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Big changes are coming to advertising: > [A] significant number of TV commercials achieve saturation faster than most advertisers and advertising agencies realize and reach a maximum household audience in just a week or two. . . . [In one company's study,] at least seven new commercials reached 95 to 100

Our Internet connection is back, albeit slow and unreliable. There might be the normal level of postings today after all. Side note: If you have a Charter cable connection, you may want to look into your rates. While on the line with Charter Support this morning, the tech assistant asked

Blogging could be light today. Our Internet connection isn't working. This isn't unusual for Charter Communications in our area, but this time, the problem appears to be with the individual connection to our computer, so we need a service call and it won't come

A woman took a picture of an exhibitionist on a New York subway. She also posted it to the Flickr site and gave it to the police. Now the pervert's parents can see him. We like it, but we gotta believe the civil libertarians are a little nervous.

Tunku Varadarajan on an American pastime: > Americans . . . tend to make very good exhibitionists. By contrast, and famously, the British make much the better eccentrics. Americans, in fact, are not very good at eccentricity, just as Brits are clumsy at exhibitionism. . . > What is the wellspring of American exhibitionism? Life

Fun night last night, which threatened to get out of hand. Neighbor's house for a beer after work, drinking club for a few tall pilsners, back home for a glass of White Grenache, then back to the neighbor's to meet some guy named Pinot Grigio. Fortunately,

After a frustrating couple of weeks, the "Send This Post To A Friend" feature is working. There are a few kinks that need to be worked out, but you can now forward posts to family, friends, and enemies.

The Comic Rockstars Toilet Seat Museum. Link [http://www.flickr.com/photos/16756280@N00/sets/789737/].