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Tuesday, 11 January 2011

A Reporter Explains How He Became A Writer (Or …“His Visit With The President Of The United States”)

http://www.businessinsider.com/how-i-became-a-writer-or--my-visit-with-the-president-of-the-united-states-2011-1

Time is, was and will be. Without time we would not be. What a load it has to carry! Time seems eternal! You might even ask whether cycles in time exist? If so read Roger Penrose's book on new attitudes in physics towards possible "Cycles in Time".

The Five Short-Term Benefits Of Rising Foreclosures

http://www.businessinsider.com/5-short-term-benefits-of-rising-foreclosures-2011-1

Monday, 10 January 2011

Tablets, Compared - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/technology/personaltech/2010-tablet-computer-comparison.html?ex=1309928400&en=7066498e67d8d371&ei=5087&WT.mc_id=TE-D-I-NYT-MOD-MOD-M183-ROS-0111-HDR&WT.mc_ev=click

Online Airfare Battle Heats Up as Carriers Remove Listings - NYTimes.com

You would never have guessed that all this goes on behind the scenes! How does one know which site to choose?

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/08/travel/08air.html?src=me&ref=general

Sunday, 9 January 2011

NYTimes: Tax Cuts From ’70s Confront Brown Again in California

From The New York Times:

Tax Cuts From '70s Confront Brown Again in California

Aides say Gov. Jerry Brown will propose shifting back to local governments many programs the state took over in the 1970s.

http://nyti.ms/i0925P

Factsheet -- Special Drawing Rights (SDRs)

http://www.imf.org/external/np/exr/facts/sdr.htm

Currency Amounts in New Special Drawing Rights (SDR) Basket

http://www.imf.org/external/np/tre/sdr/sdrbasket.htm

Xbox-PlayStation Killer Is Going Way of Netflix: Tech by Rich Jaroslovsky - Bloomberg

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-01-06/xbox-playstation-killer-is-going-way-of-netflix-tech-by-rich-jaroslovsky.html

Yellen Says Asset-Buying Adds 3 Million Private Jobs - Bloomberg

So what.is happening ton the US economy?

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-01-08/yellen-says-fed-s-asset-purchases-to-create-3-million-private-jobs-by-2012.html

The Concord Review - Will's Blog

It's about high school students writing and publishing!

http://theconcordreview.blogspot.com/

How A Massachusetts Court May Have Set Off Another Housing And Banking Catastrophe

In America, hidden in the the depth of foreclosure paperwork may lurk a flaw that means the earlier foreclosure may be disputed. If you bought a foreclosed home, you should wonder what all the fuss is about.

http://www.businessinsider.com/did-the-massachusetts-supreme-court-just-set-off-a-monster-housing-and-banking-catastrophe-2011-1?utm_source=alerts

Saturday, 8 January 2011

Play Table Tennis for Your Brain - Dr Amen

http://www.amenclinics.com/cybcyb/exercise-fitness/table-tennis-is-the-worlds-best-brain-sport/

Avoid dementia by ....

Wear your seat belt.
Don't drink or stop drinking alcohol.
Diet and Exercise.
Life long learning.
Watch what you eat.
No smoking. Dead people don't get dementia.
Escape cancer drugs.
Chemical used for cosmetics may be problematic.

Xbox And Kinect Are The Future Of TV... Except Microsoft Will Figure Out A Way To Blow It

http://www.businessinsider.com/xbox-kinect-tv-2011-1?utm_source=alerts

Making your brain great! Killing Ants / Negative thoughts that drag you down

Do you know about Dr Daniel Amen?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_G._Amen

http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/20080606/msgs/833600.html

http://www.suite101.com/content/review-of-magnificent-mind-at-any-age-a79428

http://www.amenclinics.com/meet-dr-amen/

http://www.creativityatwork.com/articlesContent/Brain/amen-optimize-brain.html

http://www.creativityatwork.com/articlesContent/Brain/Amen-brain-food.html

Also review:

http://www.quackwatch.com/06ResearchProjects/amen.html

Yoga Events in 2011 as Alaska | True Union

http://www.trueunion.org/alaska/

Kundalini Yoga

http://www.experiencefestival.com/kundalini_yoga

Saka: Encyclopedia - Saka

The fascinating puzzle about common ancestry and shared early history deepens!

http://www.experiencefestival.com/a/Saka/id/1896930

L A Waddell writes in his book connecting the ancient British and Germanic People with Hittites:

We are only scratching the surface in our understanding of ancient connections between peoples and their common origins, as I shall show by an example below. We now value racial integration and the inter-mixing of peoples because we see it as beneficial even though not so long ago the neurotic / psychotic call for racial purity was enough to cause enormously destructive and irrational neurotic behavior. This neurosis still afflicts people such as the current leaders of Iran, unless they are pretending? In contrast, we should and can see a human, as a human, as a equivalent human with equivalent rights and responsibilities, and have respect and love no matter what the genetics tell us.

It is important that we show our support for all peoples and their progress and for racial integration and harmony, not division and suspicion. Some fears are rational but the racial one is demeaning to all of us.

L A Waddell writes in the 1920's before Hitler promulgates his hatred against Jewish peoples and non-Aryan peoples. Hitler's ideas came from his neuroses, which spawned hatred and violence against innocents.

We now value racial variety and the inner-mixing of peoples because we see it as beneficial even though not so long ago the call for racial purity was enough to cause enormously destructive and irrational neurotic behavior. This neurosis still afflicts people such as the leaders of Iran.

I refer to Waddell's book proposing a connection between the ancient Brits with Hittites:

"This identity of the Aryans with the Khatti or Hitt-ites was still further confirmed and more firmly established by further positive and cumulative evidence.

In 1907, at the old Hittite capital, Boghaz Koi in Cappadocia, Winckler discovered the original treaty of about 1400 B.C. between the Khatti or Hittites and their kinsmen neighbours on the east, in Ancient Persia, the Mitani 3 (who, I had found, were the ancient Medes, who also were famous Aryans and called themselves "Arriya").

In this treaty they invoked the actual Aryan gods of the Vedas of the Indian branch of the Aryans and by their Vedic names. Significantly the first god invoked is the Vedic Sun-god Mitra (i.e. the "Mithra" of the Greco-Romans), as some of the later Aryans made separate gods out of different titles of the Father God.

His name is followed by In-da-ra, that is the solar Indra or "Almighty," the principal deity of the Indo-Aryan Vedic scriptures, and as instanced in the verses cited in the heading, the especial god of the Barats or Brihats (or "Brits") and of their Panch or Phoenic-ian clan-and his image and title are represented on Ancient Briton monuments and coins. "

We can ask the question openly now because we are not afraid of mixing races and in fact it is found to be preferable and more beneficial generally to apartheid or separateness.

What about you?

Good-for-You Shepherd’s Pie | Recipes |

http://flatbelly.naviibk.com/FlatBelly/Articles/Good-for-You-Shepherds-Pie

Brihat and Brit as short form!

This is a very old stream well worn over millenium.

Can one give credence to the idea that ancient Brits are so named because of their allegiance to Brihat. This supposes a connection that dates back several thousand years.

http://www.experiencefestival.com/brihat

The Moscow Kremlin - Main page

http://www.kreml.ru/en/

President of Russia |

http://archive.kremlin.ru/eng/articles/Cathedrals02.shtml

Friday, 7 January 2011

Israelis Push Back Iran Bomb Timeline - WSJ.com

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704055204576068043683860856.html?mod=djemTEW_h

vacation rentals - Google Search

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=vacation+rentals&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&client=safari

Can China be a green superpower?

The suggestion is that the economies that win the green revolution will also become the powers of the future:

http://www.danwei.org/featured_video/can_china_be_a_green_superpowe.php

UK faces life in slow lane as business world looks to Asia and Latin America | Business | The Guardian

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/jan/07/britain-business-slow-lane?CMP=EMCGT_070111

Sustainable Love - Tara Parker-Pope on Happy Marriages - NYTimes.com

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/02/weekinreview/02parkerpope.html?src=me&ref=general

A Little-Known Strategy for Cutting Mortgage Payments - Mortgages - NYTimes.com

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/02/realestate/mortgages/02Mort.html?src=me&ref=general

Thursday, 6 January 2011

Tiny village in West Sussex sitting on 'black goldmine' worth half a billion dollars - Telegraph

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/8243813/Tiny-village-in-West-Sussex-sitting-on-black-goldmine-worth-half-a-billion-dollars.html

Al Gore could become world's first carbon billionaire - Telegraph

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/6491195/Al-Gore-could-become-worlds-first-carbon-billionaire.html

Faster Forward - Mac App Store launches, offers iLife, iWork and more

This changes everything, of course, with Intel and Microsoft, scrambling to get adjusted to market changes:

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/fasterforward/2011/01/mac_app_store_launches_offers.html

Nvidia-AMD: Deal or no deal?

Industry restructuring in the offing. That's obvious.

http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4076503/Nvidia-AMD-Deal-or-no-deal-

Nvidia: ARM smartphones will bury x86 PCs

Wow!

http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4208752/Nvidia-ARM-smartphones-will-bury-x86-PCs

Nvidia to attack CPU market with ARM

The issue is really how fast the PC market will change. With ARM, Intel and NVidia in competition what will a future PC look like?

http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4211928/Nvidia-to-attack-CPU-market-with-ARM?cid=NL_EETimesDaily

Faster Forward - T-Mobile, LG announce G-Slate tablet

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/fasterforward/2011/01/t-mobile_lg_announce_g-slate.html?wprss=fasterforward

Faster Forward - Motorola unveils Atrix, a smartphone that's also a laptop

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/fasterforward/2011/01/motorola_unveils_atrix_a_smart.html?wpisrc=nl_tech

Faster Forward - Microsoft to ship Windows for ARM processors

This tightens down a loose end. Now, Microsoft joins the club!

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/fasterforward/2011/01/microsoft_to_ship_windows_for.html?wpisrc=nl_tech

Harmony and The Prince of Wales - a new way of looking at the world?

Prince Charles book entitled 'Harmony' stared at me in the local London Chapters bookstore. My memories of Charles come from a response I made to an English journalist who accused Charles of being a lessor person than Pope John, saying that Charles had not accomplished anything comparable to the Pope in his sorry life. My reaction was that I felt she was creating a little stir for self promotion. No! Charles contributions to humanity will never match those of the Popes, but my guess is that he is doing is less damage just the same.

Prince Charles, The Prince of Wales is the son of Queen Elizabeth and a protege of Lord Mountbatton, the eminent wartime leader. The Prince was divorced from Princess Diane, who was a spectacular human being comparable to Princess Elizabeth in the time of King James I. This Princess Elizabeth should not be confused with Queen Elizabeth I, and it is significant to me that she lived at the time of James I. In the UK, the enthusiasm and support for lovely promising princesses is truly remarkable, so when Princess Di passed, it was traumatic affecting all and sundry in a negative way, whether they liked Princess Di or not. Prince Charles was a target of anger not the least cause of which was that the death of Princess Di formed a dangling loose end, out of harmony with everyone's ideals.

When Charles married Camila, his mistress of many years and his true love, we all wanted to be in another history book in which such an event did not take place. But, we would be wrong, for the marriage did close off one dangling end, which was Prince Charles being with someone he did nit love and very alone. For my part, I loved the Prince as an ideal of good cheer, fun, and harmony. To me he was never an ogre or someone to think bad of. My views are not shared, but there they are! People experience harmony and discord in many different ways.

I, am not much different from many when I like to think in ideals. In an ideal world, the marriage of Princess Di and Charles would have succeeded and She would be alive today. That would be such harmony. Thus, when Prince Charles comes out with a book with the heading of harmony, a new way of looking at the world, I am slightly ill at ease. It's not that I am puzzled because I do regard Charles as a person in search of harmony, and as such I am enormously respectful of him and truly joyful that he has this bent in personality. I don't like or dislike him because he is so far removed from my world. He belongs to a fairyland of people that I could never believe myself associated. They are fascinating to me and form a pastiche of colour to what otherwise is a pretty dull world. Yes! The Royal Family and it's personages are an amazing addition to our lives and we would be all the poorer without them despite the notion that they are sustained at some cost to many of us. That I don't believe. For me the cost is significantly lower than the benefit that I receive in terms of it allowing me to forget the horror of the alternative which in our reality was a dictatorship under Hitler, or some such madman, or a system of government possessed by the Solviet Bloc of yesteryear.

My Queen Elizabeth apparently spoke of King James I with great respect and she did mention that he made a lasting contribution to English society through the effort of translating the Bible. This hits a soft spot for me because in the margins of the translation are the hand writing of someone who bears my name. I once came across it in Wells Cathedral, but I leave that to you as a puzzle if you are so inclined.

My reason for discussing Prince Charles and his harmony book are because his ideas are very similar to my own. I am currently playing an iPad game in which the object is to create a matrix of zen like harmony out of a maze of pieces that have different lines within the matrix. Harmony exists when all the loose ends are joined and thus eliminated. In zen harmony, there are no loose ends, or so it is assumed in the game. In my view, such a games very much like life in harmony, but the only problem is that we see total disharmony because our lives are not joined when we die. We are as it were dangling ends. Or, so it seems, but I believe otherwise. Do you?

Unfortunate Redwing Blackbirds die in Massive Event Over Arkansas

What killed the Redwing blackbirds over Beebe, Arkansas? That is a mystery puzzling officials, scientists and the public in America and around the globe. Some fear a repetition and urge investigation in order that the cause or causes may be found.

The number of birds killed at one time is staggering. Some estimate as many as 5,000 in a three hour period. This means that many explanations can be eliminated because they are not plausible for such a large number of bird deaths in such a short period. There are suggestions of a common trauma event.

It's not unusual for birds to fly in huge flocks and it's plausible that they all flew within an airspace in which a natural event caught the birds suddenly in flight. Possibilities are temperature or electrical events, but the culprit would vanish as quickly as it appeared, so even though a storm situation is suspect, there is not firm evidence as yet. It may be possible to determine whether the event was hot or cold.

My own guess is that it was a cold event and may be associated with wind.

What do you think after reading the press?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1343413/Birds-fall-sky-Blackbirds-literally-drop-dead-Arkansas.html

http://www.katv.com/Global/story.asp?S=13791490

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE70534T20110106

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/05/AR2011010502625.html

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/01/photogalleries/110103-dead-birds-fall-from-sky-arkansas-pictures/

Pakistan: Death of a liberal | The Economist

This is so sad that violence is an alternative to love!

http://www.economist.com/blogs/newsbook/2011/01/pakistan

Wednesday, 5 January 2011

The Currency Conundrum!

The writer below takes a good crack at trying to explain critical currency issues!

http://www.ebnonline.com/author.asp?doc_id=201845&itc=ebnonlineweekly

ArenaMaps.com | The Shores Recreation Centre | Forest | ON | Canada

Y'er tis on a map!

http://www.arenamaps.com/arenas/5000.htm

the shores recreation centre in forest - Google Search

Do you like to skate?

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=the+shores+recreation+centre+in+forest&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&client=safari

The Price of your Water and Planning for Grand Bend an Important Place within Lambton Shores - A Pointer =>

Residents of Grand Bend are affected by a planning process that projects the price of local water used in homes.

The following is written in a way that is suited for accountants, but for ordinary readers there are things to be learned by trying to understand how the price of water is arrived at and whether you agree that the essentials that are included in the plan. The accounting may seem like mumbo jumbo and the legal stuff is all like a library book you never want to have on your bedside table!

Review the diagrams and following tables and then create a little table for yourself based on the projected prices and your own usage in the past. Combine the two sets of numbers to get figure of your own to see whether you can afford the inflation built into the prices of water used in the plan. If the majority of people find that the cost of water as a share of their nominal income rises too rapidly that is a problem. What do you find?

http://www.lambtonshores.ca/Docs/LambtonShoresOReg45307Report_000.pdf

Time is, was and will be. Without time we would not be. What a load it has to carry! Time seems eternal! You might even ask whether cycles in time exist? If so read Roger Penrose's book on new attitudes in physics towards possible "Cycles in Time".

Earth-like Planets Aren’t Rare § SEEDMAGAZINE.COM

http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/earth-like_planets_arent_rare/

Going, Going, Gone § SEEDMAGAZINE.COM

As good as gold, or better?

http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/going_going_gone/

Article: Can You Live Forever?

You do live forever, though maybe not as you expect!

Can You Live Forever? Maybe Not--But You Can Have Fun Trying
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=e-zimmer-can-you-live-forever&print=true

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Article: On Early Warning Signs

Only rarely do you see such a well written article with so many clued in concepts as this article in Seed Magazine pointed to below. I heartily recommend that you read it and if you don't understand it use a dictionary. You will save yourself many a heart ache by understanding first principles of the real world!

The real world is non-linear and so the old linear math of economics classes have to be re-written into non-linear expositions and contain many more real world exposures. Understand what randomness is all about. Realize that a fourth dimension, or possibly more, invade(s) our three dimensional world and that/those dimension(s) obeys(s) mathematics that is non-linear. Think fractals!

On Early Warning Signs
http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/on_early_warning_signs/

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AL GORE on global warming - The One Conservatives Love to Dispute - Why?

There is not much intelligent people do not miss.

This guy Al Gore is a failure because he did not become President of the United States. He had his chance and he failed. The logic can even go on to the thing with the voting machines and the Supreme Court proved Al was trying to cheat us. The Supreme Court showed us Al is a cheater because he lost and tried to take the presidency away from Geoge Bush. What a loser! He is not one of us and is pretty well off without our daily struggle for existence.

Is that why we can dispute him?

I like the 'stupid' (Yes! I used a bad word) excuse that Al has a hidden agenda. To some there is credence given to the idea that he is lining his pockets and making life more difficult for us by being a pain in the but. Look at all the money he is making from his book, which is capitalizing on scaremongering. Don't you see that? They insist.

In this world you can be your brothers keeper and there is nothing wrong with that either in liberalism, conservatism, communism, pluralism, democracy, fundamentalism! You should look after the interests of your neighbors as well as yourself. If you see a fire in the distance it is appropriate to say something about it, loud and clear!

So some people see the Gore message on the environment as an exaggeration to bolster Al Gore's ego and income. He, they say, has dangerous liberal ideas, and liberal you know must not get confused with Fundamental.

Is Al 'Fundamentally' wrong? Not in my book. He is in my book fundamentally right. He may use shocking facts to stir your thoughts, but that's what my mum and dad did to protect me. No, he's not your image of a father, and that's the point. Al comes across as a Dad telling us off. He is a prophet of the modern age. A Moses that builds an arc that we don't see as necessary?

Having earned a degree in political science from A first rate university, I am sure Al Gore's politics are biased towards the middle income population irrespective of religion, fundamentalism, and whatever? So what is the problem with Al?

Is he too stiff? Bush seemed stiffer in many respects. Did he propose wrong headed ideas? Bush was asleep at the helm for years, which is much worse?

Would Al not have made a good president? Where would America be had Al been President? Perhaps, just perhaps, we would have avoided the mess America has experienced under the leadership of George.

Who really won the election in Florida. Just ask yourself and ponder the consequences. Review the history and reexamine whether Al might not have become the better President, had he the chance.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=al+gore+global+warming&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&client=safari

Why work does not happen!

I used the Makayama iPad / iPhone app to watch this.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=jason+fried&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&client=safari

Al Gore's new thinking on the climate crisis | Video on TED.com

Here he is a recycled man and one to listen to not despise! He is an inspiration to us all, and the real friend of the future.

http://www.ted.com/talks/al_gore_s_new_thinking_on_the_climate_crisis.html

Eric Sanderson pictures New York -- before the City | Video on TED.com

http://www.ted.com/talks/eric_sanderson_pictures_new_york_before_the_city.html

Carolyn Steel | Profile on TED.com

We certainly need to rethink the role of sewers in our urban environment. Are they really necessary and how can we recycle into safe clean products all the potential plant material from human food waste that normally clogs up the drains and provides a home for disease. What we treat with disgust now may in the future be our most valuable resources. Just think about the possibilities and see if you have any bright ideas like those of Carolyn.

http://www.ted.com/speakers/carolyn_steel.html

Carolyn Steel: How food shapes our cities | Video on TED.com

This should start you thinking about how you fit into the urban environment!

http://www.ted.com/talks/carolyn_steel_how_food_shapes_our_cities.html

Ellen Dunham-Jones: Retrofitting suburbia | Video on TED.com

You have to think how lucky we are that people do think about these things. Who will do the organizing because there is lots of money to be made?

http://www.ted.com/talks/ellen_dunham_jones_retrofitting_suburbia.html

Magnus Larsson | Profile on TED.com

Desert architect and solution builder. This is truly an amazing man!

http://www.ted.com/speakers/magnus_larsson.html

Magnus Larsson: Turning dunes into architecture | Video on TED.com

We need to build upwards and across to extend agricultural land reach as well as protect areas from wind and drought. Some areas that are the most inhospitable of places could conceivably be made into desert oases using creative technologies. What are the risks and challenges?

http://www.ted.com/talks/magnus_larsson_turning_dunes_into_architecture.html

Growth Trials for indoor planting system

This seems far more humane than animals in a shed! Maybe strawberries grown in winter would be all that Canadians need as an incentive! It does save on flying time of crops shipped in from Chile!

http://terraspheresystems.com/technology/strawberries.html

Technology for growing crops in layers rising vertically

Use your imagination and you can almost envisage trees bedding over and putting out hanging planting boxes from branches, or buildings developing arms that stretch out like trees and hanging growth areas from high in the sky fed by systems originating within the tall buildings, indoors or outdoors. Just use your imagination a bit! What have we not yet seen?

One reader suggests:

http://terraspheresystems.com/technology.html

Tuesday, 4 January 2011

The Coeliac Society of Australia

http://www.coeliacsociety.com.au/

News - Allergen Bureau - Management of Food Allergen Risks

http://www.allergenbureau.net/news/

Gluten free market growth continues - Allergen Bureau - Management of Food Allergen Risks

http://www.allergenbureau.net/news/gluten-free-market-growth-continues

Uncertainty Heightens Romantic Attraction | Smart Journalism. Real Solutions. Miller-McCune.

http://www.miller-mccune.com/culture-society/uncertainty-heightens-romantic-attraction-26363/

The History and Frightening Future of Forests | Smart Journalism. Real Solutions. Miller-McCune.

http://www.miller-mccune.com/science-environment/the-history-and-frightening-future-of-forests-25998/

Going Up? Vertical Farming in High-Rises Raises Hopes | Smart Journalism. Real Solutions. Miller-McCune.

This idea is one of the best ideas to emerge fir so time. Combine it with wind energy and you have a whole new model for living that competes with cities. Think what Japan could do with this model assuming you can make the vertical farms earthquake resistant.

http://www.miller-mccune.com/science-environment/farming-in-high-rises-raises-hopes-3705/

Volcanos are really dangerous

http://www.miller-mccune.com/science/csi-pompeii-19951/

Wild Coyote in Grand Bend Ontario

This fella was friendly, but cautious. Look for footprints in snow which are fairly distinctive.

On Forgiveness - NYTimes.com

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/26/on-forgiveness/

Anonymity and the Dark Side of the Internet - NYTimes.com

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/03/anonymity-and-the-dark-side-of-the-internet/?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=thab1

How To Build An Email Marketing List That Actually Works

http://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-build-an-email-marketing-list-that-actually-works-2010-5

Trouble In The House Of Google

Have you figured out what a scraper is yet?

http://www.businessinsider.com/watch-out-theres-serious-trouble-in-the-house-of-google-2011-1

Bill Gates thoughts on Steve Jobs and Apple. - Bill Gates - Zimbio

http://www.zimbio.com/Bill+Gates/articles/xbZK0bD0L_t/Bill+Gates+thoughts+Steve+Jobs+Apple

Bill Gates makes world's biggest ever single charitable donation with £6.2bn for vaccines for children - Bill Gates - Zimbio

We are reminded of this!

http://www.zimbio.com/Bill+Gates/articles/fKm25md2jZi/Bill+Gates+makes+world+biggest+ever+single

Secular shift - The United Church Observer

http://www.ucobserver.org/faith/2011/01/secular_shift/

Monday, 3 January 2011

Focusing on local matters

http://www.nationalpost.com/Focusing+local+matters/3972155/story.html#ixzz19tIV7XWQ

5 things to watch for in new cameras during 2011

http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4211769/Five-things-to-watch-for-in-new-cameras-in-2011

Comment: Will 2010 see SSD technology topping out?

http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4087460/Comment-Will-2010-see-SSD-technology-topping-out-

Intel launches solid-state drive

http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4211798/Intel-launches-solid-state-drive?cid=NL_EETimesDaily

eufeeds - over 1000 newspapers, updated every 20 minutes

Don't get enough news? Try this!

http://www.eufeeds.eu/

America’s Political Class Struggle by Jeffrey D. Sachs - Project Syndicate

http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/sachs173/English

The Currency Puzzle - Project Syndicate

http://www.project-syndicate.org/series/the_currency_puzzle/description

J. Bradford DeLong - Anatomy of the Global Economy - Project Syndicate

http://www.project-syndicate.org/series/anatomy_of_the_global_economy/description

Michael Boskin - Transatlantic Perspectives - Project Syndicate

http://www.project-syndicate.org/series/transatlantic_perspectives/description

Jagdish Bhagwati - The Open Economy and Its Enemies - Project Syndicate

http://www.project-syndicate.org/series/the_open_economy_and_its_enemies/description

Joseph E. Stiglitz - I Dissent: Unconventional Economic Wisdom - Project Syndicate

http://www.project-syndicate.org/series/unconventional_economic_wisdom/description

Kenneth Rogoff - The Unbound Economy - Project Syndicate

http://www.project-syndicate.org/series/the_unbound_economy/description

What ails America?

Stiglitz is well informed and makes many good points if only those will decision authority would listen.

http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/stiglitz133/English

Time is, was and will be. Without time we would not be. What a load it has to carry! Time seems eternal! You might even ask whether cycles in time exist? If so read Roger Penrose's book on new attitudes in physics towards possible "Cycles in Time".

Iran: Another Problem from Hell by Christopher Hill - Project Syndicate

Hill raises many interesting points.

http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/hill1/English

Sunday, 2 January 2011

Crib sheet: The flu outbreak is nothing to panic about. Here's why | Ann Robinson | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/dec/30/flu-outbreak-media-politicians-panic?intcmp=239

UK Government told to vaccinate millions more against flu | Politics | The Guardian

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/dec/30/winter-flu-vaccinations-andrew-lansley?CMP=EMCGT_311210

Electronic Trading Creates a New Financial Landscape - NYTimes.com

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/02/business/02speed.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha25

Time is, was and will be. Time seems eternal! Do cycles in time exist?

Saturday, 1 January 2011

Why the iPad is Destroying the Future of Journalism

A blog that considers the future of journalism:

http://measuringmeasures.com/blog/2010/12/31/why-the-ipad-is-destroying-the-future-of-journalism.html

A Least one Expert Says Here's Why Apple Shouldn't -- And Won't -- Make A 7" iPad

The economies of scale issue emerges here in a big way... What do you think?

http://www.businessinsider.com/heres-why-apple-shouldnt-and-wont-make-a-7-ipad-2010-12?utm_source=alerts

Mobile Economics Will Trend Toward Web Economics

http://www.businessinsider.com/mobile-economics-will-trend-toward-web-economics-2010-12

The Next Cities To Hit New Lows For Housing: New York, Detroit, Chicago

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-next-cities-to-hit-new-lows-for-housing-new-york-detroit-chicago-2010-12

What is life all about? Words in the Preamble to my Personal Journey...

In life there are a lot of things to work through. We are brought into the world as sentient and aware creations of a vast unknown that has us challenged from beginning to end. We are given no real rest just periods of quiet in which we can ponder for a while all the many mysteries and evidence we have before us.

Most of our life is spent in ignorance and we struggle to break into a realm of knowing using whatever tools are available to us and following each and every fad that crosses our path enough times to catch our attention. We are dismally aware of our inability to move beyond our feeble capabilities and acquire whatever means is around to repackage our ideas in better and better packages.

Our zen for understanding is to tie off all the loose endings so that we may glimpse optimistic signs of our potential immortality of which we are inherently uncertain, but manage to doubt. We doubt more our mortality than our immortality as we age.

The older we get the more we sense our immortal strings, those fine energies that tie us to an invisible monster that is our full existence. Rather than accepting our time as a single stretch, we increasingly place ourselves in imaginary realms to conjure what it will be like rather than what it could be like.

Not having a clue, we are constantly struggling to join ourselves with others who might make sense, but realize that we are eternally alone in what we can be certain and eternally joined in what seems tom us to be impossible and frivolous speculation.

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