte and Patrick Norton of the Screen Savers on the weekly TWIT podcast. […]

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LILEKS (James) Hello.
I don’t know how this guy does it. He write a long entry every day, M-F. Good stuff, too. Funny.

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