New Campaign Slogan: "The Clinton With Balls"
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Friday, November 30, 2007
Top 10 Ways Hillary Can Lose the Election
Another 60 Million for Facebook
Facebook has now raised just shy of $340 million in capital. That’s enough to keep them going as a private entity for years, if they choose to do so. Their $15 billion valuation may or may not be real, but they certainly have a lot of cash to fiddle with.
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Another 60 Million for Facebook
Facebook has now raised just shy of $340 million in capital. That’s enough to keep them going as a private entity for years, if they choose to do so. Their $15 billion valuation may or may not be real, but they certainly have a lot of cash to fiddle with.
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Google SEO poisoning: The saga may continue
Earlier today, Sunbelt Software reported that Google had effectively nuked several of the sites hosting Malware from their results. In an update later on, the company reported that another new round of bogus malware sites may be headed toward Google’s search results again. The Cat and Mouse games never end.
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Google Experimental Search Adds Personalized Page Ranking
Google has rolled out a new option in its Labs-based experimental search program which allows you to rank and re-order search results. The new experiment is reportedly showing up for select users only, but the help page says that the goal is to allow you to "influence your search experience by adding, moving, and removing search results."
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Advertisers spend $1 billion on word-of-mouth marketing
Social networking sites like Facebook are natural places for word of mouth advertising campaigns, a fact that explains both Facebook's recent privacy debacle and the interest that advertisers have in Internet social networking sites.
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Thursday, November 29, 2007
10 Mistakes People Make Before Starting a New Business
A humorous, and no holds bar, slant on the mistakes people make before starting a new business
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Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Outbound vs. Inbound Marketing
Great post that explains the difference between outbound and inbound marketing and why inbound marketing is very important to you ! =)
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20 Million DSes Sold in Japan (The Breakdown)
Holy crap, Nintendo has sold a lot of DSes in Japan. How many? A lot. For those of you into frivolous things like numbers, "a lot" comes to the tune of 20 million DS portables according to Famitsu publisher Enterbrain.
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Dozens of Torrent Sites Shutting Down This Week?
Dozens of torrent sites, including well-known platforms like BTMON.com, BTJunkie.org and myBittorrent.com, could be forced to shut down by the end of this week, leaving the file-sharing world in turmoil.
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20 Million DSes Sold in Japan (The Breakdown)
Holy crap, Nintendo has sold a lot of DSes in Japan. How many? A lot. For those of you into frivolous things like numbers, "a lot" comes to the tune of 20 million DS portables according to Famitsu publisher Enterbrain.
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Tuesday, November 27, 2007
WTF: Cookie Monster and Oscar the Grouch are Dangerous?
Last week, IMDb.com broke the news that Cookie Monster and Oscar the Grouch are dangerous role models for kids. This came after Sesame Street executive producer Carol-Lynn Parente justified a parental warning on the DVDs of the first and second seasons.
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Hulk Hogan Linda Bollea actual Divorce Petition Public Copy Download
In her divorce action against famed wrestler Hulk Hogan, Linda Bollea says she wants her share of two properties in Clearwater, which together are worth more than $9 million. And she wants alimony, child support and attorney's fees.These details are contained in the petition she filed last week in Pinellas Circuit Court. See Details...
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Hulk Hogan Linda Bollea actual Divorce Petition Public Copy Download
In her divorce action against famed wrestler Hulk Hogan, Linda Bollea says she wants her share of two properties in Clearwater, which together are worth more than $9 million. And she wants alimony, child support and attorney's fees.These details are contained in the petition she filed last week in Pinellas Circuit Court. See Details...
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Hulk Hogan Linda Bollea actual Divorce Petition Public Copy Download
In her divorce action against famed wrestler Hulk Hogan, Linda Bollea says she wants her share of two properties in Clearwater, which together are worth more than $9 million. And she wants alimony, child support and attorney's fees.These details are contained in the petition she filed last week in Pinellas Circuit Court. See Details...
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48 Laws Of Power ......memorize these!
and then comment with your favorite law!
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WordPress Themes & Web Security
WordPress is growing quickly - both as a hosted platform and also via standalone blog installations. The rapid growth and its open, flexible approach to blog design, means it may become a target for hackers who embed malicious code within themes they distribute.
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WordPress Themes & Web Security
WordPress is growing quickly - both as a hosted platform and also via standalone blog installations. The rapid growth and its open, flexible approach to blog design, means it may become a target for hackers who embed malicious code within themes they distribute.
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WordPress Themes & Web Security
WordPress is growing quickly - both as a hosted platform and also via standalone blog installations. The rapid growth and its open, flexible approach to blog design, means it may become a target for hackers who embed malicious code within themes they distribute.
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WordPress Themes & Web Security
WordPress is growing quickly - both as a hosted platform and also via standalone blog installations. The rapid growth and its open, flexible approach to blog design, means it may become a target for hackers who embed malicious code within themes they distribute.
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Monday, November 26, 2007
7 Steps to Get Your New Site Indexed in 24 hours
Most SEO’s will advise you to buy an existing site/domain (lots of age benefit), but there are times when you need to start from scratch with a fresh domain. It can sometimes take a couple of weeks to get a new domain indexed by Google (even longer to start ranking!).
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TechCrunch40 Presenters’ Traffic Two Months In
As could have been expected, many of the presenters’ websites experienced traffic surges around the time of the conference, only to see their traffic drop back off to pre-conference levels. But some have continued to rise including Docstoc and Wixi.
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Wordpress SEO Strategies
Just some tips on how to make your wordpress blog more search engine friendly..
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Ottawa pays $45.6M to lawyers involved in residential school cases
More than $45 million has recently been paid to residential school lawyers — one of the largest legal bills in Canadian history.
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Lessons From FedEx, Schwab, eBay, On The Customer-Driven Web Economy
It's about communication with your customers..... not just having a killer website.
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Web Offers Myriad Choices For Holiday Cards
The sites range from the free-wheeling MOO.com and Zazzle.com, with thousands of user-generated images for Web savvy shoppers who demand to stand out, to the easy-to-use MyCardMaker.com, beloved by busy middle-aged clientele.
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The Economic Idiocy of Blocking Social Media Traffic
By now most of you have probably seen the site 'Why Digg is Blocked'. For those that haven't come across it, the site is on a mission to convince webmasters and content producers to reject social media traffic. Here's a look at the incredibly flawed logic the site uses to justify its purpose.
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The Economic Idiocy of Blocking Social Media Traffic
By now most of you have probably seen the site 'Why Digg is Blocked'. For those that haven't come across it, the site is on a mission to convince webmasters and content producers to reject social media traffic. Here's a look at the incredibly flawed logic the site uses to justify its purpose.
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Sunday, November 25, 2007
See which states love small businesses,,,,
Attention libertarians! Find out where the cold, dead hand of the state weighs lightest.
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Social Media is "The Godfather" of the Internet
The Godfather showed us a world of beauty and corruption. Alliances were made and broken. Those who were good to the family were rewarded, while anyone who stepped in the way was hit.Social media works in much the same way.
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Social Media is "The Godfather" of the Internet
The Godfather showed us a world of beauty and corruption. Alliances were made and broken. Those who were good to the family were rewarded, while anyone who stepped in the way was hit.Social media works in much the same way.
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Baby Grace mystery leads to arrest of her parents
Search for ID of Girl Whose Body Washed Up in Gulf Leads to Arrest of Houston-Area Pair - Her parents ! They never reported their toddler missing.
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Free Legal Forms
Here is a collection of free legal forms that are available online. They can all be previewed and downloaded for free,
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Say hello to lower phone costs on Net
Internet calling has improved so much and become so inexpensive, it's a good time to try some of the services
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An Alaskan island is losing ground
As global warming erodes their world, the residents of Kivalina battle the elements and now one another.
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See which states love small businesses,,,,
Attention libertarians! Find out where the cold, dead hand of the state weighs lightest.
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As Cyber Monday approaches, Online merchants happy, so far
Sites say they're seeing bigger-than-expected spike in traffic, deals in first days of holiday shopping season.
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Saturday, November 24, 2007
Top 16 Flash Animation Creators
Softwares & tools to help you design stunning intros & text effects
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The Dark Knight IMAX Featurette; 3D Prequel Rumors
IMAX has released a new featurette for their upcoming presentation of the Batman Begins sequel, The Dark Knight. The new feature shows some behind the scenes footage of Nolan and the crew shooting with the IMAX rig, intercut with interview asides. It’s worth watching and features relatively no spoilers.
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Friday, November 23, 2007
7 Geniuses That Never Won the Nobel Prize
Scientists and Intellectuals are supposed to be above petty politics and popularity contests, right? Nope. Here are a few bright bulbs that never got the fancy Nobel gold medallion (or the millions of Swedish krona that go with it). And you thought the Oscars were bad.
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7 Geniuses That Never Won the Nobel Prize
Scientists and Intellectuals are supposed to be above petty politics and popularity contests, right? Nope. Here are a few bright bulbs that never got the fancy Nobel gold medallion (or the millions of Swedish krona that go with it). And you thought the Oscars were bad.
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10 Absolute No-No's For Any Freelance Web Designer
If you're a freelancer, make sure you don't make any of these common mistakes.
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Thursday, November 22, 2007
Facebook Applications Trends Report: Analysis of Top 100 Apps
Looking at these 100 most popular applications a very interesting picture revealed. There are overall 3 categories that these applications can be organised into: Identity formation, Phatic communication and other.
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A Little Thanksgiving Color Love + Inspiration
Thanksgiving is celebrated in November in the U.S. and in October in Canada. Here are some fun facts about the holiday and some color inspiration to help get you in the turkeyloving mood.Have a wonderfully color loving holiday.
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"Kiss Your Ass Goodbye Airline Safety Demonstrations"
YOU Get Told Exactly What The Airlines Thinking Yet Are Too Chicken Shit To Reveal . . . 'How To Kiss Your Ass Goodbye In A Crash' . . . and Assume The Worse!
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What Is Your Social Network Really Worth?
Now we all know that Facebook is worth one gazillion dollars, but how about the people who are always social networking? In other words, how much is your personal network worth? A day before Thanksgiving, this is a great time waster.
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Amazing! Temples secretly carved out below ground.
Nestling in the foothills of the Alps in northern Italy, 30 miles from the ancient city of Turin, lies the valley of Valchiusella. Peppered with medieval villages, the hillside scenery is certainly picturesque. But it is deep underground, buried into the ancient rock, that the region's greatest wonders are concealed.
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Black Friday: Prepare to tackle post-Thanksgiving Day shopping
less than 24 hours .....till it's Black Friday. Tips to help you survive
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[PIC] - George Bush's Thanksgiving Day Pecker
Bush gets gobbled by sex starved turkey. Every thing is not big in Texas.
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[PIC] - George Bush's Thanksgiving Day Pecker
Bush gets gobbled by sex starved turkey. Every thing is not big in Texas.
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Zero-Emission Research Station in Antarctica
If there is one place on our planet that can be said to be relatively free from human impact, that would probably be the Antarctic continent. With this in mind, the government of Belgium commissioned the International Polar Foundation to design and operate a new research station, the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica.
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Zero-Emission Research Station in Antarctica
If there is one place on our planet that can be said to be relatively free from human impact, that would probably be the Antarctic continent. With this in mind, the government of Belgium commissioned the International Polar Foundation to design and operate a new research station, the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica.
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Wednesday, November 21, 2007
100 Notable Books of the Year NY Times List
The Book Review picks outstanding works from the last year. Prerelease! This wasn't to be released until Dec 2nd!
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Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Crash Kills 4 of Football Star Siran Stacy's 5 children & wife
A driver who ran a red light broadsided A van driven by former University of Alabama football star Siran Stacy was struck by a pickup at an intersection and six people were killed, including Stacy's wife and four of his children.Please Digg And Remind Your Loved Ones to Always Stop Wait and Look before going through a Red Light.
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Major Publisher Caught Plagarizing Wikipedia
A book from a major publisher includes a plagiarized Wikipedia article. How free is free content, anyway?
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How to Crush Your Losing Streak
Is bad luck pig-piling on top of you? Maybe you've been losing at the blackjack table all night. Maybe you've been having a bad week at work. Heck, maybe you've been in a rut for a year or two lamenting some problem. How do you break that losing streak? Is it even possible?
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"Mick Jagger Says Piano Man Won't Tour With Us - I Guess We're Too Showy!"
That was 1973. What Do Mick Jagger, Eric Clapton, Janis Joplin, Jim Hendrix, B.B. King, Carlos Santana, Chuck Berry, & scores of other music legends have in common? They got hooked on PIANO MANIA style of Clay Cotton. Tragically,due to Multiple Sclerosis His hands won't do it anymore. Listen and You'll be shaking it like a Polaroid picture!
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eBay promotes Unlocked iPhones Outside iPhone Territories
Since the first time Apple’s iPhone was unlocked there has been a thriving market internationally for unlocked iPhones. The practice itself is legal in many countries, but it’s a practice Apple will not be pleased about, and may well try to argue is a breach of their terms and conditions in some way or another.
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Monday, November 19, 2007
Is Copywriting Important to Bloggers?
I'll save you the trouble of reading the entire article right now, and just answer the question: yes. Absolutely, without a doubt, copywriting is extremely important to bloggers.
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2007 Cool Tools Gift Guide from Network World
Holiday Gift Giving Techy Guide =) What do you want Santa to bring you?
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Effective Networking 101
Great Tips on How to Effectively use the power of social media
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Facebook Offers $85 Million To Acquire Chinese Social Networking Site Zhanz
Facebook is said to have offered $85 million to acquire Zhanzuo.com, a Chinese social networking site with seven million users.
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Aztecs invented chocolate by mistake while trying to make beer
Scientists believe Aztecs were trying to make a beer-like drink when they created chocolate more than 3,000 years ago
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Copywriting: Can you learn this valuable skill?
Copywriting is often looked at as an art. Some folks think it's something that you either have or don’t have. Wouldn’t it be great if you could just write the great headlines and articles with little or no effort?
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Croc Shoes and Thrilla Copywriting
Now what would Croc shoes have to do with Copywriting I hear you ask. Well, actually nothing, or not these ones at least. I heard on the grapevine that Trevor “Toe Cracker” Crook, a fellow Aussie, Pay it Forward entrepreneur and the master of copywriting himself, is hosting a free webinar for TaggZilla
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Saturday, November 17, 2007
How Smart are Chimps? Editor's Choice is... (PIC)
A Freudian slip of the keyboard by slate.com?
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Friday, November 16, 2007
68 Helpful Tools for SEO
A very comprehensive list of some of the very best free resources and tools to help anyone maximize SEO potential for their site.
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Consumers Worry How Mortgage Challenges Will Impact Auto Loans
As the challenges in the subprime mortgage market continue to play out, a new survey indicates that Americans shopping for car loans and other forms of credit are beginning to get nervous
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Brand Exploration: At the Core
A Brand is the Personification of a Product, Service or Organization. It Is Also The Source of a Relationship with Customers. Like a Person, It Must Have Human Qualities and Possess a Soul.
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Brand Exploration: At the Core
A Brand is the Personification of a Product, Service or Organization. It Is Also The Source of a Relationship with Customers. Like a Person, It Must Have Human Qualities and Possess a Soul.
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What is Docstoc?
According to this interview Docstoc is the Youtube for professional documents.
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Details and Demos: Ten New Things in Apple's Safari WebKit 3
Apple’s site can tell you a lot about the new end-user features of Safari 3. But a lot of the goodness is on the inside, in the WebKit engine that powers Safari. Here’s a list of ten of the most exciting engine enhancements since the Safari 2 version of WebKit, with lots of details and demos.
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50 Services to Help You Take Notes
I am constantly writing notes. Whether it be for my blog, work, meeting, new ideas, or just basic notes, I am always jotting something down. So I started thinking about all the services I’ve used for taking notes and thought it would be a good idea to share them with you and while I’m at it, to make a list of any others that I find.
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SimCity Societies: Will Gamers Go Green?
I was intrigued when I received an invitation to an “Exclusive SimCity Societies low carbon power online blogger event.” Held by gaming company Electronic Arts and their first ever corporate partner on a game, BP (yes, BP), bloggers had the opportunity to take a sneak peak at the game.
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Mozilla Will Leave 80% of Bugs 'Unfixed' in Firefox 3.0
"We'll be doing pretty much the same thing for Beta 3, which means that something like 80% of the [approximately] 700 bugs currently marked as blockers will not be fixed for Firefox 3," the meeting notes continued.
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A Compendium of 150 Monty Python Sketches
One Man’s Institute for the Exceptional Documentation of Silly Time Wasting Videos has compiled a giant assortment of the Best of Monty Python clips.
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Learn to Blog by Watching Prison Break
Bloggers, we're not saying you need to tattoo your blog posts to your chest but you could definitely learn something from Michael Scofield
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The World's Ten Most Valuable Diamonds
This week Georges Marciano, the founder of Guess clothing, spent just over sixteen million dollars (£7,900,000) on a single diamond at a Sotheby’s auction in Geneva. The price fell just short of a new world record.
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Thursday, November 15, 2007
VOTE For the TOP College Football Coach of ALL TIME !!! ESPN POLL
And I'm hoping you vote for Paul Bear Bryant !! ROLL TIDE ! =) Even if you don't like Alabama football you have to agree his record his impressive!
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Read it Later: a cool FireFox extension to help with bookmarking and Digg
This useful FireFox extension allows you to save pages of interest to read later. (Yes! A whole page). Also, you can quickly save links to del.icio.us and FireFox bookmarks or share them on Digg, reddit, stumbleupon and many, many more!
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Socially Enabled Legal Documents from Public Resource.org
Thanks to the fine folks at Public.Resource.Org and Fastcase, 1.8 million pages of federal case law are now freely available under a Creative Commons license. This includes all Supreme Court decisions since 1754, and all Appeals Court decisions from 1950 to present.
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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Meet the PayPal mafia
An inside look at the hyperintelligent, superconnected pack of serial entrepreneurs who left the payment service and are turning Silicon Valley upside down. Fortune's Jeffrey O'Brien reports.
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Yahoo! Says the Future Will be Modeled on Facebook
The future of both email and start pages is in social networking, according to Yahoo, but what's really at issue here are two concepts that Yahoo execs didn't name explicitly, but which will be familiar to most of the readers here. RSS and Attention Data.
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TOP 10 Signs Your Family is Nuts
Funny Video How many apply to your own family???
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Do a Favor, Trade A Favor or Get a Favor New Launch
funny requests posted - do a favor, trade a favor, get a favor Newly Launched Site
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Biggest Digital Threats in 2008
Social networks, Internet calling systems, and smart phones—all could be more vulnerable to hackers in the coming.
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Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Picture: ...All the Ribbons in the World Won't Help
Slapping a magnet on your gas-guzzling SUV in the middle of a war for oil just makes you look like a GIANT PRICK.
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10 Things to Stop Saying Right Now
Note: I am guilty of saying 30% of these myself. I need to stop, too.
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10 Things to Stop Saying Right Now
Note: I am guilty of saying 30% of these myself. I need to stop, too.
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Yell if Microsoft’s Live.com Spammed You Too
The bot analysis continues, and this post presents evidence indicating that Microsoft is spamming websites. A big claim, I know, but I can't find a better explanation. You'll have to decide.
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25 Headline Formulas That Have Plagued and Blessed Web 2.0
This post is a tour of the key web headline formulas being used today. Some will inspire you, others will make you cringe. All of them are sourced from real examples.
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Monday, November 12, 2007
Is Microsoft Building a Flickr Competitor?
You gotta love job postings. Depending on the description provided, you can often times determine some underlying plans for a company. And the only companies we care about in this regard would be the ones big enough to lend some interesting job postings and descriptions. In this case, WebProNews was tipped off to a posting from Microsoft, and ...
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7 Simple Tips That Will Turn You Into a Powerful Leader
No this is not about becoming a top Digger, but yes this is applicable. There are many books on leadership. They can have lots of great examples and in-depth explanations, but sometimes you just need something simple to help you focus on the essentials. This article intends to do just that.
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When P T Barnum Took Manhattan
Today New Yorkers may think of Phineas Taylor Barnum only when the circus comes to town. But for almost 60 years he was one of the most celebrated figures in the city.
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Install Firefox add-ons for all Users
Are you the computer guy in your family ? Firefox offers a way to install add-ons globally which means that every user on that computer is automatically using them. Besides the obvious benefits of added security, privacy and functionality it also means that those add-ons cannot be uninstalled except by system administrators.
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UT researcher working on life-saving drugs for next flu pandemic
A Univ of Texas scientist has $5 million in fed money & a mission: to save lives during the next influenza pandemic. Robert Krug, a UT professor & chairman of molecular genetics & biology, rcvd 1 of 9 federal grants to develop drugs that serve as a 1st line of defense against deadly flu strains like the 1918 pandemic that killed 50 million people
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5 Ways To Enhance Your Digg Profile
If you've recently joined Digg, your profile may still be a little on the ordinary side. Here are 5 ways to enhance things which will not only make your profile look better, but attract a lot more traffic to your favorite stories.
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A Short History of Women Inventors and Scientists
Below we’ve assembled some of our favorite daring women inventors, scientists, and doctors - from Nobel Prize winners to crafters of practical devices, from women who revolutionized the way diapers were changed to women whose revolutionary ideas changed the world.
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The 5 Most Unintentionally Hilarious Comic Strips
Sometimes a form of entertainment can become so bad that it transcends badness and becomes something new and wonderful. The world of newspaper comic strips is a gold mine for this, where strips that were built on a shaky premise to begin with run for decades after the writers and artists have long gone insane.
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myToDoListPHP updated: v 0.3
A remarkable improvement in myToDoListPHP passed to the version v.0.3. The application include now: users, new ajax function and new search engine that find user and task wile you type. The project is open source e free to download and to use!
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PR is part of the product design: Ford's social media news release
(Credit: Ford)I know this blog is about product design and innovation but let's talk about PR for a minute. Why? Because the way you talk about your product should be part of your design process. The product design ought to incorporate the product story you want to tell.
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50 Ways to Become the Best Designer Ever!!!
This is a complete list for people who is patient to read this. Be the best is not easy.
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Smashing Magazine - 40+ Excellent Freefonts For Professional Design
The importance of typography in design can’t be overestimated. The accuracy, precision and balance of geometric forms can give letters the elegance and sharpness they deserve and help to convey the message in a more convenient way.
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Find Color Synonyms with the HP Color Thesaurus
HP has been doing some very cool things around color lately. One thing I recently stumbled onto is their Color Thesaurus. You enter in a color name and it gives you 4 similar named colors and 4 opposite colors. I used the tool to create the basic color wheel info below, but dive in and find out more.
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The Absolutely Scariest Colors Imaginable
According to the National Institute of Mental Health, phobias and irrational fears affect approximately 10% of adults. Some of those phobias relate to colors being the most terrifying thing imaginable… for those poor people, this color loving website would probably be hell-incarnate.
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The Last Great Buried Treasure Mystery: The Money Pit at Oak Island
he romance of searching for pirate treasure has been celebrated in dozens of stories since Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island. But is there really any buried treasure to be found? Maybe so … on Oak Island.
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The Top 30 Dreameaver Shortcuts that Save You Time
Dreamweaver is a very powerful webpage creator. Using Dreamweaver can help you save time when designing a website.
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The Stamp That Almost Started a War (and Ten other Bizarre Stamps)
The following 11 stamp stories are so fascinating, they’re guaranteed to have you glued to your seats.
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Executive Customer Service: Email Addresses For 19 Dell Executives
Computer on fire? Video card ruined? Don't let Dell's Indian CSRs tell you it's your fault. When escalating fails and all normal channels of recourse are exhausted, send an email to Dell's top executives. Here are 19 email addresses for Dell executives that you can use to launch the mighty and feared Executive Email Carpet Bomb.
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4 Free Tools for a Fool-Proof Wordpress Backup
Keeping an up-to-date blog backup copy, is one of those things that every one would like to do but are either too lazy to actually do it or have no clear idea of how it can be done. I have read at least a dozen of articles about it, but have never really found anything that would provide an all in one guide. So, I decided to share my method...
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National study backs OPEN adoption records
For years, it's been one of the most hotly debated, emotional issues in adoption circles: Should adult adoptees have the right to their original birth records? A study released by Boston-based adoption research institute says open records for adoption do not result in increased abortion rates, decreased adoptions or fractured adoptive families
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Parody: Zoran Zoarn World's Fastest Hypnotist
Comedian Ben Glieb does an infomercial as the world fastest (and lamest) hypnotist Zoran Zoran.
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10 Programming Languages You Should Learn Right Now
"Knowing a handful of programming languages is seen by many as a harbor in a job market storm, solid skills that will be marketable as long as the languages are."
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6 Digitial Music Pioneers That Embraced The Future
High-profile recording artists have embraced the Internet as a creative and promotional tool since the mid-1990s and more recently have utilised the net as a medium for selling and distributing music independently. Listed below are just a handful of those pioneers.
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The Absolutely Scariest Colors Imaginable
According to the National Institute of Mental Health, phobias and irrational fears affect approximately 10% of adults. Some of those phobias relate to colors being the most terrifying thing imaginable… for those poor people, this color loving website would probably be hell-incarnate.
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Sunday, November 11, 2007
Will Success, or All That Money From Google, Spoil Firefox?
Mozilla has come to resemble a Silicon Valley start-up more than a scrappy collaborative underdog.
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Baby Condom Video - Oddly Hilarious
Simple and funny. How not to use condoms. Cute Babies.
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Saturday, November 10, 2007
Guerilla for Good: 3 Subversive Art Projects Designed to Improve the Planet
When most people think of guerilla art they think of street graffiti. Sure, graffiti can be impressively creative or can even have a social or political message. However, some of the most interesting urban art installations call more directly for social change. Here are 3 examples of socially-motivated projects designed to make a difference.
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Pictures: Cribs of the '08 Presidential Candidates
A graphical look at some of the lavish houses that the '08 presidential candidates call home. Included: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Mitt Romney, and John Edwards.
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Nissan Developing Color Changing Paint
If Nissan has anything to say about it, soon all soccer moms will be James Bonds, changing the color of their car with the flip of a switch. That's because Nissan is developing a paramagnetic iron oxide paint polymer.
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3 Excellent Sites to Get Free Document Templates
Once in a while we all need some kind of document, like a business plan presentation, rental contract, non-disclosure agreement, and other legal forms. Googling such documents may ultimately get you what you need, but it’s both time consuming and frustrating. Here are 3 great free resources that can provide you with any professional document.
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British Girl died slow painful death after refusing extreme sex Judge Says
Meredith suffered 'slow, painful death after refusing to take part in extreme sexual experiences' - accused are her American roomate, her boyfriend and a local pub owner who was attracted to the British Girl.
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Friday, November 9, 2007
Picture: AOTS Builds "World's Largest Arcade Console"
The folks at G4 networks Attack of the Show are vying for a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records tonight with a 13 foot arcade console that they believe is the world's biggest. Is that big enough to set a world record?
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35 MPG by 2020: Making Innovation a Reality
A coalition of auto workers, environmentalists and car dealers have banded together to rebuff the automobile lobby's position that a 35 mpg vehicle fleet is "impossible."
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10 Ways to Get Happy ! Do This Today!
Everyone has their Moments .... transform your mood today! 10 Steps you can Apply to your life today!
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What you can learn from the Presidential Primaries
This year, the presidential candidates in the US are going to spend a fortune (or perhaps two or three fortunes) marketing themselves in the primaries. Any product or service that is being launched has to deal with its own 'primary.' Here are a few universal lessons any marketer can take away:
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10 Simple, Sure-fire Ways to Make Today Your Best Day Ever
Do you have to follow these things step-by-step? Not at all. Find your own methods, or pick and choose a few of these. Main thing, though: take steps to make today your best day ever.
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Thursday, November 8, 2007
Twin born second is the older of the two; click here to solve the puzzle
A North Carolina woman gave birth to twins: Peter emerged first, then came Allison. But it's Allison who is the older of the two.
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Don’t get taken by this adorable scam of Puppy Love
The unstoppable e-mail grift now plays on our insatiable puppy love - Caution 419 Scam
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Ann Curry Lands At the South Pole NBC New Team
At 6:56 a.m. ET, just four minutes before we went on the air, TODAY producer Matt Carluccio called the control room to let us know that Ann and the crew had successfully landed at the South Pole. Moments after we went on the air, Ann spoke to Matt, Meredith and Al on the phone, getting a standing ovation from the studio.
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The Red Eyed Tree Frog - Agalychnis callidryas
Red Eyed Treefrogs have bright red eyes and are a really bright color of green with blue and yellow stripped sides. They also have funny looking orange toes. These are definitely one of the more beautiful species of frogs! (Very photogenic too!)
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Online Advertising Growing Exponentially: How Much Is Too Much?
US online advertising is projected to double from $21.4 billion in 2007 to $42 billion in 2011, representing about 13% of the total ad-spend.
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Wednesday, November 7, 2007
The Best Designed Website in the World [ / sarcasm ]
Simply speechless on this one.
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7-Part, Big, Juicy Guide to Twitter
Caroline Middlebrook has put together a comprehensive guide on how to use Twitter, and in some cases more importantly, how not to use it. A worthy read for any fan of micro-blogging.
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Vignette CMS just got itself upgraded!
For those of you interested in the world of Content Management solutions, this one is for you… It seems that Vignette has recently upgraded their CMS, the most important of this is the new jazzy Ajax interface.
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Angelina Freaks Out Seeing Herself Naked, Calls Home to Explain to Brad
The millions upon millions of men (and women) who wouldn’t mind seeing Angelina Jolie’s body in its barest form are in for a bonus -- they can now get even closer to the "Beowulf" beauty thanks to the fact that her exposed flesh is all three-dimensional. "I got a little shy -- I really wasn’t expecting it to be as ... read more here
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First Web 2.0 now How a Startup Inspired HP's PRINT 2.0 Strategy
Big computing company HP was promoting a strange concept at the Web 2.0 Summit in October: Print 2.0. At first I couldn't figure out what this meant. Web-based printers? Some new form of inkless paper? Curious to know more... check this out!
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Google's "Nofollow" Rule
The “nofollow” tag, when added to a link, prevents Google from counting the link as such a “recommendation”, thus not providing any search ranking benefits to the site being linked to.
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8 Reasons to Learn a Non-English Language
Based on the opinions of experts, sociologists, linguists, English and non-English-speakers, the testimonials and experiences of travelers, students, teachers and professionals, we have selected some of the best arguments in favor of learning a non-English, foreign language.
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9 Issues You Did Not Know About The Human Brain
From the page: "Music too boosts child's speech and social behavior abilities. Children receiving supplementary music classes speak better and learned reading faster than other kids. Those playing ins....
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Facebook unveils Ad Strategy!
The company's approach to advertising boils down to an attempt at conversational marketing, where users become product promoters and are encouraged to spread the word about things they buy and use among their group of friends and contacts. "Facebook Ads represent a completely new way of advertising online,"
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Tuesday, November 6, 2007
The Best Ways To Pimp Out Your Flickr
Here's a look at APIs developed by Flickr friendly programmers, that help you show off your Flickr photos exactly the way you want.
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A Giant Step Toward Infinitesimal Machinery
What are the ultimate limits to miniaturization? How small can machinery--with internal workings that move, turn, and vibrate--be produced? What is the smallest scale on which computers can be built?
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Protect Your Ideas with a Confidentiality Agreement - NDA
Don't let your business ideas go to waste. Use a professional agreement to protect your intellectual property.
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The True Cost of Free Things
Remember that there is no such thing as a free lunch. Or a free anything for that matter. Here's a look at the true cost of 'free'.
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The 20 Most Expensive Celebrity Weddings
Want to see more money spent in one day than you will make in the next 5-7 years? Have a look at these unnecessarily expensive celebrity weddings.
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“Free Counted Cross Stitch Patterns, Charts and Graphs Are The Way To Go”
Cross Stitch is more than a craft, it's a craze for people all over the world who want to cross stitch just about any pattern you could imagine - from Winnie the Pooh to Scooby Doo and everything else in between. To cut the hassle of finding Free Cross Stitch Patterns and Graphs get the FREE Report being offered. It will save you serious time.
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Hilarious: Illustrated Sexual Harassment Suit Against Bill O'Reilly
Here's a look at our copy of a sexual harassment lawsuit against Bill O'Reilly, illustrated for your pleasure.
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Five Ways Link Builders Hurt Themselves
Perspective advice from Eric ward on Link building. The five ways link builders hurt themselves.
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OpenSocial Hacked Again
The same person who hacked the RockYou OpenSocial application on Plaxo just 45 minutes after it was publicly released is at it again.This time, he claims to have easily accessed the iLike application on Ning. Specifically, he says he can add and remove songs on users’ playlists. And more damaging, he can also access a user’s friends list in the c
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Hilarious: Illustrated Sexual Harassment Suit Against Bill O'Reilly
Here's a look at our copy of a sexual harassment lawsuit against Bill O'Reilly, illustrated for your pleasure.
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Dell to Buy Nashua's EqualLogic $1.4 Billion-Largest Cash Payout by VC Firm
Dell to Buy Nashua’s EqualLogic for $1.4 Billion—History’s Largest Cash Payout for a Venture-Backed FirmNashua, NH-based EqualLogic, a fast-growing maker of network storage devices that was, until today, on the verge of going public, will instead be acquired by Dell Computer (NASDAQ: DELL) for an eyebrow-raising $1.4 billion in
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Monday, November 5, 2007
Photos: Presidential Candidates Through The Years
Here's a look at the 2008 presidential candidates through the years, before the fame and the spotlight.
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Photos: Presidential Candidates Through The Years
Here's a look at the 2008 presidential candidates through the years, before the fame and the spotlight.
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WP Super Cache - The Ultimate WordPress Caching Plugin
Tired of clicking a link off the Digg front page only to find a crashed or mortally lagged site on the other side? Finally, Donncha (one of the main WordPress developers) has solved the problem once and for all with a plugin that blows WP-Cache away.
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Pictures: Whoever Thought Science Could Be This Colorful, Beautiful
The Micropolitan Museum exhibits an unworldly spectrum visible only through the lens of a microscope. Painter Wim van Egmond photographs spectacular microscopic masterpieces with ethereal color palettes.
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The 12 Awesomest Games of 2010
2010 should be an awesome year. At least for those of us outside the Bird Flu Plague Zone. And for those of us not fighting in the wars against Iran, North Korea, Syria, China, Iraq and Afghanistan. For us, it'll all be about the games...
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Beware! T-Mobile Owns the Color Magenta
I’m not sure I fully understand… should that have been written the color “Magenta™”? The absurdity is probably confusing to you as well. The total hue domination by T-Mobile and its bigger Deutsche Telekom (DT) has been going on for several years, but has gained more attention lately.
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Pictures: Lord of the Rings Origami
Origami artist Eric Joisel created these Lord of the Rings sculptures of the Three Hunters (Gimli the Dwarf, Aragorn, and Legolas the Elf) out of single uncut pieces of papers.
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Apple’s Top 5 Current Design Travesties
Sure we all love Apple, but it doesn’t mean we have to turn a blind eye when they occasionally make the odd design decision. Below is our list of the top 5 most glaringly bad design decisions the company has recently (and is still currently) incorporating into its hardware. Feel free to add your own favorites in the comments.
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Sunday, November 4, 2007
Check out what's going on tomorrow on Capitol Hill - Energy 2007
Check out http://smnr.us/lobbyday/ -- there's some pretty cool stuff that is happening on the Hill this weekend through Monday in support of Energy Bill 2007, http://www.energybill2007.org,
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Mashable Awards 2007 - Fellow Bloggers, Sponsors and Partners Needed
They are having the social Networking awards! Here's the info!
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Saturday, November 3, 2007
AOL Purchases Ad Company Quigo For $300 Million (Adsonar and FeedPoint)
The purchase will give AOL two new tools in their arsenal in this increasing advertising war. AdSonar, much like Google’s AdSense, will give them a foothold in the target ad arena, and FeedPoint which is a search engine tool. ESPN recently Choose Quigo so could Quiqo be the next GOOGLE?
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How to make sexy buttons with CSS
This tutorial will teach you how to create pretty looking textual buttons (with alternate pressed state) using CSS. Dynamic buttons save you heaps of time otherwise spent creating graphics and will basically make you a happier person at the end of the day.
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Learn to professionally slice in CSS with this 9 page full-featured guide!
A concise, 9 page full-featured guide for anybody who is interested in becoming a CSS web designer, CSS Slicing Guide teaches you how to take a layout straight out of Photoshop, or infact any graphics program, and turn it into fully standards compliant XHTML and CSS with superfast loadtimes. Check it out!
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Stick to the Golden Rules of Investing!
Stick to the rules. Believe it or not this is the hardest rule. The trader will keep breaking this one time and time again. As I have mentioned many times, every time that I have strayed away from my trading plan I have always lost money. Diversify. Don’t have all your eggs in one basket. Buy from a couple of areas, not just the one sector.
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5 Common Mistakes Made When Hiring a Web Designer
Finding and choosing the right web designer can be a confusing and frustrating process for many people. There are so many options and different factors to consider. When you are in the situation, here are 5 common mistakes that you’ll want to avoid.
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52 Websites to Promote Your Next Event
You got the venue. You got the special guest speaker. You arranged all the food and beverage. So you are all ready for your next event? Not exactly… You need people! You need audience! All your friends promise you they will be there, but you want more. You want new faces and you have no idea how to get the words out. Here are 52 websites for you...
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What are Facebook friends for?
WashingtoN - Although only in their adolescence, social networking sites such as MySpace.com and Facebook.com, which allow users to create profiles complete with pictures, commentary, music, and links to others, have become a major cultural presence. They offer users an easy way to keep track of old friends, find new ones, and advertise their popul
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OpenSocial - What a Difference a Day Makes Google Beats Facebook
Facebook vs Google Open Social
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10 Amazing Sports Ads That Demand Attention
Sports are a major part of today's society and as you will see, advertising plays a big role in this, with creative ads everywhere from billboards to bags and parking garages. Here are 10 Amazing Sports Ads from recent advertising campaigns.
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Cracking The Code : Getting Your Stories Popular At Digg
Some BASIC steps you should follow to get to the Front .
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Docstoc.com : Free Documents: Free Legal Documents, Free Essays
Docstoc.com is a free online document exchange database and social networking site that allows users to store, search, and share virtually any type of document. Similar in concept to Flickr.com (for photos) and YouTube.com (for videos) Docstoc.com will be the online community for sharing all types of documents (word, excel, ppt, pdf, etc.) .
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Friday, November 2, 2007
Pictures: 14 More De-Motivational Posters
Inspirational messages are overrated. Here are 14 more de-motivational posters that will hopefully make the work day pass just a little bit quicker.
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OpenSocial - What a Difference a Day Makes Google Beats Facebook
Facebook vs Google Open Social
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Facebook To IPO Next Year (It'll Have To)
I see that Facebook "years away," said founder Mark Zuckerberg last week. I also see Facebook will have more than 700 employees next year, in 2008. So, like Google and Microsoft, it'll be forced to IPO against its will sometime next year.
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Thursday, November 1, 2007
Ten Questions to Consider When Starting a New Business
The following questions should be considered when starting a new business; they also make up the executive summary of a business plan.
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Matt Cutts Goes Catty for Halloween Hot or Not PIC???? Digital Point Forum
Hot or Not? Former Google Employee - Look at this fun pic!
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