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Thought from this story: why do you like to pop bubble wrap? Put your answer in the comments.

Personally, I like to pop bubble wrap first and foremost because of the feel, not the sound. How about you?

For those of you running iTunes on a Mac, please take a minute to do this and report your results:

Copy a single song over to your ipod/iphone. Then find a bunch of tunes that will take a while (30 seconds) to transfer to your ipod/iphone. Transfer the tunes to your i-device. While the copy is still happening, delete that single song you previously transferred. Now look: is you big transfer still going, or did it stop in the middle when you deleted the single song?

My experience is that it will stop – i.e. iTunes can’t multitask. Same thing goes if you’re copying some tunes, and then select a new bunch and start it copying – the first batch of tunes will stop copying and the new batch will start, so you may lose some of the first tunes you wanted copied over.

Frustrating.

Managing Editor’s Note: DavidTallacksen.com/blog publisher and president of CatPoo Research and cleanup, David Tallacksen, sent a twit – I mean tweet! – to the chairmen and ranking members of the House and Senate committees with oversight of being able to write a blog post editor’s note that actually makes sense and is grammatically correct.

A portion of the letter sent by Mr. Tallacksen follows:

In today’s world where anyone can post-ity post just about anythings on the interwebs, why do smart people so-call ‘like’ stupid stuff? Maybe they can do complex equations in their head. Or speak in tongues. I mean several languages. And yet we don’t realize and look at politics for what they are? As I am known around the office (of CatPoo Research) to exclaim, “Jeepers!”

The resignation of Vivian Schiller doesn’t change a thing about NPR. NPR will continue to spew lies and hatred across this country, while the Fair and Balanced ™ Network will put forth nothing but the highest-quality coverage that other countries are getting in line for. Only rich governments should give their constituents the opportunity for informed discussion.

For the full press release, click on this link that like the original post which this one parodies, does not actually link to the full press release.

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BIG BIG BIG ASTERISK: This is written in jest as a very (really!) poor nonsensical parody of something else recently spread on the internets. C’mon people, we’re smarter than this. Are NPR or PBS or their member stations perfect? Do they contribute to an informed society in a valuable way? Do they help some stations provide talk or music programming in an increasingly low-brow, media-for-the-masses lowest-common-denominator climate? Is your dollar and change per year of federal taxes worth this? I’ll let you answer.

And for those of you that think I may be taking this personally – NO. This is about something much larger than a couple people’s jobs. This is about an informed Nation. Which we seem to have less and less these days. Perhaps ignorance really is bliss.

Today I got two duplicate-looking pieces of mail, resubscription notices from the same magazine. Hmmm, which to choose?

I know the state of commercial news is bad, but this seems like an all-time low by CNN.com. Yes, this is an actual screen grab of their frontpage a few days back.