Archive for June, 2009

Sarah Palin Featured in Runners’ World

Filed under Sarah Palin

I admit a subscription to Runner’s World doesn’t seem like a bad idea…and I don’t run.
“Palin Does Runner’s World Photo Shoot”
UPDATE: I suspect Runner’s World will have one of its best traffic days ever with the Palin photoshoot. And being a member of the “respectable” media, I suspect the magazine will never admit it.

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Some Wikipedia Editors Need to Grow Up

Filed under Internet

Wikipedia is a treasure-trove of information. Being such a rich source is due to the many people writing and editing entries. Much credit is due them. However, there are some Wikipedia editors who need to grow up and understand their “information wants to be free” philosophy can have detrimental consequences.
For months while a NY [...]

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Public Updates Could Be Facebook’s Biggest Change

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Once Facebook makes status updates more easily public it will create even more incentive to maximize friend numbers and make one’s profile a more broadcast-like medium. If Facebook doesn’t make it easy to adjust privacy settings the possibility for an intimate collection of friends–Facebook’s foundation–will be diminished. Depending on how the company handles these new [...]

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iTunes on the Mac is Darn Simple

Filed under Tech

As I’m slowly entering the world of the Mac (but not giving up my Windows machines) I’ve already found it surprisingly easy to move my music from iTunes on my Windows desktop to my MacBook. I transfered the files with an external hard drive then simply dragged and dropped the music into iTunes. The Mac [...]

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Starr or Favre?

Filed under Sports

Here’s an all-important question to any die hard Green Bay Packers fan: Who was the better quarter back: Bart Starr or Brett Favre? Starr has the titles while Favre has the numbers and the amazing plays.
For me, I go with Favre. A lot of what made the legendary teams Starr was on was coach Vince [...]

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The Democratization of Cyber-Attacks

While I think the role of Twitter in activating, informing, and energizing the world has been overblown, the democratization of online tools to launch cyber-attacks on governments deserves plenty of interest. Matthew Burton, who took part in distributed denial of service attacks on Iranian web servers, writes,
e can assume that from now on, something like [...]

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No New iPhone 3G S for Me

Filed under Tech, eCampaign

It’s not that I don’t want an iPhone with more memory (up to 32 GB), faster downloads, and the ability to record video. I’d love it. It’s just that I bought my iPhone 3G in January, and according to Apple and AT&T I’d have to fork over up to $499 for an early upgrade. Sorry, [...]

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Sarah Palin Visits New York Town

Auburn, NY got a famous visitor from a few thousand miles away. Gov. Sarah Palin came to Auburn to celebrate it’s famous resident, William Seward. It was he who arranged for Alaska to be bought from Russia.
The Associated Press reports 20,000 came to the New York state town to hear her speak.
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Beer is Better than Water

Filed under Food

I guess people who play in softball leagues knew something the rest of us the rest of us didnt:
Researchers at Granada University in Spain have come across a discovery that will undoubtedly please athletes and sports enthusiasts – a pint of beer post-workout or match is better at rehydrating the human body than water.
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Digg Ads

Filed under eCampaign

Digg announced their attempt at making ads a more useful part of their social news site. Users will be able to digg or bury ads that appear in the news stream. The more diggs an ad gets the less the advertiser pays, but the more buries an ad gets increases the cost to the advertiser. [...]

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H. G. Wells: Novelist, Historian, Authoritarian, Anticapitalist, Eugenicist, and Advisor to Presidents

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Fred Siegel obviously isn’t a fan of H.G. Wells. He declares him the “Godfather of American Liberalism.” I wonder where Woodrow Wilson fits?

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