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Take Action: MDU Communications

Regents Park residents: Please send the following email message to [email protected]: I live in Regents Park in Chicago, a building where you provide cable internet access. Our connection is pathetically slow — worse than dial-up, in fact — and has been since your company began providing service on February 1. Please remedy this situation, immediately. […]

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MDU Communications: Low-Speed Internet

If you happen to be considering either getting high-speed internet access from MDU Communications or moving into an apartment where they are the sole provider, like at our apartment, my advice has to be: run away. Our “high-speed” cable connection is slower than a bad dial-up connection. It has performed nominally well on a couple

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Public Service Announcement: Tested Advertising Methods

After watching a truly horrifying self-produced commercial, I felt compelled to recommend again a book which everyone in business should read. It’s a classic, called Tested Advertising Methods, and it basically tells you all you need to know about advertising (what works and what doesn’t, why, etc.). Do yourself or the business geek(s) in your

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Logical Fallacies

They drive me crazy. Ever wonder what the proper term for one is? Try Logical Fallacies.info. Now, you can rage at all your least favorite politicians, talking heads, and other people of questionable intellectual faculties… in latin!

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Republicans Report Much Better Mental Health Than Others

New Gallup poll: Republicans Report Much Better Mental Health Than Others. An intro: Republicans are significantly more likely than Democrats or independents to rate their mental health as excellent, according to data from the last four November Gallup Health and Healthcare polls. Fifty-eight percent of Republicans report having excellent mental health, compared to 43% of

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