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Americans’ Strange Attitudes About the Internet

"It's a series of TUBESSSSS!" But seriously, we Americans are a pretty frightening lot indeed: To summarize: an alarming percentage of respondents are open to brain implants that allow them to access the internet with their minds and that allow their children's locations to be tracked, they think government censorship of online video content is acceptable, the internet makes them feel closer to God and less close their significant others ...

Thoughts on GMail IMAP

I'm incredibly excited that GMail now has IMAP. Why? I've been a devoted GMail user since '04 just after the launch and have gigs and gigs of emails and content locked up in GMail (bought extra storage to make due).  While GMail has always allowed for POP downloads, IMAP is different. Here's why... with IMAP, you can have a more seamless email experience because IMAP allows you to sync ...

Wordie - Like Flickr Without Pictures

I'm in love with the new service Wordie. "Wordie lets you make lists of words -- practical lists, words you love, words you hate, whatever. You can then see who else has listed the same words, and talk about it. It's more fun than it sounds." Here's a sample of a word list from the front page... Recent Words (rss) aubergine   ninjawords | tfd | dictionary.com | M-W | UD ...

Every Simpson’s Episode Ever

I cannot imagine that this will last long, but enjoy while it's available (at least watch the Treehouse of Horror episodes!). All The Simpsons you need.http://allsimps.com | All The Simpsons you need

Darth Vader as MeterMaid

Darth Vader as a MetermaidYouTube - Darth Vader as a Metermaid

Use Writely

If you're not using Writely you should. Basically, it's an online word processor but tons more. I've been using it for over a year now (before they were bought by Google) and relied heavily on it during my teaching years. As a student, it's invaluable to have all my papers, docs, forms, etc online and easily accessible. No, I was not paid to type ...

Watch This Video

I can't thank Linda Buquet enough for posting this video... Net Neutrality - Funny Music Video plus Google CEO Eric Schmidt Comments at SES Turn your speakers up. Blogged with Flock

Update on Google’s Misguided Policies

More from Wayne's investigation into the Google foreign affairs policy on the Lebanon/Israel war... Routing Around Misguided Adwords Policies An update from Steve Rosenbaum on Google’s Adword Censorship affair I have gotten fired up into this week: Steve reports no answer from Google Adwords yet. Meanwhile back in the bat cave the videos have emerged at http://lebop.blogspot.com/ on site called the Lebanese Political Journal, hosted at Google’s BlogSpot service. I have ...

Google Foreign Policy in the Lebanon/Israel War

If you have a chance, head over to Wayne's blog and take a look at this pair of posts concerning Google's possible misuse of its power. The first post lays out the issue and the second includes an email conversation with Rosenbaum. Amazing look at how the world is quickly realizing that politics, advertising, marketing, pr, religion, sociology, anthropology, economics and a host of other once seperate disciplines ...

How to Install a New Stove

Doing some stat checking on this site and noticed that I've gotten quite a few visitors doing Google searches for "how to install a new stove." They all come from this post. Amazingly enough, if you search for the phrase "how to install a new stove", you'll actually see this site as the #2 on Google. That's good organic searching. Come on people... get me to ...

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