Category: News & Commentary
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Scientists As Rock Stars
Time magazine recently interviewed Morgan Spurlock, the writer and director of Super Size Me and the creator and star of 30 Days. He talks about his new season of 30…
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It Was 20 Years Ago Today
Floyd Landis, Chattanooga Originally uploaded by Frank Steele. No, not Sergeant Pepper taught the band to play, and maybe not exactly to the day, but 20 years ago Greg Lemond…
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Jon Udell Does Lawnmowers
This video is interesting in a couple of ways. First, it points to a new(-ish) video service called Blip.tv which, like YouTube, serves up citizen-created video and then allows you…
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Al Gore Pimping Global Warming
OK, now I’ve done it. Two political posts in a row. Actually, this is just funny and it playfully promotes Gore’s new film, An Inconvenient Truth. I actually prefer this…
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No, This IS Funny
In this space, I try very hard not to be blatantly political. In Friday’s Washington Post, columnist Richard Morin’s Unconventional Wisdom claims that research shows that The Daily Show is…
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Now Hear This – Or Not
I had glimpsed this story on a couple of sites last week but never followed the link. It seems kids are using a high frequency ringtone to signal incoming text…
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On Making Me Feel Valuable
Photo by Fastfoodweblog.nl Sometimes it’s a string of things that I see posted on the web over time that coalesces into a darn good feeling. The first is a quote…
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Uh Oh Flickr, Here Comes SnagIt!
No sooner did Alan Levine have a bone to pick with Flickr, TechSmith’s SnagIt! comes along and (as far as I can see innocently) makes available a plugin to upload…
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Those Cocky Apple Folks
From Viruses to Networking, Apple is back promoting the differences between PCs and Macs. Starring “The Daily Show” correspondent John Hodgman, and Justin Long (“Warren” from NBC’s “Ed”), Apple has…
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Making the Switch to Digital
SearsWishbook.1983EC.P408 Originally uploaded by Sears Wishbook. Thanks to Digg I found this bit o’ history at the Flickr website. It looks to me like the word awesome was coming into…
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