Archive for December, 2008

These are my links for December 11th through December 19th:

• Mark Felt, Watergate’s `Deep Throat,’ dies at 95 – wtop.com – But the snickers, they live on.
• Feeling broke? 10 ways to save Christmas – TODAY Holiday Guide – This is all well and good but are we *really* going to do this?
• Post-Bankruptcy Twinkies Face Uncertain Future : NPR – Nooooo!

These are my links for December 8th:

• DailyLit: Book Sampler: Books for Moms – I thought this was a clever idea, but there don't seem to be any excerpts from "Please Be Quiet, Mommy Can't Think", "Are We There Yet? How One Question Put Me in the Nut House" or "The Future is Here and I've Turned into My Mother"

  Maybe in the next edition?

• Top 10 List of People to Unfollow on Twitter | Shannon Whitley – " It may be a sit-in or a walk-out. Not sure yet." Love it.
• Sixeyes: The One And Only Christmas Mix 2008 – Any new Sixeyes post is good for me — but this one has *Christmas music*! With a decidedly hip touch, of course.

These are my links for December 7th:

• Who is the Real ‘Dumbest Generation’? – washingtonpost.com – Ouch! Although I do think the term "Early X-ers" is, er, kind of dumb itself.
  "Generational putdowns, Bauerlein's included, are typically long on attitude and short on facts. But the underlying question is worth pursuing: If the data are objectively assessed, which age-slice of today's working-age adults really does deserve to be called the dumbest generation? The answer may surprise you. No, it's not today's college-age kids, nor even today's family-starting 30-somethings. And no, it's not the 60-year-olds who once grooved at Woodstock. Instead, it's Americans in their 40s, especially their late 40s — those born from the late 1950s to the mid-1960s. They straddle the boundary line between last-wave boomers and first-wave Generation Xers. The political consultant Jonathan Pontell labels them "Generation Jones."
• Your coffee, my love – A nice post exploring our motivations for being nice… My husbad brings me coffee in the morning when we're together and I definitely miss it when we're not. This isn't because I can't make and get my own coffee, but rather because it's just… nice.
• We Need to Talk – A good reminder on the difference between male and female communication styles… Do you dread hearing "We need to talk…"?