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My Vote For Biggest Moron of 2008 Goes To…

…this guy. Darnell Frazier (pictured above) and another guy were stopped by an officer in St. Paul in December. Darnell was evasive about giving his name, claiming he had never had a photo ID. When pressed, Darnell gave the name Darnell Lewis. Then the officer noticed that the word ‘Frazier’ was tattooed on Darnell’s neck. [...]

The Best Quote I’ve Heard In A Long Time…

From the January Esquire, in a piece entitled What I’ve Learned: Wisdom From All 50 States, Idaho’s Warren Miller (who I assume is the ski and snowboarding filmmaker who made his start in Sun Valley and not the author) offers the following:
“In 100 years, all new people.”

LinkUp Wins In A Landslide On KillerStartUps.com

Last Friday, KillerStartups.com featured LinkUp in its daily poll (the site asks readers to vote on which of the selected startups will become the next ‘killer’ site on the web). The results made the Obama landslide look more like a razor-thin, legally-mandated-recount Minnesota Senate race with LinkUp annihilating the rest of the field.

Thanks to everyone [...]

How Not To Behave If You Get Fired

A 21 year-old, University of Minnesota student went into an absolute tirade yesterday after being fired from KSTP, the local ABC affiliate here in Minneapolis. The complaint filed after the incident reported that after receiving the bad news from her boss, Jennifer Anato-Mensah screamed, “You don’t know where I’m from, I’ll mess you up.” Then, [...]

LinkUp’s October Jobs Report Explained…

Last week, we released the jobs report for October from LinkUp.com which showed that both new jobs and total jobs on the site rose by roughly 300,000 from September. (LinkUp aggregates and publishes jobs pulled directly from nearly 10,000 company web sites). Given the fact that the jobs are real and current (updated daily) and [...]

Still The Best Book On Choosing a Career…

If you are in the job market, thinking about a career change, or approaching the end of you college career, Dick Bolles’ book is an absolute must read. Seriously. Buy it.

Don’t Forget To Vote On Tuesday


Happy Halloween


More Lego Art

These are more photos of the lego sculptures created by Nathan Sawaya. The full story can be found at Portfolio.com.

The Best Movie I’ve Seen In Years: Rachel Getting Married

See it.