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I love Digg.  It’s a place where I can get a quick view of what is going on in the world politically, socially, and technologically, all of which is driven by a polling system that determines what is important and what isn’t so I don’t have to.  I also like The Onion…once in a while.  […]

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I read an article today about MIT’s new energy initiative that is giving researchers free reign to develop solutions to the problems dealing with solar energy.  With all of the power problems the world is facing in the next 20 years, these researchers working on alternative power supplies could end up being the same as […]

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Two news stories have emerged this week of people (read: a$$holes) who have done something outrageous to either "make people think" or "provoke discussion".  In the first instance, a pentecostal pastor posted a sign in front of his church linking Obama to bin Laden.  In the second instance, a Yale "performance artist" (which, if not […]

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My guilty pleasure is Top Chef on the Bravo Network.  It’s what you think–a group of 12 or so aspiring chefs who compete in challenges and get eliminated one-by-one.  It’s so much fun watching these skilled chefs cooking food.  What they also do is incorporate the drama of reality TV, as well.  One of the […]

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Of all places, Popular Mechanics published an article about the fact that Social Networking is killing web search. The article was, in my mind, not as “deep” as it could have been but sparked a good blog idea. The article reads as though incorporating Web 2.0 social-based content is more about adding social […]

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You get two posts tonight ’cause I just ran across this article.  I just…I mean…I can’t…can you believe…do you follow…Gah!  I’m not going to make any commentary on this article because anyone that has a lick of sense or knows me at all can write the rest of the post yourself. 
You know what?  I […]

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I’ve been keeping track of the internet phenomenon (is that what we’ll call it?) of the war against Scientology by Anonymous/Project Chanology.  If nothing else, it’s good for a laugh every now and then.  The Anonymous youtube videos are fun to watch.  However, I think that it does introduce some interesting questions about both what […]

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Boy, am I gullible today.  I fell for two April Fools day news stories.  The first one was one by Michael Arrington saying he was suing Facebook for $25 million.  I also fell for a story that Google was teaming with Virgin to go to Mars.  Both of them were completely plausible and based on […]

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