The Great Lakes have always loomed Mt. Rushmore-like in my life. I grew up in Michigan and my dad is a sailor, so from a young age I knew to be ashamed if I couldn’t rattle off the stats: “They-contain-1/5-of-the-world’s-fresh-surface-water!” and “Lake-Superior-is-larger-than-South-Carolina!” or “Michigan-has-more-coastline-than-any-other-state-but-Alaska!”
ery And even though I might–on a good day and safely outside state lines–have passed for a marine savant, the world is lucky I never blossomed into a maritime professional. I don’t so do well on boats. Instead, I shadowbox with agents, trying to convince them why the show I’m casting isn’t another Surreal Life. And sometimes, while waiting for a good yes or two, my mind wanders and I start to extrapolate my daydreams into a parallel universe in which they turn into reality shows.
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Link Indication is a WordPress 2.0.x and 2.1 compatible plugin that applies css class attributes to the links (anchor tags) in your posts, pages, and optionally in your comments. Thereby you can indicate your links, e.g. by images, for characterizing your types of links.
Additionally, you can apply class attributes to special filename extensions, such as .pdf, .xls, .jpg, etc. Read the more »
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Start++ extends Vista’s already impressive start menu functionality with configurable key commands. Hit Win key and start typing like…
w apple - opens Apple’s Wikipedia page.
g apple - opens Google’s search page for Apple.
imdb cars - opens IMDb’s search page for movie Cars.
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