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R.I.P.

: I won’t have much to add to others’ posts on the death of President Reagan. Here are lots of links at MaroonBlog.

I saw that somewhere

: FeedDemon 1.1 is out and it includes my favorite feature: search of recent feeds. This is the perfect answer to the hmmm-I-saw-that-somewhere problem.

Shucks, thanks

: Jessica makes a post to say:

I am sorry I called Jeff Jarvis Howard Stern’s Hand Puppet.

There. I said it.

That’s one of the nicest things anybody has ever said about me.

Which shows you what people say about me.

A burger with a side of Hoobastank, and supersize my wi-fi

: Thanks to PaidContent’s job listings, I see the McDonald’s is hiring a consultant to make “digital customer services” a menu offering.

McDonald’s Digital Re-Imaging team is tasked with the identification, testing and optimization of new digital customer services for McDonald’s restaurants. These self-funding or for profit services will enhance the McDonald’s in-restaurant customer experience by leveraging our existing high-speed network. Examples of these services include Wi-Fi internet access and a myriad of content and connection applications.

Why should Starbucks be the place to get online? McDonald’s has a helluva lot more locations and cheaper drinks. And if Starbucks can go into the music business, why shouldn’t McDonald’s? It will sell to a younger, hipper (read: less jazzy, folksy) audience.

No webflower, she

: Mary Hodder lists all the “social media in my pocket.’

And why did this sound vaguely like Mae West

Michael and Me

: A filmmaker does a Michael Moore on Michael Moore, following him around trying futilely to get an interview — and this guy had no problem getting distribution.

Twin Cities filmmaker Mike Wilson’s upcoming “Michael Moore Hates America” details his unsuccessful attempts to interview Moore, the director who won an Oscar two years ago for “Bowling for Columbine.” …

At least three months before its release, the film has catapulted Wilson into national prominence. When an item about “Michael Moore Hates America” appeared on a showbiz Web site earlier this week, Wilson says, he was contacted by nine distributors who want to help book the documentary into theaters.

: Moore’s new trailer is up here.

What’s a witch?

: Parents should be slapped for taking young, young children to Harry Potter. In front of us just now was a young boy, 4ish, who had no idea what was happening, of course, and also has not yet learned his inside voice. He’s asking confused questions every few minutes. As young Harry tries his kid-actor best to show a look of terror, the kid in front of us asked/demanded/shouted, “Why’s he scared?” Well, kid, if you want to read about a thousand pages…

: I thought the movie was better than the last two (and I didn’t like the last two much): more plotting, more characterization, more maturity, less and-then-and-then-and-then narrative.

But my son liked the last one better. And my son’s the one who’s supposed to like it.

This picture will destroy the plastic-surgery industry

: One look is all it takes.