William M. Hartnett

Have a good, long look at the graceful, Art Moderne lines of the Los Angeles Times. Soon it will house Sam n’ Randy’s Jack Shack and Exotic Crotch-Tickling Emporium. To progress! Click the picture to more closely inspect the property’s male-enhancement potential. Virtual Earth/Live Maps, of course.

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Feature story is about readers who have turned their homes over to their pets. Neighborhood of the week is Palm beach Ranchettes near Wellington.
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Write one of these memos about your own website - yelvington.com
“Assign yourself any random task on your newspaper’s website, like trying to sell a car or give away a dog or maybe just find the forums. Take notes. And then write a Gates memo. Bet you can do it, with feeling.”
(tags: newspaper.com)

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Spotted at the McDonald’s just down the street from my office: “STEAK MCSKILLET BURRITO $289″

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Spare me the fancy redesigns and give me some text to read - Howard Owens
“The whole (Orlando Sentinel redesign) hullabaloo reminds me of a thought I’ve had many times recently: Why not just let a print newspaper be a print newspaper? … Stop trying to turn your print front page into a web page.”
(tags: newspapers [...]

Probably staying put for at least the near future, but this seems like as good a time as any to think about greener pastures and the road ahead. You know, all that garbage. Will draw maps and craft neighborhood-targeted data and advertising strategies for food and cat-relocation costs. Act now!

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Nothing much, really. I finished up some data entry this morning and had shrimp fried rice for lunch. Also, more than two out of four people in my newsroom are getting bought out or fired by the end of the summer. So, that’s fun. No getting around this fact: It’s going to be pretty hard [...]

Avoiding carpal tunnel / repetitive stress injuries - Hacker News | Ask HN
Lots of good advice for dealing with, or hopefully avoiding, RSI.
(tags: ergonomics rsi)

Top 100 Advertisers Shifted $1 Billion To the Web Last Year At The Expense Of TV And Newspapers - TechCrunch
Does the typical newsroom dweller even realize this monumental shift of ad [...]

MC Hammer may have gotten Jack McKeon fired - The Palm Beach Post
“You know him as MC Hammer … But to Marlins special assistant Jack McKeon, Hammer always will be ‘little Stanley Burrell,’ the Oakland Athletics fan who just might or might not have gotten McKeon fired in 1978.”
(tags: sports baseball oakland pbpost mc-hammer)

Elitism: A [...]