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Entries from March 2007

Science and God compatibility?

March 30th, 2007 · 1 Comment · God, atheism, dna, francis collins, npr, richard dawkins

Francis Collins, the guy who heads up the Human Genome Project, was on NPR the other day and made a good case for denouncing atheism in that it is problematic:
Faith is the evidence of things not seen …. [and] scientific evidence that points towards the direction of God’s existence makes more sense than simply denying [...]

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Links for Thursday [2007-03-29]

March 29th, 2007 · No Comments · links

Google Base -
Google Custom Search News -
Google Custom Marketin Search Engine -
Google Operating System: Custom Search Engines Could Replace Web Directories -
Google Co-op -
RIAA VP Laughs At Consumerist’s “Worst Company In America” Contest - Consumerist - A PR disaster for the RIAA. Man, their grave just keeps getting deeper and [...]

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Links for Wednesday [2007-03-28]

March 28th, 2007 · No Comments · links

Madison Avenue Nees a Lot More Than a Wakeup Call - BL Ochman’s take on why the current agency business model is broken.
Tango Icon Library - Tango Desktop Project - Free Icons
Resources - ADHD Resources, really good list
Zimbra offers Open Source email server software and shared calendar for Linux and the Mac -
Raaum’s Rails [...]

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Links for Tuesday [2007-03-27]

March 27th, 2007 · No Comments · links

Complore-Come Xplore. - Social networking for researchers. Sharing of articles, bookmarks, events.
Dissect Medicine - Current Headline Stories - Health social news.
BuzzShout - Neat compilation of all the new Web2.0 software available.

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Hillary loves new school social campaigning on YouTube

March 21st, 2007 · No Comments · 2008, clinton, ethics, hillary, public relations, reputation management, youtube

If you haven’t seen the 1984 spoof, well, the you’re just ummm…..slow. But her response in an interview with NY1 was nothing short of the most ethical and intelligent rebuttals I’ve heard in awhile:
I haven’t seen it but I’m pleased that it seems to be taking attention away from what used to be on YouTube [...]

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We didn’t mean to let things run amok…

March 20th, 2007 · No Comments · america, bush, iraq, reputation management, usa

…but we’d like to apologize.

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Interesting mashup: Delexa

March 14th, 2007 · No Comments · boredom, mashup, neat, procrastination, stuff for nerds, web2.0

Delexa uses traffic data from Alexa and del.icio.us to organize the top 50,000 Web sites by topic. Neat. And accurate.
Try these:

bored
videos
news
fun
bush

Whoo hooo!!!

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Coin operated alarm clock

March 12th, 2007 · 1 Comment · add, neat

I need to get me one of these.

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GTD with Vitalist

March 7th, 2007 · 1 Comment · add, gtd, productivity, stuff for nerds, web2.0

Although I’ve been using Tracks for quite awhile, it just isn’t everything it needs to be and I keep forgetting to use it. I do, however, still love Tracks because of its simplicity.
I may have found the solution with Vitalist, even though the layout is a bit more cluttered. SMS reminders is a biggie because [...]

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Reputation management: RIAA screws college students

March 5th, 2007 · No Comments · ethics, itunes, music, public relations, reputation management, riaa

I really, really hate the RIAA. I’m a musician and I support the protection of copyright. However, I also support the protection of college students’ rights and a free market economy. When the signs are there that the industry needs to make changes, why fight that? Change is good, and necessary.
Why is Apple’s iTunes so [...]

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