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Random Pixels and Loose Talk from Miami Beach

• President Obama is coming for your guns. No, really, this time he's serious!

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  The other day Fox News hottie Anna Kooiman interviewed a New Jersey gun shop owner who attributed a recent spike in gun sales to Hurricane Sandy and Barack Obama's re-election. (The best part of Kooiman's report is the sound of gunfire obliterating every other word of her stand up. Personally, [...]
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• Cat does a TV weather report walk-on

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  The folks at Univision's West Miami-Dade headquarters have always looked out for the cats that live in the network's parking lot.  (My first cat was given to me by a Univision receptionist.) And, as they explain on their YouTube page, "sometimes [the cats] make it into the studio." [...]
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• NPR's 'All Things Considered' reports on Miami Herald building preservation controversy

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  In case you missed it, here's a report by NPR's Greg Allen on the "battle lines" being drawn to save the 50 year-old Miami Herald building. [...]
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• The Herald and the Marlins Ballpark, a response‏ from the Miami Herald's Andres Viglucci

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  What follows is an email I received tonight - which I'm posting unedited - from Miami Herald staff writer Andres Viglucci....which I'm assuming he sent in response to posts on my blog like this and this. Viglucci also sent the mail to two other Miami bloggers. Full disclosure: I've known Andres for' [...]
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• Facebook Law for Idiots

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  I hope none of you fell for that stupid Facebook hoax that was making the rounds yesterday. But, if you did, here are some helpful tips to help you avoid making a fool of yourself in front of the entire world next time around. CollegeHumor's Favorite Funny Videos ' [...]
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• And now it's time for another installment of....

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  To: Aminda "Mindy" Marques, Executive Editor, Miami Herald Rick Hirsch, Managing Editor, Miami Herald From: Bill, Random Pixels Hi guys! Hope you all had a restful and enjoyable Thanksgiving. The reason I'm writing is to ask about Sunday's page one story on the hunt for the "Man-eating Croc." Did you guys hire a headline writer [...]
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• EXPOSED: Miami Herald's lame attempt at tabloid headline writing

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  Did you see the front page of today's Miami Herald? Click to enlarge.(Image via The Newseum) That's right! We're all in danger of being eaten by Man-eating Nile crocodiles! And there's not a damn thing you can do about it. The Herald's Curtis Morgan reports that South Florida wildlife biologist Joe Wasilewski recently' [...]
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• Florida's Vanishing Springs

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  Craig Pittman covers Florida's environment for the Tampa Bay Times. On his Facebook page he offers up this tongue-in-cheek description of what he does for a living: "Any job where you get paid to go out and ride around in a boat every now and then is a good job'" [...]
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• It's time Miami had a street named after Sam Cooke

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  We've all seen the signs on Miami-Dade county's streets. They're everywhere. I'm talking about the South Florida streets and avenues that, in addition to having a numerical designation, are also named after a person. To bureaucrats and politicians they're known as "street co-designations." There are the obvious ones: a street and' [...]
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• A Thanksgiving Story

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  University of Alabama Professor of Writing Rick Bragg reads his latest article from Southern Living magazine. Rick Bragg's Southern Journal Via On Point ' [...]
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