Gene Weingarten, in a column in today’s Washington Post magazine, has some fun with gmail. Google’s e-mail service, as all loyal TLF readers no doubt know, “reads” the text of messages to provide supposedly relevant advertising to the recipient. Weingarten finds this sometimes just doesn’t work the way it’s intented. Example: he says a colleague e-mailed him for his thoughts on the historical accuracy of Jesus. The message arrived with an solicitation to “Become Legally Ordained Today.” So Weingarten decides to have some fun with Google, writing some faux emails to himself with, well, interesting results. Worth reading, especially on a Sunday when you shouldn’t be doing any heavy policy wonk reading anyway.
James Gattuso / James Gattuso is a Senior Research Fellow in Regulatory Policy in the Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation. Gattuso also leads the Enterprise and Free Markets Initiative at Heritage, with responsiblity for a range of regulatory and market issues. Prior to joining Heritage, he served as Vice President for Policy at the Competitive Enterprise Institute and also as Vice President for Policy Development with Citizens for a Sound Economy (CSE). From 1990 to 1993, he was Deputy Chief of the Office of Plans and Policy at the Federal Communications Commission. From May 1991 to June 1992, he was detailed from the FCC to the office of Vice President Dan Quayle, where he served as Associate Director of the President's Council on Competitiveness. He lives in Alexandria, Virginia with his wife Dana, 8 year-old son, Peter (whom he relies upon to operate his VCR), and his four year-old daughter Lindsey (who does the DVD player.) He has no known hobbies, but is not nearly as boring as he seems.
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