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Tuesday funnies:

Winger continues on its theme. Beatle fans will appreciate.

Day By Day: More Jan in a bikini.

Get Fuzzy offers advice for us writers.

Dilbert is pretty funny. I remember these days.

Point Five has a funny post with a purpose. You can't have it both ways...

Tom G. Palmer has this about Hasidic reggae. Oy vey, mon!

Follow on to my last post: who remembers Desmond Dekker and the Aces?

Get up in the morning, slaving for bread, sir,
so that every mouth can be fed.
Poor me, the Israelite. Aah.

Get up in the morning, slaving for bread, sir,
So that every mouth can be fed.
Poor me, the Israelite. Aah.

My wife and my kids, they are packed up and leave me.
Darling, she said, I was yours to be seen.
Poor me, the Israelite. Aah.

Shirt them a-tear up, trousers are gone.
I don't want to end up like Bonnie and Clyde.
Poor me, the Israelite. Aah.

After a storm there must be a calm.
They catch me in the farm. You sound the alarm.
Poor me, the Israelite. Aah.

Poor me, the Israelite.
I wonder who I'm working for.
Poor me, Israelite,
I look a-down and out, sir.

Interesting article: New Economy, Old Math

Policy makers rely on accurate economic data to draft effective legislation and businesses need the right numbers to plan for their future. In an economy where the only constant is change, unreliable numbers will result in off-target legislation and poor business decisions. A modern economy needs modern statistics. (Maybe job creation numbers aren't the only economic statistics that need recalculation. Hmm...)

I recently set up syndication for 4-Block World on LJ; the name of the feed is 4blockworld. Here's a pretty good sample of what he has to offer.

Thanks to Virginia Postrel for pointing out this article:

Personal music players changing office dynamics

It figures that the one guy who doesn't think building a wall of sound around oneself at the office is a psych professor from Cornell, who has no clue about what it's like to work in an office...

Got this from annef, and I think it's just perfect:

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