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Wednesday, 24 August 2011
Bot-Breakdown: Deconstructing a Twitter-Spam Marketing Campaign | Epicenter | Wired.com
Read how the twitter spammer operates:
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/05/twitter-spam-marketing/2/
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The Curious Link Between H1N1 Flu and Narcolepsy – TIME Healthland
In the event you might be interested!
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PlayPolitical.com - Liberal Democrats: Nick Clegg: "What we're seeing are the final stages, the last stand" of Gaddafi's regime
I really do hope so. Perhaps, if we say it enough times, it will surely come true!
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Blogging successfully!
 Darren Rowse (@problogger)23/08/2011 06:54 PM Traits of Successful Bloggers #8... do you have it? http://t.co/5Yir5OW |
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Qaddafi's Mastery of Chess Gives an Advantage in a Desperate Game for Check Mate
The King and Queen in Qaddafi's chess board are still alive and active, it would seem, and while many pawns are removed, the Knights of the opposition are searching high and low for any sign of the King, Queen, Knights and Bishops. One Castle has fallen, but one remains though inoperative.
Qaddafi's Knights jump all over the place popping up here and there!
Meal times and dusk lead to pawns retreating which is not in the rules. However, with the demise of the Castle, the opposition to Qaddafi have created many Knights with powerful weapons and mobility!
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Tuesday, 23 August 2011
Are you wearing toxic clothes?
 TreeHugger.com (@TreeHugger)23/08/2011 03:25 PM Big-Brand Clothing Found Laced with Toxic Chemicals http://t.co/favKjaM |
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Cameron needs head examined!
 CSMonitor.com (@csmonitor)23/08/2011 02:56 PM #Cameron proposes evicting #British #rioters and families from public housing. That's collective guilt. OPED: http://t.co/dn7UEKM |
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Angry Birds Expands into TV
 nytimesbusiness (@nytimesbusiness)23/08/2011 02:53 PM Gadgetwise Blog: A New Roost for Angry Birds: Your Television http://t.co/C5LqQ2b |
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Marc Andreessen on Why Software Is Eating the World - WSJ.com
As we move more and more into a service oriented employment economy .....
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903480904576512250915629460.html
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The fall of Tripoli: With a rebel yell | The Economist
Wow! It's wonderful to see the Gaddafi regime bite the dust and a just war win through! Well done friends ....
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Iron deficiency anemia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Note the complex connection to copper and zinc!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_deficiency_anemia
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As the dream of economic growth dies, a new plan awaits testing | George Monbiot | Comment is free | The Guardian
Do not agree with supposition!
It's not that growth cannot occur. It's that it has to be paced so as to allow firms to die as they obsolesce. Under socialist systems the death of firms is not fast enough nor the birth if firms. Capitalism does the trick, but it tends to be excessively geared to overshooting. It performs too well and gives us the bumpy ride and forces unpleasant adjustment.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/aug/22/economic-growth-environment
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Britain's entrepreneurial spirit is being strangled | Polly Toynbee | Comment is free | The Guardian
Some loans are not for property!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/aug/22/small-business-banks-entrepreneurialism
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DSK walks, but Nicolas Sarkozy will run | Anne Daguerre | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
The DSK story goes on and we are lesser for it!
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Dominique Strauss-Kahn: prosecutors ask judge to dismiss sex charges | World news | guardian.co.uk
Innocent? We know he has a reputation for fast encounters!
DSK was prosecuted to the full based on the shaky evidence of the alleged victim. The logic of her claims was doubtful from the start. DSK needs to reform his character and this experience should be a warning to others who would step over social boundaries so blatantly!
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Monday, 22 August 2011
The Vocabulary on My Autocorrector is Rubbish
I am the first to admit that when using the iPad I make a whole lot of spelling mistakes. I don't make many word mistakes. They are made by the autocorrecting software built into the iPad. The dictionary really needs to be upgraded for me. Am I so bright or have a better vocabulary than the dictionary! Others would say not, but I wonder?
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The Education Bubble is Worse than the Housing Bubble - Economist Arthur Lake Claims
Tony Blair takes the position that the London riots are a highly specific problem seeking a highly specific solution! This is not about moral decay either so I think Cameron is just as wrong!
We are all mystified by the call to violence that a police action judged inequitous/unjust brought about. Perhaps, the response has a lot to do with the stimulus, which is an assessment by people that their economic situation is unjust. This is very real. If enough people believe this, such as students who had aspirations for education but who were disappointed with costs, they would riot if the correct stimulus were applied.
The Bubble of Education Costs:
Today we have levered inflation of the education sector which is another balloon about to explode world wide. Why in hell can't people be educated out of libraries and the comfort of their own homes. Or why can't Apple iPad schools not be educating students at 1/100 the cistern of universities. It's a bubble waiting to burst big time. If Bill Gates can succeed, so can almost anybody using an iPad and information on the Internet. Truly employers better get used to self educated people because they will put them out of business if not employed. Demand a certificated and bleed your company's profits away. Self education is the wedge that will burst the present bubble of education costs.
Multiple reasons:
I think the riots may have been due to more than one stimulus and require solutions at many levels of social administration not just specifics. The disconnect between people's aspirations and what was and is being experienced is primarily an economic disconnect. There is most definitely an injustice associated with the life experience of home ownership and job ownership, both related to employment.
While the house price inflations of 2000-2010 were not as bad as the inflation of Germany in the mid twenties, the effect cannot be underestimated, nor can the sense of misery associated with unemployment that also characterised the mid 1920s. Then, the world experienced riots between struggling labour and established employed. Marxism fought fascism, and fascism won some places while Marxism won others.
Project forward these issues that damaged societies in Europe and you have a profound sense of injustice. Sure English and German society were prosperous, but the under society were not. The liberal party all but disappeared in Britain, while in Germany the upper class lost it's legitimacy as did those Jewish families that ventured from the flight to gold and the appreciation in property values.
Recognise that the real issue was not the absence of property which led to the calls for lebensraum, but the absence of a just way for those in the under economy to acquire property at a price they could afford.
Britain's pressure pot riots have a general solution, but they require thinking outside of the normal boxes of specifics and generalities. The main issue was the use of the property market to create growth, but the rise in prices occurred too rapidly and was overtaken by speculation, divorces, two income families, and leveraged borrowing.
The Disconnect Between Property Acquisition and Incomes:
Let's get real economic growth is measured in terms of houses and cars. Much of it is due to inward migration.
There has been mostly crappy growth in Europe. Ugly cities with pollution are not growth, just more crap. American growth has been population driven and products have been crappy junk from China disguised as production but really retailing.
Incomes could not pay for housing and widespread demand went unsatisfied. In America, house prices don't rise because there is so much land or lebensraum, but there property prices went through the roof.
Using property for growth and employment still is seen in America and Britain as a viable economic policy despite the absence of jobs with incomes outside the housing industry to pay for the magnificent properties being built.
Lord Keynes would have said the real problem was effective demand, and an absence of real jobs. He would have focused on total demand just as the economists of Obama and Blair do/did! They would only get part of the picture!
Schumpeter at Harvard would have said the old industries need to die first to make way for new. Microsoft has to die to make way for Apple. That's what the stock Market is all about. It's as much about growing companies as killing them off. Too much leveraging allows the walking dead compaies to survive and a capitalist economy becomes clogged up. The toilet won't flush out the crappy companies to make way for good stuff.
Pricing Education High is Inflation and is as bad as a leveraged housing Market!
It's utter stupid inflation Mr Cameron! You need to see that addiction to leveraged housing market has been replaced by a leveraged education Market. Both have squeezed out those at the lower ends of the income streams.
So my solution as an economist is to recognise that Schumpeter was right and Keynes was right, but that neither are understood because the present lists of economists have crap understanding about leveraged growth. How do I know? I just read and look at TV, and watch the riots!
Un-leverage all the markets that are sodomy in disguise:
Housing and construction
Corporate takeovers
Education
Bailouts for walking dead companies
Inward migration
MPs expenses
Obsolete technology
Do the HP thing and recognise the tough choices!
Email me: wuhlax@gmail.com
http://m.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/aug/20/tony-blair-riots-crime-family?cat=commentisfree&type=article
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Blair speaks out on what caused British riots and how to deal with them. To one economist, Arthur Lake, very wrong!
Tony Blair take the position that the London riots are a highly specific problem seeking a highly specific solution! This is not about moral decay either so I think Cameron is just as wrong!
We are all mystified by the call to violence that a police action judged inequitous/unjust brought about. Perhaps, the response has a lot to do with the stimulus, which is an assessment by people that their economic situation is unjust. This is very real. If enough people believe this, such as students who had aspirations for education but who were disappointed with costs, they would riot if the correct stimulus were applied.
The Bubble of Education Costs:
Today we have levered inflation of the education sector which is another balloon about to explode world wide. Why in hell can't people be educated out of libraries and the comfort of their own homes. Or why can't Apple iPad schools not be educating students at 1/100 the cistern of universities. It's a bubble waiting to burst big time. If Bill Gates can succeed, so can almost anybody using an iPad and information on the Internet. Truly employers better get used to self educated people because they will put them out of business if not employed. Demand a certificated and bleed your company's profits away. Self education is the wedge that will burst the present bubble of education costs.
Multiple reasons:
I think the riots may have been due to more than one stimulus and require solutions at many levels of social administration not just specifics. The disconnect between people's aspirations and what was and is being experienced is primarily an economic disconnect. There is most definitely an injustice associated with the life experience of home ownership and job ownership, both related to employment.
While the house price inflations of 2000-2010 were not as bad as the inflation of Germany in the mid twenties, the effect cannot be underestimated, nor can the sense of misery associated with unemployment that also characterised the mid 1920s. Then, the world experienced riots between struggling labour and established employed. Marxism fought fascism, and fascism won some places while Marxism won others.
Project forward these issues that damaged societies in Europe and you have a profound sense of injustice. Sure English and German society were prosperous, but the under society were not. The liberal party all but disappeared in Britain, while in Germany the upper class lost it's legitimacy as did those Jewish families that ventured from the flight to gold and the appreciation in property values.
Recognise that the real issue was not the absence of property which led to the calls for lebensraum, but the absence of a just way for those in the under economy to acquire property at a price they could afford.
Britain's pressure pot riots have a general solution, but they require thinking outside of the normal boxes of specifics and generalities. The main issue was the use of the property market to create growth, but the rise in prices occurred too rapidly and was overtaken by speculation, divorces, two income families, and leveraged borrowing.
The Disconnect Between Property Acquisition and Incomes:
Let's get real economic growth is measured in terms of houses and cars. Much of it is due to inward migration.
There has been mostly crappy growth in Europe. Ugly cities with pollution are not growth, just more crap. American growth has been population driven and products have been crappy junk from China disguised as production but really retailing.
Incomes could not pay for housing and widespread demand went unsatisfied. In America, house prices don't rise because there is so much land or lebensraum, but there property prices went through the roof.
Using property for growth and employment still is seen in America and Britain as a viable economic policy despite the absence of jobs with incomes outside the housing industry to pay for the magnificent properties being built.
Lord Keynes would have said the real problem was effective demand, and an absence of real jobs. He would have focused on total demand just as the economists of Obama and Blair do/did! They would only get part of the picture!
Schumpeter at Harvard would have said the old industries need to die first to make way for new. Microsoft has to die to make way for Apple. That's what the stock Market is all about. It's as much about growing companies as killing them off. Too much leveraging allows the walking dead compaies to survive and a capitalist economy becomes clogged up. The toilet won't flush out the crappy companies to make way for good stuff.
Pricing Education High is Inflation and is as bad as a leveraged housing Market!
It's utter stupid inflation Mr Cameron! You need to see that addiction to leveraged housing market has been replaced by a leveraged education Market. Both have squeezed out those at the lower ends of the income streams.
So my solution as an economist is to recognise that Schumpeter was right and Keynes was right, but that neither are understood because the present lists of economists have crap understanding about leveraged growth. How do I know? I just read and look at TV, and watch the riots!
Un-leverage all the markets that are sodomy in disguise:
Housing and construction
Corporate takeovers
Education
Bailouts for walking dead companies
Inward migration
MPs expenses
Obsolete technology
Do the HP thing and recognise the tough choices!
Email me: wuhlax@gmail.com
Twitter: @wuhlax
Geological Team Lays Claim to Oldest Known Fossils - NYTimes.com
So life just needed a place to start being so much a part of the universe. We are not so unusual nor alone!
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/22/science/earth/22fossil.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha2
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Downgrade Apple from 'neutral' to 'unfavorable'? Seriously? - Apple 2.0 - Fortune Tech
Right on the money! Apple is not gold?
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Brick Bodies/Lynne Brick's - Baltimore, MD - Build Your Body With Brick!
http://www.brickbodies.com/
Comparable on London England - See Howard Malin entries here:
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-938132-eton-boys-take-over-the-town.do
http://www.longshotltd.com/Press.aspx
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Gold Advances to Record as Economy, Debt Concern Spurs Demand
Is Gold itself becoming a bubble or ballooning speculative market that will eventually hurt buyers, or should one be buying silver?
http://www.moneynews.com/Headline/gold-record-/2011/08/22/id/408118?s=al&promo_code=CE2D-1
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How HP’s 2,000 WebOS Patents Could Reshape Everything
So what are you waiting for RIM?
http://www.businessinsider.com/hps-2000-webos-patents-and-how-they-could-reshape-everything-2011-8
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Sunday, 21 August 2011
Tornado in Goderich Ontario
 LEVONews (@LEVONews)21/08/2011 11:34 PM One dead, 37 injured after tornado hits #Goderich, Ontario http://t.co/BgXRfkX |
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Goderich Tornado
 Dan Hayward (@danielhayward)21/08/2011 11:04 PM One person dead, number of injuries unknown, many buildings damaged by tornado in Goderich ON. http://t.co/qqHkjY0 Praying. |
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Saturday, 20 August 2011
New systems coming down wind!
 Peter Ralph (@WindPowerSystem)20/08/2011 06:15 PM Brilliant new 'Twitter Inspired' Alternative Energy blogging site launched by MyWindPowerSystem.com http://t.co/0B82CRS Say what you think! |
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Tripoli under attack
We are cheering for the rebels to oust dictator Ghadafi and put him on trial for war crimes. Down with dictators!
 CBS News (@CBSNews)20/08/2011 06:08 PM Libyan rebels take fight to Tripoli, coordinated assault with NATO...developing story http://t.co/Ih9hU1M #Libya |
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Iran sentences 2 American men to 8 years in jail in blow to hopes for freedom - The Washington Post
Not Jack Bauer nor the skate manufacturer. Who guesses that Shane is not a spy for America. Pretty obvious that it would be too dangerous with such a name so suspect it is Iranian injustice at work! What do you feel?
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Friday, 19 August 2011
Housing markets: Low rates, no interest | The Economist
Sounds like an echo of my views!
http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2011/08/housing-markets&fsrc=nwl
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Thursday, 18 August 2011
Solar manufacturers Having to Drop Out as Panel Prices Fall
Not all is rosy in the solar panel industry as it matures and new technology hits established firms!
 TIME.com (@TIME)17/08/2011 10:20 PM Cloudy days for the solar industry | http://t.co/D4Yc7k5 |
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Wednesday, 17 August 2011
Lieberman: I Might Not Back Obama in 2012
What do you think of this man, Lieberman? Is he finally being honest? Or, is he just very confusing and not leadership material?
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Washington's Road to Financial Perdition!
This points to an article that is much too loose with obvious facts?
http://w3.newsmax.com/fir/money_mischief/?promo_code=CD95-1
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On the World Entering a new Economic Hell
This situation is much worse than that of the 1930's.
It happened with many more Chicago PhDs looking on! It required many Harvard and MIT PhDs to create the financing technologies and software. It will require more than Princeton or Cambridge and Oxford PhDs to sort out.
In fact, one has to recognize that there is no solution in the conventional sense.
We are heading deeper and deeper into the mire of desperation at a time when innovation is racing faster and faster. It's a new monetary world that cannot be met with anything we have tried before.
Our only real hope is massive cooperation which is nowhere to be found. Once the trap was sprung, we cannot return to what we knew.
We now enter economic equations that require balancing by sacrifice.
It's no good to riot, but those that have will need to share and the safer they will be the sooner that is realized!
There is nothing special about America that prevents the contagion of desperate measures.
 Newsweek (@Newsweek)17/08/2011 08:39 AM 2002 Nobel Economics Laureate Vernon L. Smith on Insolvency, Policy, and Economic Stress http://t.co/QBhNaFF #TheRoadAhead |
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Tuesday, 16 August 2011
Monday, 15 August 2011
Why Inflation is Our Biggest Looming Problem!
This video is a must view! It's long but spot on.... Do not ignore the possibility of serious structural adjustment ahead!....
http://w3.newsmax.com/a/aftershockb/video.cfm?s=al&promo_code=CD59-1
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Sleep
 NYTimes Science (@nytimesscience)15/08/2011 05:10 PM Well Blog: Common Sleep Problem Raises Dementia Risk http://t.co/Wujd3n3 |
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Red Meat Issues for Diabetes 2
| NYTimes Science (@nytimesscience) 15/08/2011 05:10 PM Well Blog: Swapping Meat for Nuts to Lower Diabetes Risk http://t.co/FQTez6T |
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Sunday, 14 August 2011
Saturday, 13 August 2011
Pastel Portrait - Halle Berry - from theportraitart
Check out this video on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKBdsSCDJDs&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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Speed painting portrait Britney Spears
Check out this video on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgkS2j2d82k&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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Painting Original Abstract Portrait in acrylics by artist Martina Shapiro
Check out this video on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_yOiXIzJDM&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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Friday, 12 August 2011
Penny Auction Websites are a Lot of Work, with Avalanche and Tipping points to understand?
My thumbs down except for the true addicts!
Most buyers don't have the time and skills needed to get the bargains seemingly offered on penny auction websites.
First you buy bids.
A single bid can cost over fifty cents.
One bid counts for one cent on the price the penny auction website price. That's possibly why they are called penny auctions and not because you can really buy stuff for pennies. The revenue going to the seller is a big multiple of the penny price and probably over 50 times.
So you have to do some math and what seems cheap may be 50 times or more as expensive. But you are not the only one placing bids and really odd things can happen so have your psychology text next to you. Bystander effects occur when others stand by waiting for you to exhaust your 'little' pile of bids. Some people will have major piles.
After your bid you wait while others get a chance to bid, even at the closing se one's when all the fun begins. You try to minimize your number of bids, but what if the bidding ends as the number of bidders visible increases exponentially. Some lucky guy wins by surprise to everyone who thought the game was unending!
It's a perverse bystander psychology that operates to run the numbers higher and higher until the inevitable point when people give up, not because they are far from winning, but because they are extremely close. This is the tipping point to the end of the contest!
The sites show you the math and they give you an out which is to just pay their asking price for your item and credit your bids at the sum of the cost price of the bids.
If you want to bid for something pricey like a camera or iPad, you will find it is very hard work to get it.
You may make a small number if bids, but you will probably have acquired skills with tedious effort akin to playing a complex computer game!
All the warnings needed are posted, but it's not for those that are not used to doing probability math!
Try a hypergeometric statistical theorem and add in bystander psychology along with the difficult mathematics of avalanches and you might win consistently.
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Wednesday, 10 August 2011
Tuesday, 9 August 2011
It's An Insurrection Not a Riot!
What do you think when you hear the explanation expressed so very clearly on YuTube? We may be at an historical moment and the consequences as grave as the French revolution of 1798. The problem may be poor political understanding of history.
Galbraith explained the moment and you will understand. Churchill and Keynes understood the moment. To understand, you need to have sought deeper than the conventional truth! The stress poor people are experiencing is beyond their ability to cope. We are forcing people into a mold that they are not capable of sharing.
It is the seeds of war that we are sowing so efficiently by not taking notice. We are so interconnected that it is unbelievable the shared sorrow we may be forced to experience.
History repeats within a new frame and we are experiencing a history repeating, but the violence could be unbelievable and we could be just as unprepared as before the first great war?
Prepare to be shocked by the truth!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biJgILxGK0o&sns=em
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London riots: the underclass lashes out - Telegraph
This is a must read article! Brilliant analysis! Spot on!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/8630533/Riots-the-underclass-lashes-out.html
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Monday, 8 August 2011
Singularity: Kurzweil on 2045, When Humans, Machines Merge - TIME
The problem is that earth may no survive until then!
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2048299,00.html
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The Seeds of War Were Sown in 2004
 The Money Game (@themoneygame)08/08/2011 02:09 PM Serious People Are Starting To Realize That We May Be Looking At World War III by @RickyKreitner http://read.bi/qBm5hg |
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The Dark Side of the Art Selling Business as Viewed by a Professional
If you think you would like to work in a high end gallery store be aware of the possible downside!
http://www.artbusiness.com/arttarget2.html
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Sunday, 7 August 2011
We are afraid!
The fault rests in the overloading of our instinctive investment inclinations to the neglect of a broad range of things we should be investing in. We watch people starve, yet stay safe as bystanders. It's truly bizarre! What is a human being that seeks security so much. Wh are we so afraid of our shadow?
http://thenewsdiva.visibli.com/share/TOKRrV
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History repeats in Tottenham
 Storyful (@Storyful)07/08/2011 09:50 AM Quoted in the #tottenhamriots of 1985 and 2011:@normalNEVER, @lolwarlol, @JamesTurnerdj, @laracarbonara & @per_nyberg: http://stryfl.com/7ra |
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