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Change Your News Habits Now
Updated Aug. 2, 2007
Check out our article about the new book, Consider the Source: A Critical Guide to 100 Prominent News and Information Sites on the Web.
The book is written by two former newspaper reporters who saw a need for a way to rate a news or information site as reliable or not. To be blunt, this is a necessary book for all who get their news online, which basically includes everyone aged 18-35 at least. Many of us feel we’re being lied to, unintentionally misinformed, or given our news in a sloppy way. Well, this book will help you confirm those fears or find sites that really get you the story.
Donna interviewed its authors and we include answers to questions you won’t see anywhere else…
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Add this to your August 1st Calendar!
An event that could change your “Favorites”...
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Check Out Today’s Click This!
Want to know about an Ultimate Guide to Jersey Beaches? Click to read it here..
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GOJ on the Munchmobile
Hey all,
Today, Ali and I will be on an all-too important quest as guests aboard the Star Ledger’s Munchmobile. Together with fellow food bloggers and the paper’s Peter Genovese (author of New Jersey Curiosities), we will be searching for the best pizza in the state.
Never heard of the munchmobile? Then click this. Check that page for updates as we eat our way around the state, and we’ll have some of our own stories here later.
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Click This: More Wind
Today’s New York Times has this article about Michael Mercurio, the “latter-day environmental knight errant” from Long Beach Island who has taken an innovative approach to energy use but has become a target by future-fearing neighbors as a result.
This article includes a photo of Mercurio’s home and the windmill, making it today’s “Click This”. It’s far less obtrusive than even I had pictured it.
Also, the article quotes the lawsuit Mercurio’s neighbors filed which says,
“…in a 14-mile-per-hour wind, the three fiberglass blades produce noise greater than 50 decibels, the rough equivalent of light traffic or a noisy refrigerator.”
Oh no - they might hear a noisy fridge or… *gasp*…. light traffic? I understand people want their peace and quiet but, frankly, their short-sightedness is appalling. Plus, in their carefully-sculpted language, they make you think 50 decibels would have you walking around with your fingers glued inside your eats. So, just to give you a larger reference point, according to this site:
| Alarm Clock (1 Meter), Hair Dryer | 80 decibels |
| Noisy Restaurant, Business Office | 70 decibels |
| Air Conditioning Unit, Conversational Speech | 60 decibels |
| Light Traffic (50 Meter), Average Home | 50 decibels |
| Living Room, Quiet Office | 40 decibels |
| Library, Soft Whisper (5 Meter) | 30 decibels |
Careful, they may ban public conversations next — 60 decibels?!? Do they think we’re living in Newark Airport?!!?
What’s your thought on the topic? Do you want to tell Mercurio where to stick his windmill, or do you want to ask him how to install one in your backyard?
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Click This: unCivil Unions
Look! Creating a “civil union” category for same-sex couples who would like to marry allows companies to treat them as if they’re not married at all and deny them benefits! What a shock!
The United Parcel Service has indeed refused health benefits to a same-sex couple in Toms River, NJ, even though they offer coverage for married gay couples in Massachusetts.
This is exactly the kind of problem that arises when there is no federal law or constitutional amendment that prohibits discrimination based on sexual preference.
Civil unions create a second class citizenry for gays as this piece from Blue Jersey shows - so click it and post your comments.
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Click This: Gay or Jersey
Remember the rise of the metrosexual, circa 2003? It coincided with the popularity of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy – and hetero males all across this great nation started “manscaping,” “zhooshing,” and throwing off everyone’s gaydar.
But by the end of 2006, the straight, rugged man began to rise again as Queer Eye neared cancellation and the Miller Lite Man-Laws started to hit the screen. Waxed eyebrows and hair product were set aside and chest hair and pudgy bellies were once again acceptable…except for here in New Jersey.
There may be no explanation as to why the guidos – a group not known for being gay-friendly – still insist on presenting themselves as if they enjoy spending their nights at Feathers, but if you’d just like to ponder the eternal question while trying to decide if these metrofied men are gay or Jersey, Click This!
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Click This: Dogs In the Pen
So, according to a small blurb in USA Today, a German shepherd that was supposed to be euthanized for attacking a child has instead been reassigned: to work at a prison as a guard dog.
“Ozzy” will not be allowed to interact with prisoners or the public. But obviously, he’ll be in close contact with prison guards since he’ll be patrolling the perimeter at the George W. Hill Correctional Facility.
Does this seem like a good solution to you for a dog that would otherwise be put to sleep? Or does it sound like trouble waiting to happen? Dangerous dogs who have attacked children being given jobs that encourage their aggressiveness — a good trend?
Tell us what you think below.
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ClickThis: Zach Braff Honors New Jersey
GoOutJersey loves Zach Braff and Zach loves New Jersey.
Braff, creator of the movie Garden State and star of the NBC tv show Scrubs, is from South Orange, and did Jerseyites proud Saturday during his opening monologue for the season finale of Saturday Night Live. Take a look:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=zlhbSjE0LKI
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