While both XM Satellite Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio have been growing their subscriber bases (almost 8 million for each), Wall Street has remained unimpressed. Both firms ended 2006 with stock prices that were approximately half their 2006 levels (Sirius at $3.54 and XM at $14.45).
This video is making the rounds of the internets. It's a good way to remember a player who got far less respect than he deserved.
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"I was here first," grouses Bagheera.
Never go to sleep mad at one another.
As a child who grew up reading the light humor of S. J. Perelmam and James Thurber, I worshipped at the altar of Art Buchwald. I didn't know it at the time, but, looking back on it, he taught me a tremendous amount about the importance of voice. If the practice truly <I>is</I> treacherous, well, Buchwald certainly made it look easy.
When I traveled through Wisconsin in the '70s, you could still buy these for a quarter at junk shops around the state. Sure wish I'd taken advantage of the opportunity—as if we needed more <I>stuff</I> around here.
This one minute commercial for the French movie channel Canal+ nearly had coffee spurting out my nose.
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Website <A HREF="http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2007/01/gardner-podding.html">Ionarts</A> alerts us to "the amazingly successful free podcast of the classical concert series at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum."
The definition of "fetish" <I>is</I> "object or part of the body that arouses libidinal impulses—often to the exclusion of genital impulses." Fetishizing that annoying Microsoft Word paperclip, however, goes beyond extreme kink into deeply creepy territory.
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Over at Doug Ramsey's always worth checking-out <I>Rifftides</I>, Randy Sandke offers a personal remembrance of Michael Brecker. Not your usual hagiography.