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• The story of Carrie Mundy’s life, by Carrie Mundy
• The story of caroline’s life, by caroline m
• For my biographers, by Heather Meadows
• The story of Ryan Ozawa’s life, by Ryan Ozawa
• No bells, no whistles, by Jo Fishtrick
• The story of Benjamin Scott-Hopkins’s life, by Benjamin Scott-Hopkins
• The story of James Bowman’s life, by James Bowman
• The story of David Hodges’s life, by David Hodges
• The story of Lily Yu’s life, by Lily Yu
• 7 stories, by Rick Hadley
• The story of michael gol’s life, by michael gol
• The story of Tim Eby’s life, by Tim Eby

• “Wailing Sirens, Blinking Lights”, by Liz Gargar
• “the man from florence”, by caroline m
• “the price is wrong (really, really wrong)”, by The Benigma
• “that middle feeling “, by gabrielle foley
• “Street Fight”, by Aaron Davis
• “Halloween Comes to a Close”, by Matt Warren
• “How Chicago saw my ass”, by Julia Goolia
• “Finally letting go”, by Julia Goolia
• “The origin of the scar on the cheek”, by Colin Lane
• “A time to love - my rabbit story”, by Colin Lane
• “i had my share”, by Tonka Tonkits
• “do *not* drink and ski”, by caroline m
• “Boxing match.”, by Roberto
• “looking for love in all the wrong places (part one)”, by The Benigma
• “Oh Rocky”, by Josh Shartzer
• “When Star Wars Ruled The Earth”, by James Bowman
• “My Golliwog Rag-Doll”, by Daniel Donnelly
• “A special question in a special place”, by Michael Klepzig
• “Zipolite - First Nude Beach”, by Lisa Manzer
• “saw white people in unironic blackface”, by Jo Fishtrick
• “Death of my best friend”, by James Bowman
• “First Kiss”, by James Bowman
• “Just a Wish”, by David Hodges
• “Pacific to Atlantic”, by Ryan Wyatt
• “Blackout!”, by Ryan Wyatt
• “Big Apple, First Bite”, by Ryan Wyatt
• “Blameless”, by Ryan Wyatt
• “Stepping out of a moving car”, by Mark Green
• “Mazatlan”, by Lisa Manzer
• “Meeting Anna”, by michael gol
• “JFK’s assassination”, by Mark Green
• “An Unusual Birthday”, by Ryan Wyatt
• “Breaking up with Bronwyn take 1″, by michael gol
• “Lost all possessions in a fire.”, by Heather Meadows
• “how wikipedia betrayed me (and america)”, by The Benigma
• “Thanksgiving 2006″, by Lisa Manzer
• “A Happy Thanksgiving”, by Matt Warren
• “Today I found out my dad isn’t my dad”, by irene shinnie
• “My son Aldo was born today!”, by derek b
• “Smashing Pumpkins na Apoteose”, by Rafael Losso
• “Mixed tape stories, v. I”, by Julia Goolia
• “My Mother’s Letter to the Editor, Green Bay Gazette”, by Bhuzwhaldi Gherengls
• “Drunk & Stoned = brick on the face = OUCH!”, by lina why
• “Will You Marry Me?”, by Jason N.
• “A very cold night and another brothel.”, by Roberto
• “birthday parties”, by mjc go
• “The Dilly Apple Pressing Party”, by Matt Warren
• “A new flute”, by kyorei
• “Ghost hunting “, by S K
• “Papa and his toys…”, by Ben Wilkoff and Kara Roux
• “The Seattle-Area Snowfall”, by Matt Warren
• “At the Apollo 11 launch”, by Mike Cook
• “The Minutemen in Columbia, SC”, by Mike Cook

Problem: I’ve got a lot of CD’s. I can play them wherever I want - in my car, at home, and on my iPod. But iTunes tells me I can only play my MP3’s on it and one iPod. WTF? I love my mac but it doesn’t love me back.

I own all of my music. Some are CD’s I ripped to MP3’s. Some are purchases I made at iTunes. I paid for them all. Now I’ve got a massive hard drive and they’re all there. I’ve put a lot of time into getting a system down for transferring songs I own from place to place. But then again, I was the only person to shell out $350 for the iPod Hi-Fi too. You can say I have a music problem.

Solution: Mp3 Tunes.

MP3Tunes.com is a service that lets me take music I already own and store it online for peanuts. I get unlimited storage and unlimited download and playback for $20/year.

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I’m loyal to digg to a fault. I’m not the kind of guy who gets the scoop on stories on digg. But I do DIGG stories on a regular basis and depend on digg to send me interesting content. I am, to be certain, much more loyal to digg than reddit or newsvine. I don’t know why. Maybe it’s just the popular hang-out I dig, so to say.

However, one of the problems I have with Digg is the fact that there doesn’t seem to be a place to DIGG stories that fall outside of the interests of their tech-base. Digg, and if you get dugg in particular, can be a very powerful promotional tool. As a fan of LifeHacker (and would-be advertiser, would that I had the budget to do so) I know firsthand the power of having a front page DIGG story. Lifehacker Editor Gina Trapani told me recently that when Lifehacker recently launched a feature which allows readers to DIGG a story from withing the story itself (a simple feature) that it helped move the traffic needle. DIGG, she claims, can account for an additional 40,000 + page views to a particular story if the story makes it to digg’s front page.

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Forgetting is easy. It’s so easy we have no idea how or why it happens. That is, in all of the research I’ve done on the subject, nobody seems to really have a clue about why memories fail. Rest assured there are plenty of theories. And while there are many attempts at explaining why memories fail, the best of our knowledge on the matter comes in knowing what memories tend to fail and in what particular ways memories often do fail. I’ll outline those briefly here, for what it’s worth. While you’re digging through your past, keep in mind (no pun intended) that these are the patterns to memory loss that commonly affect us; hopefully simply being aware that they exist will be another tool for you to be able to counteract their affect on your memories. (more…)