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Thanks to podcasting, you don't have to  work for a  broadcast company to be a radio or video personality.  Increasingly, newspapers and other media  organizations are asking their print reporters to contribute podcasts.  --Larry Magid

Here, death roams cyberspace in all its spectral forms: senseless and indiscriminate, sometimes premeditated, often brutally graphic.  It is also a place where the living discuss this world and the next. --Meghan Barr on www.mydeathspace.com

Why in the name of Coco Chanel would hundreds of thousands of women plunk down more than $1000 for a handbag?  If you've ever wandered through the leather scented shops of Santana Row , you have seen these women.   They probably have a gerbil's nest of tattered Kleenex and unwrapped cough drops lining the bottoms of their purses  like the rest of us.  But they have forked over the equivalent of three months of car payments to  have something stylish to lug it around.  --Sue Hutchison

Our members are responsible in that they realize full-time ownership is not an option for them and would be unfair to the dog.  It prevents dogs from being adopted and then returned to the shelter by people who realize it wasn't a good fit.   Marlena Cervantes of www.flexpetz.com

I'd rather risk some fat kids than a whole generation so naive about marketing that by middle age they can still be manipulated by a dancing leprechaun.  --Joel Stein

As a coach, I know I have to start with smart players. It might not have been so important in past years, but today we're asking players to do so much and to know so many schemes. Without basic intelligence, they simply can't play. And if they're not just plain smart, they're not going to be able to do the things a sophisticated coach is going to ask. With the speed on the field today, their technique and knowledge of what they have to do has to be keen or they'll get buried.  --Bill Walsh

There are two kinds of management problems.  There's the kind you can solve by yelling and the kind you can solve by buying some sort of software.   That's why I created "some sort of software that yells."   --Scott Adams in Dilbert

The media followed up their over-hyping of Al Gore's flop of a "Live Earth" by underreporting he served Chilean sea bass, a threatened species, at his daughter's wedding.   Gore blamed this on the juicy deliciousness of the fish, noting that they taste somewhere in-between snail darter and bottlenose dolphin... --Bruce Tinsley in Mallard  Fillmore

Konrad Lorenz seems to me to come the closest to describing our behavioral pattens, seeing us as more instinctive than environmentally influenced.   --Bill Walsh