This is pretty interesting set of ideas from Boone Pickens, THE MAN in the oil industry.

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On the top of the list: Texas Hill Country. =)
New York Times: Top 31 Places to Go this Summer

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For once, something good comes from Baron Davis. =)
I don’t know about joining the no blinking competition, but I can go all day staring at Jessica… =P

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Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?
It started with a lot of facebook status updates… “X is twittering: *insert action here*” Then I found out what it was last week and didn’t think [...]

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The chart above marks the performance of a company whose CEO made $132mil last year on pay and stock sale. The company? None other than Countrywide Financial.
Here’s an excerpt from the article:
A securities filing shows Countrywide Financial Corp. CEO Angelo Mozilo earned some $10.8 million in total compensation and cashed out $121.5 million in [...]

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Excerpt from a MySA.com article (that Matt found, emphasis added by me):
Suns center Shaquille O’Neal won’t be adjusting his style of play in hopes of avoiding the early foul trouble that limited him to 30 minutes and 20 seconds in Saturday’s double-overtime Game 1 of the Spurs-Suns Western Conference first-round series.
“I ain’t changing nothing,” O’Neal [...]

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I really thought that I’d probably be reading a good majority of “the most popular” blogs out there, but apparently not, at least according to Time.com. Some of the ones that I’ve never heard of sound pretty cool though.
[Time.com's First Annual Blog Index]

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Sometimes, I wonder how good I am at reading charts. I found Inspectd via the Freakonomics blog. Here is Freakonomic’s intro of it:
At its heart, Inspectd is a simple game: it shows you a chart of historical data on a random stock, asks you to bet on whether the stock’s price will rise or fall, [...]

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Nikkor.com is now up and running. Pretty cool stuff. Check it out if you got time. =)
BTW - Rumor has it that there’s a Nikkor announcement at the end of this month. I’ve heard A LOT of rumors surrounding the D3x/D300x (God I hope they’re not true). But my guess is that Nikon will finally [...]

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So I was looking at my Flickr stats this morning and I noticed from my referrers that I actually made Gadling’s picture of the day TWICE!!

Gadling is a pretty neat travel blog that I read on a regular basis. Check it out if you

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